Month: October 2009

  • Chickens

    The nitty-gritty economics of raising chickens. That’s a lot to think about.

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  • Vote for Jump!

    Got a second? Please go vote for Scott Fischer’s book “Jump” in the Spoonfuls of Stories contest. Scott is my stepmom’s brother-in-law, and this is his big break opportunity to have a book he wrote and illustrated promoted by Cheerios. You can vote once a day until Friday!

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  • Capybara

    Serious capybara babies are serious. Capybaras look UNREAL.

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  • Mission to Mars

    Man! I seriously think I’d volunteer for the simulated mission to Mars were it not for A) my complete lack of the required skills and B) my not living in one of the ESA member states. Damn.

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  • Sydney Bridge Breakfast

    In Pictures – Sydney Bridge Breakfast. Yeah, the Snook and I were amongst the 45,000 people who DIDN’T score tickets in the lottery. Maybe next year.

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  • Bill the Cat

    Whoa. Prompted by today’s awesome xkcd redesign (in honour of the death of Geocities), I looked up my first website and the Snook’s. Notice anything? We both used crappy gifs of Bill the cat. DESTINY!

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  • Linger

    If you found the luxury tampons offensive… this is worse.

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  • Coles Broadway

    Submitted as actual feedback to the Coles website: “I’d like to complain about the ongoing remodeling efforts at Coles Broadway. Look, I get it was time for a refurb. The shopping center may in fact have demanded it. But the way it’s being done has turned my weekly shop into a complete nightmare. I now…

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  • Horace Behr and Mr Bunnyford. Freaky and disturbing amigurumi.

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  • Vegging Out

    Talkback: Vegging Out. My neighbour Michael was on the radio the other day, and Ma Snook heard it and sent me that link. There’s also a photo gallery. Chippendale’s garden experiments are now getting national media coverage!

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