Did you ever get only one chapter into a book and realize at once that it deserves to be shared? That just happened to me yesterday. The book is "Survival of the Sickest," which I checked out of the library along with two others a little earlier this month. The author, Dr. Sharon Moalem, became fascinated by genetic disease -- specifically, the ( Read more... )

It feels weird to be posting this so soon after a more innocuous blog entry. See, if I hadn't had plans to go south over the weekend so I could be in the Miami area to meet with my CEO on Monday, I probably would have started acting on what I learned from the comments to my last post by collecting information and starting up either a WordPress or a ( Read more... )

I nearly titled this post "Aten't Dead Yet!" because my last blog post here was close to two years ago! (Pants thoroughly bankrupt, but that's a given). Though I've mostly been keeping up with my friends on Facebook these days, I'm thinking of reviving this little experiment in some form...possibly not here on LJ, though, because I'm not sure it'll ( Read more... )

This post will show you how my mind works. If you have a crafter in your life whom you do not understand, read on and be enlightened. Or possibly not. We don't all think alike; it just seems that way sometimes.

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So I'm having some more gardening adventures. With about a dozen or so cucumber seedlings growing reasonably well in a plastic planter, I needed to think about what to do next. Cucumber grow in vines, you see, and they need to climb. ( So I built a trellis...sort of )

Okay, anyone reading my journal regularly may remember this entry about a recent trip to Home Depot, where I picked up a gardening kit containing seeds for 10 different herbs and vegetables, plus pellets and cells to grow them in, plus a few other things to get them off to a good start. Wow, a garden in a box, and for just $15! How could I resist?

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Left for London around March 15th, came back around March 24th, did other stuff over the weekend. I'm caught up with email and work, but as to the rest...just point me to what you want me to see. I'll be posting about the trip and other stuff in the days to come.

Been a while since I posted here, so I figured I'd do a quick catch-up.

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This isn't so much a technical quesiton as a judgment and observation  question -- okay, several related questions, if you want to get pedantic. First, how do you decide when to put something behind an LJ cut? Do you go by length, likelihood that your readers will be interested, or some other criteria? And second, have you noticed any difference in ( Read more... )

Give two different crafters the same size crochet hook and yarn, and have them work the same pattern. Even if they possess the same level of skill, the project will come out looking different -- and I'm not talking about color choices here! Crocheters apparently range along a continuum of ridiculously tight to ridiculously loose, so one project ( Read more... )