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“Ziploc bags” — just did that with the scary, scary cable drawer. (also, little cards to label which cable is in each bag)(tags: home productivity)
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from the movie Maxed Out…which made me cry.
links for 2008-06-08
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via dylan. thinking abt posting this to olyblog, too. very cool!
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had to do some SERIOUS searching to find this. doesn’t include Oly, but at least it ought to be with a week or two accuracy.
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I’ve seen something like this in the ikea catalog. nice to know I could do it myself.(tags: home)
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yeah, I should be stretching more.
links for 2008-06-06
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“an oral history, speaking with scores of people involved in every stage of the Internet’s development, from the 1950s onward”
links for 2008-06-05
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Cook’s Illustrated recommends (just barely) Columela, Lucini Italia, and Colavita.
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heh.
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photos from our friends Steve & Paula, world travelers extraordinare! (now teaching English in Turkey, apparently heading next to the Czech Republic.)(tags: travel photography)
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IOW, we are totally screwed.
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my favorite meal to cook these days is steak or chicken with Johnnies seasoning salt on cast iron, plus a huge salad. extra-perfect for game night, as I can keep playing while taking 2-minute breaks to sear, turn, etc., plus the gang loves it.
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ye gods & little fishes. but in a good way.
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the recipe book is pretty genius. (could also be used for D&D?) and we’ve used binder clips as chip clips for years now.
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I don’t have lemon zest, but I do have asparagus at home, so I think I’m going to make it tonight anyway!
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I need to find a copy of this poster that isn’t beat to sh*t. Really. Seriously.
Time Capsule: 1988
Time Capsule: 1988, originally uploaded by epersonae.
Mom found this about 6-12 months ago while cleaning out the basement and mailed it up. I stuck it in a box of keepsakes and promptly forgot about it, then remembered again last week. I couldn’t wait until June (after waiting 20 years!), so I opened and documented it on May 31.
I don’t know exactly what prompted me to make a time capsule in June of 1988, but it seems like the sort of thing I would have done at the time. I was 13 years old and had just graduated from junior high school (ie, finished 8th grade).
The contents are weird and mysterious even to me. Enjoy!
links for 2008-06-04
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“Credited with increasing bike use in the city […] the lift [in Trondheim, Norway] is used on average more than 50 times a day, carting cyclists up the 20[%] gradient.” THAT is a clever idea. Harrison hill, I’m looking at you….(tags: bicycling urban_studies)
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One thing I find interesting about this piece is that it includes pricing for all the infrastructure changes.
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that looks surprisingly like the basic structure of our living room.(tags: home)
links for 2008-06-03
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I thought of this during our last D&D game when C mentioned the drinking hall with the axe-throwing contest. 🙂
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fascinating
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nice conceptualization. this weekend we cleaned out a bunch of drawers.(tags: productivity home)
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interesting review of techniques for making the urban landscape more bike-friendly. (some annoying mannerisms, a deep hatred for autos, but good stuff if you can ignore those things.)(tags: bicycling urban_studies)
links for 2008-06-02
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“Democratic candidates who appear on the Report receive a statistically significant “Colbert bump” in campaign donations, raising 44 percent more money in a 30-day period after appearing on a show” (via alykat)