Monthly Archives: May 2005

Good friends close again

Something I’ve gotten used to in my traveling life is knowing that no matter what or where, there will never be a time where all the people I love are in one place. My family is in Virginia; I have friends from Australia to Scotland, New York to Seattle. I move around; they move around; life is life.

We all come in go in the various ways we have to, but I’m glad that two people I care about a great deal are physically nearby again.

This past weekend I hung out in Portland with my friends Deirdre, Sam and Taylor. Sam and Taylor, after about a year in Portland, had decided to move back down to Eugene. And now they’re here. My muscles, in fact, keep reminding me that they moved over the weekend.

Welcome back, you two. I’ve missed you, and can’t wait for good nights and days ahead.

Copy songs from your iPod to your PC

"The iPod music folder structure is strange and inexplicable, but once you move your files into iTunes you can set it to automatically organize your folder by artist and album to clean that up."

Link: How to copy songs from your iPod to your PC : Lifehacker.

Angela Booth’s next computer will (probably) be a Mac too

Something about Angela’s rant sounds oddly familiar

Link: Angela Booth’s Writing Blog: My next computer will (probably) be a Mac.

Sweat

Posted by Anthony St. Clair on oneword May 31, 2005 06:01 AM
The sweat poured down over his arms and back and the sun was very hot. He moved boxes and sang. People thought he was a little odd. He kept moving boxes and singing, and sweating. Soon it would all be done – but he’d still keep singing.

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Essential bookmarks for web-designers and webdevelopers | CSS, Color Tools, Royalty free photos, Usability etc.

Geek Alert! One for the faves/hotbutton for any geek:

Link: Essential bookmarks for web-designers and webdevelopers | CSS, Color Tools, Royalty free photos, Usability etc..

Via Web design and developer bookmarks : Lifehacker

Saute of Beef with Wild Mushrooms

Drooling all over keyboard. Suddenly very, very hungry.

Link: All Recipes | Beef | Saute of Beef with Wild Mushrooms.

World Airport Codes

Airport codes are one of my milder nerdy interests. I like learning them, and knowing at a thought, say, what the code is for Hong Kong (HKG) or Delhi (DEL).

Link: World Airport Codes.

Tip: Airport codes also come in handy when you’re booking travel — less
typing than the city name, plus when you get to the airport you can at a glance verify that
your bags are getting tagged for the right cities.

Fresh Market Gazpacho

All the summer yummies in Produce of the Week, coupled with an intense desire not to turn on the stove, mean I’ll be making a lot of chilled gazpacho-style soups like this:

Link: All Recipes | Soup | Fresh Market Gazpacho.

How to set up multiple homepages in Firefox

At first this might sound silly. Why do you need more than one homepage? But think about it. How many sites do you really head to, one right after the other? Your email? Favorite message board? The local newspaper’s site? The Suicide Girls? (mmmm, suicide girls…) Ahem. Anyway. Wouldn’t it be a lot easier if you could just load them all at once? Exactly.

Link: How to set up multiple homepages in Firefox : Lifehacker.

I was on fire until she lit up

When: lunch, a couple of days ago
Where: picnic table, the park, near the bike bridge at Valley River Center
Why… Does damn near every attractive woman in this town have to sport either 1) a baby, 2) a cigarette, or 3) both?
Who…

Gorgeous blonde bikes to a picnic table about 20 feet away from where I’m reading National Geographic and eating pasta with chicken, chillis, thyme, feta, savory, broccoli and mushrooms. She’s cute. A glance here, a perhaps glance back there.

She takes off her top.

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