If you’re in Seattle this weekend, stop by the Mercury Studio table (#137) at the Emerald City Comicon — Steve will definitely be there, and there’s a nonzero chance that I will be, too.
Archives for March 2006
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“Sara needs to…” relax and turn to her favorite cartoon discover the experts in her area be challenged, at times she is bored in school have her teeth cleaned and probably a few extracted change the oil in her car take a break after all her hard work work on blocking and keeping her concentration [...]
Who is attacking Portland’s plastic horses?
…even if the weather is only cooperating sporadically, because I am in a cleaning and organizational frenzy. We went to a bunch of estate sales in search of items to aid in said organization — out with the old, in with the, um, even older, I guess. Other notable weekend events: we had pancakes with [...]
…that I could probably answer myself but instead I am lazily asking the internets: What does it look like when someone blocks you from IMing them? Do you get an actual message that tells you that they’ve blocked you? Or??? Yes, this is for a story… Thanks in advance for any info/insights!
…about this article?
When you’re working on your taxes, and you have approximately a jillion receipts to sort and corral, it helps unbelievably to use jackets, as opposed to standard file folders. It only took us, like, nine years of receipts sliding coyly out of folders to figure this out.
…that you can control your Roomba remotely, the inevitable next step is, of course, Roomba Frogger. Unrelated: To my extreme annoyance, I chipped my front tooth this morning, prompting Steve to say, “It’s not so bad. Just think of Shane McGowan.” Not the way I would’ve chosen to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
Emma Donoghue‘s work — I just read her book of short stories, The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits, and it’s lovely — beautiful and haunting and creepy. Her novels are totally worthwhile, too. Here’s a short audio interview with her about Life Mask, and an article about her that’s a few years old, but [...]
It’s a good thing I don’t live in Seattle. I would never get anything done. (If by ‘anything’ I mean ‘anything other than going to clothing swaps, thrifting, eating at fabulous restaurants, going to shows, and staying up most of the night having great conversations.’) Thanks all. Also, in the “I’m always the last one [...]
