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Is this avant-garde-good or really horrible?

  • September 1st, 2010
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I saw this odd new tunic pattern at Lionbrand this morning: I can’t decide if it’s Pucci-cool or seriously awful. I think it could look cool on a runway, but it’ll never work in real life. It seems to have a little fuzzy halo going, too, which, again, never work [ READ MORE ]

Blogathon!

  • August 28th, 2010
  • Posted in General

Blogathon is happening today in Austin! I’m volunteering and scored the cool job of picking up the breakfast tacos from Torchy’s Tacos. Then it got even better when I was sent to pick up the cupcakes. It’s always fun to be the person bringing the food, everyone is happy to see you. Just to keep [ READ MORE ]

Beer Grain Rolls (and Peaches)

  • August 1st, 2010
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Since Brian has been brewing beer, I’ve been experimenting with using the spent grain from the brewing process to make bread. No, it’s not alcoholic, this is just from the brewing process before fermentation. Since the grains have been cooked they don’t have a lot of nutritional value, but they do have a lot of [ READ MORE ]

Hello World!

I just downloaded the WordPress app for iPad, this is just my hello world post to test it out. It’s got some problems, you have to manually add tags to bold or italicize text, but eh, it’s a free app. Since I didn’t plan ahead and have relevant photos to test with, I’ll attempt to [ READ MORE ]

Gah, stupid landscaping

  • June 13th, 2010
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Didn’t I say at the end of my previous post that I’m in no hurry to finish the landscaping? Well I lied, I want the whole freaking project done, I’m sick of the bare-dirt look around there. The hard part now is figuring out exactly what to do, though. I did fix some of the [ READ MORE ]

Pool or a pond, pond would be good for you.

The hole in my backyard is now a pond! There’s still plenty of work to be done, the edging needs to be finished and lots of landscaping around it, but it’s not just a large, empty hole any more. I started it last year after deciding we needed a great destination point in the yard, [ READ MORE ]

Scarborough Renaissance Festival

  • April 1st, 2010
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Scarborough Renaissance Festival—the one in Waxahachie—begins April 10 and runs through the end of May. The larger Texas Ren Fest outside of Houston is probably better known, but Scarborough definitely has a charm the big one can’t match. A few years ago, Texas Ren Fest cut a large number of acts, and before that they [ READ MORE ]

Cool Twitter buttons

  • November 4th, 2009
  • Posted in General

One of the things I love about Twitter (among the many things to love about it) is the laid-back nature of the Twitter icons. Facebook has stern warnings on their site about not monkeying around with their logo and rules for displaying it; honestly, I get their point, I really do. But it's so cool [ READ MORE ]

I’m on Cake Wrecks!

  • October 17th, 2009
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Not for a cake I made or link I sent in, I’m in a photo of their World Tour stop in Austin: I’m in the front row wearing a pink scarf, and I’m knitting, of course. Hey, we had to sit there for a long time waiting, might as well make the time productive. The [ READ MORE ]

I’m ranked on Alexa!

  • October 9th, 2009
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Not that I’m ranked highly, quite the opposite, at 15,926,847 I’m probably about as low as Alexa rankings get (look out, 15,926,846, I’m gunning for your spot!). If you’re unfamiliar with Alexa, it’s a subsidiary of Amazon that tracks website traffic. You can download the SearchStatus toolbar for Firefox, and it’ll track the sites you [ READ MORE ]

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