Month: May 2008
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I went for a short half-hour run this morning. I’m still not back at 100% health. It’s really annoying. I’ve got this perpetual feeling that I can’t quite clear my throat, and it makes it difficult to breathe easily when I’m running. I’ve started planning my events for the rest of the year. Here’s what…
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SynesthesiaI watched a fascinating documentary yesterday afternoon called Derek Tastes of Earwax. It was about people with synesthesia, the condition where your senses get mixed up in interesting ways. Most synesthetes perceive numbers and letters as being colored in some way. The title referred to one gentleman who “tasted” nearly every word that he heard.…
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“Every girl online is fat, ugly and unsexy. Here’s how to get over it.” Interesting article on being a woman and dealing with harrassment. I had a great discussion about personal conflicts (both online and off) on Saturday morning with my girlfriends. It turned out that pretty much all of us had been subjected to…
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Weekend Update: Well, I survived. It was a stressful week. I spent several nights getting the TC website ready for the sale launch on Saturday morning. On Friday I rushed home from work to do an emergency house-clean before Jeannie, Chris, and Kurt came over for dinner. We had lamb shanks cooked in our new…
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What Your Cat Thinks When She Rubs Up Against Your Leg. Yup. True.
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Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? Fascinating little throwaway link from Kevin’s Indiana Jones review.
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Weezer just won the Internet. That is the coolest music video of all time. I don’t even recognize all of the memes they reference in there. (Link courtesy of Daring Fireball.)
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It’s 1:24am. The Tapestry Craft sale website is finished and will launch in less than eight hours. I need to sleep.
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Bacon is good.
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TC May Sale starts tomorrow!I’m just a little bit speechless right now. I’ve been killing myself this week trying to do all the normal sale website prep stuff on top of my real job – I was up past midnight last night – and this morning I logged in to Ravelry to see somebody complaining…