Since I'm only going to be able to make it down to NJ for gingerbread assistance for a very limited time this year, I'm planning on doing most of my figuremaking work up here this weekend. We're not doing anything really fancy this year, just a Currier & Ives-style New England village. Most of the figure work will be lots of skating and sledding ( Read more... )

Why the @#($*& is it the *financial* institutions that have "secure password" policies that max out at 8 characters and are alphanumeric only? I don't *have* any 6-8 character alphanumeric only passwords, because they're *insecure*. Idiots ( Read more... )

A meme, from seborn and allonymistIf you saw me in the back of a police car, what would you think I was there for ( Read more... )

Damn. I'm heartbroken. Frankly, I cared about as much about that as about the presidential race, if not perhaps a little more. Pity about not being a California voter ( Read more... )

The Zoning Board permission *is* indefinite... as long as all work is completed within two years. Since that doesn't really look financially feasible right now, I've withdrawn my application ( Read more... )

At what point do I give up on my little dream of my own little chocolate business ( Read more... )

I usually just post when I am grumpy, so I figured I'd give somebody a good review for once ( Read more... )

I just found this cool toy:

http://www.google.com/sky/

It is not quite the star map I was looking for, but it's a really fun toy full of gorgeous astronomical pictures. I figured I probably am not the only person who's never seen it before.

I'm really looking forward to Halloween in a place that might actually get trick-or-treaters. (To the point that I'm considering doing a little bit of decoration, not so much because I'm enthused about it myself as because I remember how amazingly cool the house with the smoking cauldron was when I was eight ( Read more... )

It turns out that intellectual activity makes you hungry, even though no extra calories are being burned.

Yet another problem with having a computer job. *sigh*