Just watched the episode of Big Bang Theory with Wil Wheaton guesting. Not one of the funnier eps, but WW fans will want to check it out. With his beard he looks more like Johnny Depp than I would have ever expected.

I'm working on decluttering some junk piles in my house, and it runs my brain out of decision making ability surprisingly fast. Ughh!

The antidote to the raving Salon letters about the dangers of parents homeschooling their children turned out to be the raving Salon letters about the dangers of parents letting their darling kiddos play with plastic guns. Very feeble personal opinion was enough to firmly state that dire, DIRE I tell you, outcomes would be obtained if kids ever ( Read more... )

I read many, many of the letters about the recent homeschooling article in Salon (O'Hehir?) and this one is my favorite, to date ( Read more... )

(ganked from a column by CmdrTaco ( Read more... )

I enjoyed Ricky Gervais on The Daily Show riffing about how much he likes cakes.

I'm reading a book called Radical Acceptance. While this book would be filed in the self-help section, it finally penetrated my brain that this title of the book is NOT Radical *Self* Acceptance. It's about accepting everything, including other people, not just about accepting my own flaws ( Read more... )

I am loving Martha Beck's book, Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live. And since I am trying to read too many library books simultaneously, I just bought myself a copy. Will probably also inflict some passages on my husband, (if I can corner him in a room with no exits).

We have a semi-dwarf fig tree that wasn't more than a sawed-off broomstick with two twigs when we bought it. Over a few years, it has grown slowly, and sideways, so that it didn't achieve much growth, staying at a height close to three feet ( Read more... )

Picked up Utne reader from last year at the library. Found the article on re-thinking the rights of married people to be provocative. General question it poses is - should everyone be able to have the same rights and goodies that we bestow on married people in our culture?