Dreamwidth is an alternative to LiveJournal that is not as widely known, but may have some good features. I looked into it for a while, when I was considering whether or not to renew or to shift my account from LJ. Evidently, they are now "under attack by an organized troll group." I attach here a copy of the announcement I received from them a ( Read more... )

Dead-tree newspaperWe have been subscribers to one or another (and sometimes more than one) dead-tree newspaper since I've been married. There have been some small lapses in service, but it's been more or less continuous for a decade and a half. We quit as subscribers to the local Ann Arbor News when it started becoming too thin and useless, and ( Read more... )

I'm using Google Voice as my business phone. This is not the Google OS cell phone (though I'm thinking about one of those next year), but a web-based system for call management and using multiple (physical) phones with a single phone number. So, I can set my GV number to ring either my home phone or my cell phone or both, depending on whether I'm ( Read more... )

Larry Sultan, another photographer I really liked when I was in grad school, has died"Larry Sultan, a highly influential California photographer whose 1977 collaboration, “Evidence” - a book made up solely of pictures culled from vast industrial and government archives - became a watershed in the history of art photography, died on Sunday at his ( Read more... )

I came across a post on BldgBlog about a photographer, Barry Underwood, some of whose work is very reminiscent of John Pfahl. More interestingly, he's an alumnus of Cranbrook, as well.


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Yesterday Thor came up to hang out for the evening. We also discussed our respective unemployments and lots of other stuff. And, as is our wont when we get together, we also brewed a batch of beer. This one is kind of a kitchen sink beer; I cleared out the odd bits of malt in the freezer, as well as the basic ingredients in the recipe we stated ( Read more... )

I've been surprisingly busy the last couple weeks, since being laid off. It hasn't been productive in the sense of earning an income, but I'm getting a number of things set up and developing connections with a number of people in the area ( Read more... )

Last week, the two guys I work for told me that they are going to have to lay me off. There hasn't been much new work coming in, and, while I should've been more on top of things in getting prepared, I can't say I am surprised by this. The economy is bad in this state, and it's finally caught up with me ( Read more... )

Seeing this on BoingBoing makes me very, very happy, and want to share:


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The Canton Public Library's website has completely adopted International Talk Like a Pirate Day this year. I'm not sure how long it will stay like this, but it's cool what they've done!
Canton residents who be physically unable t' come t' th' library, either due t' a permanent or long-term illness or be o'er th' age o' 65, can now have books ( Read more... )