April 2011
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Books in Progress for April
Autobiography of Mark Twain: I’ve been reading this one for months now, though I may have entirely skipped it during one or two of those months. My jaw dropped when I saw just how large the hardcover version was at Costco. Nine hundred-plus pages just doesn’t have the same impact when you see it at the bottom of the Nook screen. I’ve trudged through more than 200 pages of introductory material...
January 2011
8 posts
Updates to Come http://post.ly/1XOM9
Updates to Come
I’ve barely touched this web site since I began it, using Posterous mostly as a means to the end of updating my other web sites, but now I’ve decided to move my home base here. You can find my résumé, work samples, and contact information now on this site - just check out the links in the header above. As I think of more interesting things to say, I’ll post them. For now, keep...
RT @macworld: Verizon offers details on iPhone hotspot pricing: http://ow.ly/3KaX8
RT @cpkimball: What’s In Taco Bell’s “Beef?” Hint: It’s only 36% beef plus cheap filler such as “Isolated Oat Product.” http://tinyurl.c …
Scott, after a certain commercial: “I hear Jesus has been waiting for the iPhone to come to Verizon.”
May 2010
9 posts
RT @PBSNeedToKnow: Can you pass the U.S. #citizenship test? Take it and find out! Let us know your score: http://to.pbs.org/9qXu4q
RT @thepioneerwoman: Charlie’s perch. He’s of the jumping variety of Bassets. http://yfrog.com/5nnwxrj
Two months ago, I got a year’s supply of contacts. Now, I’m noticing my vision probably should have been checked again this year. Rats.
RT @ErieBlogs: Blog Post of the Week: Dahlkempers, Toy World and More http://bit.ly/anErLr
RT @Pogue: Wicked new 3-D optical illusion… http://bit.ly/da1MMi (thanks, Gizmodo)
#Lost made me cry. It’s true.
Yeeeoeww my muscles hurt!
RT @cnnbrk: Sources: Childless marriage was issue in TV chef’s alleged murder-for-hire plot http://on.cnn.com/ayLGgl
ABC announces fall 2010 schedule | EW.com →
Even more sad that FlashForward was canceled specifically in favor of V … V may have improved the past few episodes, but FlashForward improved more in my opinion. V still has little character development in comparison to FlashForward, which has a few complex and intriguing characters we were just starting to get to know (Janis, especially). V, therefore, is definitely not a contender to fill...
March 2010
14 posts
Picnicked at the zoo today and then observed 50 monkeys’ business.
RT @levarburton: You heard it here first… Reading Rainbow 2.0 is in th works! Stay tuned for more info. But, you don’t have to…
In an endless security line at Seatac. :-(
And we’re off! (Uh…almost.) Best to get dressed soon as we catch the bus and then the new train to the airport in one hour!
RT @thepioneerwoman: Confirmed: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels (the book, not the blog) was optioned. Think Green Acres meets Harlequin R …
RT @donttrythis: Attention: NEW episodes of Mythbusters begin Wed 3/24 9pm. Kari returns 3/31! We’re baaaaack. (new stuff is AWESOME)
RT @ConanOBrien: http://twitpic.com/19765a - Behold! My traditional St. Patrick’s Day feast: 7 Guinness, frozen asparagus soup, and 2 pi …
Egg Beaters are surprisingly not wretched. Enjoying a cheese omelet.
“Sgt. First Class Millward has been blown up twice and lost part of a leg.”
– From today’s ABC World News email.
Blown up twice? Has he also been drowned and strangled in his miraculous life? Perhaps the guy’s first name is Lazarus.
RT @whitehouse: New Bo photo gallery w/ never before seen shots of everyone’s favorite first pet http://bit.ly/blUvBo
RT @ConanOBrien: I just had the fries at the McDonald’s in Culver City near the
Lady Foot Locker. SO AWESOME. If you can get there, ORDE …
Bugs stress me out. Bugs and fish. But more so bugs.
A gigantic bug has taken up residence on the spaghetti squash I left on the shelf on our balcony. I have lost my appetite for said squash.
New York Times review of "Cook This, Not That" →
This article shows both why Americans of ALL food-snootiness levels are so often overweight (you can, in fact, easily serve six adults with a pound of pasta and a pound and a half of meatballs if you bother to balance that rich meal with a more healthful salad) and, well, why so many folks dislike the Times. What an attitude! The writer even takes credit for the grudgingly given thumbs up for the...
February 2010
20 posts
New earbuds are ridiculously loud. The iPod doesn’t get quite soft enough to offset them, I think.
Think my digestive system might just be plotting to kill me.
The internet is full of quacks. Surprise, surprise.
Good job Slovakia! 75 percent chance of a medal; 75 percent chance of Scott’s shouts of joy being heard all the way to Vancouver. :-)
RT @levarburton: G’night, kids! More fun tomorrow… But you don’t have to take MY word for it!!!
With the addition of Meebo, now more than 50% of my iPod home screen icons are blue. Such a popular color…
Possibly the reason I turned out so obsessed with Ancient Egypt: http://bit.ly/1rDssA
King Tut Felled by Malaria, Bone Disease : Discovery News http://post.ly/OCWu
King Tut Felled by Malaria, Bone Disease :...
THE GIST: Genetic tests reveal King Tut to be the son of the pharaoh Akhenaten. The boy king was afflicted by several diseases, new tests also suggest. The young pharaoh likely had to use canes to walk due to leg and toe conditions. via news.discovery.com Saw this first on the New York Times site and then on CNN.com (where they made a big factual error in stating that Tut had been...
RT @HomerJSimpson: On Valentines Day I give Marge a box of chocolates and she gives me ten pounds of corn fritters. #valentinesday
Inside the Rings - Blame for Olympic Luge Crash Is...
WHISTLER, British Columbia — Olympic officials treated the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, the Georgian luge athlete, less as a tragedy than as an inconvenience. via nytimes.com About time someone took them to task over their callousness here. Posted via web from Colleen’s posterous | Comment »
The Cost of an E-Book Will Be Going Up -... →
“Greedy, greedy author”? Just how much do people think writers make? You know, they wouldn’t report on J.K. Rowling’s enormous income if it wasn’t exceptional for her field.
This is 100% a dog-bites-man story. Don’t waste precious newsprint until you can provide us with a report on how Americans are welcoming any price increases.
I have a chocolate cake baking but all I smell is rye bread.
The no-snow, 50ish and rainy days continue unabated here in Seattle. Kind of makes you wonder: Why the WINTER Olympics in the Pacific NW?
New blog post: Another Numbers Meal Planning Template http://bit.ly/9TKYYO
Hello, sun. Welcome back to Seattle. Why don’t you settle in for a nice long visit this time?
Dusting the queen bees! And there is joy throughout the land.
Why do so many people misspell Super Bowl as “Superbowl”? It’s hardly an obscure event. It’s tantamount to writing “Thanks Giving.”