You Go, Fred
Friendship only really matters if you give it as willingly as you took it in the first place–Fred MacIntire
View ArticleMarch 1
It is finally March, thanks be to the goddess! I wasn’t sure I was going to make it. January and February were so stressful that I wasn’t sure I was going to make it to March…my slow cycle depression...
View ArticleJill Sobule and TED
Jill Sobule is a big fan of TED and I am a big fan of Jill Sobule (who kissed a girl before Katy Perry ever thought about it.) I just posted about the most recent TED event (see yesterday’s post from...
View Articlepractice, practice, practice…but I don’t WANT another learning experience!
via a post from Tiny Buddha: “Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.” ~Joan Borysenko Right now I am in a tight squeeze. I am in the process of making some big changes,...
View ArticleHappy International Women’s Day (crossposted from the womyn making waves blog)
This photo is via facebook from Being Feminist and Mary Mactavish. International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900′s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the...
View ArticleThink about it….and stop it!
From Tiny Buddha: Psychologists suggest that to some degree we complain because we’re looking to connect with people who can relate to the universal struggles we all face (though in some cases,...
View ArticleMy twin brother from another mother* is cool
So, I am at work. i got her at 7:30 ish and I am going to be here till 7 (I took a long lunch) AND Spring Break starts as soon as I get off work, so my motivation is pretty low. I’ve gone through my...
View ArticleBounce
So yesterday, when i should have been doing something practical, I discovered Bounce and subscribed. I got the following email with a request (the bold italic line in the note below) so I did as Bobbi...
View ArticleHappy Anniversary, Mosaic
According to the IEEE today is the 20th anniversary of Mosaic…seems like yesterday. It was created here at the University of Illinois at NCSA (and local coffee shops). I remember using Mosaic and...
View Articlenonsense
“Don’t be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.” Ludwig Wittgenstein I bought Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus but I probably won’t read it*. I saw the quote in my...
View ArticleI Felicia Day
(crossposted to Womyn Making Waves because I am SO going to play it this week on WEFT
View ArticleHappy Beltaine
May 1, 2013 Happy Beltaine. And the first of May actually feels like it should! Blue skies and sunshine. It’s supposed to be in the 80′s. Still haven’t gotten the app that let’s me digitize and post...
View ArticleArticle 0
So i have spent the last hour wandering around cyberspace…the journey started with a facebook post (i’ve known Phil since 1973): Philip Galanter 16 hours ago Art about art is boring. And too easy. And...
View Articlecomplete list of Locus Award nominees (via Elizabeth Bear)
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL The Hydrogen Sonata, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) Caliban’s War, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK) 2312, Kim...
View ArticleBoredom vs Mindfulness vs Too Damn Busy to Think
just read a post in Unclutterer by a guy named David Caolo talking about the beta iOS for iPad, quoting other people and talking about thinking, interruption, and the problem of having cured boredom....
View Articlefrom facebook, but really it’s a journal post
Haven’t died from this crud yet, but the week isn’t over. I demand a vacation do over. My vacation started Friday at 10am, after the BEAP meeting. I went to the pool, went home, went to bed and didn’t...
View Articlevia Brain Pickings…the addressing of cats
One of my newer favorite websites is Brain Pickings by and her post this morning delighted me. It’s about T.S. Elliot’s poem, “The addressing of cats,” and it features T.S. Elliot reading the poem....
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