Month: March 2011

  • Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals #10: Beef HashThis is our 10th cooking/blogging experiment from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals. Hey, we’re 20% of the way through! We picked this particular recipe because we had the TV episode recorded and because we had several of the ingredients in the pantry already. The hash itself also seemed fairly low-carb…

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  • Red and White Quilts

    MOM! Check this out: Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts. Those are amazing. My favorite is “Vortex” (slide 32). HOW DO YOU DO THAT?!

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  • Shared today on Google Reader: Cheshirefield – Huh. I’m surprised by the number of folks recommending leather. I wonder if that’s an option for us. You can follow me on Reader here.

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  • RunningBlog: Week 12

    Week 12Another cutback week, and a very short one at that. I took last weekend off to try to treat my pulled hamstring. I massaged in anti-inflammatory gel a couple of times a day and iced it every few hours. Saturday I went out to the Sydney Running Centre in Edgecliff to get some new…

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  • Shared today on Google Reader: Speaking to your demographic MetaFilter Stops Sex Slavery: Russian Targets Speak Out – The Daily Beast – I watched that post happen in real time too. It was crazy. Everyone was crying when the news came through they were safe. You can follow me on Reader here.

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  • Shared today on Google Reader: Meet the New Kids on the Block – SO. CUTE. (“What’s a Nubian?”) GDC releases classic game postmortem videos – Bookmarking to watch all of these later. How-To: Photographic Quilt – I spent like 30 seconds wondering why Pac-Man had a chunk taken out of his head before I realised…

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  • Never Say No to Panda!

    Never Say No to Panda! Series of commercials for a type of cheese. Pretty funny! (Link courtesy of my friend Stu.)

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  • Crochet Hat

    Note to self: crochet this hat for my nieces…

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  • Wizards!

    Harry Potter wizards in other movies. Neat! Infographic charting which wizards have appeared in other films together. I would’ve guessed something like Sense and Sensibility to have the most, but there’s actually one with NINE. Wouldn’t have guessed that one.

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  • Tim Tam (and Oreo!) Stuffed Chocolate Chip CookiesSometimes I amaze even myself. I knew I wanted to make some sort of sweet treat this week as a belated birthday gift for my friend Kunaal. (He was overseas on his actual birthday a couple weeks ago.) Kunaal has a serious sweet tooth, and he is partial…

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