Modulo the ice pellets in the forecast for Wednesday, I think it is actually spring (and thus, time to change the userpic).

The garden, the garden:

• Last fall's garlic should be making its presence known shortly.
  
• The collards, carrots and shallots I dumped in at the end of last summer have all wintered over. I got greens already!
  
• Got green ( Read more... )

I was just looking over my Flickr photostream and thinking, "Hmm, some good shit here". I've filled up my free stream (a while ago actually), and I was just thinking about upgrading to Pro, which is $25 a year. So here's my question, for people who take lots of pictures and sometimes want to be able to share them: do you use Flickr, or something ( Read more... )

If the shoe fits, wear it.

For some images of what's going down, click here. Amazing photojournalism.

For those who don't get the day off, it's easy to forget what day this is. For those who do get the day off, it's perhaps even easier to forget, and to spend the day shopping or something after listening to the obligatory recitation of the "Dream" speech. Here's a piece that talks instead about the King assassination and the cultural elements ( Read more... )

Fanning the flames of paranoia: article by a clinician about how certain political behavior -- specifically, the tolerance of outlandish conspiracy theories -- enables paranoia:

"When they argue their case that the plots they discern are real, paranoid patients arrive armed with examples of views more outlandish than their own...If they claim that ( Read more... )

As unaware of history as ever, Sarah Palin has released a video in which she accused "journalists and pundits" of creating a "blood libel" by their statements that inflammatory right-wing rhetoric played a role in the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords ( Read more... )

One of the things that I most admire about the Kindle is its well-chosen feature set. It knows what it wants to be, and doesn't try to be other things, except in a very intelligent way (i.e., the "Experimental" features, which lets them experiment with a peripheral feature and hopefully get feedback on its usefulness and desirability (and how it ( Read more... )

I just signed up for a weekend program at the Shambhala Meditation Center, a place where people seem to have a decent amount of clue. It'll be interesting to see where this leads.

Life is way too short for crappy cookies.

(and you can add to that mediocre chocolate and shitty bagels. Better to go without, seriously)