Laura gave a presentation about the Chinese language for a 7th grade class at her cousin Adam’s school today. She was a little nervous, but she got through it, and her turtle joke went over well. Mary took a couple of severe, Salgado-like pictures to capture the atmosphere at St. Bede’s.
Archive for January, 2007
A Tribute to Woody Guthrie
Here is a site with an online multimedia show about Woody.
TheMoMI.org — Exhibition: Bound For Glory: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie
Beach bonfire
Here’s what I’ve been forgetting to report on: A couple of weeks ago our friends Henry and Mark went around town picking up discarded Christmas trees, and invited us all to watch them burn at Ocean Beach after dark. (The trees, not Mark and Henry. They’re both married. [Welcome to the land of jokes gotten [...]
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Auntie Nic was here the last few days. She seems never to stop doing crafts and stuff. The kids dig it. Here they were making little painted glass refrigerator magnets. (As usual, click on the picture for more.)
Cheaper at the Co-op
We have cut our total co-op memberships down to one (the biodiesel coop) from a high of three last year (that one plus the food co-op and the preschool co-op). I’ve been in co-ops forever, and the one thing they have all had in common is the net expensiveness of the product they offer, both [...]
Year-end holidays
December is always multiple madness month at our house. Lilly’s birthday, then Laura’s, then Christmas and New Year, then (today) Mary’s.
Here are some pics of all the stuff we crammed into the week between Christmas and New Year.
The Santa summary: Mary got the Kitchenaid mixer she’s been wanting. I got the pair of congas I’ve [...]
Writing for geeks
Writing is not a team activity. Editing is a team activity. Writing never works collectively, because it depends on a large number of threads being held simultaneously in a person’s short-term memory. That’s not something you can share. It’s a waste of time to try. Of course, people try all the time. We can see [...]
Get a human
This site tells you how to get a live human being on the line when you call one of a long list of giant soulless corporations.