Backwards: My condolences to Gaius' family.

I knew Gaius a long time ago. We were in the shield wall together. He left the Gryphons before I did. I hope he finds peace, and his family and household, solace.

( Read more... )

Liking it so far. Meets the three basic criteria:

1. Coffee easily available.
2. Broadband easy to find.
3. Farm food easy.

...and now we go to look at houses.

"It's all so ....... green!"

The conversation about the being lost was so funny last night--"Ya reckon?" that I had to stop, on the road, twice, to just laugh. Because I couldn't see or breath, I was laughing so hard.
( Read more... )

Not as much me on the computer. This is my brain on stolen network. OKbyefornow.

1. Weight loss. At the gym today, 372. Well, I'm exercising every day, but it's all about the calories (thanks g0atface) so there's something to work on. Prolly a food log combined with Body for Life after a Scarsdale ketosis burn.

2. Pictures from above: Need to make a camera rig with controller, like the one from Burning man--it's pretty easy to convert an R/C machine to camera running. This was a tech challenge to the Rubber Chicken learning forum about 4 years ago that they never took up.

3. Life sized chess set. Cool one from Burning Man 2005
http://bmtraveller.proboards56.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=creative&thread=1147307416&page=1
idea page but
http://www.mccullagh.org/image/950-13/chess-art.html
THis is inspiring
http://www.curple.com/chess/

Nothing to do with the idea:
http://www.ifilm.com/profile/Britethorn/video/2860889?sublisting=videos&page=1

I want to make one where the pieces can move themselves. Hmm.

1. I am incredibly unmotivated today. I just want to hide away and read a book. Didn't even get the trash out, and now is a bad time for that.
( Read more... )

Madame Bovary (83)
The Odyssey (83)  Several versions.  Rosy fingered dawn!  What color is wine in greece, anyway?
Pride and prejudice (83)
Jane Eyre (80) Another romance
A tale of two cities (80)  It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and I can't remember if I finished it.
The brothers Karamazov (80)  I prefer the jugglers.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79) Social technical history!
War and peace (78)
Vanity fair (74)
The time traveler's wife (73)
The Iliad (73)  The original pre-roadtrip.   What a triangle!
Emma (73)
The Blind Assassin (73)
The kite runner (71)
Mrs. Dalloway (70)
Great expectations (70)
American gods (68) Great Gaiman
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius (67)
Atlas shrugged (67) Looked at it.
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66)
Memoirs of a Geisha (66)
Middlesex (66)
Quicksilver (66) Etx.  Not the best Stephenson, but fun
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (65)   Social reality fairy tales!
The Canterbury tales (64)
The historian : a novel (63)
A portrait of the artist as a young man (63)
Love in the time of cholera (62)
Brave new world (61)
The Fountainhead (61)
Foucault's pendulum (61) Finally just gave it away.
Middlemarch (61)
Frankenstein (59)
The Count of Monte Cristo (59)
Dracula (59) (X 3)
A clockwork orange (59)
Anansi boys (58)
The once and future king (57)
The grapes of wrath (57)
The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57)
1984 (57)
Angels & demons (56)
The inferno (56)
The satanic verses (55)
Sense and sensibility (55)
The picture of Dorian Gray (55)
Mansfield Park (55)
One flew over the cuckoo's nest (54)
To the lighthouse (54)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (54)
Oliver Twist (54)
Gulliver's travels (53)
Les misérables (53)
The corrections (53)
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (52)   Well, of course; my brother is autistic.
Dune (51)  And some of the sequels
The prince (51) Go Mach!
The sound and the fury (51)
Angela's ashes : a memoir (51)
The god of small things (51)
A people's history of the United States : 1492-present (51)
Cryptonomicon (50) ANd forced others to read it.
Neverwhere (50)
A confederacy of dunces (50) Doesn't hold a candle to the current fuckup
A short history of nearly everything (50) And many others
Dubliners (50)
The unbearable lightness of being (49)
Beloved (49)
Slaughterhouse-five (49) Ice 9!
The scarlet letter (48)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)  Thanks to Derek, I found out it wasn't just australians.
The mists of Avalon (47)  Ich. 
Oryx and Crake : a novel (47)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (47)   Get back to that one
Cloud atlas (47)
The confusion (46)
Lolita (46)
Persuasion (46)
Northanger abbey (46)
The catcher in the rye (46)
On the road (46)
The hunchback of Notre Dame (45)  The face, the face at the door!  And the origin of the "gypsy wedding"
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything (45)  Not as good as "Tipping Point"
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values (45)  Reread occasionally
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)  First Furry experience!
Gravity's rainbow (44)  Dad wants me to read this.
The Hobbit (44)  Every year for 10 years, and occasionally still.  A love postcard of a dream england.
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences (44)
White teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)  FRIPING Yarns for BOYS!
David Copperfield (44)
The Three Musketeers (44) RIPPING tales for teenaged MEN!



Eh.  I need to figure the theme thing out.

Thanks Josh!

http://www.theatrebayarea.org/tix/ftd_list.jsp;jsessionid=62D856AB6C69A7B91851B36E561E45A0?hi=1

I won't be able to go on the 18th--got a party I won't miss that night--but I'm going to get tickets to Wyrd Sisters--http://www.theatrebayarea.org/tix/ftd_dtl.jsp?id=484

Pratchett. Youths. Should be fun!

She didn't skate on the edge of disaster, she jumped the damn canyon, and landed on the other side--not without injury, but she got up, she always got up. The Geoffreys war couldn't NOT donate money to a charity related to a disease she had--breast cancer, lymphoma, heart conditions, kidney things--until we made DAMN SURE by picking prostate cancer as the disease. She walked through some jobs, being a massage therapist, an occupational therapist, a psych person, an ergonomics/human factor psych student.

I remember her when Rusty came out for his wedding reception here, scaring us all in the Great Mall, laughing so hard the blood spurted out her nose--great party trick! Shit, it's REAL!

I remember her kind sharp wit at parties.

I remember her in a pub in Oregon, in a dark time.

I remember her laughing at the stories as she ate tidbits at the Afghan restaurant. It was a good night.

She raised two fine people in difficult conditions. She changed, adapted, re-did. She accepted help with grace, and helped when she could, with aplomb.

She inspired a Company of fine skills, and display thereof. To the Company of St. Teresa!

She achieved the Order of the Laurel in the SCA, a sign of the beauty she could make.

Teresa, thanks. See you again sometime.

Teresa McCartney, October 18th, 1961 to September 29th, 2007

Roomie found a new place, will be out ahead of schedule!

Dad ready to drive.

Lost another aunt, well, when they're past 70 they're past shelf life date.

Dropped bike in parking area (into the lemon tree) no obvious damage.

Know now how to make fondue properly! Must go buy good kirsch, and also NUTMEG. mmmmm.

Did three worthwhile things so far today:
1. Went to Hidden Villa's volunteer wednesday. Planted Lettuce (three varieties), celery, celery root, and leeks. Ate lunch there at the potluck, very nice. Brought home some leeks for my garden (they had extra) and tomatoes, which I gave

2. Introduced myself to a neighbor and gave her tomatoes.

3. Leaked. Well, donated blood at the Stanford Blood center. Who knew El Camino was doing all that building?

Off to buy bread, steak, laundry soap...it's feed the gf fondue night, and that'll generate some clothes in the laundry...

On another note, every day Dad and I work on how it will all work out. It'll work.