Knitted, felted olives. Those are adorable.
Category: Random Links
Links that I’m reading/watching/listening to/thinking about
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McDonald’s Pizza
McDonald’s Pizza. I think that’s the best Frankenstein food I’ve seen yet! And yeah, I’d probably eat it. You would too.
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Wake Up Cat
Wake Up Cat. Hahahahaha… This is exactly what Dr. Amy does in the morning. Actually she’s added something new to her repertoire as well: she tries to eat my bedside lamp. I don’t understand it. The Snook has the exact same lamp on his night table, except his is black and mine is blue. She apparently only likes the blue ones. So she sits there next to my head chewing on my lamp until I get up and toss her to the floor. Stupid cat.
Edited 30/04/2025: Link is dead and not archived.
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RSVP Reminder
This is an Official Halloween Party Reminder for those of you who haven’t told me whether you’re coming to the party this weekend or not. We’re planning food, so drop me a line or SMS and let us know whether to count you in. And for those still looking for a costume, the Snook gives you: The 30 Most Unsettling German Halloween Costumes.
My favorite is the mobile phone.
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Roller coasters
56 American roller coasters… from the front seat. AWESOME. I haven’t been to Cedar Point in more than seven years, so I loved getting to “ride” the Magnum once more. I hadn’t even heard of that new Maverick coaster. Anybody try it this summer?
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Poker Cheating
Stories about poker seem to keep cropping up now that I have a semi-relative that plays professionally. Check out this exposé about a cheating ring at an online poker site. Fascinating. (Link courtesy of Daring Fireball.)
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Cannonball Run
I blame my father, really, for my inexplicable love of car chases and the Smokey and the Bandit movies. I suppose that’s why I got so caught up in this Wired article about an attempt to break the Cannonball Run record. Two complete geeks (with lots of money and very little regard for speeding laws) planned to break the 22-year-old speed record for crossing the US from New York to Los Angeles in a car. Did they make it? You’ll have to read to the end to find out.
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RENT Stuntcasting
Frankly, I can’t believe it’s taken them this long to get around to stuntcasting Rent.
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Offensive Halloween Costumes
In the same vein as Andrew‘s “Dead Steve Irwin” costume from last year, check out these ideas for offensive Halloween costumes as provided by AskMeFi. (Warning! They really are offensive! Don’t say I didn’t warn you!) I am ashamed to admit that I chuckled at many of these.
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Iron Chefs
The Snook and I have done some pretty crazy things in our time. We got married in Vegas with an Elvis impersonator. We’ve gone to grown-up Space Camp. We made a turducken. And yet somehow, I think this will be one of the best adventures yet: We’re going to dinner with two Iron Chefs. SERIOUSLY. In just over three weeks, we will sit down to a seven-course meal prepared by Iron Chefs Sakei and Chen. How INSANE is that? I cannot wait. I am primed and ready for anything. So bring on your fish ice cream, Sakei! Bring on your slabs of foie gras and piles of shaved truffle!
I know it’s extravagant. I don’t care. If you like food as much as we do, you’d do it too!