Sillybean

Good pizza

We’ve had good luck with Smitten Kitchen recipes lately. The scalloped tomatoes were so good we made them twice more — Michael especially likes the breakfast suggestion with the egg — and the cheddar biscuits were pretty great.…

Oh, joy.

August’s weather has arrived, right on time.

snowmg!

How rare is snow here? I’d never seen this glyph on the weather widget, let’s put it that way.

A letter to the personal care industry

Could you try to sell us products that don’t infantilize us and give us cancer?

nolove,
Women

Ikea hack: keyboard drawer for Mikael desk

Ever wanted a keyboard drawer for your Mikael desk? If you happen to have an old set of Magiker bridge shelves lying around, you’re golden.

While I was documenting the hack, I decided to photograph the rest of…

Hastings vs. Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon: the problem with buying books locally

Steven Brust’s Iorich comes out today. I would like to buy a copy. I’ve long been in the habit of tracking forthcoming books with a (private) Amazon wish list, then lumping together the ones that come out around the same…

a writer’s married life (an occasional series)

ME, registering my new toll tag via iPhone while he drives: What’s your license plate number?
HIM: I don’t know. I’ll add it later.
ME, having lost signal: OK. I’ll let you set up…

Howdy, stranger.

I know, it’s been ages! How are you? You look thinner. Have you done something different with your hair?

Me? Well, I was sick for a while there. No, not hamthrax. Not even a virus, really; turns out the stuff…

Ice cream

I’ve been making a lot of ice cream lately. Thanks to my friend Shaima, I’ve become a fan of David Lebovitz’s blog, and when the weather turned hot I finally broke down and bought his ice cream cookbook.…

Five years later…

… he’s not sick of me yet. I think I’ll keep him.

If only every day could be like today…

Woke up with half a story in my head, and snoozed a bit until I’d mentally finished it. Got up, wrote about 2K — not done, but enough to leave it alone for a while. Went to the library. Did…

“It’s fixed.”

This has happened a lot lately.

One of my users reports a problem. Some time later, I get an email from the IT staff saying “It’s fixed!”

Except the person who originally had the problem still can’t do whatever it…

Because it ought to go without saying, but doesn’t…

I have been reading, and listening, and learning from the enormous shit-flinging clusterfuck of a flame war known as RaceFail ’09¹ on LiveJournal… but I have been mostly not participating. I didn’t feel that I had anything useful to…

Nowhere near the helicopter

People are asking, so I’ll just reassure everyone that I was nowhere near the helicopter crash on campus today, nor was anyone else you’re probably acquainted with if you know me in real life. We’re fine.

Dear Closet:

What the #$@% have you done with all my Christmas gift bags?!

Nolove,
Me