This is the trajectory of my life:


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Can we please take a moment to appreciate this picture? (It's funny how much better If These Walls Could Talk 2 is than If These Walls Could Talk 1, which is horridly depressing.)


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Excerpts from a Dog's Diary..... ( Read more... )

People who have experience with this:

do you have a favorite US road atlas?  I think I'm going to go for comb-bound and not-tiny, because any time I'm using it I'll have a car, so it's not like being light and small is a benefit.

Most brilliant solution to hoarding, ever:
"All of the computers on Ebay are mine. In fact, everything on Ebay is already mine. All of those things are just in long term storage that I pay nothing for. Storage is free ( Read more... )

Interesting thought of the week:

pruritus and prurient have the same root

Is it just me, or is a table of contents that goes:

Introduction                 1
[Title of book]              9
Reference Works       636

totally pointless?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi


I wasn't able to appreciate things like this until I'd been an adult for a while.

When I spoke to my mother yesterday, she was kind of all worked up about some stuff she'd heard on the radio about stuff going on in Haiti.  Not everyone doing stuff there and collecting money and managing money for relief efforts is doing it the best way. My mother knows this because of someone else's investigative journalism, but she is angry and ( Read more... )