Month: May 2008
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I don’t suppose any of you have a Myer One discount voucher booklet (including a $40 off coupon for the Wii Fit) that you won’t be using? Because that would, like, rock.
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Wait, WHAT? Ebert has a blog? That’s awesome!
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Wow! Hillary only won Indiana by two percentage points? That’s much, much closer than I imagined it to be. Awesome. (Sorry Grandma. I voted for the black guy.)
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Role Reversal. It’s not often you see the media scrutinizing a man’s belly…
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Still sick. I felt so crappy last night that we decided to skip the Neil Gaiman talk. I just couldn’t face the thought of standing in a crowded bookstore coughing and hacking all over everyone. Luckily, I can vicariously squee over Neil through crumpet, who saw him twice in 24 hours. What a fangirl. 🙂
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Vodaphone announces it’s got the iPhone. As Snook just put it, “Tomorrow’s news: Vodafone no longer able to sell iPhone due to leaking info to the press.”
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Remember our discussion about women taking their husband’s surnames? In the US, a couple just successfully sued the state of California on the basis that it should be just as easy for a man to take his wife’s surname upon marriage as it is for her to take his. And they won! Nice one.
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The Knitting Fame-Whore strikes again!This past Friday I went to Newtown after work to join Bex and the goth knitters for a stitch and bitch. We were waiting for a journalist from JJJ Magazine to show up to photograph and interview us. He turned up over an hour late, by which time all the real…
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Bacon CandyRemember the Maple-Bacon Lollipops? Thanks to the amazing Mr. Barker, I actually got to try one last night. (I also inflicted it upon my co-workers Kunaal and Tim.) It was… bacon-y. I’m not sure I enjoyed it. I feel like there was some sort of “uncanny bacon valley” happening, where the taste was so…
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Wow. I know I’m supposed to be annoyed at the additional tax, but I can’t help but think that this new federal parental leave proposal is a Good Thing. Six months paid maternity leave at full salary? Sweet. And four weeks paternity leave? Hey, it’s more than you get in America. (Right, Sis?) Actually, I…