tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41489902012-02-16T09:47:06.903-05:00The life and times of a hapless booksellerStephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-56930742234026969552010-11-09T01:43:00.000-05:002010-11-09T01:43:54.399-05:00

I'm no longer posting to this blog, I'm afraid.  I think about a year of slacking is the expiration point of a blog, don't you?   Thus, the links along the side will begin to fail, and I will blissfully both not notice or update them. Those of you whom I know and love should already have my contact information, and/or be able to contact me via Facebook  (I know, I know...).  I update my recent

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Tif, Danielle, and I have started up a site called "Novel Props," wherein we will craft items from some of our favorite books.  A broad example of a novel prop would be the One Ring from Tolkien's books, though that one has been created and recreated, so I doubt any of us will bother tackling it.  My first endeavor was a brooch from Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy.  It turned out in general as I'd

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Now, here's a clever t-shirt!

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-58483140856884978442009-09-07T10:53:00.003-04:002009-09-09T10:52:41.702-04:00

So, to start... I'm not a fan of the Twilight series.  Let me just say that up front.  I bear no ill will toward those who like it, but god knows I can't stand characters like Bella--self absorbed, morose, helpless twit.  I prefer my female literary characters with a little brain and backbone, thanks.  That's just me. Anyway, knowing this, my friend Tif commissioned a Twilight themed birthday

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-53464125381077229642009-07-08T18:20:00.006-04:002009-07-08T19:21:31.258-04:00

Well, I tried the whole flaxseed hair product thing today with mixed results. I organized the project implements on the counter: A pot, measuring cups, a bowl, and a fine sieve. In the pot, I put one cup of water and a quarter cup of whole flaxseeds. it may look as though there are a ton of seeds, but they're actually just floating on the surface of the water.I brought it to a boil while

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It's been a busy month. A busy, busy month. This fella is something we bought a while ago with our tax return, but I love it so, and thought I'd post a bit about it. It's a full 88 weighted keys that feel very much like a real live piano, and the sounds it makes are quite satisfactorily piano-y as well. It has MIDI outs, so I can theoretically plug into the computer and record various things

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-69435091559989519072009-06-05T17:22:00.001-04:002009-06-05T17:22:25.681-04:00

Here's a creative way to invite people to your wedding--make little a stop motion film. Ault Park is a couple minutes from us. I love to see creative things happening in Cinci!

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I tried my first gnocchi a couple nights ago, and it turned out to be quite a success despite me. Rather than a traditional potato gnocchi, I made a butternut squash version (simply because that's what was on-hand). Using squash limits you just a bit in terms of the range and intensity of flavors you can add to the sauce--the squash itself is mild and vaguely sweet almost, and it would get

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-66620635843659529652009-05-13T12:20:00.002-04:002009-05-13T12:27:37.682-04:00

Here's a beautiful thing that I'll be saving my pennies for from Motawi Tileworks. It's been a while since I've poked around their site, but I was reminded of it today, and spent a while ogling their work. They have as many gorgeous pieces of art as I remembered. It would be neat to have the tools to make the frame on my own.

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Remember Oskar the tiny turtle? Well, he's managed not to shuffle off this mortal coil for an entire season, and now that it's Spring, life has become much more interesting for him. A while ago I ditched the coconut husks he dozed the winter away in, and replaced it with an actual dirt and plants terrarium. He's been in absolute heaven. Though, to my knowledge, he's never laid eyes on a bug

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-81385525007751407082009-05-11T13:29:00.002-04:002009-05-11T13:56:09.207-04:00

Here's a lovely little piece that shows the path of the summer sun in the Arctic Circle--threatening to set... but never actually doing so.Thinking of you, Woman North!

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I know this came out in 2006, but I was talking about it with someone the other day and thought I'd post it. Here's a neat music video that tells the story of what is probably still the most enduring video game urban myth of all time. Technically, the information in the text in the video is true, but the whole "going out into the desert with shovels" is not something that can be done in real

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-85948798104088043272009-04-27T00:30:00.003-04:002009-04-27T00:48:35.959-04:00

I'm sure this has nothing on the type of ginger ale that you let carbonate by itself--that stuff sounds fabulous. But if you want a neat drink without 2 weeks of letting it bubble away, here's a quick and quite tasty way to go about it.Homemade ginger ale in a (sort of) jiffy:Make a simple syrup. (2 parts sugar to one part water) While it's bubbling away on the stove, put a bunch of peeled

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-78833012282442329112009-03-20T12:15:00.004-04:002009-03-20T13:37:36.086-04:00

The other day I was poking at random through the This American Life archives, as I am wont to do if I spend any length of time doing non-computery things in the room that contains my computer.Let me first say: I love this radio program. Love. It. It pretty much perfectly encapsulates everything I love about stories and storytelling. If you're not familiar with this gem of the airwaves, here's

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-91793372622116656372009-03-10T19:11:00.003-04:002009-03-10T19:35:35.014-04:00

I admit that I have a weakness for "home brewed" beauty stuff. My sisters and I used to make our own facial masks out of oatmeal and god-knows-what-else, and we'd steam the heck out of our faces using my mom's big mixing bowl full of hot water. Ah... those were the days.I have to give credit where credit is due, here. It was actually The Boy who showed me this. He stumbled over it on the

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-55823021699245888472009-03-04T18:24:00.006-05:002009-03-04T20:19:16.058-05:00

I was poking around RateMDs.com today at random, checking out some of the doctors in my area. I found one who seems like kind of a jackass, but he's kind of good-looking, and everyone agrees knows what he's doing. As long as I don't mind submitting to random, seemingly unrelated tests, being condescended to, and having MRIs like they're going out of style, I think he'll be fine.Here are some of

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It's clear and cold, and the carillon bells are ringing out songs, as they do every Sunday afternoon here. For some reason the carrilloneur is playing an old ocean hymn my father became familiar with while living in Newfoundland--land of sailors, whalers, and their often grieving families after sea tragedies.Eternal Father, strong to saveWhose arm doth bind the restless wave,Who bids the mighty

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Both of us are incredible phlegm factories this week, though the Boy has it worse with a deep chest cold that has him hacking like a consumptive Keats. Ironically, the weather is gorgeous and mild--and perfect for walking.In the mean time, we've been subsisting on soups, tea and decongestants.Here's a simple, cheap, and quick recipe for a delicious Greek soup: Avgolemono (or if, like me, and

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The Boy and I went maple sugaring at the Cincinnati Nature Center for Valentine's Day! The center has their own classic sugar house with the boiling facilities and all amid a bunch of maple trees that they're just beginning to tap for the season. The class took us through all the steps of picking a tree, tapping, collecting, and boiling the syrup down. It was really fascinating. Here are some

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I stumble over little gems like this. Not to mention the fantastic absence of Youtube commenters. Light-Paint Piano Player from Ryan Cashman on Vimeo.

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We recently watched the documentary Man on Wire, which is the story of wirewalker Phillipe Petit's quest to secretly string a wire between the two towers of the World Trade Center, and walk it. Petit suceeded--on August 7, 1974 he and some friends managed to sneak into the unfinished towers, went through the ordeal of placing the cables, and he stepped onto the wire, and into history. The

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-69121966657966791992009-02-01T13:02:00.001-05:002009-02-01T13:02:36.976-05:00

This is a clever music video, and fun to look at. Stop motion animation isn't something that gets done with actual people often enough.

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It's winter. We have about four inches of snow, a layer of ice, and another couple inches of snow that's still falling.I just watched someone ski past my house. Awesome.

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Well, that was quick. Microsoft only recently came out with their new "creative" program, Songsmith, and already people are using it to its full potential.Songsmith is an absolutely fantastic tool for musicians who are tired of writing all those troublesome songs themselves. Are you bored with songs that have "soul" or "matching chords and vocals?" No more!! Songsmith smoothly and magically

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-86503039267011664492009-01-18T11:12:00.004-05:002009-01-18T11:32:43.723-05:00

Update: After a barrage of complaints, federal regulators shifted gears Thursday and said they would no longer require that used children's clothing, toys and other items sold at secondhand stores be tested for lead.While this is good news for resale stores and such, people who make handmade children's items are still under the strain of having to comply with testing laws.

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-8476200812483588242009-01-13T14:13:00.007-05:002009-01-13T15:03:39.244-05:00

Here's a sweet little thing... It's a tiny zither. From the info I've been able to find on them, they're often made of birch or ash (this one seems to be birch?), and they have several names throughout the world--board zither, kantele, lap harp, etc. This one is a simple little instrument with 15 strings (7 wrapped around to double up, and one single) and tuned to either G or C major. It hails

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-63317614908750045952009-01-13T13:54:00.004-05:002009-01-13T14:12:40.076-05:00

This Christmas, we were low key and made gifts for most everyone. One of the things I gave was jars of home made bath bombs (or in this case, bath bonbons), which fizz luxuriously when you drop them into the tub. I used this recipe. However, for citric acid, which really should have been simple to find near canning supplies in any of the FIVE places we had to go to find it... I used Sour

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Go shopping for children's clothes and toys before February 10!A new law that calls for every child's toy and article of clothing to be tested for lead and phthalates is about to make it virtually impossible to buy handmade or used children's toys or clothes from places like Etsy, resale stores, or small businesses. Sellers are going to be required to pay for testing on each item they create or

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-14533944722560846372008-12-16T11:11:00.004-05:002008-12-16T11:28:40.521-05:00

Here's an interesting little thing I stumbled over today... The Voynich Manuscript is a curious collection of writing thought to have been compiled as early as the 1200s (though some place it later).One of the many intriguing things about it is that it's written in a language that uses letters no one--not even modern-day cryptologists, can decipher. The symbols don't form any known language,

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-48036698138833881452008-12-10T01:48:00.003-05:002008-12-10T01:55:51.323-05:00

I found out that the owner and architect of the infamous Cincinnati "Mushroom House" passed away this year, and the house has gone on the market. I know neighbors have complained about it in the past, and even threatened to buy it to tear it down. I do hope this odd little landmark survives, though. It's right across the street from a great coffee place I sometimes go to, and it's fun to look

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-90019190217072139282008-12-03T12:05:00.003-05:002008-12-03T12:20:03.145-05:00

We all just have too much time on our hands, right? I mean, the holidays are coming up, and we're just sitting around, completely done with everything we need to do. Not an ounce of stress or busyness. Really, what we need is a time waster. Yes. Too much time is certainly a problem, but I'm here to help.Here is a lovely little gem of a game for you. Auditorium is very pretty process that

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-48949280666835872632008-12-02T13:45:00.001-05:002008-12-02T13:45:44.301-05:00

I love nerds who write songs about nerdy things.

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Remember I was commenting on the Boy's gift, and saying it would be hard to wait until Christmas to give it to him? Yeah. I failed. I kind of blurted it out yesterday.On the up-side, the Boy has a fantastic beverage carbonater to play with, and we get to make interesting fizzy drinks!! It came with some oils in tiny spray bottles - lemon, lime, grapefruit, and mandarin orange. Apparently

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-51737511180365592242008-11-20T13:35:00.004-05:002008-11-20T13:57:45.184-05:00

Aww. It's so sweet.Well, Christmas is coming, and I'm a stupidly excited for the season to roll into full swing. It's not so strange that when I worked in retail, I silently raged at the fact that Christmas cards and decor were being sold before Thanksgiving was even here. I was something of a zealot, even. To my surprise, the first Christmas after I stopped working at the bookstore, I

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-31592856124856488142008-11-11T17:30:00.001-05:002008-11-11T17:30:34.024-05:00

Hippos don't often top my list of adorable creatures, but this baby pygmy hippo knocked that conclusion on its booty.

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I showed the little door I was working on earlier, and I've finally finished it! I ambitiously wanted to make it so the door could open a crack to see a little bit of the front hall, but that turned out to be too big a challenge for my meagre skills. Ah well. In any case, it is now framed in with MDF carved and painted to look like brick, which gave me a little space to attach the mail box,

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-6172599201010826162008-10-27T12:29:00.000-04:002008-10-27T12:30:09.474-04:00

So here's Oskar, a miniscule box turtle we now have (thanks Tif!). He's a bit sluggish because of the season, but it looks like he's doing just fine so far, in his little vivarium. He likes to wander into his water dish and hang out there occasionally, and he's made a nice little burrow in one corner, under the shredded coconut husk we lined the vivarium with. Eventually, I'd like to make it

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-90040072178057713142008-10-07T13:47:00.001-04:002008-10-07T13:47:53.790-04:00

I've loved this song and the video since the eighties... And this made me laugh really hard for some reason.

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-85316473191064151472008-09-26T17:57:00.003-04:002008-09-26T18:16:58.937-04:00

I had the blessing of more home grown fruit just now--Tif brought over (what I believe qualifies as a "freaking TON" of) tiny Damson Plums. They're the size of large grapes, and are delightfully tart and sweet.*rubs hands together* Now, to figure out what to do with them! Any suggestions?In the mean time, here is a tried, true, and very simple pasta sauce recipe that is probably our favorite

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The cooling did turn out to be the secret! One of the compiled Chardewardon/snowe glasses went into the fridge overnight, and today at lunch, it was much better than last night--everything had firmed up nicely, and the flavors were even better. The snowe in the middle section fell just a bit because it was sandwiched in there, but otherwise, it was perfect. Note to self: Next time leave plenty

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-46185559367237108762008-09-21T21:49:00.005-04:002008-09-21T22:11:29.273-04:00

Tonight we experimented with pears and such and the following is the result:It's a...well, parfait? Fool? Whatever one would call a layered dessert--made with pear chardewardon (at Doc's suggestion--thanks!) and snowe with a pizzelle stuck in the top. The chardewardon was yummy, though I'd like to give it more time to cool next time. It reminded me quite a bit of a really hearty home made

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-7097342673454177682008-09-19T10:28:00.008-04:002008-09-19T11:40:32.046-04:00

As some may have noticed, there are a couple new blogs in the "Random Blogs" List. One is the Medieval Cookery blog, the fantastic companion blog the medieval cooking website. There's lots of interesting information there.Speaking of cooking, I recently came into possession of a bunch of home-grown pears (thanks Tif!) and I'm debating between using them for a pear tart (which is about what

Stephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055485417432442769noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148990.post-25927185724118992182008-09-19T10:28:00.002-04:002008-09-19T10:33:44.743-04:00

ARRR!

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Hurricane Ike made itself known in Cincinnati on Sunday in the form of some insane wind. There wasn't really any rain, but the wind tore piles of leaves off the trees, and brought branches and trees down everywhere, including on top of a neighbor's poor car, crushing it pretty thoroughly. Power went out, and shortly thereafter, the wind dropped-- as did the temperature to a comfy 70. So

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Remember that project from a LONG time ago that I was poking at?Let's just pretend I finished this bag several months ago, shall we? Here is--as my sister, H.A., dubbed it--the bag of bags! I crocheted it out of a bunch of Kroger plastic grocery bags we'd accumulated, and from donations from friends as well. The lighter tan bags are from Michigan Krogers, and the darker ones are Ohio Krogers.

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Here's our lovely accommodation. It really was perfect for getting away from the craziness of the convention at the end of the day. Mmm... Jacuuzi tubs.Indianapolis is a beautiful town. It had some interesting buildings, and it was clean and well laid-out. The conference center was right smack dab in the midst of everything. The older building is a playhouse. Maybe we can see a play next year

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So the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland has been successfully fired off without everything in existence blinking out. Way to go, scientists! *thumbs up*

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It's that time of year again--drag out the slow cooker, and prepare for yummy meals that require pretty much no work. Today's experiment in kitchen puttering involved two large parsnips and a bunch of carrots. Appetizing, right? Not really. I admit it. However, the finished product was really satisfying and yummy. As a result of my recent fascination with medieval cookery and the like, I

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Aha! Remember that (not exactly) recipe for Snowe I posted a couple days ago? Well, the Medieval Cookery website actually relates a much more detailed recipe: Source [Gloning, 16th cent. A Proper Neue Book of Cokery]: To make dyschefull of Snowe: Take a pottel of swete thycke creame and the whytes of eyghte egges, and beate them altogether wyth a spone, then putte them in youre creame and a

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1. We played in a scheduled session of the game, Hot War, with Malcolm Craig, the writer and designer. The game is another semi-historical one, set in post nuclear war London, after the Cold War of the fifties "went hot" and nuclear bombs were detonated in various areas. The mechanics of the game are really interesting. It revolves around relationships to determine conflict resolution--whether

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1. Played through a Godlike module headed up by Shane Ivey, who is the publisher of the book, and the co-writer of that particular adventure. Godlike is a game set toward the end of World War II, and is essentially a history narrative game, with the added interest of both The Nazis and the Allies having "talents," or super powered people at their disposal. This creates a whole slew of interesting

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This being our first experience with Gen Con, the world's biggest gaming convention, we thought we'd take it pretty easy the first day. We're staying in a lovely little B&B/inn just a few minutes from the convention center and several hotels participating in the convention. It's an arts and crafts era mansion that's been divided up into rooms, and ours has a charmingly high bed and ceilings,

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We had a pleasant evening out the other night, with dinner at Pappadeaux and a movie. For those in the Northern Cincy area who have a hankering for really solid seafood/Cajun cuisine and an interesting atmosphere, I recommend Pappadeaux. Whoever designed the inside of the place really did a great job--it was like stepping into a converted dock side warehouse in a town that was a cross of Hilton

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So I recommend you go immediately to view the first installment of Joss Whedon's latest internet project: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, which was released today. The next two installments will be July 17th and 19th, and I believe it will only be available to be viewed online until the 25th, so act now!

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I love my window feeder.Happy Fourth of July, American pals! I hope there's are lots of fun BBQs and fireworks for everyone. It's a little rainy here, but hopefully it will clear up by tonight.Mariemont is set to celebrate its second year with "big-time" professional fireworks, so assuming it isn't pushed back to tomorrow, we'll walk over to the park for the carillon concert and "ooo" and "ahh

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Bravo to El Paso, Texas for being cool enough to surprise Tom Waits onstage and present him with a key to the city.Apparently, during the show, Mr. Waits had just finished pounding away at the piano when a uniformed officer of the El Paso Police department walked onstage to announce the presentation from an El Paso council woman, who came onstage and presented a nicely mounted key to the city to

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The lovely and enigmatic Imogen Heap demonstrates stupid amounts of skill in creating and using loops mid song. The same sort of technique can be seen in Andrew Bird's video below. I have no idea how she multitasks like she does--knowing where each track is, fading things in and out, recording new loops and making sure everything stays synced... it makes my head spin.Incidentally, this song is a

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Actually, if you get NO customer service at all, does that count as a nightmare? It's maybe more like insomnia. Hmm. Well, the Culprit Company of the Day is Gamefly.I would first like to say that the idea of Gamefly is great. You make a list of video games you're interested in playing, and then they send you a couple at a time with return paid envelopes and you send back and get the next ones

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Well, I'll be gosh-swoggled! Apparently there is actually more to this state than flat farmland and Cincinnati.This past week I went on a getaway to Southeastern Ohio (about an hour and a half due east), and found that, geography-wise, it was far more interesting than I'd imagined. One arm of the Appalacians extends into that area, and due to a massive meteor impact age upon age ago, there are

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A while ago I developed a fascination within my crafting habits of creating something new out of itself. That sounds a little confusing, I realize, but let me give a couple examples that may clarify.The "making things out of the same things" kick was first inspired by this vaguely creepy site wherein a lady takes the leftover fur from client's pet groomings, and spin it into yarn. How quirky

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The other night we were fortunate enough to be introduced to the super-sleek-sixties-spy thriller that is Mario Bava's DANGER: DIABOLIK! (Or simply Diabolk). (Many thanks, Alex!) Holy crow, was it fun... It's full of interesting camera work involving reflections and odd angles, bizzare secret lairs, fabulous costumes, and the cherry on this psychadelic sundae is a luscious soundtrack done by the

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Fair warning: those who are squeamish about bugs should turn back now.I was warned by neighbors and friends a couple weeks ago that this season would be the year the cicada emerge. Sure enough, not a week later, abandoned cicada shells began appearing stuck to everything, along with their sluggish former inhabitants, crowding onto trees and bushes.Anyone who's seen Neon Genesis Evangelion knows

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It's been ridiculously gorgeous out lately--sunny and around 60 degrees. Now I realize that a lot of people don't count 60 as being gorgeous (Fools, I tell you!), but I'd be content is this lasted all summer long.We had a bit of an outing today with Tif's dogs in attendance--through the railroad tunnel, down to the community garden and along the river a bit. Things we saw:I think this field is

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Having folk from out of town visiting got me in the frame of mind to explore Cincinnati once again. It was a busy winter, and we'd stopped going on adventures as often as we were. It was downright lovely to explore with some of my sisters and their tiny ones this week. (Thanks so much for the visit, you guys!)Here's a nifty blog someone did that not only gives some fun ideas of interesting

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And as a follow-up to the below post, here's one of my favorite songs from the hardworking Mr. Bird at the moment.

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Hurrah for someone at Noggin liking good music! :)I have a crush on Andrew Bird. He whistles like...uh, an angel. If angels whistled.

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Well, I've painted the outside of the hollow book/box, and it looks a bit more "booky" than it did. I do need to find a thin belt of some kind to hold it closed, since the little magnet inside doesn't do the job all that well, particularly if I'll be carrying art supplies around in it and such. I'm picturing a book strap like the kids used to carry books home from school back in the "olden days."

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Just thought I'd add to the plethora of adorable kid videos that seem to be going around... That Charlie. He thinks the whole thing is just hilarious!

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I recently discovered Digital Classics, which is a library of "over a hundred literary masterpieces, digitized, and bound in the finest electronic leather." They have a "reader" that pops up, and you're able to view the pages as you would with a normal book, and click on the corners to turn backward and forward. Though I do prefer a paper copy of a book in my hands, this was a pleasant way to

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There are a lot of talented illustrators with an online presence, and I've enjoyed poking at their stuff for years. A lot of these folks don't see much money from their work; they do it because they love it. However... recently, a book came out that has blatantly stolen art from dozens of illustrators (one in particular got practically EVERYTHING lifted from his site) who posted their work

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Here is an answer to all your internets related questions. Worry no more!

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Here's a very clever little flash game... In it, you use a crayon to draw shapes that can affect the environment--bumping into each other, rolling etc... The idea is to move a little ball to the flag. Sounds easy enough, right? What I like, though is that there are literally hundreds of ways to accomplish it. It can be as simple as dropping a circle out of the sky to bump the ball along,

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Apparently someone had a lot of time and bulbs on their hands one year, because the entire village of Mariemont is covered in literally thousands of daffodils. All over the hillsides, in the woods, along the roads. They're everywhere. We just walked over to the closest hill and snapped a photo--this is sparse compared to what's around downtown. It must be spring.*contented sigh*

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Goodnight, Gunny Man...But now who will save us from Soylent Green in our near-distopian future?RIP

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A few months ago, I was mystified by the fact that occasionally, the sweet delicious smell of waffle cones drifts through our neighborhood.The enigma was ended by Tiffany, who informed me that it's actually elves. Elves making cookies. Keebler elves. In a Keebler factory nearby. Not exactly as magical as I'd hoped, but it's still kind of awesome that the neighborhood sometimes smells like

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Though she's on the opposite end of the globe, this video of Condition 1 weather at McMurdo Station in Antarctica reminded me of Woman North. Stay warm up there, WN!

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(Top) Surprisingly, both the nasturtium and the clover on my windowsill have burst into flower.(Bottom) Boo adores his clunky stuffed "Hamster Baby."

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I've been poking at some of the multiple exposure photos I took in the Autumn with the intention of making HDR pictures from them. I did a few then, but I finally got around to compiling more the other day, so here are a couple. There are a few schools of thought re: HDR photos. Some people see them as a way to create hyper-realistic images, and scorn those that are a bit over the top,

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So many of the soups I muck about with don't have precise measurements, and are based only on the stuff I know ought to be in there.I'm making a lentil soup today--that's the raw stuff in the picture. I just thought it was colorful and interesting to look at, so I snapped a photo.I first became interested in trying a lentil soup after the Boy and I had an amazing batch of soup at a little Middle

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It was a lovely, lazy Saturday morning this weekend. So lazy, in fact, that neither of us went downstairs to get breakfast. And yet... we both had a hot bowl of delicious, nutty oatmeal while lazing around. Mmm.Those of you with a slow cooker may want to try this, for those mornings when it's cold outside and you just can't bear the thought of trudging to the kitchen and getting your feet

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Regarding the previous goi cuon post... if the flexible and sort of sticky texture of the uncooked fresh rolls doesn't suit your fancy, you can also use the same spring roll wrappers in cooked rolls--they crisp up beautifully to make those lovely crackly thin rolls restaurants serve.You can stuff with items like bean sprouts, chicken or shrimp, and thinly sliced cabbage, or really, whatever

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"Bless you!" is one appropriate response when someone says, "Goi cuon!" Another appropriate response is, "Yum!"Goi coun (pronounced "goy coon," I believe) is a Vietnamese summer roll, and while The Boy and I have enjoyed ordering them at restaurants for a while, we'd never imagined they could be so easy to make at home.It's hardly surprising, really, since they're not cooked in any way.

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RCRD LBL is an online record label (Surpise! Vowels!) that offers free MP3 downloads of its artists in true hipster fashion. In fact, here is one of my current favorite songs from Caribou. Here. He looks like a high school science teacher, but in fact, he makes lush and lovely music.While you are listening, why not read a book? I'm currently reading The Terror, by Dan Simmons. It tells

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So I made those samosas, and then I found an interesting recipe for Indian chappati bread on a website called Show Me the Curry. The site was made by two Indian women who are busy moms, but wanted to show people how to cook authentic Indian food in simple ways. I particularly like the fact that they add videos for most of the recipes. The videos aren't super-professional, which I like. You

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Yeah...no. I lied. It's not important. I've just been thinking about things like Twitter, to which people voluntarily submit up-to-the-minute news reports about the mundane details of their days. These reports are sped over the interwebs directly to their friends, who can keep tabs on them at all times. It seems like knowing that so-n-so just ate a cookie or found their lost keys would be

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Solar from flight404 on Vimeo.People have been making lovely music visualizations using Processing 1.0. Here's one from a user called flight404 on Vimeo.

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Tonight's kitchen adventure: Samosas, which are Indian pastries stuffed with curried potato and vegetables.I admit I nicked the photo to the left from the nethers of the interwebs. By the time I thought about taking pictures of ours, they were pretty much gone. Next time I'll take pictures of the actual thing.Over the past while, we've stocked up on some of the basics needed in Eastern

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I have been making.We got couple lovely couch cushions several months ago. Their covers were made of a soft woven brown fiber with a bit of a sheen to it--nice and nubbly. Unfortunately, they were sewn really shoddily, and since they were woven, they were just falling apart after only a few months. It was a shame to let the fabric go to waste, and since I lost my last pair of wrist warmers (

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I admit it--I have one of those big monolith computer monitors. You know, the kind that extend forever behind? Actually, I'm not complaining. It serves me perfectly well, and has a pretty big screen, which is nice. However, I think one of the main reasons I haven't thought about replacing it involves the cats. When the weather started to turn cold a few months ago, Nihao discovered she could

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I was fascinated with steampunk and gaslight ages before I even really knew what they were. I've turned over in my mind a couple times what it is I like about those things, but had never come to any conclusions, or even a good way to describe what those things--or styles of things-- actually are.I was reading an article over at BoingBoing (link goes to an incredible steampunk project) which

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It's also worth mentioning that you should take the time to go to the site and see the trailer for Cougar Interactive's flagship title, uh... Zoo Race.It's... eh, forget it. There's just nothing I can say, except that you probably thought nothing could be more random or weird than that last clip. Well, you were wrong. So very wrong...PS. It's noteworthy that all the "awards" won by Zoo Race

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...for how bizarre this is. All you need to know is that it's a trailer for a real, actual game from a company called Cougar Interactive. It's a real game. A real, serious game.I never knew Noah was so whiney.

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And hie yourself hence over to the "Hark! A Vangrant!" blog or Kate Beaton's actual site to check out the latest series of one-off comics she's making, based on a list of historical figures the general public submitted. The consensus was as follows:1- Soren Kierkegaard2- Benedict Arnold3- Agnes McPhail4- Mary Shelley5- Queen Elizabeth I6- Emperor Norton7- Benjamin Disraeli8- Nikola Tesla9-

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Here's an excellent resource for international recipes. I do a lot of Thai food, so this will be very handy for extra recipes there, as well as letting me branch out. We finally got a mortar and pestle the other day, so that'll let me use things like the whole cardamom leaves we have other than to just drop whole ones in soup.

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So, it being Christmas-time, and this being Cincinnati, this Saturday we made the first step in what we hope will be a long-standing tradition of yearly attendance at the homecoming (from tour) show put on by Over the Rhine at the Taft Theater. The show was breathtakingly lovely, as is the norm for OTR, though I hadn't seen them in several years. It's been so long since we've been to a proper

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The ways of the internet are mysterious and convoluted. Sometimes in a conversation, one will try to figure out the string of conversation that led to the current topic--In the same way, I've been trying to figure out exactly what brought me to the Myspace site of Rich Aucoin and his lovely music. I think there may have been a conversation involving babies on Fark, and someone mentioned the

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88% Geek

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I've had fun playing with cornstarch + water mixtures before, but in this video, someone is applying vibrations to that mixture with really interesting results. See the end of the clip, especially.

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I think I posted about the Music Now Festival previously, specifically about the most excellent Take Away Show with Sufjan Stevens filmed at it. Well, planning is underway for the third incarnation of the festival in 2008, and I'm twitchy and excited about it already. I haven't yet been to Memorial Hall, where the last festival was held, but it looks like a pretty stunning place. It's about

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