Tonio (Thanks for the link) finds an old Hollywood version of Voices of Spring. Not bad. I vaguely remember seeing that movie on TV. I think it must have been when I was still a kid. My mom and I always liked to watch old movies together. Who is the guy standing next to the [...]

I notice that President Obama proposes more oil drilling. As you might expect almost nobody is happy about this. Environmentalists are against it, of course – no surprise there – but the Republicans, who wanted to drill are against the President’s plan. Because it’s the president’s plan they must oppose it, of course! It’s their [...]

I have this box that keeps popping up to tell me that certain updates will not take effect until I restart my computer and it has a pair of buttons that say “Restart Now” and “Restart Later”. I’m busy now. I want to restart later and by “later” I don’t mean five minutes from now; [...]

Last night it was warm enough to sleep without a quilt. That’s not a good thing for me. I love warm weather. I am ecstatic that it is finally getting warmer so I can wear warm weather clothes and I don’t have to wear a coat when I go outside and, well, warm is just [...]

I do not know the purpose of these balls. I assume it’s intended as an art installation. They are strangely interesting. That was posted by Nathan Fillion. Yes, I follow Nathan Fillion on Twitter – one of only three celebrities I follow. He also mentioned that there was a Firefly reference in last night’s Castle [...]

Designers have come up with several solutions to the problem of corner kitchen cabinets, to make those unreachable spaces usable. This is the best ever. I bet they’re expensive though and that they don’t come in a style and finish that I like.

London Shop Fronts features photos of… London shop fronts, of course. Many are what we would call “seedy looking” but they make me a little bit nostalgic for old fashioned, privately owned small shops. This fabric store looks extremely tempting. I wish we had something like that around here. For some reason I am attracted [...]

Mozart’s German Dances are far from being my favorite Mozart but earlier this week I decided that I was in the mood for them. In particular, I find the sixth dance of K571 (beginning at 7:36 in this video) fun and interesting. By classical standards it has an insane amount of percussion. This is not [...]

I think it looks kind of like what the love-child of a Mini and a Suburban would look like. — here Wait, didn’t we just finish a year of them not cooperating? — there The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know [...]

Jaquandor Responds to my Cake vs. Pie post. Ahhhh, yes… cream cheese frosting! If all cakes had cream cheese frosting, then the frosting might be my favorite part. Which reminds me… In a catalog – I can’t remember which one; I get a small forest’s worth every week – I saw a sweet potato pie [...]

I’ve been getting quite a bit of shoe spam lately. Not enough that it’s a huge burden to delete it all every day but it is very annoying. How dare they! So from now on (at least for a while) comments containing any of several popular athletic shoe brand names will be held for moderation.

I think I have discovered another interesting difference between American English and British English. Emma Cossey of Shoewawa refers to simple canvas sneakers as “pumps”. I have to admit, I’m not entirely sure of the exact definition of “pumps” and I think it’s a rather goofy name for a shoe. What, exactly, are we pumping? [...]

I hate it when regular characters on TV shows are “killed off”. I understand that sometimes actors want to quit and do something else but they don’t have to kill the character. They could have them leaving the big city and their stressful jobs to go to some remote place to live a quiet, peaceful [...]

Google translation as art? Jessica Palmer links and quotes a Google translation of an article originally written in Italian. The result is not the best English, yet it’s somehow poetic and beautiful.

Scam artists are impersonating census workers in order to get social security numbers. Of course this had to happen. Absolutely everything is an opportunity to make money illegally. The real census form does not ask for social security numbers.

Top 10 Everything of 2009 – for those of you who really love lists Tin Signs – Vintage ads and other nostalgic images New York Street Art – Not the usual meaning of “street art”; these are awesome paintings of New York The Bygone Bureau – articles on a wide variety of topics Most Expensive [...]

Today is Ada Lovelace Day. She is widely known as the first computer programmer. More about Ada Lovelace at Wikipedia. And if you’re a really serious admirer, or just very geeky, you might also be interested in this online book.

I think I like these. Strictly speaking, I don’t really need a pair of sandals. But I do, sort of. I have a pair that are very comfortable but they have sort of a clunky, uni-sex look so they don’t look right with dresses. Also, they’re just a little bit heavier than I like and [...]

Finally, the health care bill has been passed. I have mixed feelings about it myself. Mostly I think it’s a good thing but we all know Congress can take the simplest thing and make something ridiculously complicated of it so when they start out with something as complicated as insurance it’s more than a little [...]

Scenes From Our Pre-Apocalyptic Future – This is worth printing out and stashing somewhere safe so we can bring it out again occasionally and see if any of these predictions come true. 2012 looks pretty good and entirely plausible. Some of the others are a little out there but who can tell about the distant [...]

Today is International Talk Like William Shatner Day, appropriately, since today is also the birthday of Captain James T. Kirk.

Vintage Mural has lots of images of vintage advertising, labels, maps, botanicals and more and you can buy them on all kinds of items – tiles, clocks, trays, mugs, furniture, jewelry boxes, note cards, etc. Fairly expensive but it all looks like wonderful stuff and a wonderful site just to browse too.

I’m hoping you will read a bit of sarcasm in the title. I knew that Saturday, the first day of spring, was going to be cold, with rain and snow but, since they were predicting highs in the mid to high 30′s (F) I assumed that we would get just a little snow mixed in [...]

…even though it will be more like a return of winter in my neck o’ the woods. This is wonderful. I had never heard the vocal part before.

Last night the husband and I saw Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland in 3-D. Wow! It was awesome! It was the first time I’ve ever seen a movie in 3-D. I want to see more! I had always assumed that 3-D movies were like a giant, moving View Master and, in fact, it was like [...]