Month: August 2011
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Mink Car Cover – a project to commemorate They Might Be Giants awesome yet ill-timed album. I’ve just bought the digital version and I am rockin’ out to it. The “NES-rock band” version of “Man It’s So Loud in Here” made me dance in my chair. Hipster geek awesomeness.
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TON OF WOOLMy friend Kylie Gusset has launched an intriguing new project: TON OF WOOL. Kylie is passionate about minimising the carbon footprint of the wool we knit with, and also about preserving and maintaining the Australian wool industry (most of which has moved overseas). For this project, Kylie has sourced a rare breed of…
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City2Surf 2011Last Sunday was my fifth time running the City2Surf and the fourth for the Snook. (Previously: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006. We only missed last year because we were overseas.) As we’re both training for next month’s Blackmore’s Half-Marathon, the C2S was merely a training run for us this time. We were actually scheduled to…
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Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals #28: Fish Tray-BakeThis is our 28th cooking/blogging experiment from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals… and I’m not gonna lie, the fatigue is starting to set in. But we started this thing, and dammit, we’re gonna finish it. We chose this one because we had the episode recorded, asparagus is in season, and…
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Shared today on Google Reader: How to Decorate a Man Room You can follow me on Reader here.
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Week 33This week was an improvement! Sunday was the City2Surf, which is technically a 14km race. However, the Snook and I were scheduled for 17km on our training plan. So we actually ran a few extra km’s to the starting line just to get warmed up and make the distance. Monday I went to Spudds…
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Shared today on Google Reader: Postmodernism is dead | Prospect Magazine – Ooh, an Age of Authenticity? Does this mean I get to start charging premium rates for my knitting to the Vickies? Lose with Dignity. Celebrate with Grace. (Part I) First look at the Space Hotel offers aliens aplenty, but no booze allowed –…
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Shared today on Google Reader: Dangerous Minds | CAPTCHAs to keep idiots out of comment threads – If my existing CAPTCHA didn’t work so well, I’d seriously think about implementing this. Time for Science by Bradleysmp – $10 – ARGGHGHGHGHGH. Kari Byron cannot even PRONOUNCE “experiment” correctly, much less conduct one. And does she have…
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Shared today on Google Reader: Cookie Monster Cupcake Fail Ask a Korean! Wiki: Mixed Koreans? – Wow. This is fascinating. I had no idea about the discrimination in the 50’s. I’ll have to ask my grandma if she (and my Mom, who was a baby) faced any of that. How-To: Paint-by-Number Mural Last place aversion…
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Shared today on Google Reader: Saving Pennies or Dollars? Unplugging the Microwave Homemade 'New Kids On The Block' Sweaters from the 90s – Cousin Jenny will be ALL OVER THIS. You can follow me on Reader here.