It’s not you. It’s not me. It must be the guy behind the tree. – Huey Long
Remember you’re alive. – Joe Strummer
It feels a bit daunting until you have your plan. – Michelle Obama
Four suggestions to which you should allocate 30 minutes a day — choose a new and unfamiliar area of knowledge and explore it in depth, spend some time meditating or just thinking, practise observing and describing things, and practise imagining. – Nancy Andreasen
Last updated 26 October 2008 when I used Delicious Library for a time but it was very tedious, especially with the large numbers of books, so I’ve since moved to Google Books where you can see part of my library (fiction, more or less — though Google Books inexplicably refused to import about 100.). Note that it’s more trouble than it’s worth to try and locate the true edition, so it might show a newer printing when I have an older, or be softcover when I have hardcover (or vice versa). Not all have been read, and I’ve been selling and giving them away; about 120 went in a yard sale in fall of 2008 and another 120 or so went to a used bookstore in the north end of town.
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So much contradictory-seeming thoughts and actions, I can’t yet articulate. So saving any prose for later, but look at these:
LetterCult has some very creative hand (and digital) lettering.
SmashingApps collected some fantastic stop-action shorts. I love this stuff. Want to find time and focus to do some time.
And NYTimes Nicholas Kristof describes how (40 years on) the “War on Drugs” is a failure.
PS: I need to curl up sometime and read this extensive NYTimes article on data centers and the cloud and I’ll bet there’s a creepy ending.
I’ve been dying my hair for a while. For a time I would go to a salon to have it done but that costs a lotta lotta money so I do it myself. I used to use the usual suspects off the shelf of your local grocery or department store. No big deal. Got the job done.
But I’d get headaches for a bit after I’d done it. Made me wonder. So about four months ago I was at the Co-op (sort of a local one-up Whole Foods, I guess; been around since the ’70s when it really was a co-operative and you had to put your time in weekly with the bins of bulk grain, etc.). And I asked what they’d recommend (beside the henna track).
I ended up with a couple of shades of Naturcolor. Two boxes (5N, 5R), two bottles, I used one set to mix up for one session and another for the next session. It’s nice. No stink. No scalp burning. No headache. And the color isn’t flat; it seems to pick out individual strands to color different shades. My hair seems fuller and not so traumatized.
I don’t even need to use the whole amount, so I think I’ll get a dye brush and pot and use just half a portion each time. That’ll mean the price is less than or comparable to the grocery store prices.
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