Month: June 2010
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Happy birthday to my Mom and to my stepbrother Colfax!
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8-bit Twilight Eclipse Interactive Game. This is FANTASTIC. Twilight done as an old-school choose-your-own-adventure style Nintendo game… all on YouTube. Even if you hate Twilight – or rather, ESPECIALLY if you hate Twilight – you’re gonna love this.
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Shared today on Google Reader: ZombieFit classes- can they help you survive the coming zombie apocalypse? Blue Plate Bar & Grill, Neutral Bay @Not Quite Nigella – I want to go to there. You can follow me on Reader here.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Official Trailer. Looks awesome. I just wish YouTube would let me go through it frame-by-frame so I can identify all the scenes. Edited to add: Screw YouTube. If you go to the official site, you can get to the Quicktime version which allows you to go through slowly.
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New appliances!If you follow me on Twitter, you probably saw me geeking out over our new cooktop and oven all weekend. It was very momentous! We like to cook, and our old setup was just painful to use. (Here’s a picture of the old electric hob and crappy Blanco oven from when we moved in.)…
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Word of the day: skeuomorphic.
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Bettina Arndt sucks. I was going to write her an email about how I found her article extremely patronising and out-of-touch, but there are about 150 comments (and counting) already saying the same thing. Her attitude towards marriage is exactly WHY I was so reluctant to get married. I don’t want her to count me…
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Shared today on Google Reader: Is it cruel to move pets internationally? There is no spoon – Fake Steve is getting more and more openly antagonistic to Apple these days. I enjoy it. Paying Down the Mortgage or Investing for the Long Term? What Shall We Do? How-To: Zipper Earbud Covers Hairy and Confused –…
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Choosing the Right Sewing Machine Needle. Bookmarking for future reference. (Did you know that Bells is sewing now too?)
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YouTube: Racist Cat. Hahaha, pretty funny.