sing a lazy song
Wednesday, 16 February, 2005
so i’m reading the polar bear book aka information architecture for the world wide web. i got it used from amazon for fifty cents. the price of saving that much money is that i have to read stupid yellow-highlighter-and-red-pen comments such as the following:
on “if a site’s content and functionality don’t merit launching, then why launch it?” is written “TOTALLY!”
the next paragraph includes the sentence “then there are sites full of haphazard information, rife with typos, broken links, out-of-date content, factual errors, or poorly executed HTML.” the margin reads “YUCK!”
and on a later section about good things about the web, in a paragraph called “personalization,” the word “sensitive” has been circled in red pen five times (five!) and “right on!” is written next to it.
i’m glad i stopped writing in books. how embarrassing to be yellow-highlighter-and-red-pen person.
(song: “mother nature’s son,” the beatles)
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In the catalog under reading
from where you think you’ll end up
Monday, 14 February, 2005
i had a very pleasant weekend of playing homemaker/subsistence farmer. friday and saturday i started cutting and pinning for my pal skip’s curtains, but i didn’t do much else. yesterday, though, i made crock-pot apple butter (crock pots are fun! you just leave it overnight!), bread that did not actuallly rise and so did not turn out at all, though it looked pretty, and salmon for dinner with shannon. i also dug up the weeds in an already raised bed in the yard, killed some rogue blackberry plants in the part i want to garden in, raked up all the pinecones and branches, and talked to the nice neighbor man who works at home depot about renting a rototiller so i can take up the grass/moss/weeds. then i planted some basils in a pot and then i sewed.
i like making stuff!
this morning i started listening to the dracula audiobook i have been putting on ipod. i have decided i adore audiobooks! i have never listened to one before but this is super fun. i think it’s also a good one to listen to - it’s properly creepifying, like stories read aloud should be.
i am planning to spend valentine’s day writing database queries. i am looking forward to this.
(song: “st. robinson in his cadillac dream,” counting crows)
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In the catalog under list/done; reading
in the middle of a cloud
Saturday, 12 February, 2005
i wanted to post on thursday but i didn’t have time, and now i’ve forgotten all the things i wanted to say about what a lovely day it was, and how everything was happy.
i am, of late, obsessed with gardening. i had a really fun class at the experimental college today about kitchen herb gardens - how to grow herbs for cooking, how to cook with fresh herbs, etc. it was very educational!
(i am also really enjoying belly dancing, which is also through the experimental college. i wish they would offer the cooking one i missed last term. but i really enjoy the experimental college in general and i think everyone should take classes from them!)
so i am going to have a container herb garden, with some, like maybe the basil, in the ground. and i am going to have a real vegetable garden with tomatoes and zucchini and cucumbers and salad and lots of things. but i have given it its own blog too - i am many-blogged! - which i will link to later when i am done messing with it.
this evening i finally watched rushmore all the way through from the beginning. i liked it.
(song: “oh yoko!,” john lennon)