Total knitting nerdery: Happy Mac / Sad Mac Sweater. Oh man, if I made one of these for me and then one with Tux on it for the Snook… My head would explode.
In 1982 three twelve-year-olds saw Raiders of the Lost Ark and decided to film their own shot-by-shot remake. It took them seven years to finish. And next week, the Snook and I are going to see it in Sydney. I’ve got the theme music playing in my head already…
Flying Toaster Screensaver, available for both Mac and PC. Remember After Dark? You know you do. My monitor is now full of toasty goodness. (Link courtesy of The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)
In other news, check out DeskCam! It took over four hours (and four pots of colour) to get me to this shade of blondeness. (My hairdresser Paige rocks!) The red came out a lot better than I’d hoped, leaving a few random bits of pinkiness throughout that preserve my rock star edge. Or something. I just realized this is my third completely different hair colour in a year. We had brown with blonde streaks, red, and now blonde with pink bits. It’s like my hair attention span keeps getting shorter. Next year I’ll probably have to get a perm.
It appears the cat’s out of the bag, so we can make it official: Amy and I won the GRAND PRIZE in the Knitty Calendar Contest! That’s right; the picture of us in front of the opera house is going to be on the front cover! HOW COOL IS THAT?
Hmm. Rockpool has changed format and dropped a la carte in favor of a five course degustation. Very shades of Tetsuya. At least you still get a choice for each course. Maybe the Snook and I will have to check this out… Oh, and the word through my sources, by the way, is that XO is closing in May, so if you haven’t been yet you should go. The Snook and I really enjoyed it. (Link courtesy of Sydney Food Diary.)
I was putting our bamboo knitting needles up on the website today when I discovered the English-language home page of Tulip, our Japanese supplier. I was cracking up at the translations, especially their two slogans: “The Needles is Affection” and “Smile of Hand Knitting.” It’s very Mr. Sparkle.
Australian Politics Test – The Snook and I both took it and our scores are pretty funny. We’re pretty solidly Democrat/Green, but we both also oddly rated One Nation and Family First ahead of the Liberal Party. We’re self-hating hippies.
Oh man, the news we have been waiting to hear! The Amazing Race is finally going to have overseas productions, including one “for the Asia-Pacific region!!!” DUDE, WE ARE SO APPLYING. But wait, who will take on the role of Phil? He’s a Kiwi; he should do our show too! (If Eddie McGuire is waiting for me on the mat, he’s going to get a kick in the nuts…)
Lee totally rocked Australian Idol tonight! (Though I did think his punked-up version of “Eye of the Tiger” was a teensy bit too fast). And I was totally laughing when Kyle was talking about how everyone in the country loves Lee and he hasn’t met anyone who hasn’t, and the Snook and I were all, “We have!” The other three guys’ performances were pretty forgettable. I really want to like Dan but he always looks scared to death when he comes out on stage. He doesn’t look like he has any fun. He takes it all too seriously. (Quote the Snook: “He looks like he’s gonna barf.”) Emily was great but she still weirds me out a little bit. (I think it’s the crazy eye makeup.) Kate was good but I was just disappointed that she didn’t do Madonna after teasing us with the awesome netted headband in her segment. As for Anne, I’m a big fan of “Open Arms” and she did a fantastic job, but Holden was right on the money: she oversang the hell out of that song. Interestingly, it really does look like it could come down to Lee and the three chicks! And that would be hilarious. I feel like he knows it’s a piss-take, and I respect the fact that he’s not really “playing the game.” He really does come out every week and just be who he is. (And it’s doubly funny that he gets such props for musical integrity when his preferred genre – lite pop/punk – is just about as trivial as they come.) He just looks like he’s havin’ fun. I also like how he sticks his tongue out when he’s really excited, which makes me think of Muriel…
As I said to the cat afterwards, “I’m off to vote for Lee now because every week he stays in it just annoys the hell out of your Aunty Amy! And that’s never not funny!” 🙂
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