perkee, aurora, and i rode the bus from everett to gold bar, and walked up the trail to wallace falls ( Read more... )

The NY Times had this detailed article on "Rove's Legacy" online so quickly after the news hit the wire, you'd have to imagine that they had the story ready to go on file... you know, along with all of those pre-drafted celebrity obituaries.http://www.nytimes.

A randomly-discovered riverside rope swing in Southern Oregon, near the town of Gold Hill.


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yestewday mvi leawned to chiwmv mvtymve. atmaun but fybe a bit scawwy. (mvlease, wowld: no evtmvloding mvewmitted. mehomves.)

I've just made a batch of chocolate-covered coffee beans using Maria Santos coffee and Dagoba Organic Roseberry dark chocolate.

They're cooling in the freezer now. I'd better send most of these to friends before I start eating them like peanuts.

update: sold out.

Has anyone on my friends-list used Remote Control Mail, a.k.a. "Earth Class Mail ( Read more... )

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070527_wolfowitzs_next_promotion/

Lately I've been talking up Hanneke Cassel, as she'll be performing Sunday afternoon at Folklife.

That's reminded me to listen to her music, which seems to help with the whole inner-peace thing.

This posting, excerpted from a PDF available at apple.com, was inspired by a conversation last night with neuro42, wherein we realized that I didn't know all of the Mac equivalents to the Windows keyboard shortcuts that many of us use extensively. Particularly: how, on a Mac, does one browse the menu bar with the keyboard ( Read more... )

Perkee came back from our two-hour visit to Spokane with two ticks on board, one loose and one burrowed into her neck (successfully removed intact and alive using the tweezers-below-the-neck-and-don't-be-afraid-to-tweeze-some-skin method). The loose one, well, that one woke me up in the middle of the night, crawling on my arm ( Read more... )