100 Best Movie Space Ships – Haven’t looked at all of it yet; still waiting for the pictures to load but it’s space ships. Even if I disagree with the choices it’ s gotta be good. (via) Marbled Papers – Very pretty and interesting. More wishes – Hah! I never thought of that before. Not [...]

Our Internet connection has been on and off (mostly off) for the past few days. It’s been on for more than five minutes now so I thought I’d take a chance and try to post something. We had a nice little Thanksgiving at my sister-in-law’s house. Saturday we went to my brother-in-law’s house and watched [...]

I have a bit of a thing for t-shirts. More than a bit, actually. If I bought even one-tenth of the t-shirts I lust after you could call me the Imelda Marcos of t-shirts. I can’t help it; they keep putting such pretty pictures on them. I should know better than to go to Pegasus [...]

Seasonal Transformation – great picture Vintage Japanese political posters – Better than ours. One possibly NSFW. Tardis socks The scariest thing on Earth? Through the Psychedelic Looking Glass – (via)

Last night we were driving down I-44 on our way home from Tulsa and when we passed the casino I noticed, on their flashy electronic sign, the word “Saliva” in bold, bright red. It confused me for just a second but then I noticed a future date and time below the word and realized that [...]

So here’s the thing… Lately I have been more drawn to “real life” than to this Internet wonderland. I have been sewing and shopping and neglecting my blog reading and quote finding duties. As the holiday season is almost upon us things will only get worse. But I’m not quitting nor even going on hiatus. [...]

Unappreciated gifts – Most I can understand but hey, who wouldn’t want the “Hideous Two-Headed Thing”? B&P Link Dump – 9 really cool and interesting links. I couldn’t pick just one. How humans got to be smarter than Neanderthals – Ah, but are we really sure we’re smarter? Has anyone ever interviewed a Neanderthal? Steampunk [...]

I put the layers of the quilt together yesterday and it went very well. That part is usually extremely difficult for me. I don’t have any place to lay a large quilt flat and even if I did I probably couldn’t bear to crawl around on the floor long enough to get it done, so [...]

Henryk Gorecki died last week. (Friday?) It always makes me feel sad and a little bit guilty whenever a composer or performer I’ve heard of but am not familiar with dies. I have forever missed the opportunity to hear his work while he was still alive. But of course, it really doesn’t matter all that [...]

I finished Shadow of the Scorpion late last week. Best Neal Asher book ever! But I think I’ve said that after every one of his books that I’ve read. This one is a prequel to the other books in the Ian Cormac series. It switches back and forth between Cormac as a child and Cormac [...]

I had a total veg-out Saturday. (Well, maybe not total. I did manage to do some laundry but that’s practically nothing.) It’s been weeks since I’ve watched even a whole morning of HGTV, which used to be my weekend treat. Saturday I watched TV all day and much of it was HGTV. We skipped the [...]

Give the fat tools, please. Give me your big, your bulky, your heavy masses yearning to generate lots of lap heat! — here (I don’t know… I like thin lightweight gadgets but I am quite fond of my old-fashioned, bulky PC with its good old-fashioned keyboard and mouse.) …I don’t really like that word “mastery”, [...]

Among my many other cultural deficiencies, I have never seen Deliverance. I started to watch it on TV once but there was a problem with either the TV or the TV station, I can’t remember which, and we could only get snowy, ghostly black and white images. I’ve never had another opportunity to see it. [...]

I hate when something trivial sets up a bad “tone” for the whole week. We had to call the cable company because we haven’t been getting all the channels we’re paying for and those we did still get had a really lousy picture. The cable guy, who, fortunately, is nothing like that famous Cable Guy, [...]

Women Running From Houses – Gothic cover art (via) Chinese Bird Album – 19th century paintings “Don’t Trip” – pseudo-holographic art Pools of Water – photographs

Over here I saw this Is Your Cat Plotting to Kill You Quiz, which really doesn’t make sense to me because I don’t see my cats that way at all. But of course I clicked on it anyway. (What is it about quizzes?) I think it’s slanted toward your cat trying to kill you because [...]

Last night we were watching Monday Night Football and I said something that, in my on mind at least, was a wise observation, a profound insight, something I had to share with the world. So I immediately decided to post it on Twitter. But it could wait until half-time. By half-time I had completely forgotten [...]

Android vs. Blackberry vs. iPhone – How the users of each see each other. Fake Science – humorous “science” mini-posters. Cell phone photos that are actually good. Really good. Three women – Yes! I see them! The Secret History of Rock – Everything’s a religion. It makes sense; our brains might be pre-wired for religion [...]

In this picture, taken November 3rd, you can see that we still have some green. There are a lot of small elms and a few other species that still have green leaves. And here’s a red oak leaf, back-lighted by the sun. This is on a very young tree, no more than six feet tall. [...]

I hate when I find a great quote for my “Quotes From Here and There” within hours after I post it. But any time is a good time for a good quote and this would be too outdated by next Friday so here it is: ( I’m sure at least half my readers will disagree [...]

. I saw that at Finest Kind Clinic and Fish Market, an excellent blog that I have been catching up on for the last few days, after having neglected it for a while. It is full of all kinds of beautiful, interesting and amusing things – culture, cooking, cute kittens, even Star Wars crochet. One [...]

…beauty fades, but a mind constantly energized will shine even brighter with age. — here (via) If you are interested in getting the most out of your life every day, you need to be able to look at the motivations of human beings from every conceivable angle, and each perspective will teach you something different. [...]

I think this might have been my worst non-holiday shopping day ever. First of all, I forgot my list. I used to never need a list; now a list doesn’t even help all that much. (UPDATE: I need a shopping list app for my phone, except, my phone doesn’t do apps. It’s so old it [...]

It’s shocking what kids born before 1970 had to live through. But probably not so shocking if you were one of those kids. Not everything back then was good and not everything we have now is bad. I like the Internet, obviously. I even like cell phones. I’m glad that we use seat belts and [...]