I’m at DrupalCamp, surrounded by a sea of (other) MacBook-toting geeks. There’s a conference of Marxists using the same space. A while ago they came in and carried off a couple of our tables, which was a tricky moment for the DrupalCamp organizers: “Oh yeah. I’m going to go tell the guy who doesn’t believe […]
I has a pifanee!!1!
I love seeing academic stuff tossed at online phenomena — like this sort of sociological/linguistic analysis of lolcats via I Can Has Cheezburger? Check out this chart: Ha! Harbls in a chart! The great thing about all of this is how we can see new languages forming out of a new medium, and since the […]
M in the hammock
M in the hammock Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. The hammock chair is a great success; it’s a shame we have only one decent branch from which to hang one, because it is quickly becoming an item of contention. I had a rather long turn in it reading library books, then I was booted out by […]
Man with Goofy & Donald Duck scarf
Man with Goofy & Donald Duck scarf Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. On Bloor Street. Happily we were headed in the same direction so I could follow him and take a picture without being very obvious. He didn’t particularly look like he was attempting to be ironic.
My grandfather’s violets
My grandfather’s violets Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. A big pile of happy violets! This is part of the main clump in the garden, although the ones that made a break for it and took up residence in the middle of the lawn look pretty happy too. The garden has gone crazy this week. I plan […]
Alone, but not alone
The very delicately written piece by Mary P linked below brings to mind a conversation I had once with a newly-separated woman whose daughter was in the same daycare class as my daughter. How is it now that W is gone, I asked. More work or less? Oh, it’s SO MUCH EASIER, she said. Now […]
Woe and sandwiches
Quotation of the Day for April 25, 2007: “I now know why my own childhood packed lunches were such joyless, dispirited affairs. It was vengeance. And despair. Somehow it is very hard to feel inspired to make sandwiches at 8.15 in the morning. I just stare into the fridge. “As Nietzsche said, peer long enough […]
Random Punching Guy strikes again (and again)
From the Star: Why Jean has to watch her back A few years ago I was walking along Dundas a few blocks west of Yonge near the bus terminal, and all of a sudden some random guy punched me HARD on my upper arm as he walked by. Really hard — it made a lovely […]
Cisco vs. Apple
From The Joy of Tech:
Maddy’s new bike
Maddy’s new bike Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. It’s hard to get a picture of her actually riding the thing — she puts on a very serious face if asked to pose, and otherwise is moving WAY too fast. I’m going to have to get out my scooter to keep up with her!
Women’s Post
Women’s Post Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. I’ve never felt a need for this newspaper (or, in fact, noticed it before). Does this mean I’m an amateur woman?
Pasha
The Estonian Easter dessert. (Ingredients, courtesy of my grandmother. Method developed by my mom’s trial-and-error experiments, and mine.) Ingredients: 2 lbs dry cottage cheese (This is sold in vacuum packs near the regular cottage cheese. Salted? Unsalted? Some of each? Up to you. I used 1/2 salted, 1/2 unsalted, but that’s just because that’s all […]
Happy long weekend!
Reading at the museum Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Yesterday we bestirred ourselves only to head down to our local for brunch (crab-and-spinach eggs benny and double-chocolate cherry stout, mmmm) and then we sluggishly lay about the house digesting for the rest of the day, burping occasionally and studiously ignoring the snow flurries outside. Very enjoyable. […]
March 2007 26 Things
I did pretty well with the March 26 Things list (hope that link works — if not try this) — I got 20 of the 26 this time, better than I’ve ever managed before. 26 Things, for anyone who doesn’t know, is a sort of photographic scavenger hunt. You get a list of 26 words […]
Birthday wisdom
I had a lovely afternoon at the craft show on Friday and am now the owner of: a laptop bag for my new computer (in grey flannel with red satin dragonfly-pattern lining from Melissa Beth Designs — I did NOT want yet more black cordura), a new handbag (picked out for me by the guy […]
Some people’s Estonian grandmothers share recipes
…with the Toronto Star, no less: Estonian cuisine via grandma. Mine on the other hand, is deeply reluctant to share. I have her recipe for apple cake: “It’s a sweet dough, with yeast and cardamom. Then apples and some sugar and flour on top.” Okay then! I did attempt this “recipe” once. What I made […]
Crocus
Crocus – March 27 Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. I have a nasty migraine, but when I saw crocuses blooming as the mailman dropped off a package I was compelled to head out into the sunshine to take pictures. Two minutes of bright light would be worth it, I thought. There I was outside in my […]
Scientific illiteracy, pt. 4003
There’s been a lot of coverage of the Bristol University study on rating various drugs’ potential for harm (BugMeNot will get you in). The intent of the piece was to develop a more objective rating scale — NOT to compare various drugs directly. A comparison of fourteen drugs was done by two different groups as […]
The adorableness
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 provide n-billion small envelopes for these missives; the envelopes come from a stock I inherited from my grandfather. I’m sure it would please him to […]