Month: May 2009
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Is The Elkhart Project making the city look too bleak? They’re going to start featuring more positive stories. Glad to hear it. The one about the abandoned meth lab houses depressed the hell out of me.
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Take this essay about dating a foreigner and replace all the references to Frenchmen to Aussies. That’s pretty much my life ‘lo these nine years. (“What do you MEAN you’ve never heard of The Little Rascals? WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM??”)
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Goonies Reunion Video. That’s great! They’d hadn’t met up since they did the commentary for the DVD eight years ago. Chunk looks super cute now that he’s grown up.
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In the great spirit of Cat in Lime Helmet, we give you Dr. Amy Jones in a Pomelo Helmet. Yeah, she’s probably going to kill us in our sleep.
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Happy Mother’s Day!Today was my third running of the Sydney Mother’s Day Classic 8K. (Previously: 2006, 2008.) There were a few new challenges this year: I’m heavier than I was the two previous times I ran it; I’ve been doing more strength training and a lot less running miles lately; and I was running this…
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Made it. I’ve cleared three of my five hurdles for the weekend and the end is in sight. Our Guild Meeting today was well-attended as usual (30 again!), with several visitors from other groups. I’m happy to say that meeting prep is getting easier now that I know what I’m doing. My “Welcome to the…
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Busy.It seems like every six months I always have one weekend that is just a nightmare of stress and deadlines. Right now I’m juggling a Spec of Monstrous Proportions at work; normal preparations for the Knitters Guild meeting on Saturday; special preparations for the Internet Workshop I’m leading at the Guild meeting on Saturday; the…
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Donkey basketball was definitely something that happened in my part of Indiana. Probably still does!
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Me: Whatcha installin’?Snook: “Mono.” It’s a Dot Net implementation.Me: Oh wow. How come? Doin’ some work?Snook: No… I need it to run a particular application.Me: *suspicious* What’s the application?Snook: *resigned* It tells me which hat to put on my Paladin.Me: SERIOUSLY??Snook: Seriously.
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Geek Girl Dinner in MordorThe next Geek Girl Dinner Sydney has been announced… and it’s at MICROSOFT. I used to drive by that office every day on my way out to North Ryde when I worked at Epson. It’s this big curving black monolithic THING, like the eye of Sauron. And next Thursday, yours truly…