Highest score (513) ever with three bingos.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Happy Valentine's Day
This is the cake I made for pre-Valentine Day Scrabble play. My first foray into decorative icing using sugar sheets. Took about 15 minutes to draw the template, revise and cut! Not too shabby eh :)
Monday, February 13, 2012
My new roomies
Late last year I moved into a new place with three roomies and two of them are adorable dogs (they don't share rent but do help keep the kitchen floor clean).
Bentley is a little old fashioned and always wear black and white while Mowgly goes with a workspace khakhi look.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
On Steroid
[ Delayed New Year's Post ]
Last year was a year of change - of shifting focus, energy and direction. And this year is going to be an extension of just that and some more.
I think each year should be a landmark in life like - the year you graduated, or got your first job, or got married. And the easiest way to do that would be by introducing new things in your life - pursuing a new hobby, traveling to a new place, finishing up pending projects.
This year, I plan to learn a new computer platform, hike grand canyon and improve my scrabble skills which already are on steroids ;)
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Access Whores and Access Hogs
...those are the two types of people in tech companies and of course there are "others", who are caught in between. Access whores want and get access to all the applications including the one to order refrigerator cleaning in break room (if there is any such access). They aren't a nuisance compared to the access hogs. It's the access hogs who would stop by at your desk and request you order "horse tranquilizer" for them as they don't have access. Sometimes they would send an email with seven people in cc requesting you to "punch them in face" since they don't have access and project's success is absolutely contingent on it. Why access hogs don't request access for themselves? Well because they don't want to take superfluous responsibilities of ordering stuff for other people. It might lower their efficiency and they don't require that access that often...so why should they.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Surprise Mom!
I completed my infinity scarf and it seems a bit entwined. I guess it's with the way I joined it. I would prefer making it straight and joining it in the end rather than crocheting circular scarf...no longer seems like a mobius strip :( I like it nonetheless and mom loved it :) She was so pleasantly surprised like I had planned.
It took about 7-8 hours over a period of 29 days. Now I can use it a few times this season.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Hunky-dory
As sung by Christy's Minstrels.
Air - "Limerick Races"One of the boys am I,
That always am in clover;
With spirits light and high,
'Tis well I'm known all over.
I am always to be found,
A singing in my glory;
With your smiling faces round,
'Tis then I'm hunkey dorey.
via phrases.org.uk
The page goes on to explain the plight of etymologists.
Not long afterward, in October 1866, the US magazine The Galaxy, seemed unclear why the phrase was used, which also indicates that it wasn't very long in the tooth at that date:
"I cannot conceive on any theory of etymology that I ever studied why anything that is 'hunkee doree', or 'hefty' or 'kindy dusty' should be so admirable."
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