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Yes, I can has cheezburger

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I like to poke fun at Etsy.  It seems that for every one rea­son­able prod­uct, there are thou­sands of crafty prod­ucts that are a lit­tle too “craft.”  These include items made with pop­si­cle sticks, puffy paint, shrinky-dinks, rhine­stones, and assorted garbage.  I am also a big fan of Regretsy for this rea­son.  Until recently, I […]

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iPhone + Meowmania = most expensive cat toy ever

January 2, 2010

A few months ago at Ignite Port­land 7, a few of us on the bal­cony were com­par­ing silly cat-related iPhone apps.  My take­away from that dis­cus­sion was Meow­ma­nia (iTunes link). 
Meow­ma­nia does one and only one thing.  When you touch the screen, a spin­ning cat head appears and meows.  That’s it.  No real point.  Buuuut… […]

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Norman the Terminator

November 29, 2009

Exhibit A: Ebenezer in the “Ter­mi­nate Your­self” pro­mo­tion ear­lier this year
Exhibit B: Nor­man with his ter­mi­na­tor haircut

A big chunk of Norman’s head has been shaved clean.  As best as I can tell, he got in a cat fight, but the wound got infected and abscessed, so the vet cleaned things up.  In the process, he got […]

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Weekend Woodworking

June 22, 2009

Over the week­end, I self­ishly took advan­tage of the Father’s Day sales and bought myself a sabre saw (or, as Kim calls it, the saber­tooth saw), even though I am not a father (that I’m aware of, at least.) I have been start­ing to get ideas for things to build that were just a […]

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Two in the bush

June 20, 2009

Some­thing a lit­tle bit sur­pris­ing hap­pened last week­end that I briefly twit­tered about, but never got around to writ­ing down.  Kim was fin­ish­ing up some gar­den­ing in the front yard and Nor­man the cat was jump­ing through the grass, dig­ging in the dirt, and just being an ener­getic out­door kitty. 
After I got my stuff put […]

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Photo dump: mystery switch, window perch, bathroom, sun

June 7, 2009

When my main machine was the 17″ lap­top, I had a great sys­tem for pulling pic­tures directly from my cam­era, almost imme­di­ately after tak­ing them, then push­ing them to Flickr with Flick­r­Ex­port for Aper­ture.  The new (well, not ter­ri­bly new now) Mac­Book Air does not meet the sys­tem require­ments for Aper­ture (I got the low […]

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The paradox of being sick

April 14, 2009

Maybe para­dox is not quite the right word for what I want to say and ironic, in the dic­tio­nary sense, is not either.  The Ala­nis Moris­sette def­i­n­i­tion of irony is a bit more close.  But putting the exact word­ing aside, I find the para­dox of being sick is that you have all the time in […]

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Ex Libris

April 3, 2009

As a kid, I was for­tu­nate enough to grow up in a house­hold that pro­moted read­ing.  From a fairly early age, my ele­men­tary school had occa­sional book fairs and a sort of monthly book club.  In fact each month, all of the stu­dents of a par­tic­u­lar set of grade lev­els would get a cheaply-printed color […]

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Randomness: The Goth Bus, Bad Bologna, DTV, Mice, and my new Wordpress theme

January 25, 2009

GOTH Bus.  The photo is a lit­tle blurry, but every time I see “60TH” on the bus mar­quee, I see it as “GOTH.”

Fake Bologna.  Last night we had some soy bologna out as an hors d’oeuvre’s spread amongst cheeses, greek olives, apples, and crack­ers (actu­ally, diges­tive bis­cuits, if you want to get fancy.) The […]

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Can’t work; cats will climb me

January 17, 2009

In offload­ing some pho­tos to Aper­ture and Flickr, I ran across this one from the other week.  When doing work at home, it is usu­ally on the lap­top on the sofa or easy chair in the front room.  With the ergonomic kneely chair at my desk, my back is exposed enough to allow Ebenezer to […]

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Ebenezer’s Snow Failure

December 21, 2008

Ebenezer’s pre­vi­ous day in the snow, back in 2005, was fun but unevent­ful. He went out in the snow, which was only a cen­time­ter or two deep, wan­dered around, then returned. This year, he almost did not make it out the door. Even with the sweater, he was cold and a bit unnerved by the […]

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In which Norman is confused & annoyed by deep snow

December 21, 2008

Norman, our newish kitty–the stray one we adopted–is only about two years old. This means two things. First, he is crazy-full of energy. Sec­ond, he is not really old enough to remem­ber much snow in Port­land. Last year it snowed a tiny bit on Christ­mas, but noth­ing like the snow­poca­lypse we have been get­ting this […]

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