RT @Salon: When Social Security checks are garnished to pay off student loan debt, it’s clear that the US has a problem http://t.co/GLGJ3AJB
RT @rasmus: To support women in technology, @Etsy teams up with @HackerSchool, offering $50,000 in grants: http://t.co/hQHQZzRT #hackerg …
Chippo folks – anybody interested in a bread machine? Works great! (cc @snarkyboojum @mpesce)
Architizer Blog – Seeing Double: The Collective Snapshot – Some very interesting and lovely photography here using an unusual effect. The Opera House one is nice, but I think the Colosseum is my favorite.
I actually brought knitting tonight to go to M&S! Anybody gonna be there? Ping @knitterjp, @knitdra, @Yarna_, @knitness, etc…
@drkknits The schedule has fallen apart on Day One already? 🙁
@Soma377 That’s about right, but the Babykiller Dingoes are in the wrong place. Should be up in the middle. I’ve been there.
RT @Sitback: Sydney based experienced PHP resources needed. Apply via hello@sitback.com.au. // You’d get to work with me!
@drkknits Oh god you suuuuuuuuuuuck.
Only just escaped work. Too shattered and hungry for knitting. Headed home to collapse. Sorry @knitterjp and @Yarna_!
@mrs_sockvictim Congrats – it was a good day for it. (I got an offer too!)
I’ve had a headache for 24 hours now. Paracetamol’s not making a dent. This sucks.
@toastman Exactly normal. Not that. 🙁
@mrs_sockvictim My same (newish) one. Got offered permanent!
@brown_note @jchyip Interesting. I’m taking a month off alcohol for health, and within 5 days I’ve had to turn down team drinking events.
Feeling superhero-ish, like a grown-up Hit Girl.
No bad day can withstand Boney M. #russiasgreatestlovemachine
RT @Sitback: Looking for a front end developer. Hit up hello@sitback.com.au if this is you or you know someone! // Or let me know!
@drkknits Eek! I was virtuous. Work gave me an Easter Egg, and I gifted it to the girl at the Chinese grocery near my house.
@drkknits Totally agree. Primal dispensation granted! Work that 80-20 rule. 🙂
@imdominating Ugh. I am getting PEEP-ROLLED all over the place this Easter.
RT @TelegraphFood: James Bond: 10 facts about 007 and drink http://t.co/Oq0ZE76Y // cc @the_snook
@bezthomas Nice, thanks. @the_snook Is the big Bond fan – has read all the books.
RT @bonappetit: We chatted w @KarenLeBillon about her book & 10 rules for raising healthy, happy, un-picky eaters http://t.co/zNIrOHpQ # …
All the Millers Point buses this morning were full, no doubt with people only going as far as Town Hall. GAHHH. I miss my bike.
Feeling superhero-ish, like a grown-up Hit Girl. http://t.co/gFq1WxTB
@ambrosiamonkey Oh, it’s fine! But I promised my physio I wouldn’t ride til the tendonitis in my right quad is better. 🙁
@drkknits OH! There’s a scarf around the dummy that Zena’s cardigan is on. In thumbnail, it looked like the mannequin’s boob was hanging out
@drkknits I wouldn’t think you did it deliberately! It could’ve slipped. Or crazy spinner lady could have done it to DISCREDIT US!
Feeling superhero-ish, like a grown-up Hit Girl. http://instagr.am/p/JA9xZcRJML/
All the nerds are hating on the Star Wars Kinect dance thingy. But I think it’s AWESOME. That robot dude from Cloud City as a DJ? GENIUS.
Listening to @amandapalmer makes me want to learn to play the piano. I wonder if @knitness would give me lessons? Could I learn as an adult?
@witty_knitter We already have one! That big thing in the dining room. You can probably see it on CouchCam right now 🙂
@drkknits But I want to pound on something in a dramatic fashion, like HBC in “A Room with a View”. You can’t play Beethoven on a uke.
@witty_knitter I chalk it all up to Thesis Brain! Happens to lots of people I know. 🙂
Asked @the_snook if he could teach me to play piano. “No. It would be like Obi Wan – you’d end up on the dark side.” HA!
What a week to give up drinking…
What time does the Arts Preview start? I need photos! Bunting! Ribbons!
@stufromoz Had previously committed to a dry April. But having a stressful week at work. Very tempted.
RT @KnitGuildNSW: The Guild stand. Well done all! http://t.co/ajKkjhD5
@mrs_sockvictim Woohoo! Congrats to the cardy queen!
@drkknits @mrs_sockvictim Worst. Liar. Ever.
RT @knitterjp: http://t.co/WoVYmD1z // I got 2nd place! Eww, that display is a bit weird though. Lumpy corpse feet. (Thanjs JP!)
@drkknits @knitterjp The lumpy corpse feet? No, no you did not. *stern look*
@stufromoz Yep! Thats cheering. I worked on those FOREVER.
Seriously, I blocked those socks painstakingly. And now they’re stuffed with, like, newspaper. *shrug* Oh well.
@drkknits @knitterjp Who would be so anal as to care about that? Fishing line has been good enough for 25 years!
But how did Bokaclava do? Just head for the sound of crying children!
@mrs_sockvictim Red is nice! The sock display is a little weird though.
@witty_knitter Ha! If by “cracked it” you mean “gave up and switched to a less obtuse category,” then yes. 🙂
RT @Salon: “My 14 year old has brain cancer. Without #Obamacare, he would’ve already exceeded his lifetime insurance limit” http://t.co/ …
RT @knitterjp: Best I could do @web_goddess http://t.co/KquvyqEV
RT @knitterjp: Best I could do @web_goddess http://t.co/pJvPR6Lt // BOKACLAVA! Damn. It looks best on an actual head.
RT @RadhikaR: Interesting book > Weight gain: Big fat lies – and the sweet truth – http://t.co/8Vr6tg4h // cc @drkknits
@knitterjp No way! Did they manage to get my penguin to stay upright?
@lemon_lime I think he’s differentiating between calorie restriction diets. That was my take.
@miss_reecie GREEN SWIRLS IN YOUR DREAMS, MISSY. IT WAS A SIGN. Congrats!!!!!
RT @busterbenson: Announcing 2 spankin’ new @budge programs: Stretch Animal and Plank Animal: http://t.co/nBxvIu5p (plank is my favorite …
RT @nprnews: Photo: http://t.co/I6FUT1OP // Hey! Every other state has a statistic, but Indiana’s is just as Appleseed’s burial site? Lame!
Today is not off to a good start.
@drkknits Didn’t get much sleep. (Power went out & silence woke me up. SILENCE.) Then forgot to leave gate open for handyman. Yawn. Suckage.
@jenbishopsydney Home + top button.
Ooh, getting followed by some new Android Instagrammers already. If you want to experience my rampant narcissism, I’m “krishoward” there.
All the nerds are hating on the Star Wars Kinect dance thingy. But I think it’s AWESOME. That robot dude from Cloud City as a DJ? GENIUS.
It’s official! My hot pink cabled kilt socks won 2nd place at the Easter Show. (The display, as always, leaves much to be desired.)
Ooh, getting followed by some new Android Instagrammers already. If you want to experience my rampant narcissism, I’m “krishoward” there.
It’s official, folks. Yours truly has finally broken out of the “Highly Commended” ghetto with a SECOND PLACE ribbon at the Easter Show for my Rhiannon socks! It feels… anticlimactic. And what’s up with that display? I blocked those socks to perfection, and there they stand (!) all lumpy and wrinkled and weird-looking. I guess maybe they were trying to show off the front cable? I’m told that overall the displays are a much higher quality this year, but that my socks were one of the few sour notes. Sadly, Bokaclava and Sam Sawnoff didn’t win any prizes, but I didn’t really expect them to. (I had hoped that Bokaclava would be displayed on a dummy head! Alas, not.)
I’m working the Knitters Guild stall at the show this Saturday afternoon, so feel free to pop in and say hello!
