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 one stop shopping, [...]

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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 of how [...]

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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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