While I've certainly had many reasons for smacking my head on the floor of late (and yes, I know there are people in the world with real problems) Windows XP has not, until now, given me much grief. So...two BSOD and two reinstalls later (with the subsequent hours of downloading sp2 and assorted updates) I now find my scanner not functional ( Read more... )

...a Hopi word that means "life out of balance" (also a movie directed by Godfrey Reggio and scored by Philip Glass. Common reactions to the film are typically "wowza!" or "huh, what the hell was that?" It is the first of a trilogy. Here: http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/films/film ( Read more... )

I'm trying to figure out where one finds a link to your LJ gallery without providing a link http://pics.livejournal.com/dewgeist/ here in the body of a post.
*hint* *hint*

The Aurora is an amazing thing to see in its glory. Finally, last night, the show we have been waiting for came to town. Rippling, flowing colors that washed across the sky from horizon to horizon. Wowser. Worth going out in into the -15f night to ooh and ahh at. Worth piling into the car at midnight then driving (and swerving around the BIG bull ( Read more... )

...back home from a hockey game. Watched my daughter go through sugar fits after far too much gummi candy. She alternated between screaming giggle fits and straight faced queries as to why, just why do the hockey players have to be so mean to one another? So, yeah. Hockey. Hey, it's ten below and dark out...what else is there to do with the clan on ( Read more... )

I'm not one for rap/hip-hop but this...this is genius http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1194164636&n=2

http://community.livejournal.com/wordprompt/ Since I can't seem to make myself write all that much I'll just let my friends guilt me into it. Thanks. Love ya guys.

Yesterday it was a drizzly-wet fall day, all dark earth and brown. Leaves, mostly gone from the trees so inclined to lose their foliage, carpeted the yard while their denuded donors pointed crookedly to the low iron sky. Today the world is white. Sloppy wet clumps of snow tumble, cascade from the trees. A child's snow-globe shaken and now settling ( Read more... )

...just a big *hug* to my friends from the hospital...I got the book and t-shirt via parcel post two days past. Thank you. Brought a big stupid grin to my face. I miss you guys.

Alright...here is a link to the latest EMG-zine. My picture made it in Woot! http://www.emg-zine.com/