So today I'm wandering about the city, sizing up my prospects for an armoire, and I'm at this gigantic home furnishings store (yes, locals, you know the one), and there, smack dab in the middle of the shiny appliances, is a ( DeLorean )

So a friend of our family's at church hands my mom a song copied from a hymnal and says she'd love to hear my family sing it sometime.  Mom says sure, and we do a bit of sight-singing this afternoon to hear what it's like.  It's quite beautiful.  So I get home and start searching online for information on it, for a recording and maybe some clearer ( Read more... )

I had never given much thought, before, to the kind of paper that music is printed on.  I know there's a sort of standard size, but that some pieces get printed larger or smaller, but aside from the fact that it's usually printed on cheap, thin paper, I didn't notice a trend or a purpose or anything to the way it's done.  But now I have realized ( Read more... )

I just read my first assigned reading for my new class, an article called "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush (to read, go to http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu and search for his very distinctive name), written in 1945, which pretty much predicted Wikipedia and other interactive encyclopedias.  He had this idea for a machine called a "memex" which is pretty ( Read more... )

The next person who orders coffee while talking on their cell phone is going to get strangled. I just cannot get over how incredibly rude it is. If a customer is having a conversation with a friend when they're about to order, they generally put it on hold for a moment while we hash out what they want, what size they want, and payment. Not so ( Read more... )

Daniel and Lisa came up on Friday for lunch, which was really nice.  So I got to hold Toby.  ::grins manically::  He wasn't in a very good mood, and cried quite a bit, but still.  We went to a lovely restaurant downtown where we had beer cheese soup and I had a wonderful chicken sandwich.  (Toby slept through that part, thank goodness)  Then we ( Read more... )

banazir gave me a lovely interview to fill out, so, when I should probably be working on some kind of studying for a class tonight, here we ( go )

Apologies to the marvellous Bill Amend for my new icon, but Jason's rant was just too perfect. For me it wasn't detailed maps of Osgiliath, but Minas Tirith ( Read more... )

So a lady at my church was drawing up her family tree as far as she could go, and she found out that she is related to my dad five different ways, and that the nearest makes them third cousins twice removed ( Read more... )