Month: May 2011
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Dead Wrestler Of The Week: “Macho Man” Randy Savage. An excellent overview of the Macho Man’s long career, with lots of YouTube clips. We were big WWF fans as kids. I remember watching that match where Macho Man was getting beat up by the Honky Tonk Man and the Hart Foundation, and Miss Elizabeth getting…
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Shared today on Google Reader: Is this the best cover letter of all time? You can follow me on Reader here.
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Scalloped Waist Skirt Tutorial. Self: make this.
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Chunky Knitted Homewares. Wow. Margarita is gonna LOVE that stuff. 🙂
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Shared today on Google Reader: The 5 Switches of Manliness: Physicality Anthony Bourdain Interview @Not Quite Nigella You can follow me on Reader here.
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Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals #16: Tasty Crusted CodThis is our 16th cooking/blogging experiment from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals. We selected “Tasty Crusted Cod, My Mashy Peas, Tartare Sauce, and Warm Garden Salad” because it seemed vaguely wintery and we had the episode recorded. We also decided to switch up the format of our experiment a…
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Snook’s Hipster CardyAs my knitting buddies know, this has actually been finished for more than a month but I’ve only just now gotten around to documenting it. This was my entry to the 2011 Sydney Royal Easter Show, where it didn’t win anything. The pattern is “#17 Man’s Cable Cardigan” by Josh Bennett for the…
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New Adventures in Cat ParentingRecently I stumbled across this fantastic MetaFilter comment by a veterinarian advocating feeding your cats ONLY canned/wet food. The Snook and I discussed whether it would be a good thing to do for our furballs. They’ve both had UTIs, so anything that gets them ingesting more water is a good thing.…
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Week 20I am very, very happy to be recording my highest distance week EVER, and the first over THIRTY MILES! I had my marathon run on Sunday, then I took Monday off to recover. I went for a very gentle run/walk at lunch on Tuesday, and I could tell my legs felt better. Wednesday I…