Posts Tagged ‘gifts’

Once more unto the breach

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

…to close a bunch of tabs before Firefox memory issues eat my computer.

Let us begin with my praise of BibliOdyssey. They pulled me in earlier this month with the scans from an antique geomancy almanac, and I’ve been exploring their archives since then. Wow, is there a lot of stuff in there for a bibliophile [...]

Not Beautiful, But Made From The Heart

Monday, February 11th, 2008

A couple of weeks back when Trish had her birthday, Sarah and I spent an afternoon making her a birthday cake. From scratch. That’s right–no mixes for us. If you’ve ever baked with a 3-year old, you will know that this can be terribly fun, if a bit messy.
The cake that we made was pretty [...]

I Live (Kinda)

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

(This is a bit journal-ish. Skip ahead if that kind of stuff doesn’t interest you.)
You know, the last time I can back from Australia, I was hungover and carrying the Aussie death flu bug, and I was wiped out for several weeks.
This time I seem to have been wiped out first, and then picked up [...]

Just In Time For Christmas

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

One of the online fora I am active on included a pointer this week to a blog post showing some interesting Laotian rice wine:

(You can see an even bigger version of that photo at the author’s Flickr page.)
I’m not opposed to liquor with stuff in it generally–but there is some stuff that probably doesn’t [...]