Category: Life

Sure, it’s really just glorified concert footage, but this trailer of “Heima”, a documentary about Sigor Ros, is just about the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Who’s with me?

1. I annoyed some people with my dislike the beach. It’s generally okay to hate the desert or the midwest, but insulting the vistas of the Pacific Perfection chaps some people’s hides. Oops!2. The beach was pretty OK. The weather was shit on Saturday, pissing it down, but Sunday was acceptable even by my clearly [...]

I had a recent post inquiring what the oldest thing you own is, and it was graciously picked up by my good friend Chris on Mental Floss today: here. Lots of good comments on that thread.

I’m going to the beach this weekend with friends. I like friends, but I continually don’t get the beach. The weather is going be: rain, high of 60F (16C). It’s the hottest month of the year. In what way is this awesome? I like it to be the summer when it’s the summer

I’ve been a customer of Amazon.com since about whenever they were born. They have an awful lot of history on me. Recommendations. Purchases. Wish-list items. General idiocy.http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifShould I worry that, today, the Amazon.com home page is recommending the following to me?: * Richard Scarry’s “A Day at the Airport“* The Extant Odes of Pindar Those [...]

I’ve really started to think (even) harder about the impact I have on the planet. This is not a new fad for me; I’ve always been a greenie-head, but now I’ve become more obsessed with it. Here are some things that I and Mr. Pencil have been doing: * Starting last December, I have been [...]

I have Amazon’s Amazon Prime service, which, for a mere fiscal rape of $80 a year, lets me get free 2-day shipping on everything* which gives me a smug sense of being frugal and yet having my whims stroked very quickly (waiting is for sucks). I also have a knack for accruing Amazon.com gift certificates [...]

Here’s a question for you all out there: What’s the oldest thing you own? In my case, it’s a page from an illuminated Book of Days from what is today the Benelux region. It’s from c. 1450. The leaf, in Latin with gold, blue and red detailing, was a gift from my mother on my [...]

Just curious. Have Sprinter vans become as popular elsewhere as they have in Portland? The area I work is like Sprinter van central–I came out of work today and there were three of them. In a row, parked. They seem cutely Euro and absolutely utilitarian for delivery purposes, but aren’t they pretty expensive?

I walk to work, every day, back and forth. I’m loathe to go downtown in any conveyance that takes up much space. I hoof it wherever I can and bus it where I can’t, within a reasonable radius of where I live. Which means I drive maybe once a week. Mr. Pencil has made the [...]