Great Halloween Costume
I have a nephew who shouldn’t see this until after Halloween.
Dessine moi un objet » Iphone paper stand
Dessine moi un objet » Blog Archive » Iphone and Itouch paper stand / dock [LETTER US SIZE]. Many thanks to Dessine moi un objet for the template and the photlef
Regarding Ideological Email From ‘Friends’
It’s rude for old ‘friends’ to include you on their ideological email blasts when they know you’re not in agreement with them. The temptation to complain, refute, or ridicule is hard to resist and eats up a lot of energy. It’s better to rant a bit here than reply one of those ways, which, as they say, only pleases the pig while getting you filthy.
Winter Home Emergency Kit – Lifehacker
Creating a home emergency kit can be a simple to enormous undertaking depending on the level of energy and preparation you want to invest into it. Most people are on the “Stay warm and fed until the power comes back on” camp, not the “Prepared for zombie apocalypse” camp, and though it never hurts to prepare for the worst we’ll be focusing more on the former than the latter.Once you read over the following tips you can adopt them to fit your needs based on your locale and weather, size of your homef, and how much storage space you have available.
via Put Together a Winter Home Emergency Kit – Stay In, Geek Out – Lifehacker.
First Look: Travel organizer Tripit.com offers iPhone app
First Look: Travel organizer Tripit.com offers iPhone app, from The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Must learn about this app, and use it with Ellen, so we can keep track of each other.
A Quiet Night Walk
It’s just past 10:30 on Saturday night and I’m just back from walking Gracie. Early in the walk I was musing on the dinner party I’d gone to with Ellen and the folks we visited with, and the fact that when we came home we found that Gracie had chewed up the nozzle of a little spray bottle of eyeglass cleaner. We had turned the corner a few houses down from ours, and I watched her sniffing the grass and wondered motivates her to chew things up from time to time. Does she need a crate, would another dog help, what… and I suddenly noticed how quiet it was in the neighborhood. No peepers, no crickets, no nightbirds. I also realized I had no idea what the names of the usual nocturnal noise-makers are. Another post for that sometime.
I had my phone, could have been listening to a podcast or some music or the radio, but it no, it was so quiet. She did her business, stopped in the middle of the street, and looked up at the sky as she sniffed the wind. We heard a dog bark from some streets away and stood there for a couple of minutes just listening. I shaded my eye from the streetlight and tried to see the fleecy clouds in the light of the half moon. They didn’t seem to be moving. It was chilly, but not cold. It felt satisfying to hear just the night breeze in the trees, the occasional car go by on the main road outside our street, my own clothes rustling as I walked and my shoes off-rhythm with Gracie’s claws on the asphalt as we came home.
Southbound at Sandy Springs
Southbound Platform, Sandy Springs MARTA Station, 8:09 a.m.
Leonard Cohen at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre
My second show in a week—last Wednesday, the Australian Pink Floyd Show, good and LOUD. Tonight, Leonard Cohen, intense and pleasurable in different ways. More than a poetry reading with a really tight band and less than a rock concert…. I can see why this tour is garnering raves. The first pic is from early in the show; the second is from “Suzanne” early in the second set.
Dragon*Con: Cardboard Star Wars
The stills are from 2008, the videos from 2009.
YouTube – The Weight – Gillian Welch & Old Crow Medicine Show
I love this old song by The Band, I really like Gillian Welch, and I’m crazy about Old Crow Medicine Show.
YouTube – The Weight – Gillian Welch & Old Crow Medicine Show.
Snow Details in Boulder
Waiting in the snow for a table at Lucile’s, a very popular brunch spot, these small details caught my eye.
Bookstore!
Wandered in to this used bookstore, Red Letter Books, on Pearl Street, on the way back to our hotel. Wonderful. Shelves of books to explore, and songs playing by Tony Bennett, import versions of the Rolling Stones, and now the first cuts from Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs. Sweet music to these ears. I love used book stores.
Obama Wins Nobel?!
Jumpin cats. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.?!
More From Way Overhead
While flying and blogging, Roy Buchanan is making my headphones smoke. Trying not to alarm the other passengers, but it’s difficult.
Blogging at 25,000 feet
On my way to Boulder, where Ellen gets some well-deserved recognition for her work and I get to hang out in a nice mountain town during the day and be arm candy at night. Oh, the life.
This photo is from seat 15E on AirTran 301, just a few minutes ago. You’re seeing it thanks to a free wifi coupon. I ran down the battery on my laptop blogging some overdue stuff at dvforteachers.com, and now I’m online with my phone. Again—oh, the life.Pura – Water
Water is the WordPress theme I use here and on my DV for Teachers site. The original developer has long since left this theme behind, so this is a bookmark to the current developer (thanks) to make sure I can find its new home again.