My birthday is coming up soonish, so M has been making me n-billion little cards with cheering birthday messages to distract me from my impending dotage. I am compelled to
Author: Robyn
Make a List
It’s raining Really hard Yay! Perhaps it’ll remove some of the disgusting scum left behind by the melting snow Temperature is well above zero. Rainboots instead of snowboots this morning.
Musical Crush of the Moment
It seems that Young Galaxy is streaming their entire album (which will be released next month) on their website. It’s pretty stuff, if a little bleak in spots. If they
Attn: NASA
M: Who was the first person on the moon? Me: A guy called Neil Armstrong. And he said something like, “one small step for a man, one giant leap for
Fie on large, brainless corporations
From User Friendly: Reminds me of this: which is spoofing this ad: Why should we pay to watch ads in already-expensive products? Or be forced to sit through nasty warnings
Aha!
Aha! Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Now that the great piles of snow have pretty much melted off our lawn, I spotted the beginnings of a crocus.
Meetings
QOTD for March 12: “When he was younger Mr Phillips had hated meetings. Or at least he had once he had got over the grown-up feeling, the warm glow of
Ballet recital
Ballet recital Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Another hilarious ballet recital. They all had a great time and actually did some dancing, in between tugging on their clothes, picking their noses,
Death to spammers
Lately I’ve noticed a bunch of spam has come in with delete-receipt requests attached. Since most people’s email programs auto-process such requests, it’s an efficient and invisible way of marking
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Smile Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. I’m trying to do the 26 Things list for March (a sort of photographic scavenger hunt), and wow, it’s hard to take interesting photos right
Geotagged photosharing on Flickr
This is a really cool bit of technology. Flickr recently added — or perhaps it’s always been there and I haven’t noticed — the ability to geotag photos. Being Flickr,
Doodles!
Yesterday I bought myself this book, which is 400 pages of doodly goodness: The concept is that there’s a little something on each page and an idea (“draw the people
Snowpeople!
Snowpeople! Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Finally a day with suitable snowman snow!
I am large, I contain multitudes
(Update: Ivor Tossell responded to my rather ill-mannered rant with a very gracious note, thus disproving the hypothesis that the Internet exists solely so we can all call each other
A soup for winter
This is a soup similar to one I had once in a teashop in Wales, or possibly Ireland — my sister may remember. It was a cold day in February
Marriage
It’s Freedom to Marry week in the US, so I offer the following conversation: M: I’m going to marry Daddy when I grow up! Me: You can’t, honey. Daddy’s already
White, like the snow in my brain
M: I have to wear my plain nightie to school today so the light can shine all the way through. Mr B said so. D and I: Hunh?? (Mentally slow
FIRWRCSE! HIP HIP HRA!
Dogs and Fireworks Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. I’m enjoying all the editorial comments on M’s art these days. Lots of labels and arrows and fanciness in this one, which is
“If you don’t shape up I’ll sell you to the Gypsies!”
…babies fetch about $10,000 these days, apparently. Bulgarian ones, anyway. It’s always so distressing when people live out stereotypes.
Book #31 – Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
By Mary Roach Surgery practice. The Body Farm. Embalming practice. Crash tests. Transplants. Food. It’s not the most appetizing collection of eventual ends to which one’s body could be put,