Month: January 2011

  • Capricornia

    A newspaper in the UK ran a map of the flooding in Queensland and included a completely non-existent Australian state called “Capricornia.” How odd.

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  • Day 10 and 11 of Christmas VacationThe last two days were pretty relaxed. Yesterday was a hot one, and we mainly huddled in the house. We did go for a walk in the afternoon around Sydney Uni. (We’d been hoping the Macleay Museum was open, but it wasn’t.) I worked on my socks for a…

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  • Shared today on Google Reader: The Alderaan Trail – I would buy this as a real iPhone game. A demonstration of Benford’s Law [Madscience] The Sloppy Casualness of American Men You can follow me on Reader here.

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  • Day 8 and 9 of Christmas Vacation – Happy New Year!Yesterday morning started with a 5km run around Sydney Uni that conveniently put me over the 1000km mark. Back at home, I showered and spent some time sharing my completed goal all over the Internets. In the afternoon, I had a nap. (No, seriously.) Then…

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  • Shared today on Google Reader: Girl gives boy World of Warcraft: Cataclysm … but there´s a catch You can follow me on Reader here.

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  • Olivia’s Rainbow Blanket and BSJEagle-eyed readers will have noticed that the first two projects shown on my knitting round-up below haven’t actually been blogged yet! That’s because I only just finished them yesterday. First up is an actual, honest-to-god CROCHETED item: Olivia’s Rainbow Baby Blanket. This is a project that I basically made up myself.…

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