Uncategorized

Day 21 — Naptime

This is pretty much what I’ve been doing all day, too. I got up at 9:30 and sort of straightened up the apartment, but I went back to bed at 11 and just got up about 45 minutes ago. I’ve not yet broken out the broom or the dust rags like I promised myself I would. And oh darn, it looks like it’s time to shower and go get some lunch, so that nasty old…

Continue reading

Uncategorized

Dinesh D’Souza, we need to talk

Dude, your abhorrent opinions — particularly the ones highlighted here, regarding the ways the left’s actions incited Sept. 11 — are laughable on their own, but if you can’t even BS your way through a Salon interview without saying something so stupid that it makes you look like the ass you must be, then we’re all gonna laugh at you. To wit: America is the font of atheism in the world, the head of the…

Continue reading

Uncategorized

Day 20 — Meat and Taters

In other photographical news, Twisty talks about lenses. I swoon. Once I conquer the acquisition of a Rebel XTi, I’ll begin a lifetime of collecting dozens of lenses, of which a Lensbaby will be one, I hope. I share Twisty’s generally amicable attitude toward the Photoshopification of amateur photography. Who wants to live in a world where you can’t manipulate the curves or the color saturation of a photo of the random crap lying around…

Continue reading

Uncategorized

Two steps forward, one step back

Found today: 1. My missing earbud cover for the iPod. Last Christmas, Phil’s mom got me these great little rubbery attachments that clamp onto the earphone and stick into your ear. They were perfect for me because I have freakishly small ears and iPod earbuds will not fit into them comfortably. And then last week I had to go and lose one of them. I ripped up the apartment looking for the other two sets…

Continue reading