Finished the trial on Wednesday, unfortunately we could only convict the defendant, and was officially set free. Had a little time to walk around the Minneapolis skyways (second-floor walkways connecting many downtown buildings) and see many of the little shops and restaurants.
Yesterday was vacuuming and reading Bait and Switch, and today was laundry, laundry, [...]
Middle of the first week. I figured I had about as much chance of getting on a jury as James Lileks. He neglected to mention in his account that the assembly room shakes considerably every time a bus or truck drives overhead. The room now has wifi.
I was going to make up [...]
(TSIAH = This stuff is already happening.)
Remember Prediction Five? Here you go.
I tried out a method of harmonizing the colors in wool textiles by simmering them together. I used green yarn and obnoxiously bright yellow yarn, and ended up with a mellower green and a bright chartreuse.
The basic method is to put the wool in a stockpot (retired from food service, dyes can [...]
…is that it depicts an older woman with older children, and glosses right over all the years of experience that came before.
Prediction Twelve: All the traps that are about to be sprung have two jaws, or, they’ll get you either way. Maybe that’s a little obscure.
I’m thinking about this because of Barbara’s link to a RedState article opposing Net Neutrality. I’d only heard of Net Neutrality in a positive light before, mostly from [...]
The Perfect $100,000 House, by Karrie Jacobs. Chronicles a road trip across the country and back in search of an affordable modernist home, as the housing bubble was building toward its peak. I learned from this book how to tell good modernism from bad modernism: modernist architecture doesn’t have trim to hide [...]
I haven’t picked on feminists on my blog lately, it got to be too easy, and therefore boring. But I still pick up the Minnesota Women’s Press (now printed monthly) most of the time. The most recent issue was about What Women Want. The really interesting thing about this issue is the [...]