In anticipation of our trip to Italy this fall, I bought a camera. I’m not much of a picture taking person (as my children will attest), but maybe I’ll reform. The camera came, I read the user’s manual, and today I’m trying things out. If you’re a close family member or really have nothing more [...]

Jun 232008
 

One The other day I pulled into a parking space, one of two permit spaces, each with its own access aisle. Another car pulled in next to me at almost the same second. I opened my car door, leaned my seat back. The driver of the other car, a 20-something man, did the same. I [...]

Jun 152008
 

Stole this idea from Dave Hingsburger: how many of the 106 top unread books from LibraryThings have you read? Here’s my list (31 of the top 106): Life of Pi: a novel (one of my kids gave this to me for Christmas a couple of years ago) The Name of the Rose (got this after [...]

 

I’m two months late noticing, but The Angry Gimp is back and blogging. Good deal.

 

Overstream allows you to caption YouTube, Google Video, MySpace Video, Dailymotion, Veoh and Megavideo videos:

 

Harriet McBryde Johnson has died. Hers was a fabulous voice – a Southern voice, a woman’s voice, an advocate’s voice, a sensible voice – for the disabled. I’m trying to find the first thing I ever read by her – an article about power dressing for an appearance in court. Time to go re-read Too [...]

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