Just because… Not my favorite of the Brandenburgs but still nice for a Friday afternoon.

Dell’s bread-and-butter puts it in a jam Okay… I’m not even going to comment on that.

Pardon the politics but I have to say that I’m feeling quite smug after reading this and this. I am feeling smug because this is exactly the way I expected things to go. And my smugness is not directed toward the Democrats or the Republicans but to the Very Political People on both sides – [...]

Once in a while I come across a CAPTCHA* that looks like it really should be a real word. A few minutes ago I saw this one: ausyogic. Sounds like some kind of medical or psychiatric condition doesn’t it? *Those security words that you have to type in to prove you’re not a spambot.

I know that truth is usually stranger than fiction, but it’s not this strange. — here Get this app to a nunnery, and don’t try again until Patrick Stewart, Stephen Fry, or Ian McKellan has agreed to voice the insults. — there Deep in the antipodean wilderness one man struggled to find the reason as [...]

I’ve gotta try to remember to use this word. Those Brits do such charming things with the language. (even if they don’t know how to pronounce “aluminum”)

Today is one of those days that makes me actually like Oklahoma’s crazy weather. It’s still February and this morning at about 6:30 it was already almost 70°F. (hasn’t gotten a bit warmer since) It looks like it could start raining any minute but there’s only a 20 percent chance. I’ve seen days like this [...]

I have to make a quilt like this. I found that yesterday. At first glance it looked a little bit complicated but it’s not at all. As soon as I realized how it goes together I fell in love with the geometry of it. Last night (or this morning) I dreamed a quilt. It was [...]

Great quote! Botanical illustrations – Beautiful! Double positive – Heh Habitable infrastructure – fascinating architectural speculation A Square – Very small parks in South Korea (via Dark Matter) Art Glass Doorknobs – Wow. (via Grow-a-Brain) NeoCube – cool toy More abandoned places Rolcats – Eastern Bloc lolcats with English translations. Very strange. (via Nag on [...]

Byzantium’s Shores quotes John Scalzi on the subject of impatient fans. Well, not merely impatient fans but actively, angrily impatient fans. I suppose it’s unnecessary to say that our modern way of life makes people impatient. We are used to being able to go to the store or get online and buy anything we want [...]

Abandoned camper – great story and series of photos (Bifurcated Rivets) Interesting and amusing nature photo Periodic Table of Cupcakes – No no no no… I didn’t need to find that. From this great collection of links. It’s probably a bad sign that I went for the cupcakes first. A Tribute to Fallen Sodas – [...]

I’m making pretty good progress on the quilt but I didn’t get to work on it any this weekend. (Here’s one of the blocks in case you missed it.) Now, as if I don’t already have enough planned (another queen size quilt that I want to get done this year, the quilt that’s already started [...]

So that whole Oscar hoop-tee-doo was last night, right? I didn’t watch any of it. It used to be a big deal to me when I was about 14 but I long ago got bored with watching Hollywood pat itself on the back every year. The best part about it – what has always been [...]

Ah, the symbol-laden symbolitic symboliticism of it! Paper out, digital in. — here I love a good epiphany. — there I found you in a kitchen drawer, The one I use for bric-a-brac: Loose batteries, old keys, and more. You were in the very back, — here I like to think that after firing this [...]

I found this simple WordPress theme generator. It seems somewhat limited. I don’t know if I’ll ever use it but I’m going to play around with it for a while.

Now we know. It’s not little gray guys from outer space in those flying saucers. They’re Liberals!. (Sorry… couldn’t help myself) More cool stuff at Starships.com

I guess a lot of people are a bit bent out of shape about Attorney General Eric Holder’s remarks about race relations. Well, people have to be bent out of shape about something or else they might stop watching the news and get lives. Holder made some good points in that speech but he was [...]

Sometimes I think the techies keep making things more complicated just to keep us regular folks in line. I figured out how to do HTML, maybe not very well but well enough to create an adequate, not too ugly web page. Then along comes CSS. I never have really figured out all the nuts and [...]

Other than the fact that sewing is fun and that I love fabric, the thing I like best about sewing is that I can make clothes the way I want them. But sometimes it’s not easy. Even sewing patterns are rarely exactly like I want them so I often mix up pieces, swapping sleeves and [...]

I love my commenters and I love the Internet. Robert of The Drawn Cutlass posted a link to Al Fin in the comments on the post immediately below this one. So I went to check it out and the first thing I saw was this quote about smart machines: Markram estimates that in order to [...]

A plan to convert decommissioned oil rigs into luxury hotels. It should work. If it’s anywhere on or next to the ocean people will pay truckloads of money to go there. I sort of like BLDGBLOG’s failure scenario though. Of course, if the real Dubai is any model for what might actually happen with such [...]

“The non-scientist’s relation to modern science is basically craven: we look to its discoveries and technology to save us from disease, to give us a faster ride and a softer life, and at the same time we shrink from what it has to tell us of our perilous and insignificant place in the cosmos.” — [...]

Some nice photos of western Oklahoma in a post about an activity that I had not heard of before. Sounds like a good excuse to get out and about.

I’m not a big fan of The Onion but this article is pretty funny. For some reason I especially like this sentence: “To be honest, you people are kind of terrifying when you’re happy.” There are a couple of different ways one could take the article. First of all, nothing like that is happening so [...]

A list of rejected vanity plate applications from Ohio. (PDF) A few are obvious but I can’t understand what’s wrong with most of these, but then, most of them just look like random strings of letters to me. This article attempts to explain the standards. Via AMCGLTD