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not that my work is great shakes, but this is one part of why I don’t much submit to contests. the visual factor is less important than getting people to the right service/info.(tags: web_dev)
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“the reasons to support local food economies could not be any more hardheaded or pragmatic” — nothing especially new to readers of the Omnivore’s Dilemma, but still well-put.
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stainless steel(tags: home)
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‘Only emotion endures.’ I’m shocked (“shocked, I tell you!”) to discover that the first half of this essay really speaks to me: the concept of the spare but expressive free verse poem. the 2nd half, alas, devolved into the bloviating that I remember so w
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this, by contrast, is nothing but irritating. what can I take from it? could I write with that blustering man-poet voice? or what is my own equivalent?
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free fonts are always good. (big thanks to Pat Ramsey.)(tags: design)
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a pretty reasonable sampling. I find I like the shorter descriptive poems, the ones with a more Chinese styling to them. the faux-medieval poems, esp. the long ones, get on my nerves, as does his writing in the american colloquial style.
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“The Cornell study represents a potential bombshell in the autism debate.” holy crap. (personal history note: we got cable in 1984 or so. until Dad died, most TV was verboten on weekdays.)
links for 2006-10-16
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video from Kermit’s trip to europe
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free scrap granite!
links for 2006-10-15
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(tags: recipes)
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weird 6 degrees moment. I was watching Veronica Mars, and I keep thinking, Cliff looks really familiar. so I did some hunting, and I’m 98% sure that he’s my friend’s ex-boyfriend’s brother.
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(tags: recipes)
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(tags: recipes)
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Place the cut side down on a large cookie sheet, and bake at 350°F for one hour or until fork tender.(tags: recipes)
links for 2006-10-14
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a 3-speed would be no good in Oly, alas, although it’s a very cute bike. skirt guard, though…I wonder if I could find one to put on my Townie?(tags: bicycling)
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ah, there we go! (I love riding in my long brown knit skirt, but it did get caught in the rear brakes yesterday.) this weekend I want to give my bike a tuneup, reinstall the rear fender, etc….
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for work.
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I have half a dozen sugar pumkins sitting on my patio right now, that grew in my garden! I’m so excited!(tags: recipes)
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gradual improvement. strong correlation to CBT, as far as I can tell.
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what an incredibly awesome story. should be used in jr. high english classes.
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very, very cool. but I would love to have color-coded categories. (playing with a personal history now; thinking about applying to my novel also.)
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blank graph paper, calendars, etc.(tags: gaming productivity)
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whoa. it looks like I get $100-200/mo in value from the library. hot damn!(tags: society)
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try this again on monday, when my head isn’t THROBBING. (hopefully)(tags: .net)
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file under “things I don’t talk about much”
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“as Pasadena, CA, has done to revitalize its Old Pasadena shopping district” — huh? no kidding. also, good ideas here.
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weird and grim, but also possibly useful for my scifi novel.
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“We determine what to publish almost entirely based on a very sophisticated research system.” — their technique for grilled cheese rocked my world.(tags: food)
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truly truly fscked up. (unpublished author shudders with dismay)
links for 2006-10-13
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(tags: php to-install)
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omg.
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that would actually work really well with my vampire teeth…. do I have enough time to get my act together?
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add tags to everything! (has anybody used “graffiti” for a web2.0 app yet?)
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“In what seems like a miraculous coincidence, a standard LED fits exactly into the head of a Lego minifigure.” cue theremin.
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I’d like to try that. 2007, anyone?
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births, deaths, and CO2 emissions. (most active: us, india, china.)
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“Early acquisition of skills — which is often what we mean by precocity — may thus be a misleading indicator of later success” in some ways, the angst of expectations contributed to many of my bouts of depression, particularly earlier in my life.
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I have a dinky keyboard without a numpad at work, which all the IT guys make fun of, but it keeps my mousing arm in closer to my torso, which helps immensely.
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the intranet homepage: put it out of its misery with a shotgun. (not that I have an opinion or anything….)(tags: information_architecture intranet)
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involves taking multiple images of the same thing. try this in the garden?(tags: photography to-do)
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“Trial by fire” — I took a look at some other poems off of this week’s poetry thursday prompt. some good stuff!(tags: writing)
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“the fact is, I have always dreamed of sand”(tags: writing)
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“Did you know that leaves/don’t fall, but are pushed”(tags: writing)
links for 2006-10-12
links for 2006-10-11
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I think this is all I want to post about that. I just find the behind-the-scenes journalism stuff interesting.(tags: politics)
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“Yes, did we mention Google is insane? Consider this seriously.” I ::heart:: Valleywag.
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fsck that. I need to start working on shifting the whole house to Linux/Mac, then.(tags: misc_tech)
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“Nothing says ‘I am ashamed of you my government’ more than ‘Stewart/Colbert ’08” ::sigh::
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“Babies who were born malformed or too small or just blue and not breathing well were listed as stillborn, placed out of sight, and left to die.” That happened to a great-uncle of mine, which is also when my great-grandmother died. (All 3 of us girls wer
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die, ants, die!
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includes painting tips!
links for 2006-10-10
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lots to look at here!
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a whole ton of them.(tags: recipes)
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full length music, appears to be all classical
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oh, hey, another good resource.(tags: recipes)
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don’t know what I want to read yet.
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for photo-quality (300 ppi) prints(tags: photography)
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OMG. I’ve been frustrated with the default behavior for ctrl-z for so very long….
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among other things, a nice assembly of recent articles.
links for 2006-10-08
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(tags: gaming)
links for 2006-10-07
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I’m sure podcasting is going to come up again one of these days. here’s what I’ll probably need.(tags: wordpress)
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at this point in my life I’m really wishing that I’d taken shop class.
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windshield tip will definitely come in handy
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“Mobile internet is _the same_ internet you access with your big computer.” — he recommends WML, but the WebVisions session leaned more towards XHTML.(tags: web_dev)
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(tags: photography to-do)
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more fun things to do with photographs
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don’t I know it!(tags: intranet)