Fun
I wish I could claim…
I’ve been away in France buying books, but life’s been a touch more mundane than that. On the accomplishment side of things, I turned in my second novel to Ravenous [...]
Pocket Money, Web-2.0-Style
As immersed as my daughter is in studying electronic arts, fine art, and science, she considers herself a part-time graphic designer. She mentors underclassmen in digital imaging, but to earn [...]
Everyday can be Caturday.
So I give you Crunch, our favorite tabby who has a habit of laying claim to people’s shoes. Give him half a chance and he’ll claim yours. This particular episode [...]
The Not-So-Stellar Computer in Our Home
Our family has a tradition of naming our various computers after stars and star constellations. Various appellations have included Sirius, Castor and Pollux (matching IBM ThinkPads wouldn’t you know), Pixis, [...]
Vote for my cat!
My cat Crunchy is a Summer Cat competitor at mediabistro’s blog, Galley Cat, this weekend and you can vote for him! As you can see from the photo, he had [...]
My feel-good word cloud…
comes from Wordle. Heck, the site’s name feels good. But here it is: Speaking of words, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve been somewhat absent here. We had a death in [...]
So what do you do…
when you’re tired of the standard black casement that covers your laptop, your ebook reader, and all of your tech stuff? I discovered the answer when I complained about the [...]
What’s with the maple trees this year?
We were showered in maple seeds like you wouldn’t believe this May — and some trees still have seeds clinging to them. The seed pods, what we call whirlygigs, showered [...]
Little things please me.
Today’s modest pleasure: my iGoogle page. I have a koi pond and a lava lamp soothing me with their gentle motions, a Youtube widget that points me to entertaining videos, [...]
Caturday is for procrastinators.
You know, for those of us who forget to cat-blog on Fridays. Not that I’m going to do either religiously — I don’t do much of anything religiously outside of [...]