• Shared today on Twitter

    The garden wall is going up! http://t.co/90KRmbWam7


    The Nescafe machine at work has broken my brain. I keep expecting espresso machine at home to auto-stop, but it doesn’t. #firstworldproblem


    RT @clepetit: All hail Lord @henrytapia. He’s been on display on the Support Wallboard on loop for the past few days: http://t.co/A0jBcLXac2


    @henrytapia @clepetit Were you really hungover that day? πŸ™‚


    @i386 I totally missed the text with @mcannonbrookes’s name/role, so I thought he was some funky designer-type. Did a double-take later. πŸ™‚


    @drkknits Then you’d be all FUCK YOU YANKS all the time. So it’s really much of a muchness, from my perspective. πŸ˜›


    RT @RonJeffries: OK, I wish I had thought of @CatUserStories // Hahaha, I agree. That’s pretty brilliant.


    @PaulTheBA Brilliant, thanks. This was definitely a topic of some concern at our @IIBA BABOK study group last night!


    RT @PaulTheBA: Take at least 6 months after #BABOK v3 to change #iiba certification exams. You’re safe to take exam until Q214 at least …


    Well, now I can say I’ve poked wet cement. Major life milestone there.


    @barrysaunders I just can’t figure out why that talk was at a tech conference at all. I certainly wouldn’t expect it.


    @phoebegoh Just slightly wet sand. It’s too set for me to write our names in it. Tomorrow I’ll get out there before they’re finished. πŸ™‚


    @barrysaunders Possibly. But the description of the talk doesn’t sound like bodily security: “…help you engineer your sex life…”??


    @barrysaunders I haven’t seen slides, maybe it’s more security oriented than it sounds. But it sounds only tangentially related to tech.


    @barrysaunders HN comments make it sound less oddball than I thought. Sounds like it was a fine topic for BSides. Hm. http://t.co/ZUzprHaqoG


    @mudsurfer @PaulTheBA I’m interested in the answer to that question too, since I’m considering going for it…


    @mudsurfer @PaulTheBA I know you get an actual certificate and a pin, because the facilitator at the study group last night showed us. πŸ™‚


    Just got request to post “Please donate to medical fund” in Aussie Knitters on Rav. Ugh. I said yes since it’s for an Aussie. Bad precedent?


    @misswired @the_snook Must’ve been. As far as I know, he’s currently en route on foot from Pyrmont to Chippendale. OR IS HE???


    @witty_knitter @drstip Yep, that’s the one. I thought it was a random scam too, but it looks legit. I said no til I saw she was Aussie.


    @the_snook @misswired Ahem. As your wife, I think I need to meet this clone.


    @witty_knitter @drstip I saw they posted it in the Skein group, and then an Expat Knitters group as well.


    @katejf Oh, I didn’t donate. I just gave the ok for then to post it in the forum.


    @katejf Heh. They’d have torn her apart for asking. πŸ™‚


    @redambition @witty_knitter I have some sympathy. The US medical system is fucked. I shared a friend’s fundraising link on FB today.


    @that_alison Actually it’s for an Aussie in the US. There people go bankrupt when they get sick. πŸ™


    @katejf Well, the friend is in the US as well, and it’s the middle of the night there. So it probably won’t go up for some time yet.


    @katejf The person who is injured is in hospital. Her friend is sending out an appeal to every Rav group that she was a member of.


    For the curious, the fundraising page in question is herre: http://t.co/cG93OyhSMl. If you want to prove to me that it’s a scam, please do.


    Huh. So placentophagy is paleo. http://t.co/g63Tl2Kszt (cc @knitdra) My high school bio teacher brought in his wife’s placenta once.


    I think if I ever start a rock band, it will be called ENCAPSULATED PLACENTOPHAGY.


    Ohdeargod they’ve turned the old roastery in Chippo into a sourdough bakery. http://t.co/6x2KbXcvxq THE CARBS. THEY ARE CALLING TO ME NOW.


    @knitdra He kept it in the freezer until we studied mammals. So we just looked at it. πŸ™‚


    @knitdra Rodd told me quite seriously that he read that January Jones ate hers. I have no idea how he knows this.


    Hell is: having to clean up all the crappy PHP you wrote 8 years ago now that your host finally turned off register_globals.


    @pyko @TimBags You would not believe the withering looks you get from a Google employee when you confess such a crime.


    @witty_knitter Nope. I’m not touching that code ever again! πŸ™‚


    @alexdickson Eh, it works pretty well for what it is. Just have to replace all the $this with $_POST[“this”]. Borrrrrring. πŸ™‚


    RT @ebertchicago: “Why We Love Beautiful Things.” NYTimes thinkpiece on design. http://t.co/y2X0KSqP6G&


    @miss_reecie You may have discovered why nobody enters that category. πŸ™‚


    RT @uncrate: Lasso Flat-Packed Slippers http://t.co/hPfqCvCMP4 // Ugly/comfy shoes + DIY = Definitely My Bag, Baby


    I asked the builders if I could put our initials in the wet concrete. They obliged. http://t.co/D43qelRBqm


    @knitdra The cement didn’t allow much for complex shapes. It’s like drawing in sticky sand!


    @drkknits I have no idea if there’s any security risk really, but you wanna blur out those card numbers?


    @drkknits I could test it for you by ordering some books from Amazon. πŸ™‚


    @randomknits If you think you might come to Camp later in the year, I think the discount will probably pay for itself.


    @Helen__H @pyko Does everybody get to participate in ShipIt? I wondered if it was just engineers.



  • Shared today on Facebook

    The Nescafe machine at work has broken my brain. I keep expecting espresso machine at home to auto-stop, but it doesn’t. #firstworldproblem


    My friend Tara D’s brother is undergoing cancer treatment. He’s an awesome guy. The health care system in the US is a shocker though, and every little bit you can chip in will help them out.


    Hell is: having to clean up all the crappy PHP you wrote 8 years ago now that your host finally turned off register_globals.


    I asked the builders if I could put our initials in the wet concrete. They obliged.



  • Roald Dahl Fans.com rebirth

    So you guys remember the Dahl site I built years and years ago, right? Well, it’s mostly just sat there for a long time now. It seemed to be useful to kids and teachers, and the site more than pays for itself through the Google ads. So I just left it up. Well, a nice young man named Michael Mander contacted me a while ago about a Dahl-themed Facebook page that he runs. We emailed back and forth, and recently I asked him to officially assist me in running RDF. I was a little worried at first – I put so much work into this site for so long, I didn’t want to share it with anyone. But what’s the point of leaving it there slowly mouldering? So Michael is on board, and it’s completely reinvigorating me. I’ve started doing some of the long-planned admin tasks that I never found time to do before. Michael has started pulling together information to fill in gaps in my content. So if you enjoyed the site back in the day, I think you’re going to enjoy it again going forward!


  • Brickfields, Chippendale | Grab Your Fork: A Sydney food blog

    Brickfields, Chippendale | Grab Your Fork: A Sydney food blog – Oh, CRAP. They’ve turned the old coffee roastery in Chippendale into an awesome looking sourdough bakery. THIS IS TORTURE. The carbs are calling to me! The only thing worse was when Bourke Street Bakery had their Broadway outlet right at the bus stop where I got home every night. I was addicted to those “Personal Sourdoughs” in a very real way. And then one night I worked out the Weight Watchers points in one of them and it was 2/3 of my daily allowance. Whoops.


  • Photo post

    The garden wall is going up!

    The garden wall is going up!


  • Women who dress cute

    Women who dress cute – Interesting opinion piece. As someone who regularly wears sneakers with dresses and has been known to rock a Peter Pan collar, I do occasionally wonder whether other people are judging me for it. I wear what makes me feel comfortable, and it’s definitely not for the appreciation of men. I feel way more self-conscious and fake when I glam it up heteronormative style.


  • Shared today on Twitter

    @drkknits Okay, now it’s the Warblers singing Teenage Dream. That’s totally about you hooking up.


    @drkknits “Let’s go all the way tonight. No regrets, just love. We can dance until we die. You and I will be young forever!” #thinkaboutit


    @drkknits Okay, I’ll stop tormenting you then. THRASH METAL IT IS! πŸ˜›


    @drkknits Okay, I’ve got another schmoopy one for you though. http://t.co/QXvmyFx6UZ My fave Pogues song. It’s also good to dance to.


    @imdominating @drkknits Take her to the hipster place with this tasting plate of artisanal pickles. She’ll fucking love that shit. πŸ™‚


    @drkknits YAY!


    @drkknits I just don’t understand academia at all. But I gather that it’s all good stuff. So double yay!


    Going to my first @iiba study group session tonight! Very excited.


    @QRCodeART @DrMiaow Actually, I got it to read when scanning from photo of item, not knitting itself. So maybe resolution/too much noise?


    Survived my first #iiba study group and even made a friend! Looking forward to the next one. #hermionelovesschool


    Having very well deserved whiskey and soda as a nightcap.


    @StuartCRyan Hang on. The whole time at sydneyaug last week I was thinking “How do I know this guy?” I know you through @stufromoz!


    @StuartCRyan @stufromoz I should’ve said hello in person. Sorry! I was one of the few girls there towards the end. πŸ™‚


    @StuartCRyan @stufromoz I actually went to the Support talk, so I missed it! But I saw your shirt and was like, I KNOW THAT GUY SOMEHOW. πŸ™‚


    @StuartCRyan It was good – small but informative. I was mostly just curious. Sounds like their support team is very similar to Google’s.


    @drkknits You’ve got one more monitor than me, but I’ve got fuzzy cat butt too. http://t.co/BaRFEdsVFo



  • Shared today on Facebook

    Survived my first IIBA BABOK study group and even made a friend! We signed up to give a presentation at the 3rd meeting. I’m actually looking forward to it! (I am such a school nerd, even now.)



  • Photo post

    The landscapers brought their dog, Digger. He's so energetic this was the best photo I could get. (The cats HATE Digger.)

    The landscapers brought their dog, Digger. He’s so energetic this was the best photo I could get. (The cats HATE Digger.)



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