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Author: Kris

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    It took me 15 months, but I finally got 2 x 100m/20s on the rowing machine. Not many girls do, apparently. I feel like I can do anything. 🙂

    Five meetings in one day. I think that’s a personal record.

    Alas, poor Magic Pudding, I knew him well! http://twitpic.com/17phgo

    @liedra That’s not the app; it’s likely the best your monitor does! Can’t get more than that, usually. What’s the thing you’re capturing?

    @rhagern I haven’t spotted us in any of them yet. Hilarious that we were both there. Would’ve been funny to meet that way! 🙂

    @rhagern I haven’t been able to spot us in any of the pics yet, sadly. Yours was great!

    @rhagern Nah, we only did the outside bit. We had to go to work!

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    It took me 15 months, but I finally got 2 x 100m/20s on the rowing machine. Not many girls do, apparently. I feel like I can do anything. 🙂

    Just completed a 1.43 km walk with RunKeeper

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    @Opheli8 Can I be the meeting Princess?

    @randomknits Grafted and everything? Did you use the written-out instructions available online?

    @randomknits Just google “rogue hood grafting” if you want to pull it back and be completely Hermione about it. 🙂

    @lukerides Maybe median is more meaningful than average? Put it in the middle of the bell curve. (Not that $150K could be psbly be median.)

    Heading to #IIBA talk with @venks79. Work stuff + alcohol is always fun.

    @venks79 Seriously. I saw you tweeting during the speech! Naughty.

    @drkknits I need to get caught up on that. Snook and I are massive Boston Rob and Ambah fans. 🙂

    @kunaal84 Congrats on your last day! Looking forward to welcoming you aboard next week. 🙂

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    Happy birthday! Be sure to meet up before you jet back off to LaLaLand…

  • GGG for Runners

    Peter Sagal (of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me fame) has a column in Runner’s World this month and has blogged his “Three G’s for Runners”. It’s got some nice pointers for anybody starting out in running.

  • Clarification on the tiebreaker

    Since someone emailed to ask, I did not include John Hughes in the tiebreaker count for the Oscar Contest. Jenny and I debated it during his tribute, and we hoped the producers would make it easy by including him in the “In Memoriam” reel as well. But they didn’t. However, the actual wording on the entry page was: “How many dead people will be featured in the annual Hollywood obituary tribute reel?” I think it’s pretty clear that the question is not how many dead people will be honoured at the show, but rather how many people are in the specific tribute montage. So on that basis, we went with the count of 34. Of course, it really sucks for Tom Cassutt, because if they had included Hughes (or Farrah Fawcett! or Bea Arthur!) he would’ve won the whole shebang. Sorry, Tom!

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    11am and I am heading into my 3rd meeting of the day. GRAR.

    Don’t forget to count dead people for me, Tweeps! I have a feeling I’m going to need the tiebreaker this year…

    @_brigita_ I am not a fan of the mop top. No, sir.

    I’ve seen loads of pics of Diane Kruger, but WHERE IS PACEY? With Clooney’s mop top, I need some stabilizing Pacey hotness.

    @kevincmurphy You’re still in there… http://bit.ly/dAxpzc

    Snook: “I reverse engineered your Oscars site to create a histogram of user success.” Then dumped me a bunch of code. I love him.

    RT @miftik: http://twitpic.com/17agub – Trying to stay awake for @web_goddess but it is going to be tough. // YOU ARE THE BEST. THE BEST!

    I will need a backup dead person count, as I think @imdominating is crying too hard.

    @miftik That matches what @imdominating got. Thanks to the both of you! You are awesome. 🙂

    @Opheli8 You’re a cheater head! I don’t see no James Taylor on your monitor… 🙂

    @traveller0112 Huh. Not seeing much commentary on that, other than from Ebert and you!

    Whoa! @realtimshady has a real chance here…

    @thisismywww Mine is working, over on William Street…

    @thisismywww 3G. I got Twitter and everything.

    And it’s over! A 14-way tie for 1st place in the W-G Oscar Contest… and then a 2-way tie after tiebreaker… comes down to order of entry.

    The W-G Oscar Contest winner of the Sparkly Emo Vampire Sockmonkey Playset is Jonathan Wells. Way to go, Jonathan!

    RT @mayorofnewtown: Extended bus zones on King St Newtown in preparation for bendy busses (Metrobus 30) (pdf) http://bit.ly/bFm0Sl

    @witty_knitter Judging by the email address, I don’t think so. 🙂

    2nd go at Magic Pudding face: much better! Nearly got it. Just need to finetune the nose placement.

    @carbolicious I think in most places in the world, every day is Men’s Day.

    First hot cross bun of the year. Yum.

    @carbolicious The question was stupid, like asking why there’s no Int’l White Person’s Day. Because they’re not an oppressed minority!

    @carbolicious Actually, apologies. There is one, and 2 seconds worth of Googling found it: http://bit.ly/PP0nj

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    Just completed a 5.43 km run with RunKeeper

  • And the winner is… Jonathan Wells!

    Thanks to everybody (392 of you!) who entered this year’s Oscar Contest. We ended up with a 14-way tie for first place, all of whom got 12 out of 13 answers correct. It then went to the tiebreaker, which was 34 dead people in the tribute reel. Jonathan Wells guessed 33, and Tom Cassutt guessed 35. So to break the tie between them, I had to go to order of entry. Sorry Tim, Jonathan put in his entry about twenty hours before you did… so Jonathan is the big winner! Congratulations to him, and condolences to all of you who missed out.

    The Snook thinks I should offer a “wooden spoon” prize to last place. “Send them a werewolf merkin so they can pet it when they feel sad about their lack of prescience.” Hm. I bet I could sell those on Etsy.

    Edited to add: I’ve just checked the history and this was the fifth time Jonathan has entered the contest. (Actually, it may be more than that; I only saved the entries going back to 2006.) So well done to a long-time reader!

  • Oscar Contest 2010… Only 90 minutes to go!

    You’ve got til the show starts to get your predictions in for the big contest. We’re closing in on 400 entries! Throughout the day, I’ll be updating the winners and you’ll be able to see your scores update.

    As usual, if any of you will be watching the show with a DVR, can you please count the number of dead people in the obituary tribute for me? I have a feeling that we could end up with quite a big tie for first place this year (unless there’s a surprise upset).

    And just a note: I had a couple people put more than one entry into the contest, and the extras have been deleted. I’m serious; you only get one shot. Your first entry is the one that I saved, so if you changed your mind later, too bad!

    Update: And the contest is closed! Here we go…

    Update later: Have gotten three independent counts of the dead people montage and all said 34. So that’s what we’re going with! (Thanks to Jenny, Miftik, and Kel.)