Archive for January, 2010

Get a free flickr account at flickr.com. – upload the best pictures of your product and also process photos of you making them! – tag your photos meaningfully – skirt craft pompom POOFskirt costume burningman (for example!) Start a free blog somewhere. – blogger.com or wordpress.com (i would say use wordpress as it’s more powerful [...]

Have you ever noticed how nice round cornered photos look in blog posts? Nice, eh? Here is an example of a photo taken from my flickr stream with rounded corners added. If you don’t have fancy photo editing software on your computer you are not out of luck. Picnik.com is a great free online photo [...]

playing by the water

playing by the water Originally uploaded by Minnibird Took Jack out to take a walk and look at birds. We saw coots, seagulls, buffleheads (male, female and juveniles), some pie-billed grebes and, of course, canada geese. Jack liked looking on my phone at iBird Pro at the illustrations of birds.

Joking

I was mostly joking in that last post about having failed. But doesnt 2.5 seem so young for this to start happening?! I can’t remember anything I read about gender roles but I’ve certainly never said anything like, “no way that is for a girl and so u don’t want it” or whatever. He’s fairly [...]

House Porn

I love house porn. This is my newest favorite site: HOUZZ.com. You can search by location or by room or by style. I’m dying for a house but am trying to fight it as a totally irrational thing. I know myself well enough to recognize a little bit of that, “if i just have/do/see/remember this [...]

I have failed

I’m visiting my parents with baby. We went to some store and there were bikes and there was a small pink one Jack’s size and I pointed to it and asked if he wanted to ride it. and he said, “no, that’s a girls bike”. AUGH!

I flipped some jerkhole off this morning. They were honking at me to make a left turn on red on a one way street, which is legal but only if it is SAFE TO DO SO. Which it was NOT as there were cars from the highway barreling off a fucking exit ramp. JEEEZ. Puleese [...]

Fried food goodness. I’be been eating nothing but fried food and bread and butter over the holidays. New years day Vim and I had our usual mimosas (except actually I was drinking a cypress) and samosas. This year the 2 types of samosas were veg and beef. The veg ones are my fav but they [...]