Warning: book-related geekery ahead!
Today SillyBilly and I had a book-lovin’ afternoon. First we watched this video of a modern book bindery that a fellow EFA member mentioned on our group discussion board (double click to open this one):
This contrasted nicely with another video we watched a few months ago, on hot [...]
I love learning languages. Most of them have leaked out of my brain by now through disuse, but I’ve studied a few. This is what I’ve accomplished so far:
English: mother tongue, duh.
Spanish: 3 years in high school
Latin: 1 year in high school
French, German: a few weeks here and there
Italian: 3 years in college, just missed [...]
An old friend of mine is involved in software research that involves targeting shopping and dining suggestions to your cell phone, based on data accumulated from your text messages, GPS, coordinates, and so on. I got to thinking about those ubiquitous Google ads in the sidebar of my email screens. This is what came up [...]
I promised Anthropapa that in the interest of familial harmony, I would not use the computer tonight. Not, as you might think, in order to have a nice chat, some nice smooching, or anything like that. No, it’s so I can hem some of his pants.
So, instead of finishing up the long post I wrote [...]
Because I laugh my tuchus off sometimes while reading the Q&A entries on the online Chicago Manual of Style:
Q. Is it ever possible to put a period after other punctuation as in: He had asked, “Will she go?.”
A. It’s definitely possible, but it would be wrong.
Q. For those who make a hobby of cruising [...]
Another autumn, another Waldorf Lantern Walk.
To elaborate for those of my 6-7 loyal readers who aren’t familiar with the Waldorf world — Halloween is no exception to our general avoidance of commercialized holiday celebrations.
There is no trick-or-treating. There is no candy.
There are costumes, and darkness and light, and a small treat at the end. [...]
You can all thank Charlotte for this. I haven’t laughed that hard in….well, I don’t know. Maybe never.
Seems like short-attention-span land around here. Or maybe I’m just saving up all the thoughtful, meaningful posts for NaBloPoMo. Bwahahahaha…I’ll never tell!
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It’s raining here right now….we needed that. Though I’m sure the mold levels will now officially go through the roof, it’s getting cooler and the [...]
Tomorrow morning we’re going on our insanely long road trip from NYC to Augusta, GA, with a “side trip” to Florida — that’s about 2200 miles (3500 km for my overseas readership). With two kids.
The last two days have been composed of not enough sleep and way too many errands. Grammy’s here to play with [...]
Another night, more fried brain cells. The rest of the week will probably have to be a non-work-related-Internet-free zone. Most of my 7 loyal readers have seen and/or done this one already, so no tags today.
Two Names You Go By:
Mama
Pookie (my mother only, thank you!)
Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
blue tie-dye t-shirt
abalone shell hair [...]
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