Month: January 2010

  • Happiness Challenge

    2010 Happiness ChallengeHow are you guys doing in your 2010 Happiness Challenge? Week 1 was about getting more sleep, and I’m proud to report that the Snook and I have made positive changes in this area. We have been getting off the couch and heading to bed pretty consistently at 10pm every night. It’s not…

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  • The Yay Scale

    The Yay! Scale. That is brilliant. Better still, it should speak the compliment in a sexy voice.

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  • This is neat. I got an email this morning from Marian Hall in Birmingham in the UK: Thanks for the sock monkey instructions. They were the best I found (and I looked at a lot). Made 5 sock monkeys to join a barrowload of others in Film Ficciones latest music video. Thanks a lot. Huh?…

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  • Kristine Avenue

    Kristine AvenueWow. There are 37 streets named after me in North America. You can look up your own name here. (Poor Snook. No streets named after him.)

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  • Distracted by Star Wars

    Remember that epic Phantom Menace review? Well, the same guy is doing another one for Attack of the Clones. Here’s a trailer. (Link courtesy of the Snook, who found it on Distracted by Star Wars, which may in fact be the BEST TUMBLR SITE EVER, and has already made me laugh out loud several times.)

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  • Running Shoe Injuries

    Do Running Shoes Cause Running Injuries? In a nutshell, nobody knows for sure. The folks at Newton make a persuasive argument against strapping giant blocks of foam to your heels though… (I love my Newtons.)

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  • Moominvalley

    Moominvalley – an interior design project inspired by the works of Tove Jansson. That looks really cool, but I can’t figure out what sort of a space it’s supposed to be. It looks more like the play area of an IKEA than something you’d have in your house. (Link shared by peacay on GoogleReader.)

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  • Sam Kekovich goes to the United Nations. I know that my vegetarian friends are probably sick of these ads, but I’ll admit they give me a giggle. (The one where he says “My fellow Australians: The world economy is ROOTED!” actually made me laugh out loud.) I’m really looking forward to putting some lamb on…

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  • Top Rated Jobs

    Whoa. According to this CareerCast.com list, I have the third best job in the world. (I moved up from web developer, which is #15.)

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  • Carl Sagan’s Apple Pie

    Carl Sagan’s Apple Pie. I bet that inventing the universe is actually easier than getting our crappy oven up to temperature.

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