Month: January 2011
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Shared today on Google Reader: Einstein was a cat person You can follow me on Reader here.
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Robbie Burns NightYesterday at 11am I got an IM from the Snook: “Och! It’s Rabbie Burns Day.” To which I jokingly replied: “Neeps and tatties for dinner then?” For those who are confused, Robert Burns was the most famous poet of Scotland and January 25th was his birthday. It’s traditional for Scots to have a…
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Shared today on Google Reader: Video of a Fennec Fox eating carrots – I want one! Incidentally, that is the exact same face I make when forced to eat raw carrots. Tiger Mom is a meme! – I think “Practice more. Suck less.” is good advice for anybody, really. The United States of Shame (CHART)…
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The Oscar nominations will be announced tomorrow… which means it’s almost time for the Ninth Annual web-goddess Oscar Contest! I hope you’re getting ready to make your predictions. This year’s sock monkeys are going to be something special!
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Whoa! Finally the Internet does something useful! You can now cancel your Yellow Pages delivery for three years. THAT’S BRILLIANT. Those stupid dead-tree phone directories drive me up the wall. Every few months our street gets littered with stacks of them. Nobody uses them! They’re just rubbish!
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Mr. Snook Gets a BikeThe big news around these parts lately is that Mr. Snook is now a full-fledged bicycle commuter. He’d been thinking about it for a while. His office is just over 4km away, but the traffic on George Street means that it takes 45 minutes on the bus. Meanwhile the City of…
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Shared today on Google Reader: Melville on Beards New Covers for iPhone and iPad – Moleskine – I don’t care if it’s hipster wank. WANT. Bilateral symmetry is only accurate to a first approximation Back to the Future (1985) – a set on Flickr – This is brilliant. You can follow me on Reader here.
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Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals #1: Mustard ChickenAs promised a few weeks ago, the Snook and I have decided to cook and blog our way through Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals in its entirety. We got the book this week (thank you Booko!) and picked out a hopefully-easy recipe to start with: Mustard Chicken with Quick Dauphinoise,…
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Shur’tugal SocksThis was the first pattern scheduled for the “Super Special Six Pattern Sock Club” I’m participating in. The idea is that the group (which is now up to 200 members!) chose six sock patterns via a vote and throughout the year we’ll be knitting them with wool from our stashes. (You can read more…
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Shared today on Google Reader: Verizon iPhone Commercial Women in modern games: WoW Cataclysm has some pretty cool women in it. Let´s hope for a trend! – Excellent. I haven’t encountered any of these characters yet, but this article makes me more inclined to keep playing. (Unlike an actual meatspace dude who went out of…