Despite Earthlink's interference, I finally got pics of the scrolls ermine_rat and I did for Marguerite and Brian posted.

( Done is beautiful! )

I had a mostly from the garden meal tonight that I'm pretty proud of. Roasted chicken (carbon-based, etc.) with home-grown garlic and purple sage under the skin, then stuffed with sage, garlic, garden onions, and bread cubes. Baked with potatoes (TJ's), onions, carrots, and many tiny zucchini. I followed this with a nectarine crisp with the first ( Read more... )

I recently finished Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. It was a fine book, once it got past a rather dreary (but academically required) first chapters that dealt with what he was arguing against.

Once I was done with it, I needed something a bit lighter, so I picked up Around the World in Eighty Days, which I had ( Read more... )

So far, I've lost 3 cabbages, 2 marigolds (!), and the japanese cucumber to a gopher. It's mighty disturbing to come out in the morning and find an entire cucumber plant gone without a trace ( Read more... )

Last weekend I remade a hat in preparation for having fun with joycebre. We've been talking forever about renaissance hair bleaching (and where the bleep is that woodcut with the woman with the broad-brimmed hat bleaching her hair?) and I've been saying that i needed to make a bleaching hat. Well, I finally did it!

( Pictures... lots of pictures... )

Arrg! The bleeping touchpad on my new laptop has a movement that automatically redirects me to the last page I browsed. Unfortunatiely, I can't replicate it purposefully and it mostly seems to come up when I am in the midst of typing up a post and navigating the page in order to post it, which makes me lose the text ( Read more... )

Unrelated to anything in my life, I've been thinking a lot about the problems with electric cars. From what I've been read and been told by moriven, who is significantly more interested in these things, electric cars have a battery life problem. They have a limited distance they can go, and then they have to be plugged in for a really long time to charge ( Read more... )

I have a bazillion posts bouncing through my head, but I'll start with the first thing on my mind:
What's wrong with this weather? My bok choi bolted. I'm a bit irked by that.

You have an art time travel machine. You can pick five artists to do a likeness of you (it doesn't have to be painting or photography). Assume that all the payment, scheduling, and so forth are taken care of - you just show up for your sitting(s) with temporally appropriate clothing that is esthetically pleasing to you. But these are for your ( Read more... )

Originally posted by zintelbears at Godhood

http://www.bearfactoids.com/2012/01/25/godhood/


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