Archive for October, 2005

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

Scoubidou, Schmooby Doo, I’m a KNITTER!!

A patient and very encouraging teacher taught me to knit this weekend. It surprised me how satisfying the experience was. I expected it to be frustrating because I can be impatient with myself when learning new things. I picked it up pretty easily though and found the act of knitting to be [...]

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Saturday, October 29th, 2005

Oo oo, that smell!

A mysterious sweet smell drifted over most of the city from Thursday night into Friday morning. I personally didn’t smell it but I find it amusing that the Times wrote two articles about it.
Good Smell Vanishes, But It Leaves Air of Mystery
Good Smell Perplexes New Yorkers

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Friday, October 28th, 2005

Your Fish Sample

That sentence is disturbing enough on it’s own. Why I found it engraved on a hip flask at Pearl River Mart is beyond me.

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Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Two kidneys, one stone

My first mostly completed scoubidou as photographed by my new camera phone. Don’t concern yourself too much with the quality of either the scoubidou or the photo. I’ve tried several times to finish off the scoubidou to no avail, the knot won’t play ball. The photo has been uploaded to the web, downloaded to my [...]

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Thursday, October 27th, 2005

The Sound of One Hand Clapping

My brain is lacking in the blog posting department. I have no thoughts that I feel particularly compelled to expound upon so I’m stating that fact here. Perhaps I will have a thought later. Or tomorrow.

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Monday, October 24th, 2005

Telecommunication

My new phone, a Samsung A950, arrived on Friday and she’s pretty darn sweet. Still trying to figure out all the bells and whistles. The included ringtones are crap to the n’th degree but I’ve been able to load some midi’s on it as ringers and they’re working pretty good. Ringtones are [...]

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Friday, October 21st, 2005

Need someone to talk to?

How about a stranger at a payphone?

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