• Childfreedom

    Let them eat cake

    And finally, because I was fooling around with Elements just now, here’s the diaper cake that my niece and sister took to a baby shower a few weeks ago when we were visiting in March. I’m sorry, I’m just really glad to be childfree when I consider that people actually spend time and creativity and thinking up gifts like this… and giving them. I mean, really. Ewww. On one level, it’s really cute and quite pretty, and and a clever way to give a practical gift. On another, let’s all dress up the poop and pretend it doesn’t stink. It’s…

  • Photos and Shutterblogs

    Gallery Opening

    Hey, it’s Last Thursday, let’s go to the Gallery Opening! When I lived in Seattle, First Thursdays of the month were the night people went downtown and went to the art galleries, which were open late and full of crowds looking at the latest works of art, photographs, and blown glass. The artists would be standing there, ready to chat with anyone who wandered up, with a plastic glass of wine in hand. The gallery openings were almost always free and often very crowded, and they were great ways to get out and about for very little money. It was…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Do not taunt Happy Patriot Act

    Boing Boing: Patriot Act designed to protect Patriot Act by preventing challenges to it to be made public Patriot Act Suppresses News Of Challenge to Patriot Act By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 29, 2004; Page A17 The American Civil Liberties Union disclosed yesterday that it filed a lawsuit three weeks ago challenging the FBI’s methods of obtaining many business records, but the group was barred from revealing even the existence of the case until now. The lawsuit was filed April 6 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, but the case was kept under seal to avoid…

  • Home Improvement - Traveling Along, We're Adventurers - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Stormy Weather?

    We’ve had a spell of very windy weather, and it looks like there finally might be a storm coming. For 3 days now, we’ve had high, warm winds blowing steadily from the West. Until yesterday the skies were clear, but today it’s steadily gotten greyer, and the clouds are starting to pile up on one another and look like something’s about to happen. We haven’t had much rain, so I haven’t put out the other two rain barrels; I need to get some blocks to raise them up abot a foot or so, and also they would just fly away,…

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Tweaking

    Some minor changes I’m working on (not ready for prime time) .side { font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif; color:#2F4F4F; font-size:x-small; font-weight:normal; background:#F5F5F5; line-height:110%; padding:5px; } .sidetitle { font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif; color:#666666; font-size:small; font-weight:bold; padding:4px; margin-top:0px; letter-spacing: .1em; border:2px solid #999; text-align:left; background:#FFCC66; }

  • Photos and Shutterblogs

    Moblog: Flailing Soon

    Oh, crap, here we go. I’ve tinkered with my own gallery, and have yet to upload many pictures, but I can at least do it easily enough. Now I’d like to have the ability to do a little moblogging from the road, if possible. Ideally, send images to the sidewall area that’s currently occupied by several static images. It’d be nice to have them change in random order, with new images added via email. gme.jp: How to make a moblog sidebar in MovableType Mfop2 etc. Alternatively, there’s a way to moblog to Gallery, or integrate Gallery within MT rather than…