Poor Grapefruit

I’m loving this little chart from xkcd, a webcomic (discovered via The Kitchn):

It’s getting seriously warm here. I love it, and I refuse to deal with any more snow (unless I have to)! Bring on summer, with all of its tasty, easy fruit!

Group Behavior

In library school I had a ton of group projects, but I was blessed with starting out with a really fabulous group in my first couple of classes, and then I had the luxury of doing most of my group projects with some variation of that group for the rest of the program. Everyone [...]

Buffs

Way to make national news, CU.  Please note the fourth-to-last paragraph, especially, which describes the higher education climate in Colorado.  On the other hand, I think it’s sometimes ridiculous to assume that someone highly trained in an academic field is automatically qualified to be an administrator.  Even at the university level, the president’s job is [...]

I Love Graffiti…

But I love graffiti removal even more:  Watch this video by Matthew McCormick.
Bonus: It’s narrated by Miranda July.  Speaking of Ms. July, I still haven’t hung “The Thing” from August.  The issue that was scheduled to come in November has yet to arrive.  Issue 3, however, has arrived, and I have to say it is [...]

Elusive Zero Eluding Less

I think, barring any crazy car repairs or unanticipated expenses this month, I’m going to hit that elusive zero on March 1, which means (in case you’ve missed my prior obsessing about this) my savings account + my checking accounts + my retirement account – my student loan = 0. This is a big [...]

Half My Life, Geographically

Monte Vista (+/- 15 miles), 1994 – Denver, present, captured on someone’s video blog (I know, that would be a “vlog,” but I just can’t use that word)…

Thanks to Jenny, my architect sister, for the link.

Gunpowder

Today I was working with some image data in a spreadsheet, and for a while I was working specifically on cleaning up the “materials” field, and came across a work that was made with gunpowder…  While many of you think my job is to look at art all day (and I kind of thought it [...]

Pretense / Lack thereof

So Dave Eggers is a funny guy.  Apparently I’m not his only fan (I had some idea of this, but really, I didn’t expect to be five minutes early (which was actually an hour and five minutes before the lecture was supposed to start), only to be #219 in line.  They let 250 of us [...]

Ouch!

For all of it’s natural goodness, Tom’s of Maine deodorant makes my armpits burn.  It’s pretty uncomfortable.  I discovered this a while back, which is why I switched back to Dove (in all its aluminum zirconium glory), but I ran out over the weekend, and thought it would be fine for a few days.  If [...]

Trying On New Things

Tequila has the capability of making people totally crazy, especially if they’re just a little off balance to begin with.  I might be talking about myself here.  I probably am.  I’m going to start watching my tequila intake a little more closely.
Some notes:  Valentine’s Day is really the only holiday that only select people can [...]