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Month: February 2013

  • Shared today on Facebook

    The Nescafe machine at work has broken my brain. I keep expecting espresso machine at home to auto-stop, but it doesn’t. #firstworldproblem

    My friend Tara D’s brother is undergoing cancer treatment. He’s an awesome guy. The health care system in the US is a shocker though, and every little bit you can chip in will help them out.

    Hell is: having to clean up all the crappy PHP you wrote 8 years ago now that your host finally turned off register_globals.

    I asked the builders if I could put our initials in the wet concrete. They obliged.

  • Roald Dahl Fans.com rebirth

    So you guys remember the Dahl site I built years and years ago, right? Well, it’s mostly just sat there for a long time now. It seemed to be useful to kids and teachers, and the site more than pays for itself through the Google ads. So I just left it up. Well, a nice young man named Michael Mander contacted me a while ago about a Dahl-themed Facebook page that he runs. We emailed back and forth, and recently I asked him to officially assist me in running RDF. I was a little worried at first – I put so much work into this site for so long, I didn’t want to share it with anyone. But what’s the point of leaving it there slowly mouldering? So Michael is on board, and it’s completely reinvigorating me. I’ve started doing some of the long-planned admin tasks that I never found time to do before. Michael has started pulling together information to fill in gaps in my content. So if you enjoyed the site back in the day, I think you’re going to enjoy it again going forward!

  • Brickfields, Chippendale | Grab Your Fork: A Sydney food blog

    Brickfields, Chippendale | Grab Your Fork: A Sydney food blog – Oh, CRAP. They’ve turned the old coffee roastery in Chippendale into an awesome looking sourdough bakery. THIS IS TORTURE. The carbs are calling to me! The only thing worse was when Bourke Street Bakery had their Broadway outlet right at the bus stop where I got home every night. I was addicted to those “Personal Sourdoughs” in a very real way. And then one night I worked out the Weight Watchers points in one of them and it was 2/3 of my daily allowance. Whoops.

  • Dear Mark: Fruit Wax, Placentophagy, and Second Hand Smoke | Mark’s Daily Apple

    Dear Mark: Fruit Wax, Placentophagy, and Second Hand Smoke | Mark’s Daily Apple – If I ever have a rock band, I’m going to call it ENCAPSULATED PLACENTOPHAGY.

  • Photo post

    The garden wall is going up!

    The garden wall is going up!

  • Women who dress cute

    Women who dress cute – Interesting opinion piece. As someone who regularly wears sneakers with dresses and has been known to rock a Peter Pan collar, I do occasionally wonder whether other people are judging me for it. I wear what makes me feel comfortable, and it’s definitely not for the appreciation of men. I feel way more self-conscious and fake when I glam it up heteronormative style.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @drkknits Okay, now it’s the Warblers singing Teenage Dream. That’s totally about you hooking up.

    @drkknits “Let’s go all the way tonight. No regrets, just love. We can dance until we die. You and I will be young forever!” #thinkaboutit

    @drkknits Okay, I’ll stop tormenting you then. THRASH METAL IT IS! 😛

    @drkknits Okay, I’ve got another schmoopy one for you though. http://t.co/QXvmyFx6UZ My fave Pogues song. It’s also good to dance to.

    @imdominating @drkknits Take her to the hipster place with this tasting plate of artisanal pickles. She’ll fucking love that shit. 🙂

    @drkknits YAY!

    @drkknits I just don’t understand academia at all. But I gather that it’s all good stuff. So double yay!

    Going to my first @iiba study group session tonight! Very excited.

    @QRCodeART @DrMiaow Actually, I got it to read when scanning from photo of item, not knitting itself. So maybe resolution/too much noise?

    Survived my first #iiba study group and even made a friend! Looking forward to the next one. #hermionelovesschool

    Having very well deserved whiskey and soda as a nightcap.

    @StuartCRyan Hang on. The whole time at sydneyaug last week I was thinking “How do I know this guy?” I know you through @stufromoz!

    @StuartCRyan @stufromoz I should’ve said hello in person. Sorry! I was one of the few girls there towards the end. 🙂

    @StuartCRyan @stufromoz I actually went to the Support talk, so I missed it! But I saw your shirt and was like, I KNOW THAT GUY SOMEHOW. 🙂

    @StuartCRyan It was good – small but informative. I was mostly just curious. Sounds like their support team is very similar to Google’s.

    @drkknits You’ve got one more monitor than me, but I’ve got fuzzy cat butt too. http://t.co/BaRFEdsVFo

  • Shared today on Facebook

    Survived my first IIBA BABOK study group and even made a friend! We signed up to give a presentation at the 3rd meeting. I’m actually looking forward to it! (I am such a school nerd, even now.)

  • Photo post

    The landscapers brought their dog, Digger. He's so energetic this was the best photo I could get. (The cats HATE Digger.)

    The landscapers brought their dog, Digger. He’s so energetic this was the best photo I could get. (The cats HATE Digger.)

  • Oscar Contest Winner

    Congratulations to Jeremy Cropf, who won the big prize in this year’s Oscar Contest! Jeremy tied with five others for first place with 13 out of 14 correct: Allison Kucera, Dan Vogel, Gerri Kuhn, Gordon Purcell, and Preston Nicholson. It all came down to the dead people in the obituary montage though, and with a guess of 43 (the real number was 41), Jeremy won! It turns out this was his first year entering, and he’s an NYU film school grad working as an independent filmmaker and freelancer in Portland. (Yep, this is him!) Very cool – and congratulations, Jeremy!

    Thanks to everybody who entered this year. And if you think of any sock monkey concepts throughout 2013, be sure to send them to me…