I took my dad to the Leonard Cohen concert on Sunday. Ah, Leonard. My officemate flew to Halifax a few weeks ago to see him, and before she left the
Author: Robyn
Ow, my brain
Antimatter: does it fall up or down? Fascinating to think about, and now they’ve designed an experiment (download the PDF) which will, with luck, provide an answer. But reading the
New glasses
New glasses Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Woo, I can see again! Although I’m still in that new-glasses phase where the ground isn’t quite where you expect it to be.
I love the Internet, pt. 7 billion and 2
GraphJam: pop culture in graph form = much geeky happiness.
Book a Month Challenge #5: Mother
(http://bamchallenge.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/challenge-5-mother) I cheerfully tossed Andrea Buchanan’s Mother shock : loving every (other) minute of it and (perhaps less cheerfully) Susan Wicklund’s This common secret : my journey as an abortion
Europe’s Best
Ah yes, Europe’s Best, purveyor of frozen veggie blends. Europe apparently extends further east than I previously suspected:
Plush roadkill
(hat tip to Boing Boing) …to go with your plush guts and plush microbes, of course.
Book a Month Challenge #4: Beauty
(http://bamchallenge.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/challenge-4-beauty/) Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession with Cosmetic Surgery by Alex Kuczynski The initial tone of this book is wildly uncritical — she skims quickly past the notions
Yeah that.
Upward!
Last year she was juuust a bit too short to climb this tree at the park. No longer! She’s about eight feet up off the ground here: I like the
Sometimes the blog posts, they write themselves.
Me: It’s time to go inside. We need to make some dinner. M: Can I watch a movie? Me: No, it’s not the weekend yet. Why don’t you play with
Falafels and process
Just down the street from my office, and around the corner from D.’s old office, there was a falafel place with much promise. The area is high on all varieties
Neil Gaiman on Douglas Adams
From an introduction to a biography: After he died, I was interviewed a lot, asked about Douglas. I said that I didn’t think that he had ever been a novelist,
An overexcited post about drywall.
Once upon a time a long long time ago there was a downstairs kitchen in our house. It looked something like this: …and despite its extreme ugliness when we bought
Numbers
55: Approximate weight of a sheet of 1/2″ x 4′ x 8′ drywall, in pounds. 9: Height in feet of our kitchen ceiling 639: Approximate number of muscles in the
Death by spoon
Better hope it’s a girl
M: look! A robin! Do you know you are named after it? Me: I see it! and yes. M: I’m not named after anything. Me: I suppose that’s true. Daddy
Ah yes, the appendix
How odd to see this float through my inbox — Quotation of the Day for April 4, 2008 “Its major importance would appear to be financial support of the surgical
Book a Month Challenge #3: Craft
I thought I’d read about the craft of writing for this month’s challenge. Quotation of the Day for March 19, 2008 “I suspect I have spent just about exactly as
Finally!
Finally! Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. They weren’t blooming this morning, but this afternoon they are. AT LAST.