Category: Life

Ikea Portland Originally uploaded by lyzadanger I’ve been spending a lot of time in Ikea lately.

At long last, I can introduce Cloud Four to the world! Peruse and understand! Yay!

I was watching a DVD of a PBS documentary about Benjamin Franklin tonight and I realized he might be the most awesome human being ever. I also realized that his essence seems to reflect the combination of Mr. Pencil and myself, namely: Scientific endeavors and wanting-to-do-stuffness: Mr. Pencil. Franklin would invent simplified fireplaces, bifocals and, [...]

Due to complications of schedule, it was necessary for me to accompany Mr. Pencil yesterday to Hillsboro, where he needed to go into work and give a presentation about something important and technical. It’s not really possible for me to hang around in the giant, tomblike buildings of the Very Large Corporation He Works For [...]

Last night I got all weird and creative and decided to make some adventurous pizzas, topped with stuff I found in our pantry and fridge that needed to be used up. Fortunately there wasn’t quite enough dough for me to use the kippered herring I found, but there was some significant creativity nonetheless. My first [...]

I’m kind of bowled over by this: A multi-day festival of books and authors right down the street, a few dozen very literate friends–and yet I cannot find anyone to go to Wordstock with me today. I find this kind of depressing. I’ve asked Mr. Pencil to go with me, at least for an hour, [...]

Hi everybody. I really want to go to Wordstock this weekend, on Saturday. Is there anyone else out there who is thinking of going? I especially want to see Molly Gloss, who speaks in the afternoon. I just read a novel by her and I quite loved it–even during this long stripe of me being [...]

Canopus Originally uploaded by Pierre J. Restored vintage 1968 photos of a French nuclear test kind of, well, blow me away. Read more at digg Tip o’ the hat to Chris Clark for showing me these.

Hey everybody in Oregon! Don’t forget to vote! Tomorrow is the last day to drop off your ballot. Don’t mail it–it’s too late. Just drop it off at one of the ballot drop-off places, say, like the Multnomah County Elections office, which happens to be a block-and-a-half from my house. So very useful! I can [...]

I am in the midst of reorganizing computers, backing things up and getting rid of cruft. I came across this swell little text document buried on an external drive somewhere. It’s from 2000. — To contact me, it is best to use my mobile phone and its neat features instead of my land line, as [...]