replaced my pencil

i finally got around to replacing my beloved, but dead, rotring 600 series mechanical pencil. i loved my first one, which i lost, uh, somewhere… i also loved my second one, which sits dead in the desk drawer in front of me. hopefully i’ll have better luck with this third one. 😀 the pencil is […]

oh, look: i’m a protestant

so, i took a quiz that my mom sent to me: Belief-O-Matic — A personality quiz about your religious beliefs and spiritual beliefs – a quiz answering What Religion Am I — Beliefnet.com Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%) (link) Liberal Quakers (97%) (link) Bahá’í Faith (91%) (link) Unitarian Universalism (90%) (link) Neo-Pagan (79%) (link) […]

the sabbath

there has been an interesting debate (if we can call it that) in some of the bigger pomo and anti-pomo blogs as of late about the nature of the sabbath, and why and whether we ought to celebrate it. i have long felt that “church on sunday” has become almost an idol in itself, and […]

six months without any water?

A meditating teenage boy in south-central Nepal is drawing the attention of scientists after attracting huge crowds in the past six months and earning himself the name Buddha-reincarnate. They are mulling over how to examine him without disturbing his meditation. Ram Bahadur Bamjan’s friends, relatives and managers say he has been meditating without drinking water […]

life hacks

something that has always been attractive to me is productivity stuff. a site i keep up with, even though i rarely bother implementing any of the ideas is 43 folders, and i’m fond of the idea of improving how stuff gets done to be more efficient and/or less in need of management by a human. […]

i was electrocuted once, it was horrible

Tom Wiebe: when we were kids, getting a 9 volt battery was a highlightKyle Jessup: yeah, those sure were tasty thoughTom Wiebe: not only were they excellent projectiles, but you could also zap your tongue with themChris Corwin: indeedChris Corwin: copperChris Corwin: i used to suck on the electrical connection that ran into the back […]

quiet. too quiet.

i’m sitting at starbucks, working and listening to music on my apple in-ear headphones, because i (stupidly) left my bose ones behind. (i keep an extra set of earphones in my bag for just such an occasion: i know me 😉 but, something is wrong, either with my headphones, my computer, or my ears: it’s […]

MERD | Panexa (Acidachrome Promanganate)

Pregnant women, or women who plan to become pregnant, should avoid taking PANEXAor handling broken tablets. Or intact tablets. Women considering some day becoming pregnant, who have ever been pregnant, who have had a pregnant friend or pet, or who have seen other pregnant women, naked or otherwise, should also follow these precautions:Do not handle […]

small roadtrip to seattle

today we went up to seattle for the day some pics: REI flagship store, with it’s climbing wall tricky fell asleep in front of the wonderfully large fireplace at REI crabs at pike’s fish marketwe visited the world’s first starbucks we saw the space needle, but didn’t go up it, cause $13 is too much […]

stupidest. memo. ever.

this lil thing is on a lightswitch at cutters point in lacey, washington, where my friend tricky works: i mean… A) why not, if it is that important, disable the switch? and B) wtf is the label “tape” doing on that piece of tape???? wackyville! Technorati Tags: coffee, coffeeshop, cutterspoint, dumb, insane, insanity, label, lacey, […]

charger is back

mom and dad sent my camera charger, so i can start taking more pics of oly. yay! thanks mom and dad! Listening to: Got To Get You In The Mood from the album “Revolved” by ccc Technorati Tags: camera, dad, mom, olympia, parents, pics, pictures, thanks