mezzoblue § css crib sheet MMMmm! Linky goodness saved for later. I really ought to think about adding a sideblog just for links, since adding short ones to the blog for later perusal at home chops the main “flow” up so. Oh, good. Another half-assed project idea!
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***Dave Does the Blog passed along a virus meme, so I decided to play. 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions Then I’ll show you the Eclipse Workbench User Guide, an in-depth guide to the features of the workbench. Not that I understand what this book is about – just that it was physically closest to me on the right hand side. In fact, Joe’s a friend of ours, and we’re having dinner with him on…
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Once again, Neil Gaiman finds a clever gizmo when he’s supposed to be looking for his lost notebook: Firewire Dino! Here comes Firewire Dino! The coolest 4-port Firewire Hub on the planet! Firewire Dino is stomping through town and he means business. With piercing red eyes and an open mouth that lights up when plugged in to the Firewire bus, Firewire Dino is as menacing as he is useful. When he’s not destroying your desk* he’s helping you with your Firewire connectivity problems. Among its many essential Key Features… 4 ports to expand your computers Firewire capabilities Menacingly fast 400…
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From the entertaining George Says website – your very own custom political photo-cartoon. For $5 + shipping, they’ll make the image you create into a refrigerator magnet. Imagine this one showing up in the White House kitchens, eh? Via Pale Blue Dot.
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Well, it was a fairly productive weekend. I did somehow manage to get up early-ish and dig the bed along the side of the garage. All the daylilies are packed in black plastic bags and will become compost. Most of the plants my TL gave me are planted in one of the front “hell beds.” Need to decide what to do/where to stick the lilies-of-the-valley tomorrow after work. Probably the shadier bed on the other side. All the tools and trash and things were put away just before the lawn guys came to mow. Napped most of afternoon and evening.…
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Kuri, aka Kristen at mediatinker.com, wondered about nicknames. What nicknames have you collected? “Collected” is right. Once someone’s given you a nickname, it tends to attach itself to you forever. For example, my given name is Virginia, and my hair is red. Those two facts generated a dizzying array of not-very-original nicknames (with one or two startling exceptions). Also, nicknames tend to be context-sensitive – family-childhood nicknames often don’t survive your childhood, but occasionally they do. Sometimes you find yourself saddled with (or stuck with) a new nickname when something about you changes, or when you make a change from…
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My team leader heard me blabbering yesterday about digging in the yard and sticking some new perennials in, and she realized she had a chance to foist some plants off on me rather than toss them in the compost (her yard is probably overgrown and in need of thinning). So I have a loverly box o’ dirt which happens to include one or two columbine plants, some dwarf hollyhock, and some lily of the valley (happy birthday, Timmy!). These will go in the front “hell beds,” which will get dug over and composted and mulched tomorrow. It’s not supposed to…
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It’s really bassackward of me, but I’ve never read Neil Gaiman’s fiction. I’ve only read his blog. I keep thinking that I need to rectify this sad lapse on my part, based on how he writes about his activities and the little things that make modern life bearable. Such as glow-in-the-dark 256MB rubber ducky USB storage devices. They exist; they are described as “somewhat less sinister ducks” in Mr. Gaiman’s blog entry. Somewhat less sinister than what? Mergansers? Canada geese? Hawaiian nene? There are always Canada geese lurking on the corporate parklands that dot my part of the Chicago suburbs.…
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Last night, I got a weird comment on the post about the woman who was fired for taking a picture of coffins in a cargo hold. The comment consisted of a link to a site called “thememoryhole.” I couldn’t figure out what it was about, because the site wouldn’t load (there was probably too much traffic on his site already. Anyway, it looked like a spam link, so I deleted it. Turns out The Memory Hole broke open a big story. Apparently, he or someone else posted links to a lot of blogs that had copies of the picture of…
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Via Boing Boing: Bill O’Reilly mistakes Globe and Mail for Socialist Worker Oopsie!1! Oh, I hope I’m the first Majority Reporter to post this in the comment thread. The Glob and Male as a communiss rag… this particular columnist, too. Oh, that’s rich. Al will get such a kick out of it, too. Better send it to his blog as well. I’ve never been called “a douche-nozzle” before. At least, not that I know about anyway. The insult came from one supporter of the Fox News Channel. But then I don’t think The Globe and Mail has ever been called…