Spurious Opera

  This is, hands down, my favorite photo of the place where I've lived (off and on) for the past 18 years. I was annoyed when the goldenrod sprang up several years ago, displacing my hollyhocks and mums. But a few days ago, a visiting friend commented on how pretty she thought the goldenrod ...

My bar of soap from Club Bing finally arrived, today! I was so excited after ordering it once, waiting, then being told that there had been a processing error, re-ordering, waiting again, and then having the UPS man not show up at the usual time, that I went out and mowed part of the lawn -- des ...

I've been waiting a *long* time now for Supernatural, Season 2, Disc 6 to ship from Netflix. A loooooong time. Last week, they sent Ghost Rider, instead; and today, I received Spider-Man 3. This isn't a knock on Netflix; I received notification that the disc I'm waiting for has been shipped, eve ...

With your parades, and your parade-watchers, and your "picnic", and your unsupervised kids on bicycles cutting through traffic! I wonder how well it will go over when the carnival is gone and I park my car in your yard? Or -- better yet-- just drive through your yard the first time it's convenie ...

I can assure you that, even when you know it's going to happen, and you try to prepare yourself, there's no such thing as "prepared".

Free tracks from Amazon: Prototypes - L'amour, L'amour, L'amour Rubin Steiner - Take Your Time Cocoon - On My Way Permalink | Leave a comment  »

Video shot by Jon Rawlinson. Music by Barcelona. This makes me want to visit Okinawa for more than the sweet potatoes! Permalink | Leave a comment  »

Get your twitter mosaic here.   It seemed like a suitable Posterous test-run. Hat tip to Aviraj. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

According to Mashable, AVG has had an episode of flagging iTunes as a trojan. I've had my own experience with AVG and false positives. It should've been a simple matter, but that's not how things turned out. Of course, false positives are going to happen, but AVG's customer service certainly m ...

It may not seem like much, in terms of wallpaper, but this has been gracing (de-gracing?) my desktop since I got my camera last month. The blues remind me of the Modern theme from way back in the Mozilla Suite's timeline. I find it relaxing. Permalink | Leave a comment &nb ...