Month: February 2010
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Mother’s Day ClassicRegistration is now open for the 2010 Mother’s Day Classic. These races take place all over Australia and raise money for breast cancer research. I previously ran it in Sydney’s Domain in 2006, 2008, and 2009. I’ll be running it again this year, and I’ve created a Geek Girl Runner team that you’re…
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Roger Ebert’s review of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (or whatever it’s called) makes it sound way better than the previews make it look. I was a Greek mythology nerd in junior high. Steve Coogan as Hades and Sean Bean as Zeus? Sign me up.
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Week 6I’ve backed off a little bit this week. When I was doing my run on Sunday, I noticed I was having some problems with my right foot. It just felt a little “dead,” you know? Like it was heavier than normal and not as springy. Tired. Like how your foot feels after you’ve been…
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Beaker’s Ballad. HAHAHAHAHA! When “BURNINATION!” came up I laughed and laughed. Brilliant. (Link courtesy of crumpet.)
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ToonPAINTI have a new favorite iPhone app: ToonPAINT. The Creative Director at work showed it to me yesterday and I bought it immediately. It takes a photo and turns it into a cartoon. You can tweak the sketch effect, and then you can paint in sections if you want. Here are some that I made…
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Metric Map: Which Countries Don’t Belong With The Others? That’s pretty telling. Get on board, USA! I’m tired of having to convert stuff for you.
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Geek Girl Runner Episode 3 will be delayed!Sorry to have gotten your hopes up. I wanted to do one this week, but I’ve been kinda swamped. I’m busy at work; the Knitters Guild (of which I am both a group convenor and the webmaster) is embroiled in scandal; and I have to go see my…
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The Art of Manliness lays it down: The world belongs to those who hustle. I need to hustle more. (I love that site.)
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Best. Mom. Ever. And now I want to throw the Snook a LoTR party for his next birthday…
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Want to feel sad? A lonely whale has been singing in the north Pacific for more than a decade without any hope of getting an answer. Its calls don’t match any of the other known species. It’s really actually pretty depressing if you think about it. (Found on MetaFilter.)