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Beet harvest
The beets were getting ideas about bolting, so I harvested the lot of them yesterday. I grow Cylindra, a variety that is cylindrical rather than round. They can also get quite large without getting woody. I didn't weigh any of these, but that's a standard chef's knife laying next to them!
I've already cooked all of the greens and frozen them. Yay me ( Read more... ) -
Peer Gynt at SF Symphony
I loved it! It was a semi-staged version of Ibsen's play with the orchestra playing Grieg's famous music plus selections from Alfred Schnittke and Robin Holloway. It was fascinating to hear the music in context with the play. The tattered scrim on the right was used to project shadowy figures and atmospheric images, especially during Holloway's ( Read more... ) -
Thunderbird autocomplete
Thunderbird used to be very smart about autocompleting email addresses for me, suggesting ones that I had emailed most recently or most frequently. But a month or two ago, the behavior changed. Now it just suggests the first one that comes up in strict alphabetic order, which is almost never the one I want. I assume there must have been an update ( Read more... ) -
A minor clever idea
The method I have of washing floors results in a bucket of clean soapy water, which I'm loathe to simply dump, but I don't always have some other use for it. Today I took the bucket out to wash off a particularly large and egregious splot of bird poop on the car, and I realized that I might as well give the whole car a quick wash down. Better than ( Read more... ) -
Make a free Kiva loan
Kiva, an organization that facilitates microloans to people in need, is offering a free $25 credit at Kiva to first time Kiva lenders to make a loan. Of course, what they'd really like is for people to then make more loans with their own money. As Kiva loans get paid back, the funds revert to your Kiva account so you can lend the money out over and ( Read more... ) -
toys and bikes
We watched Toy Story 3 tonight and loved it. Now David & Kate's essay in the last Bento makes even more sense ( Read more... ) -
Music server
We've finally delved into the music server question, and we're going to go with Mac/iTunes. I've ripped nearly all of our holiday CDs into the system, and it's wonderful! With a couple button clicks, I can listen to my entire Christmas playlist in shuffle mode. It's heaven to not have to pick out and/or change CDs.
Reading them in wasn't too bad. I ( Read more... ) -
Happy Halloween
It's been a while since we've given out candy on Halloween for various reasons (traveling, parties at other people's houses, safety concerns about our sidewalk). But this year we're home, not going out, and the dangerous step has been fixed. So I decorated up the porch a few days ago, and we laid in a modest supply of candy. It seemed slow, but in ( Read more... ) -
Organic gods
"Most of the truly organic gods are agnostic, and thus do not believe in themselves -- and they are omnipotent, so they should know."
Bil Lepp
(I know, it should be omniscient rather than omnipotent. But it still made me giggle.) -
Productive morning
I finally found a pickle recipe that I like (which is to say, tastes like Vlasic Dill Stackers), so I'm making up a big batch today to can for the winter. Yum yum. I harvested yesterday and put out a box of cukes, squash, beans, and rutabagas with a free sign. Last I checked, just 2 cukes, 1 squash, and 1 rutabaga remained ( Read more... )