My Halloween Costume…
was the King of All Cosmos, from the video game series Katamari Damarcy. I made most of the costume; the headpiece is tagboard shaped into a tube and strengthened with some styrofoam discs I cut out, then covered with an appropriate fabric. The cape is a purple with felt shapes ( which you can’t really see in the picture ), the belt buckle is just some more tagboard with a hot-glue animal design on it, and the ruff around my neck is lots of pieces of 8 1/2 x 11 white paper folded and stapled together. I can’t remember the name of the girl standing with me; Stacie is behind me on the...
A-Z Discount Skylight in Santa Clara
We replaced the roofs in our townhouse complex this fall. It was quite an endeavor, and I should probably write an entry about it too, but one of the things that our roofer told us he’d do if we wanted was install any skylights or vent fans basically for free, given that he was doing the rest of the roof. So, I had four skylights and a sun tunnel installed on the back side of my roof; the four skylights in the ‘big’, upstairs family room which has, until now, received very little in the way of natural light. Now, that room gets lots of light. And, I wanted to install a sun tunnel in our bathroom shower, which also gets no natural light at all, because it’s deep inside the house and has no windows. So, I put in a velux 14″ tunnel,...
Because I really don’t like the guy…
and because nobody actually reads this blog, so I can participate in the vast left-wing conspiracy… Richard Pombo is running for re-election to his seat in the House of Representatives. He’s not in my district, but one about thirty minutes south-east of where I live. Nonetheless, I really hope he loses.
I rather agree with this guy…
Viridia.org » Blog Archive » Democracy and Faith in Institutions And, I think I may be more cynical than he is, in that I’m not sure if we’ll ever get back to a ‘democracy’, if we ever really were there at all.
HowTo: Read Wikipedia on an iPod
This is pretty fricking cool. HowTo: Read Wikipedia on an iPod « Movin’ to Seattle: “ There are concerns that folks shouldn’t be scraping Wikipedia in this way to get lots of data that they likely won’t directly read, and likely the author will update the script to be a bit nicer to the servers, so you may want to wait a couple days. And, of course, you can’t trust anything in Wikipedia.