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  • Shared today on Twitter

    @sharre Idiots at Optus took like a week to port mine. 🙁

    @witty_knitter There are others too. A friend recommended Tweetie. But TwitterFon is free and works well enough. 🙂

    @kellymcmahon They made explicit rule after OzTBL 1st season. Chick drank like 4 gallons of water before weigh-in. http://tinyurl.com/cw8y8y

    just found Greasemoney script that identifies twitter spammers and marketroids. Very useful. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25552

    My friend Kate knitted The Stig & entered him in the Easter Show. Seriously. http://tinyurl.com/da5upe

    @alyshajane She actually based it on this free pattern: http://knitty.com/ISSUEwinter07/PATTfairy.html

    On the way to Glebe Point Diner for anniversary dinner. Supposed to be pretty good!

    Crispy duck with fig, Brussels sprouts, and barley. SO GOOD. http://twitpic.com/2oc90

    Best brussels sprouts EVER. Not pictured: crab & chestnut soup. Made my double boxing workout all worthwhile. Great meal on a rainy night!

    Will be attending AIMIA Essential Digital PM Skills workshop at end of month. http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=4344 Anybody else going?

  • Willow and Wesley had a girl!

    Awww, Willow and Wesley had a girl.

  • Mission to Fake Mars

    I’m kind of fascinated by this fake Mars mission experiment. Six astronauts are going to be locked up for three months in a space capsule to see how they react to the prolonged isolation of long-distance space travel. They’ll have all their supplies with them, and their communications to “Earth” will be delayed by 20 minutes. Won’t they all just go nuts? That’s what I’m expecting. Other questions that popped into my head: What do astronauts do with their garbage/human waste? Just dump it out into space? (I’m now picturing this space capsule hooked up like a motorhome at a camp ground.) And why aren’t there any women included? Surely the dynamics of a mixed group would be more interesting that all men.

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  • Mathison leaving Idol?

    Mathison leaving Idol??? Nooooooooo! TELL ME it’s an April Fool’s joke.

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  • Happy Anniversary, Snookums

    Nine years ago tonight – just about right now, in fact – I was in the Distillers Arms in Hammersmith celebrating being granted a British work visa (which meant I didn’t have to go home in a week). Pretty much the whole office had ended up there, and we were partying it up. Half a dozen of us decided to kick on to the “Leopard Lounge” in Fulham to do some dancing. The place was pretty sad, actually, and not very full, but we made the best of it. At one point I was dancing with the cute boy from the office that I had a crush on, and I just decided to go for it. We smooched and held hands. It was an incredible rush, yet at some level even then I knew it also felt completely comfortable and right. We’ve barely been apart since.

    Us at the beginning Us now

    It’s been a great nine years. Happy (real) anniversary to my best friend…

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  • Cake decorating

    The SMH report on the cake decoration competition at the Easter Show, which they claim is one of the “fiercest contests.” See, this is why I’m not a huge fan of transient art forms. If I spent four months knitting Na Craga only to have somebody knock it over and ruin it, I’d never pick up the needles again.

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  • Shared today on Twitter

    @sharre I LOVE mine, as you might guess. Even the Snook is seriously swayed. And @AusVintageGrrl has given in?! You will be assimilated.

    Huzzah! Booked in for Girl Geek Dinner in two weeks w/ @redambition and @AusVintageGrrl. girlgeekdinnerssydney.blogspot.com

    @acatinatree When in doubt, it’s probably the effing SMH site. HATE IT.

    As I said on Ravelry, I can’t even watch the Ped-Egg advert without gagging. IT’S A FOOT GRATER. For some reason that makes my skin crawl.

    @randomknits @sharre I’m on $39 + $13 optus too, but it’s gone now. 🙁 My data usage is way < 200MB. (I have wifi @ home & work tho.)

    @acatinatree Still need one? I’ve got a list purportedly from “Verizon/Sybase + assorted sources”. Can email to you if you like.

    @randomknits Pretty sure. Rodd was interested but they pulled it 2 weeks after I got it. I think $59 is lowest Optus now. Will check.

    @randomknits Yep, gone. No more plain Yes plans. Just Timeless and Cap for loads more. 🙁

    @randomknits Rodd’s plan is to buy one outright, unlock it, and get a cheap plan with decent data. He’s with Exetel; he thinks it’ll work.

    Sometimes supporting your wife is making her go to boxing when she’d give anything not to. Because she’ll be glad she went afterwards.

    RT @acatinatree @markpollard: Free Twitter session in The Rocks, Syd Thurs 23 April http://tinyurl.com/cayzsp

    hates this weather. There’s nothing worse than being steamy bus in the pouring rain, getting dripped on by brollies and roof and wet people.

    @witty_knitter You’ve got iPhone, right? I use TwitterFon (free from App Store). But no, we have no SMS support in Oz (yet).

  • Shared today on Facebook

    LOVE. IT. Every school library in the country should have that up as a poster.

    Kristine Howard shared a link.

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

  • Cool Kids Go to the Library

    Cool kids go to the library. LOVE IT. (Spotted in Nora‘s shared Google Reader items.)

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  • Uninterested Cat Bento

    Uninterested Cat Bento. Ha! Nice one, Eva. Now you just need to create a bento of a 7 pound cat leaping on a sleeping person’s stomach and you’ve basically documented half my life.

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