NPR had a story recently about whether running hurts your knees. Great news – it doesn’t! In fact, it looks like running actually helps ward off osteoarthritis. Just be sure to go out slow, especially if you (like me) are on the heavier side of the bell curve.
@grabyourfork Thanks for that. Now I am obsessed with the idea of having four ovens. FOUR OVENS!
@gusseting Hm. I really like Teva’s designs. It may be enough to finally get me aboard the lace train!
Like @witty_knitter, I’m looking forward to the Easter Show Arts Preview tonight. Trying hard not to get my hopes up. 🙂 #RASartspreview
@danivv Thanks for that! Hadn’t heard of her. I’ve actually had this pattern queued for years: http://bit.ly/d7SDfg. Even bought the chair!
Wow, it’s not often I get smirked at as a female geek and a knitter in the space of the same 5 minutes. Bah.
Not to be crude, but I can’t be the only one that sees, uh, other things in some of these polymer beads, right? http://bit.ly/bqKLHs
Knitters: please feel free to spoil me for #RASartspreview. I need to be prepared. (Probably won’t get there til after 7.)
@mrs_sockvictim Woohoo! Congrats and well done. 🙂
Still on the train. No word from #RASartspreview. Appears I am destined to remain unappreciated in my own time.
The pudding’s expression mimics my own. No prizes for me this year. http://twitpic.com/1bx7ky
@Ascasewwen A goddamn clown. And second place was Mrs Claus. *puke*
If you can’t win a ribbon, you can still toast the naked marquetry. http://twitpic.com/1bxinj
I think @miss_reecie and @mrs_sockvictim tied for “Worst Item Display”, sadly enough.
Have just done a massive Rav post with photos of stuff from @randomknits @mrs_sockvictim @Roceal @frillseekerjen @Kat13v etc…
And here is the excellent group photo of 23 Ravelers, courtesy of Mr. Snook: http://bit.ly/axL75E
@Ezzles Plenty of fishing line. Also – by @SallyPompom’s count – 17% less entries than last year. Total suckage.
@gusseting They never give feedback. They suck. (I’m trying to work out a subtle way of putting a middle finger on next year’s entry.)
@bellsknits Yay! Thank you so much – again! Looking forward to exploring Canberra. 🙂
@randomknits @KTunravels I was gonna say her too, actually. Good call.
My Magic Pudding at the 2010 Easter Show. No ribbon. (Stupid evil Jean Greenhowe clowns.) His face = the mirror to my soul.
My St. Brigid jumper at the 2010 Easter Show. Shunted in the corner and strung up with fishing line. No ribbon. (Winner was horrid cream Grandpa jumper covered in bobbles.)
Hey, if you can’t win, you can at least suck down free champagne in front of naked-lady woodwork, right?
On one hand, slightly disappointed at not winning a ribbon for my knitting at the Show this year. On the other hand, annoyed at myself for feeling that way and trying to remember that the judges suck and more than half of the winners are godawful ugly.
Just completed a 5.35 km run with RunKeeper
So… the Easter Show. I didn’t win anything. I was a bit of a letdown, though it’s always nice to have your friends yell “YOU WAS ROBBED!” over and over. The Magic Pudding was nicely displayed, and apparently he was a big hit with people passing by. St. Brigid was strung up in a corner rather lifelessly. Many of my friends won ribbons though, and I was very happy for them. (Lots of photos here.) I’m also happy to report that Gary continues his tradition of excellent nude marquetry. So I grumbled about the judges, and I toasted all the Ravelers, and it was on-the-whole an enjoyable evening. Now I just have to figure out how to knit a nude zombie clown giving the middle finger for next year…
As he did last year, my little brother Joey is doing “Jump Rope for Heart” to raise money for heart research. Here’s his fundraising page is here. If you’ve got any cash to spare, please consider sponsoring him. My Mom is going to try to get video of him jumping (as she did last year). Way to go, Joey!
Edited to add: WOW! He’s reached his fundraising goal in just one day. That’s fantastic. Thanks to everyone who donated. (I think you can still donate if anyone missed out.)
Edited 30/03/2025: Fundraising page is dead and not archived.
Free Printable Sketching, Wireframing and Note-Taking PDF Templates. Very useful if you find yourself scribbling websites on bits of scrap paper.
Kelly McMahon sent me this year’s finalists in the Peep Diorama contest. Despite my hatred for the Peeps, some of these are really good. KLAATU BARADA PEEPTO was a personal highlight.
is relishing a sunny Fall day in Woolloomooloo. http://twitpic.com/2lfto
is enjoying the chaos. Power just went out all over Sydney CBD. What the heck’s happening? Just walked down 10 flights to get out.
wonders why traffic lights are out on George & William but not around the park? Something to do with train stations? #blackout #sydney
@wookie_man And I hope you didn’t drive. Streets are insane. Fire trucks everywhere and lights are out.
is amused by #sydney #blackout tweets. No #zombies spotted yet. Saw lots of fire trucks in city but no smoke yet. 3G is spotty.
has made it past Central. Power seems to be okay here. Still no #zombies sighted, but smelly Newts make it hard to tell. #blackout #sydney
RT @JennifARGH: New show on Ten; Bondi Zombie. #sydney #blackout #zombies
just visited new giant Harris Farm. (Power is on.) More everything + breads + meat! No #zombies. #sydney #blackout http://twitpic.com/2lkxc
@venks79 Fun, isn’t it? Best excuse for Twitter, I think.
is finally at home with provisions and POWER! Now to fortify doors and improvise #zombie decapitating device. #sydney #blackout
can confirm that Chippo has power and Internets. Suck it, Glebe! #sydney #blackout
has just realized that all of these silly #zombie tweets are going straight to Facebook. Maybe I should turn that off.
@randomknits Me too. Yet my inner 3-year-old also thinks she wears pretty, pretty dresses.
RT @jannism: Skype for iphone ready tomorrow http://tinyurl.com/cgjy4a Holy crap! I may have to finally pay for Skype credits. 2c/min to US!
Gearing up for a run outside. In the dark. (Come on, Daylight Savings…)
Listening to the rain. Run postponed. I’m hardcore, but not that hardcore.
@virtual4now A steady rain I could do, but this is turning full on and off like a faucet. I’ll do boxing today instead.
Just installed Skype for iPhone and successfully tried it out. Hey family, you can call me for free at work/home now!
is relishing a sunny Fall day in Woolloomooloo. http://twitpic.com/2lfto
is enjoying the chaos. Power just went out all over Sydney CBD. What the heck’s happening? Just walked down 10 flights to get out.
wonders why traffic lights are out on George & William but not around the park? Something to do with train stations? #blackout #sydney
is amused by #sydney #blackout tweets. No #zombies spotted yet. Saw lots of fire trucks in city but no smoke yet. 3G is spotty.
has made it past Central. Power seems to be okay here. Still no #zombies sighted, but smelly Newts make it hard to tell. #blackout #sydney
RT @JennifARGH: New show on Ten; Bondi Zombie. #sydney #blackout #zombies
just visited new giant Harris Farm. (Power is on.) More everything + breads + meat! No #zombies. #sydney #blackout http://twitpic.com/2lkxc
is finally at home with provisions and POWER! Now to fortify doors and improvise #zombie decapitating device. #sydney #blackout
can confirm that Chippo has power and Internets. Suck it, Glebe! #sydney #blackout
has just realized that all of these silly #zombie tweets are going straight to Facebook. Maybe I should turn that off.
RT @jannism: Skype for iphone ready tomorrow http://tinyurl.com/cgjy4a Holy crap! I may have to finally pay for Skype credits. 2c/min to US!
Okay. I have officially REMOVED the connection between Twitter and Facebook. It was just getting ridiculous.
is gearing up for a run outside. In the dark. (Come on, Daylight Savings…)
is listening to the rain. Run postponed. I’m hardcore, but not that hardcore.
just installed Skype for iPhone. Sweeeeet. Only question: Do I have to leave the app open in order to receive calls?
Major power outage in Sydney CBD. Now that was fun! At about 4:45pm this afternoon, everything went ZAP! And all the computers shut off. We all looked around. There was a few minutes of joking while the office manager ran to find out what we should do. I sent an SMS to the Snook saying that our power was out. His reply: “Ours too!” Okay, THAT changes things! (His new office is at the Rocks.) Somebody noticed that the traffic lights were all out on William Street. We stood at the windows and looked down at the growing rush hour traffic chaos. Somebody joked, “You should be twittering this.” HELL YEAH, I should! I grabbed my iPhone but the 3G network kept crapping out before my tweet went through. I called my friend Kunaal whose office is at Wynyard, but oddly they had power! (But no Internet, so he had no idea what was happening.) Eventually most of us decided to leave, so I shuffled down ten flights of fire stairs with everybody else. Then I hiked up to the park and towards the city. While waiting for a bus on Castlereagh, I managed to get through to Twitter and did a search on blackout. That’s when I discovered that everyone was attributing it to zombie attack. Oh man, that was fun. I tweeted* all the way home. Snookums managed to train it to Central and met me at the house. Thankfully, Chippendale seems to have power (and Internet). And now here we are, enjoying a beer and feeling sorry for all those still trying to head north over the bridge!
* I really think this may have been a turning point in my relationship with Twitter. The explosion of the zombie blackout meme was fun and addictive. I told the Snook it was like this amazing spontaneous virtual chat room with folks from all over the city. Plus I picked up seven new followers thanks to my tweets!
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We have the Harold McGee book, v interesting and often useful. Right up his alley I reckon!
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