by Mark Frauenfelder At TPL At Amazon.ca
Author: Robyn
The season of Projects
Late summer and early fall are usually the season of Projects in our house. They’re usually of the preserving kind, although as always renovation projects elbow their way in as
Very sensible advice.
Quotation of the Day for October 7, 2007 “Fix what you can. Call the rest authentic.” – Sarah Graves, offering home renovation hints in her novel Trap Door.
Snort
(The alt text was “You can do this one in every 30 times and still have 97% positive feedback”)
Ah, October
Leaves turning… And then falling… And of course, time for playing in the pool, because it’s 35 sweaty degrees out…
Pedestrians notice this too
Quotation of the Day for October 5, 2007 “This is the basis of car culture, the idea that the world and all of the world’s people are merely in its
Weekend conversations
M: Can I have your nail polish? I want to paint my fingernails. Me: No, hon, that’s not really appropriate for a five-year-old. Maybe when you’re a teenager. M: But
Book meme
From Try Harder  1. Hardcover or paperback, and why? Paperback. It’s too hard to hold hardbacks in one hand. Plus, they hurt if you fall asleep and drop them on
I am tired of talking to MPP candidates
Quotation of the Day for September 9, 2007 “I believe I have an unfair edge over most of my colleagues right now — my mind works faster than my mouth
It is not a “social graph”
Lately some of the more pretentious online folks have started calling those pretty pictures of how your Facebook profile (del.icio.us profile, LinkedIn profile, etc.) relates to other profiles a “social
And the cycle continues
We were pleased to be not the only ones returning a large number of wine bottles to the Beer Store. Everyone seemed to have large boxes or garbage cans full
Unpredictable issues in parenting, part 8003: teeth
So much of parenting little kids is about teeth. First you wonder when they’re going to get them. Then they do get them and for a while you have Tylenol
If you say so…
Quotation of the Day for September 3, 2007 “We are slightly normal. We have a normal side to us.” – Prince Harry, Henry Charles Albert David Wales, in his recent
Games!
I’m not much of a gamer. I’ve played various versions of Civ since about 1994, but not much else… the gunfire sounds in first-person shooters make me tense, and when
First day of grade 1!
First day of grade 1! Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Excitement and nervousness. We’re all hoping this year will be a more positive experience.
I has a LOLcode
HAI I HAS A VAR ITZ 1 IM IN YR LOOP VISIBLE VAR IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 39 O RLY? YA RLY GTFO NO WAI UP VAR!!1 KTHX KTHX KTHXBYE
Camping!
Some observations: One expects, reasonably, to have sore arms after canoeing. The sore abs (from bracing the paddle strokes) and glutes (from balancing the boat) are always a surprise. My
Geeks in the woods
We are going to the woods on the weekend. No cell, no wireless, no anything but loons and wind and probably a few determined mosquitos. We have hot chocolate, marshmallows,
O, fear the hairy sasquatch!
CBC: Mounties in eastern Manitoba have nabbed a strange, hairy monster that has been stalking campgrounds in and around the Whiteshell Provincial Park for the past two summers. … …
Your password will expire in 11 days. Change it now?
A nice passage from the middle of a long (and recommended) Boxes and Arrows post: A good password is one that cannot be guessed. And there within lies the problem.