Category Archives: General stuff

I’ll have another, thanks.

(the highlight of the weekend was like this, but with green tea ice cream, no bananas, and watermelon. totally refreshing, and also something I’m glad I can’t eat for every meal, because I totally would, and I’d convince myself it … Continue reading

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Cornography

Cornography, originally uploaded by Grant Hamilton. I am in love with this set; it totally inspires me to get out my Holga and see what I can do with it.

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Huh.

I was going to post something angry and inflammatory about the new Girl Scout cookie knockoffs from WalMart, but then I read the comments on the article, and discovered a really intelligent discourse on both sides. Still, my opinion is … Continue reading

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New craft!

Rather, an old one, revisited, which is more an art than a craft, being paintings on canvas. At any rate, my long-missing painting muse (I have not seen it since September of 2004) has returned, and I have a couple … Continue reading

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And that extra-terrestrial navel-gazing?

Well, it’s fueled by stuff like this: The Migration of Anatomically Modern Humans See? 195,000 years. Which gets us as far as maybe, oh, somewhere on the other side of the galaxy from where we are, since the center of … Continue reading

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Hello, Monday

Oh, you are such a Monday. But I have a working laptop, so that’s good. The new hard drive is in, and I only appear to have lost all my fonts (this is a bigger deal than it sounds) and … Continue reading

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Not much.

Which is what I got done last night. So. I came home Wednesday and the husband said, “Your computer won’t turn on.” Well, crap. I tried it and lo and behold, he was right (not that I doubted him at … Continue reading

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Navel-Gazing, Part 2.

2. I have a general problem with the way most people treat celebrities. This is not to say that I don’t clam up and turn into a blithering idiot in the presence of a famous-type person (hello – hiding behing … Continue reading

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Navel-Gazing, part 1.

So here’s my latest round of navel-gazing, which is deeper than usual (for reasons undiscovered by me): 1. I have been thinking a lot lately about life on other planets. That is, whether or not it’s useful to us to … Continue reading

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Real fiber news!

So. I did much fiber stuff this weekend, although I had planned to do more. Yesterday was blissfully unproductive. I sort of sat around all day in my pajamas, and got nothing real accomplished. But Saturday? Saturday was quite productive. … Continue reading

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