From the yearly archives:

2008

learning to work with the new serger

14 December 2008

So it’s been a month or so since i got my serger. I made a cou­ple of starter projects on it when i first unpacked it but I had other projects (xmas) that needed my atten­tion and i didn’t have a chance to get back to it until last week. I have a ter­ri­ble time buying […]

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Snow Day

14 December 2008

It snowed last night. This morn­ing it’s bright and cold (27). This is my idea of what win­ter should look like.

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Is Google the Next Microsoft?

24 November 2008

I was upgrad­ing Word­Press installs this morn­ing and found this in the drafts folder of my old blog Magpie’s Shiny Things. Is Google the Next Microsoft Yeah, prob­a­bly, so what? The mar­ket demands that there be an easy, no brainer, can’t pos­si­bly get in trou­ble for choos­ing solu­tion for the vast major­ity. Tools need to be […]

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An exhibition of books in Oaxaca

14 October 2008

Each time I am in Oax­aca I stop into the Casa De La Ciu­dad. There is always some­thing inter­est­ing in the lit­tle sala to the right of the entrance. When I was last there (Sep­tem­ber 2008) it was the exhi­bi­tion –Los Libres, Los Via­jes, y El Tiempo (Books, Trav­els, and Time — roughly) The problem […]

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Amen

13 October 2008

Go read this comic. http://xkcd.com/488/ Con­sider that the pile of CDs that you have been hord­ing is insur­ance (for a lit­tle while…) Now where did I put that turn-table?…

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Bird Feeders Are Now Up

2 October 2008

Yes­ter­day I hung the bird feed­ers for the first time this fall. One hulled seed tube and one this­tle tube at the edge of the front yard next to a thicket of ever­green trees. An ideal spot. I had put off fill­ing the large sun­flower seed feeder (off to the left and not vis­i­ble in these […]

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Clever Packaging

15 September 2008

On my way back to my inter­rupted vaca­tion in Oax­aca I had the chance to upgrade my DFW to MEX flight to busi­ness class. I *love* busi­ness class. The only thing bet­ter than the leg room is the refuge from the “cheap as we can make it” ethos of coach. Includ­ing this lovely lit­tle bit […]

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Morning Coffee

15 September 2008

This was my morn­ing cap­puc­cino from a cou­ple of days ago. Life is sweet in Mexico.

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Garden Report

7 September 2008

From some­one else’s gar­den. Here in Oax­aca you can buy flow­ers from ven­dors in the Zocalo. 45 pesos gets you enough baby gar­de­nias to fill two glasses. Heavenly.

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Pellon (sewing products) is not well served by it’s web presence.

19 August 2008

BTW find­ing on-line infor­ma­tion for Pel­lon sewing prod­ucts is dif­fi­cult. When I was work­ing on the pre­vi­ous post I wanted to put in a link to the prod­uct page for the inter­fac­ing that I was talk­ing about. Clar­ity and all that… Not so easy it turns out. www.pellon.com is the home page of Finnish com­pany that produces […]

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