To the few that have maintained me as spinsterbait in their friends list despite almost no posts, I am now pheloniusfriar again and I will be posting much more public stuff over there. Send me an email if you want to be added to my friend's list. Hope you enjoy! :)

I may buy myself a yule gift when I get paid on the 23rd...

http://makezine.com/

And... it's 50% off right now (and includes the digital online version, of course ;)...https://www.pubservice.com//MK/Subnew.aspx?

Only until 17h00 GMT November 23rd: Free access to the Smithsonian Global Sound archive ( Read more... )

violetnun posted this in her LJ days ago... and it's been stuck in my head ever since, provoking random outburts of guffahing, giggles, and head shaking. I told it to a cow-orker today to try to help me get over it. It didn't work. It's stuck even more in my head now... My children think I need professional help ;)...

So a pirate goes into a bar with a ( Read more... )

For anyone in the Ottawa/Montreal area, please pass it on... (or go if you can and this is the sort of thing that floats your boat). twiin will be there performing (ADVERSARY). Sadly, I won't be in the neighbourhood until the 23rd...

( Image of Poster for Concert )

In honour of ms_pooka's imminent parenthood, I feel it only right to post one of my favourites:

Preparation for parenthood is not just a matter of reading Sheila Kitzinger and decorating the nursery. Here are eleven simple tests for expectant parents to take to prepare themselves for the real life experience of being a mother or father

1. Women: Put on a ( Read more... )

I'm exhausted ( Read more... )

1) Reply with your name and I'll respond with something random about you ( Read more... )

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity ( Read more... )

Are there any Photoshop users out there? I'm struggling horribly trying to do a banner for a web site using it. I'm trying to take a bunch of photos and blend parts of them together so that one image blends with the next and so on. I can't figure out how to do it.

Help!

Or more precisely, please let me know if I can ask you questions about