Thanks to a Twitter referral to this section of this blog, I learned of a lovely quote: “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.” -Dr. John Maeda in The Laws of Simplicity Thanks Twitter user @LAR for leading me in that direction.
Today is Blog Action Day and the topic is Poverty. As I just yesterday encountered this, I feel compelled to write. She told me her name. I didn’t pay enough attention to remember it. Her partner’s name is Jimmy. He’s 24. She’s 50-something. He called her his wife. She cares for him the way any […]
I have lost track of how many tires we have repaired or replaced on Baby Truck. Once there were even so many repairs in the same tire, that we expired the warranty early. I even had two flats at once back in April. It’s interesting because I drive ~all the same places E does and […]
When I attended the University of Miami, there were always wonderful animals in our campus lake (which was formed via the canals to the bay, so the water is brackish). After Hurricane Andrew, we had a resident pelican who stuck around for ~3 semesters before he presumably headed back to the beach. Manatees used to […]
Thanks to Lani of Agent Genius, I saw this graph. I work to find the middle of this graph all the time!
more cat pictures One of my mom’s favorite stories about me: I was probably almost a year old and had learned to climb. Mom left me alone with Daddy so she could run an errand. She included a warning something like, “if she’s quiet, something is wrong.” I helped myself up to the tank on […]
more animals
…where the term… [warning: content behind the More… link may be NSFW (not be safe for work).]
I looked all over for the source for this, but couldn’t find where it originally appeared. It’s all over the ‘net, now. I can’t believe I never saw it.