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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Thinking about blogging

First things first: a cat video. (The footage is from this past week, taken while cat sitting for some friends.)

Second things second: tomorrow is the first day of summer quarter, in which I will be taking a business class (”Interpersonal Communication in the Workplace”) and finishing up some incomplete classes from last quarter. [...]

From the garden

The only things I have to share today, besides the incoherent fruits of deep exhaustion, are these two photos:

Sunflower, 2009 (For sale)

Cow parsely, cottonwood seeds, 2009 (For sale)
I’ll get back to you when the quarter is over in two days and I can speak without stuttering.

Somebody shoot me

“Somebody shoot me” is a pretty strange English colloquialism. I don’t like it much, but I find myself saying it, and I need to know 1) where it originated, and 2) how to translate it into Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and Portuguese. My google-fu is so weak right now, heading as I [...]

It’s electric!

I was looking through the Flickr Commons for something (which I could not find), but ended up finding another thing which is so much better:

I mean, let’s be honest here. The photo above is probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. The experimentee even reminds me of Jack Nicholson in One [...]

Facial expressions

I just took reference video of myself singing a song that I want to cover on guitar, so that when I finally learn to sing it well, I can look back and feel impressed with myself for no longer butchering[1] it.
Anyway, I just watched it, and discovered something bizarre… I have the facial mannerisms that [...]

O Fortuna

Man… MAN. There is so much I need to write about, but it requires serious thinking, and all my thinks are going towards finishing up the quarter right now.
But I am inviting you to enjoy a moment of Beauty by gazing at this lovely free background that my sharp-as-a-tack friend Ballookey created. Check [...]