Category Archives: General silliness
Inherited Bookishness
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 … Continue reading
Filed under art, Books, editing, General silliness, Napoleona, play, SillyBilly, Writing
Foreign Languages
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: … Continue reading
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Targeted Marketing Fun
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 … Continue reading
Filed under computers, General silliness
A Message from the Bard
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 … Continue reading
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Why I’m a Big Editing Geek…
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. … Continue reading
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Halloween Lantern Walk
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Family, General silliness, waldorf education
I couldn’t resist…
You can all thank Charlotte for this. I haven’t laughed that hard in….well, I don’t know. Maybe never.
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Twittery post
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! * * * It’s raining here right now….we needed that. Though I’m sure the mold levels will now … Continue reading
Filed under Family, Food, General silliness, life, Parenting
Stops and Starts
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 … Continue reading
Filed under General silliness, life
Two Things
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 … Continue reading
Filed under General silliness, Memes
