Month: February 2009

  • Hip Pockets

    MetaFilter wonders: Which one is the hip pocket? My gut reaction was the front pocket, but the sources seem pretty conclusive that it’s the rear.

  • Oscar Contest

    We’ve just hit 200 entries in the Oscar Contest! You’ve got less than a week to put in your picks if you haven’t already. We’ve got clear frontrunners in almost every category, so I am really hoping for some upsets. (Where did Penelope Cruz come from? She’s gotten a big late surge in picks…)

  • Shared today on Twitter

    just realized that Single Ladies (in Mayberry) is lost on someone who’s NEVER seen the Andy Griffiths Show. What’s up with that, Australia?!


  • Shared today on Facebook

    is heading home in the rain in her pretty red trenchcoat.


    just found an error in Alice Starmore. ALICE FRIGGIN’ STARMORE. I’m reeling.


    is all, uh, no I didn’t. Sorry, Alice.


    just realized that Single Ladies (in Mayberry) is lost on someone who’s NEVER seen the Andy Griffiths Show. What’s up with that, Australia?!


  • Aurebesh

    Note to self: Use Aurebesh in a knitting pattern sometimes for maximum geekitude.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    just got to play w/ HTC Dream (aka Google phone). Not very impressed. Plasticky feel & confusing UI. Hope next version will be better.


    Just completed a 3.45 km run with RunKeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/AFinR


    @tim0th It helps that I go really, really slow.


  • Shared today on Facebook

    just got to play w/ HTC Dream (aka Google phone). Not very impressed. Plasticky feel & confusing UI. Hope next version will be better.


    Just completed a 3.45 km run with RunKeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/AFinR


  • I heart Yoko.

    I kinda always liked Yoko Ono, though I didn’t know much about her. I just had this vague idea that she was a cool yet wacky Asian chick who did her own thing. I felt a vague sense of feminist annoyance whenever people blamed her for breaking up the Beatles. I also really like Dar Williams’s song “I Won’t Be Your Yoko Ono”. Then a few weeks ago, I stumbled across Yoko’s Twitter feed and decided to follow her. I guess I thought it would be pretty funny, because obviously she’d be a weirdo, you know? But instead I think it’s fantastic. She posts these whimsical, childlike notes every day or two. I don’t know if it’s part of a performance, or whether she really is like that. But then today came THE BEST THING: she posted her 25 things list. I absolutely love it. She starts off talking about feet and shoes and face creams and gloves and then moves on to John and Martians and war and daydreams and gods and dinosaurs. I know that sounds terribly twee and contrived, but really it’s not. She’s much more interesting than I ever gave her credit for.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @tim0th Hello!


    is becoming increasingly worried about running out of yarn. Anybody got spare Harmony 10ply col:802 lot:02? My blue ribbon depends on it!


    just got checked out by about 50 dykes in Newtown. What the–? Oh right! Fair Day! Well, hellllooo ladies!


    Check out the 6.39 km run I did with RunKeeper http://bit.ly/13Ks3P


    is dying of Cute Overload. Professor Death is sleeping beside me on the couch with his little head resting on a pillow. HEART ASPLODING.


    is sick of Lexulous and its rejecting of PERFECTLY CROMULENT WORDS and its thwarting of clever people by giving them 7 vowels AT ONCE.