Category: Life

We bought a Mac Mini this past weekend and put it to work handling all of our home media needs. We’re using Front Row in conjunction with ElGato’s EyeTV Hybrid for recording HD content (over the air), plus sundry other codecs thrown at QuickTime to make it play most anything. In this we’ve deposed basically [...]

I know I’m the last person in the free world to read Fast Food Nation, but I finally did after years of gentle resistance. It was angering and grossed me out, but, I both expected it to anger me and gross me out. Plus I was already angry and grossed out. Just a note that [...]

The New Fred Meyer on Interstate on Lombard Originally uploaded by lyzadanger. A Flickr user wrote me this morning and asked if he could use this photo for the Wikipedia entries on Supermarket, Hypermarket and Fred Meyer. I am super thrilled by this for some reason. You can see it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarket (scroll down)or here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fredmeyer.jpg

I read Invisible Man (which is, by the way, Invisible Man, not The Invisible Man as I have erroneously thought in the past) meanderingly over the past fortnight or so, partly upon a strong recommendation from David and partly because I own it it, have owned it for a while, and it is on myriad [...]

From Portland Maps, a miraculous site run by the city: Here are photos of my house from the air in 2000, 2004 and 2005 (not much changed between 2000 and 2004). In 2000 (first photo), my house actually took up what is now two lots, and it looked like there was some gardening going on. [...]

I’m snotty about a lot of things but I’ve never condescended to wine in a box–because I think it’s a great idea. The wine world is funny in how slow it concedes to technology, in general. According to WineBusiness.com, 3-liter boxes are the “Fastest-Growing Wine Package Segment” with a 204 percent growth since this time [...]

I love my neighborhood. It’s diverse (officially the most diverse populace in town) and odd and no one gives you shit about anything. However, it’s most definitely still got its moments. Along Vancouver and Williams Avenues they’re starting to open some trendy-ish restaurants and bars, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still some savagery in [...]

Davd, B&W Originally uploaded by lyzadanger. Still not feeling totally healthy. Today is day two of the house painting part of our house painting project. The whole house is covered in primer. We have no windows! Well, we have them, but they’re all covered with a translucent masking material. The cool thing about this is [...]

Still feeling under the weather. I know that Amazon has been mutzing with tagging for a while, but I’m not sure when they started showing you your own tag clouds on the recommendations page. Here’s mine. Seems roughly accurate–for what I buy on Amazon, anyway, which is pretty much books and wine utensils. Sometimes I [...]

I meant to read more history, but instead ended up reading Slaughterhouse-Five, which, after the Odyssey, seemed like something of a snack. It took me barely more than one sitting to read the whole novel. The metaphorical wanderings musing on free will are intriguing to me. Mostly I, and I’d bet a chunk of my [...]