Archive for the 'Life' Category

Recently posted to other sites

I’ve been doing more posting elsewhere this week:

Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia – a book review, and some dreaming of my own.
Anger, Unleashed – a rant after Laika was attacked by an unleashed dog on a local trail.
Short-tailed Weasel – a short movie about my encounter with a weasel at Point Reyes. [...]

Split Seconds

It’s been a hectic week, with more feelings and emotions than most. It’s draining.
I’d been home a while and would have been happy to stay embedded in the loveseat with Steve and Laika, but our CSA box pickup is on Thursdays, and I didn’t want to let it go until tomorrow. So I [...]

Rethinking Clutter

I’ve noticed a shift in my thinking about clutter. The old way was despair…clutter was bad, I hate clutter, this is making me miserable, I’ll really be the person I want to be when I get rid of clutter, I shouldn’t live with clutter, clutter is a manifestation of my own incompetance, definitely I [...]

What will the new year bring?

Since I don’t have a magic eight ball, and I’m not feeling up to making my own predictions….a little New Year’s tarot reading anyone?

The card not shown but at the center of the cross, represents the atmosphere surrounding the central issue. Five of Swords (Defeat): A success earned through personal degradation. Separation from friends brought [...]

Vicarious Stress Relief

Sadly, I understand the kind of frustration depicted in this video (via Boing Boing in a post titled “Man loses glasses, damages car wash”.

This morning, I felt a lot like that as I tried to deal with piles of mostly xmess-related crap strewn over my desk, my computer table, the kitchen table, the bookshelf, the [...]

Personal Fabrication for the Everyday Woman

When I read Neil Gershenfeld’s book FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop a couple of years ago, I was excited about the future promise of fabrication. It would be a Maker revolution, with people building amazing things in their own homes. We’d have any number of exciting gadgets and objects, each designed [...]

It’s a JC Penney Ad. Seriously.

I’m speechless. via O’Reilly Radar.

Business of Death

I kinda like the idea of being made into pencils. Thanks Shawn!

The Life Countdown

My Life Countdown offers a lot to think about.
I checked my life expectancy via the Death Clock, which in normal mode gives me a death day of Saturday, March 3, 2040…11,849 days (in pessimistic mode, I’ve only got until Thursday, December 29, 2022, a mere 5575 days left…I think I’ll work with “normal” mode. [...]

A New Favorite Photo