Category: Life

This is more for me than for you (sorry). The Wine Press Northwest blog has an interesting entry today about the current weather in Washington state. aperdue explains that the highs in the 80′s and lows in the 50′s aren’t just sunny and comfortable, they’re essential for establishing good acidity in the ripening grapes. Read [...]

OK, I promise. I’ll blog. It’s a bit demeaning, but it’s the least I can do. I’m trying to concatenate a list of words that are not dirty, not clinical nor graphic, but in all cases uncomfortable. These are words you’d see in newspaper stories about bad things that happened, or a school administrator might [...]

I saw a presentation last week by the guy who started Newsvine. It’s an interesting site, but not immediately intuitive, necessarily. I can’t, for example, figure out what RSS feed I should choose from the motley choices they give me. That aside, I’m intrigued by the idea of a centralized news source with community backbone [...]

I’m sitting in the back of a room full of laptop Macintosh computers and sundry Web developer types (most of whom believe they might just be about to discover the Web before realizing again that the Web has been around for a long time). The topic at the moment is how much drama IE6 has [...]

I took a couple of hours out of my honeymoon in fantastic Kamloops, BC (what exactly is “kam” and how do you loop it, anyway?) to post some wedding photos to flickr. 75 of them, in fact. I am glad that I am a fast typist and can do mad-crazy tagging action…they’re there for you [...]

I am in Walla Walla, Washington (a town so nice they named it twice), staying in the Eisenhower suite at the Marcus Whitman Hotel. Yes, that’s where Eisenhower stayed quite some time ago, for one night. There is a great period black-and-white framed photo in the lobby of the affair. If the men in it [...]

My Underwood #3 Originally uploaded by lyzadanger. Here it is.

It’s only two weeks now. And I have a feeling that one of our final arguments will be about which version of Iio’s Rapture to play at the reception. No really. Obscure but dead serious. Did you know there are no fewer than like a dozen remixes of this bastard? I am fundamentally of the [...]

I have long dreamed of swanky typewriter ownership. Not the IBM selectric. Not the “word processing” typewriters of the 80s. I want something mechanical and loud, heavy and black. I thought this dream would elude me. I thought these things were rare. But, no! The world has no dearth of 1920s- or 1920s-era Underwood typewriters, [...]

Coming back from Vancouver today, I decided I was bored with the same-old, same-oldness of the Peace Arch border crossing on I-5 and ventured to try a different one, about thirty miles to the east. A bit of discovery, I thought, on my way back to Portland to get back to work. I rolled up [...]