Just a little while ago: vegan violin wordpress theme Are Vegan violins very different from Terran violins?

I almost forgot to mention this. Starbucks, you finally got to me. I want! (Except, I want mine with whole milk and yes on the whipped cream and I don’t want to know how many calories it has.) I confessed my desire to my family and my son threatened to take a picture of me [...]

This is a cute idea. I don’t think I’ve seen that pattern before, even though it’s a very simple one. I haven’t looked in on Treadle Quilts in quite a while. Shame on me. Here are some interesting cubes – sort of like tumbling blocks ramped way up. Some nice bright flowers. And finally, I [...]

Pinnacle by ~Paul88 on deviantART This artist’s work is very interesting to me. I recommend a visit to Paul88′s gallery to see more.

Follow-up to the shoe post. I ordered the Walking Cradles Skimmers. They looked great, were well-made, had a very cushy insole but, unfortunately, they didn’t have enough toe room. I could have tried a half size larger but I’m afraid that might have been too large overall. Also, I still wasn’t sure about the bubble [...]

. I want this book. And the CDs of course. I don’t have anything at all by Coleridge-Taylor. Frankly, this is a rather poor quality video but it contains some interesting information.

Happy Thanksgiving A tip from our feline friends Eat, sleep, eat again

I didn’t get around to posting a video on Friday so here’s one. The music is lovely of course but, to be honest, I chose this one mainly because I was struck by how much these photos look like my “neighborhood” though I’m sure they are actually of somewhere in Europe.

I was looking through the latest issue of Smithsonian Magazine and noticed a small ad in the back for a very cool mug and there was a Web address so of course I had to come check it out. The store is The Unemployed Philosopher’s Guild. This dinosaur mug is the one in the ad [...]

We have a Christmas party to go to in early December. Naturally I’ve been thinking about what to wear. It’s casual but I want to wear something nice and Christmassy. I’ve been thinking about maybe something in a bright, Christmas green with only little touches of red because, generally, red seems to be the preferred [...]

I like the simplicity of these two paintings and they make a nice pair. hot tea in winter by ~luthienelf on deviantART lemon tea in summer by ~luthienelf on deviantART

Warning: This contains a huge SPOILER for this week’s episode of of House. Last night we watched the episode of House that aired on Monday. I have many complaints about the series in general, which are the same as or similar to some of these complaints but I loved the solution of this week’s medical [...]

Oooo shiny! Awesome art glass ray-guns. I’m at a loss for words. Those are approaching the ultimate in awesomeness. I wish there were good close-ups of each of them. I googled “art glass ray guns”. I didn’t find any more pictures of these but I did find other glass ray guns, at Joe Blow Glassworks [...]

I finished another one of my Christmas sewing projects. That’s the third one, not counting the quilt which I’m still working on but will be finished soon. I have one more planned Christmas gift project for which I already have the materials. That might be my last one. There are a couple of cold weather [...]

Winter study by ~charlesvinh on deviantART Well… it’s not quite that wintery yet, and today is supposed to be nicer, but aren’t the colors in this painting lovely? Since we’re stuck with winter anyway we might as well try to find some beauty in it. The painting is by Charles Vinh. Click on the link [...]

Continuing the Gordon Lightfoot series. I first heard In the Early Morning Rain by Elvis Presley, then, not long after, by Gordon Lightfoot. I still like both versions but I’m more used to hearing Gordon Lightfoot and I think I like his performance of it slightly better, which surprises me a little bit. It’s been [...]

Top 60 Japanese Words and Phrases of 2009. This is interesting. It’s a good overview of what’s happening in Japan right now. Some of them are the same as some of our top words and phrases, like “change” and “DNA evidence”. Many of them are fascinatingly different. I didn’t know that Japan’s First Lady has [...]

Why. Also see, i space which is perhaps a bit less entertaining than why but a lot nicer.

I took this picture on Friday. My tomato plants always behave very oddly. (If one can use the word “behave” when talking about plants; I’m not sure.) They’re always late to start bearing, no matter what variety I buy, even when I start with fairly large plants, and I only get a few scrawny, poor [...]

Joanne Casey posted this wonderful eggy sunrise so I had to look up the artist Vladimir Kush. (A lot more in the Google image results) I like these a lot. Some on the artist’s site have descriptions detailing the symbolism in the paintings but, to be honest, I mostly like them because they are beautiful [...]

Tea light lava lamps – Little lava lamps powered by tea light candles. I’m not sure whether I like the pink or turquoise better. You know, I was just thinking about lava lamps a few days ago, wondering what we’re going to do when there are no more incandescent bulbs and the only thing available [...]

15 Unreal Real Places – Wow. How come you never see any of these on “Places You Must See Before You Die” lists? Cheese or Font? – Not too difficult. A few are surprising though. (via Bifurcated Rivets) Living Room in a PC – Cool Southeast Asian ephemera – an interesting Flickr set Trolls – [...]

10 of the World’s Greatest Jobs – Strangely enough, none of them appeal to me all that much. World of Warcraft Tester actually sounds like the most fun, even though I’m not a player myself but if they paid me to do it for four hours a day I could certainly get into it. Problem [...]

I guess maybe I don’t really get Twitter. I’ve been having fun with it but recently I’ve been thinking, “I’m following too many people” even though I’m only following 16 and a lot of other people follow hundreds. Even some people I consider normal follow over 40 or more. I guess you’re not really supposed [...]

Are all spammers alike? Maybe not. You might think that someone selling something like, say, violin strings, who left an almost legitimate sounding comment would be more likely to get away with it than spammers pushing certain unmentionable products. And yes, I was tempted to ignore it but nobody is named “buy violin strings”, not [...]