Shaking Pissed

Work was fine today.  Sad at points (I lost four awesome graduate assistants), happy at others (I had two good application/equipment training sessions with faculty, and the grad assistants liked their gifts).  And then it was downright  heart-attack-inducing uncomfortable.  I’m a shitty arguer.  I’ll spare you the details, but at one point I actually had [...]

Photoshop on Steroids

This (discovered via Software Battle) is interesting:

…But it begs the question, “What is truth?” And moreover, does truth have anything to do with beauty?  It freaks me out just a little…

Things

The Thing came!
But first, I want to discuss the United States Postal Service.
I’m a little annoyed with them, but I can see how they made the mistake.  Jenny put in a change-of-address request when she moved out, and Claire began receiving mail here.  They just saw our last name on the change-of-address request, apparently, and [...]

The Thing is almost here!!

So…  I got notice that my Thing from The Thing Quarterly was shipped on Saturday…  and when I just checked the status of the Thing, the post office website said a delivery attempt was made at 4:57 p.m. today.  They LIE!  I was sooo here at 4:57, cooking dinner, without music.  My door was open!  [...]

Change to Spare

This is almost like a weird kind of breakup… Jenny moved out this weekend, heading down to the Valley to spend a week with my parents before she leaves for graduate school in Philadelphia… I don’t think I even know how much I’m going to miss her. It’s just been the most [...]

City Walkers

I’m not in the mood to write a post on walking that won’t bore you all to tears, but I want to post on this before the articles go away into the archival depths of the New York Times online.  Last weekend there was a lovely little pair of articles on walking in the city [...]

Non-Committal Wall Fun

I’m intrigued by the recent trend of wall decals — I love that they offer the look of a trendy stencil, but without the commitment (especially nice for us renters!). Poppytalk posted about a mother-daughter pair, elly nelly who are selling some really cool wall graphics on Etsy a couple of days ago. [...]

Cate Blanchett

Cate is the coolest, most talented actress ever. I just thought you should know. Watch this, where she plays Bob Dylan:

(from a film set to come out this fall… thanks to Stereogum)

Creative Graffiti

I’m a big fan of well-placed, creative, artistic street art.  Like this fine specimen I found in Tallinn, Estonia:

I saw this post on Poppytalk’s Etsy Pick of the Day a couple of days ago — the particular piece featured there is sold out, but there’s lots of other good stuff at the Cabaret Voltaire Etsy [...]

Gourmet

We had a really great weekend with my mom and dad in town. When we weren’t moving my brother into his new place or my sister out of the apartment, the weekend had a definite food theme to it — we were buying it or preparing it or eating it nonstop. The low [...]