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  • Brisbane Floods

    Brisbane Floods: Before and After. Brilliant gallery from the ABC showing aerial photos of Brisbane with a neat mouseover swipe effect. I had been thinking we were pretty lucky being in Sydney, but recently I found out that Sydney had floods in 1986. Unfortunately I can’t find any resources online that describe exactly which parts of Sydney suffered. Anybody know where I can find a floodplain map?!

    Update: Shite. This story has a firsthand account from someone about the ’86 floods. “The only way I could get home (to the Inner West) was to walk. There were no buses, because much of Broadway was flooded, with water around 1 metre deep all the way from Railway Square to the intersection of City Road.” GREAT.

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    Lunchtime run last Friday with Harbour Bridge. @ Royal Botanic Gardens http://instagr.am/p/BEWwy/

    I CANNOT STOP LISTENING TO KATY PERRY. Is this a symptom of something?

    Bubble O’Bill FTW. http://instagr.am/p/BEd6U/

    Does teaching an observant Muslim about gambling mean I’m going to hell? #myjobisweirdsometimes

    RT @DDsD: RT @Illdrinn KITTEN MITTENS ^.^ http://goo.gl/ybWqU // I am TOTES knitting those for the Easter Show this year!

    @toastman Sesame Street, of course. (You’ve met my friend @mrs_sockvictim before. She used to be the designer on Playschool!)

    @toastman Hmmm. Okay, then it’s probably Mr Roger’s Neighbourhood. That’s the closest.

    @drkknits I’ve knitted a couple Cookie’s… and attempted more… and I disagree vehemently. 😛

    @witty_knitter I was amused to see OTF discredit homeopathy in the past 2 days That gave me hope for humanity.

    @jenbishopsydney Were we in the same class?!

    @eileenDCoE Fun! We have to go some year…

    @jenbishopsydney HAHA, yes! Damn, should’ve said hello. 🙂

    Post workout burger and beer. 🙂 (@ Lansdowne Hotel) http://4sq.com/f9sUog

    @jenbishopsydney WHOA! No, I was at Spudds in Woolloomooloo. But I did wear a pink shirt! I wondered how I missed you in a class of 12… 🙂

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  • Martha’s Blog

    Martha’s Blog
    Am I the only person completely obsessed with the question of whether Martha Stewart does her own blogging? I think she does, but the Snook thinks I am being hopelessly naive.

    me: http://www.themarthablog.com/2011/01/the-emergency-room-snowstorm.html
    “Normally, I would be out in the elements taking photos, but I asked Mike Fiore, my property director, to cover for me.”
    SEE? MARTHA DOES HER OWN BLOGGING
    Rodd: yes, of course she does
    And Hugh Jackman is by the harbor near the opera center too.
    me: if you are suggesting that one of martha’s staffers does her blogging and actually went out of his/her way to call attention to the fact that somebody else was doing the blogging so as to make people like me more certain that martha is doing it…
    that’s an inception-like level of deceit that my brain can’t process
    her previous post was about splitting her lip
    complete with gross shots of the doctor stitching her up
    MARTHA IS JUTS LIKE ME

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  • Photo Post

    Bubble O’Bill FTW.

    Bubble O'Bill FTW.

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    Lunchtime run last Friday with Harbour Bridge.

    Lunchtime run last Friday with Harbour Bridge.

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    @TitusAtticus @lemon_lime No, but if I didn’t realise I needed to turn it on, there must be zillions of others looking at shitty fonts too.

    I just unlocked the “Fresh Brew” badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/hQaXdt

    RT @kunaal84: Timely message from a good friend: Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

    I am so sick of Shur’tugal and I’m less than halfway done with the foot. NEVERENDING ANNOYING SOCK PATTERN.

    @drkknits @bells_g @randomknits I get this perverse thing where I MUST defeat these patterns tho. Frogging would be conceding my victory!

    @DianneKing It’s a nice pattern, really. I just find small cables repeated over and over really tedious to knit!

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    Easy recovery run. Calves & shins still a little sore.

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    I’m at Elizabeth’s Boutique Café (175 Glebe Point Road, St Johns Road, Sydney) http://4sq.com/gCRqOX

    I’m at Grand Gelato (37 Glebe Point Road, Sydney) http://4sq.com/gcM1KQ

    @redambition Foursquare really needs to add an “I’m on a submarine” badge.

    @lemon_lime Nah, I already did it. Wanted to get it done early in this heat so I stayed close to home. Maybe my next long one…

    If this Shelter had anymore vegetable matter in it, it wouldn’t be yarn. IT’D BE A SALAD. Seriously, worse than Noro.

    Trying to find @tiaramerchgirl at Railway Sq to take her to the MeFi meetup!

    @misswired MetaFilter.com. I’ve been a member for nearly ten years now. We had a small meetup today since a MeFite was down from Brislantis.

    @Diepdin Not far: 4k from Chippo down to Rocks. Used is good, but have to know what you’re looking for! Not much used stock avail now.

    Huh. I didn’t have ClearType turned on. I bet that will help with the eye strain issue I’ve been having.

    @lemon_lime Yeah, I’m used to lovely anti-aliasing on Mac. I just forget that Windows doesn’t necessarily have to look like shit anymore.

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    Heading to Newtown for lunch, shopping, and knitting with the SSK folks. How civilized.

    @witty_knitter We’re upstairs at Barmuda and it’s actually pretty nice up here! We’ve got a breeze.

    Robot skirt and new sneakers. @ Newtown http://instagr.am/p/BBIQD/

    @pinkcatknits Especially price. Picked them up at Platypus for $39!

    This M30 bus is clean and roomy and high-tech – BUT NO AIR CON?! We’re all dying here.

    Snookums is looking to buy a bike to commute to work. The one he’s been recommended costs more than my first car. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?

    @gadgetgirl70 I never said it was a GOOD car. 🙂

    @AusVintageGrrl Watching some BBT, are you?

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