Okay, for the record, in case anyone was unclear on this, don't spend the day blacksmithing just as you're starting to recover from a miserable cold.  I felt okay-ish for most of the day while wielding a hammer, then got home, sat down, and had trouble getting up. Poo.

Ben & Jerry created "Yes Pecan!" ice cream flavor for Obama.

They then asked people to fill in the blank to the following:

For George W. they created "_________".

Here are some of their favorite responses:

- Grape Depression
- Abu Grape
- Cluster Fudge
- Nut'n Accomplished
- Iraqi Road
- Chock 'n Awe
- WireTapioca
- Impeach Cobbler
- Guantanmallow
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I'm putting this up for posterity more than anything else, but if there's something here you'd like to know about, please hit me up for a lesson.  Bolded items have handouts and are ready to go; Italic ones are partway there (handout XOR trial run complete)

Leather:

• 101: Basics & Carving- 2h
• 102: Pinking & Filigree- 1h
• 103: Handsewing- 1h
• Leather ( Read more... )

So, I took the CNN Prop 8 exit polls, broken down by age ( Read more... )

After another attempt to make the bedroom a little less cluttered (or possibly kill me with dust allergies, I'm not sure which), we have a pile of books that need good homes. Comment here to claim them. Also, let us know if one of these is actually a book you've loaned us and we forgot! If they're not claimed in the next week, we'll either ( Read more... )

So... last night I was discussing microhouses with amyleone and hazelhawthorne, and how this required reducing one's possessions down to the absolute essentials. ladymora wandered in at this point and asked if I really thought we could get by with a lot less. One thing led to another, and she's spent most of today purging our bookshelves of things that aren't worth the space ( Read more... )

A touching scene from Southern California...

"We're all scared to death and we have nowhere to go," Susan Nuttall, 51, told The Associated Press as she sat in her black Mercedes in a cul-de-sac after fleeing her condominium near the Pepperdine campus. She was wearing a bathrobe and holding her Chihuahua."

I don't normally write up war reports, but GWW was worth remembering. The last couple months at work have been a gargantuan ball o' stress, culminating in my new vacuum chamber at work imploding and showering the lab in glass, five minutes before I was supposed to leave for war. On top of that, my lady and I (well, mostly her) have been desperately ( Read more... )

Okay, so this is really just for ladymora, nativeprincess, sidelong, and I to discuss our GWW menu, but I'm too lazy to set up a filter, so if others are curious, read on ( Read more... )

1. Aerospace Engineer ( Read more... )