February 07, 2008
I break Internet silence for this?
I emailed this to my Spanish students to let them know they weren't the only ones struggling with a new language. My new favorite word might be "esportivity."
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May 14, 2007
This is what Spanish at UMass can get you.
It's been a while since I checked in with my old intern, Brian Rogers, at themoves.org. There are a couple new videos and songs up there, which was nice to see. Thanks to YouTube, here's a little reminder of how good their videos are:
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April 15, 2007
And, yes, this does mean I'm not reading Quevedo.
I'm having way too much fun with this site. A whole new way to find things I think I might possibly need.
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December 14, 2006
"Jarts" made me a little nervous when we played this summer.
Radar Magazine's list of the most dangerous toys. Very scary.
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September 29, 2006
While I'm here...
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July 13, 2006
Do we really want to shift Earth's orbit? Can that possibly be a good idea?
Well, I just don't know what to make of World Jump Day...
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June 20, 2006
Maybe, but they make a mess of the rest of the house...
Oh my.
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June 07, 2006
Little things
In my new-found free time since the semester ended, I have been keeping up with Treehugger quite a bit. As Dave will tell you, I am now officially more obsessed than before with being environmentally responsible. (This also happened to coincide with finding out that we do, in fact, have curbside recycling pickup- nearly a year after moving into this apartment.) My newest mission: replacing our incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs. I was thoroughly convinced by these bulbs when I installed them in a couple of stone lamps Dave purchased. These lamps would get really hot with the old incandescent bulbs, to the point where I wouldn't leave them on for more than about a half hour, and now they stay totally cool to the touch even when I use them for hours at a time.
Other changes to my lifestyle over the past few months include finally sucking it up to buy some reusable tote-type grocery bags, and cloth napkins. It doesn't feel like very much to me, these few tiny things, but I guess I do notice a shift in my consciousness about what I use and purchase. Which I like.
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June 02, 2006
I have bad cats, and this makes even me a little nervous!
really expensive cat toy on Vimeo
Via Gothamist.
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June 01, 2006
All the fun of planning for Transperformance, without having to learn any new songs...
This is fun to read, mixing book titles with band names. Dave suggests Lord Russ of the Flies. (Via The Morning News.)
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May 27, 2006
To any students reading this:
This is not the right way to use gustar. See? It's hard for everyone.... and then I suppose it's worse when the answer is so emphatically "no."
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March 18, 2006
Why the internet freaks me out...
I started out trying to figure out what happened to an old high school teacer of mine that disappeared halfway through my sophomore (I think) year (Mr. Monte, anyone?), and then started looking up old friends I hadn't seen in a while. (I'm just assuming that everyone does this, right?) Look who I found! Heh. The internet totally freaks me out.
FYI- Spring break has been very productive so far: I have six out of seven clean rooms in my apartment, plus two closets! And Dave is back from SXSW tomorrow. Finally!
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February 14, 2006
Okay, I really need to be working right now.
These 3-D optical illusion-painted rooms are freaky. But I kind of like them. (via Boing Boing)
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February 02, 2006
Does that mean Tim is included in the price?
I have a good friend who is in the Peace Corps on the island of Tonga. Now, Boing Boing says that the island is for sale. Interesting...
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Now, back to Plato's Symposium, which is oddly appropriate after watching that video.
I am so glad I just started my day with this: a trailer mashup of Brokeback Mountain and Back to the Future called... well, guess what it's called. (via Boing Boing)
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January 26, 2006
Looking for a website...
So, I just remembered this great German DIY/design website I found a few years ago (I can't remember where or how...) and I don't recall what it was. All I know is that they had these crazy projects with instructions you could follow. The projects included things like barbie popsicles, a binder containing everything you need for a nap at your desk, and a beer-holding stool made just for watching football matches. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Speaking of beer-holding stools- I think I should have a beer.
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January 19, 2006
I'm visiting the internet now!
Have you read this yet? It's funny until halfway through, then it's just sort of upsetting.
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January 18, 2006
I'm it. (And Kristen said I wouldn't have time!)
Sigh Club tagged me. I'm new at this- is this common?
Four jobs I've had in my life:
Working in the kitchen of Stonewall Kitchen (all through high school)
Language lab consultant at Smith College (all through college)
Programs Coordinator at CC-CS (after college)
Spanish teacher (now)
Four movies I could watch over and over:
Goodfellas
La Femme Nikita
Reservoir Dogs
Amelie
Four places I have lived:
(I only have three.)
Newmarket, NH
Cordoba, Spain
Northampton, MA
Four TV shows I love to watch:
The O.C.
Project Runway
Arrested Development
What Not to Wear (is that still on? I no longer have cable.)
Four places I have been on vacation:
(Did you know I like Spain?)
Madrid, Spain
Cordoba, Spain
Cazorla, Spain
Paris, France
Four websites I visit daily:
(My list of "daily" sites has dwindled considerably.)
Popgadget
Boing Boing
NY Times
Weather.gov
Four of my favorite foods:
moshi moshi sushi
tortilla espanyola
potato chips
(shhh. I like snails.)
Four places I would rather be right now:
Well, I'm at home, on my couch, with my cats, watching the Simpsons. So this is pretty good. If only Dave would get home... He's home!
Four bloggers I am tagging:
Do I know four? One tagged me!
debl, because- who else?
nico, porque te echo de menos.
my sister, even though her blog is different.
calamity jen, just to see what country she's in right now.
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December 16, 2005
Holiday... cheer?
I mentioned these a couple of months ago but, as TMN reminds me, 'tis the season to check out Brandon Bird's Christmas letters to Christopher Walken again.
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November 05, 2005
Modern technology
Back in the days when Eliza and I were living in New Hampshire and spending a lot of time at a little place called the Joke House, the shotgun beer opener would have come in very handy. Why? For those situations when you don't know whether to stay in and watch the Simpsons, or go out to the movies, and you say: "Kevin, shotgun this beer and tell us what we should do." It would have been that much easier to get the answer we were waiting for (after the beer had been drunk, of course): "I'm not wearing any shoes and we don't know what time the movie starts, so let's stay in."
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November 04, 2005
You can stop contemplating.
Ask the Philosophers. (Via The Morning News.)
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September 02, 2005
I was going to tell you about Eliza's new apartment, but I got distracted by the news.
I have been so busy this week with everything that I lost track of just how horrifying the aftermath of Katrina has been. It was yesterday morning that I finally looked at the headlines on the NY Times and really saw what was going on. Paypal, Amazon, and Apple have each set up a donation page for hurricane relief. I'm sure there are other places out there, but these are the three that I have seen. I don't know; I figure every little bit helps, even if you feel kind of foolish donating, like, $10 to a disaster this huge. It has to make some difference.
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August 29, 2005
Apparently they do have showers in Austrian parks. Who knew?
If I were going to Austria, this is where I'd want to stay: dasparkhotel. Well, probably not actually. I don't know how I'd feel about basically sleeping in a park... I don't speak German, but from what Treehugger says, die Zimmer has electricity and internet, and costs between 7 and 20 Euros a night. Then you just have to leave your little pod in the middle of the night and go find the park bathrooms. Do they have showers in Austrian parks?
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August 25, 2005
Step on their faces and send them to jail.
On Rocketboom today, the craze that's sweeping the nation: Bush Bush Revolution.
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August 24, 2005
Megan's cupcakes always make me want to bake. I never follow through, of course, but it's close sometimes...
I think this is the cutest cupcake I have ever seen. Baked by not martha.
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August 15, 2005
Whitston, can you help me out here?
Okay, can someone tell me if this is for real? If so... well, I just don't know what to think.
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August 10, 2005
Oh, there could be so much craftiness!
I just discovered the Gocco love fest over at Flickr. Every few months, something reminds me about the Printo Gocco and I instantly start looking for a cheap one on eBay. I always end up deciding I need to save my money, however, and remain (sadly) Gocco-less. There are a few prospects on eBay right now. If any of them stay in the $5 price range (ha ha), maybe I'll finally get one. For now, I'll just look at the Flickr photos and daydream.
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August 02, 2005
Interesting
I am enjoying exploring Flickr's "Interestingness".
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I tried to convince myself to use the word "ink" at some point so I wouldn't have to say "tattoo" again, but I just wasn't buying it.
I've been checking out Needled recently: a site dedicated to "tattoo couture" that launched not too long ago. I'm no tattoo fanatic; I only have one, though it's kind of large, and I've had my eye on a second.
The second tattoo is kind of tricky, though. Two years ago, I started thinking I wanted to get something centered around Dave's and my wedding, sort of as an alternative to taking his name. When we went to Paris on our honeymoon, I got inspired. I thought, since my first tattoo is a memory from my time in Spain, my second could be about our trip to Paris. We saw an exhibit of the work of Robert and Sonia Delaunay at the Centre Pompidou. Robert Delaunay did a number of paintings and drawings of the Eiffel Tower from different angles. I found an image I liked in the exhibit catalog. I can't find the image online anywhere, but it was a black and white sketch or study for this painting:
The sketch could be tough to make into a tattoo just because of what it is: sketchy. The drawing is all black and white and shades of gray, with lots of rough crosshatching used to show the structure of the tower. It just seems like I'd be asking a lot of an art form (tattoo) that, to me, feels like it needs to be very precise. Can you do sketchy and gray in tattoos? It seems like black ink is black ink; it's nothing like the pencil or charcoal that Delaunay would have used. You can't apply more or less pressure (oh, god!) to change the way the picture comes out. I don't know, it seems like it might be hard to get it right.
I have a great deal of faith in the woman who did my first tattoo. She runs Electric Angel Tattoos in Brookline, NH. My mom and stepdad both got their tattoos there, so Eliza and I followed on my 22nd birthday. We both had very different ideas. I had mailed Laurie (the artist) a photograph of an olive branch taken by a good friend who came to visit me in Cordoba. Eliza told me she wanted me to draw her a small tree. When we arrived in Brookline, Laurie had made a drawing of the olive branch, which she tattooed on my lower back (a sort of mirror image, one branch on each side) in the colors from the photograph. I liked it so much it took me a little too long to stop wearing halter tops and short t-shirts. I know I should just send Electric Angel this new image, a color copy of the drawing from my art book, but I'm just afraid that she'll say she can't do it (or, worse, that she won't say that she can't do it, but...).
So, I've been reading the artist profiles on Needled to see if at some point they profile someone around here who specializes in tattoos of quickly drawn studies for much larger paintings. It'll happen, right?
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July 29, 2005
the Greatest living fainter
This one was submitted to the Crappy Bootleg DVD Covers Flickr pool by Tinkatonka. Nice one.
I always wondered what that Harry Potter movie was all about.
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July 28, 2005
Have you checked out Brandon Bird's website?
The Law and Order Coloring Book and Letters to Walken are only the beginning.
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It's not as though they actually deserve any presents.
Popgadget has discovered the Highrise Cat Tower at Postmodern Pets. Dave and I are always looking for something fun for the cats to climb- you know, other that the furniture, walls, and curtains. I like the looks of the stackable blocks and the fact that they'd be easy to move and adjust. However, I can only imagine that a tall tower of little cat cubbies would come crashing down at least six times a day if Clem and Rosa were left in charge of it. We learned that lesson the hard way. We will never, ever put tall CD towers anywhere in the house again- especially next to the bed.
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July 27, 2005
Time to dust off the sewing machine
I just bought a sewing pattern for a skirt at Betsy Ross (via Cool Hunting.) I haven't bought a sewing pattern in a while, but I could use a couple new skirts (okay, that's kind of a lie- but I'd like some!) and if I can get two or three out of this $15 pattern, that would be great. I'll post the results, if they're cute.
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July 22, 2005
What? They need water?
I like these, but I know I would kill them.
I kill every plant I own.
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July 20, 2005
It's like watching TV, but better than the $5 cable we get.
I don't check out Rocketboom nearly enough. I think it's because I spend so many hours at work where I might have to answer the phone at any minute, so I don't want to be in the middle of watching a video- even if it's two minutes long. I think I need to make it part of my daily post-work routine, though.
I found Rocketboom thanks to this chica, Dylan Verdi, who has a new site since last I checked in (again with the videos and the phone answering and...).
The Moves I can watch, since one of them was my intern. It's almost work-related at that point. You should watch their new video for Sesame Street Dreams.
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July 19, 2005
A little something
The big boss is going to be in my office tomorrow, so I'll set up a little something ahead of time, just in case he's here all day.
Things I saw on the internet and liked:
The Egg & Muffin Toaster (via Popgadget)
S'mores, by not martha
How to sew a sturdier button, by English Cut
Joel Johnson's farewell to Gizmodo
And, as always, The Moves
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Harry Potter post 2
As I predicted, Dave picked up a copy of the new Harry Potter this weekend and started it las night. Before he began reading, we spent some time trying to remember what had happened in each of the last books. It had been a while since the fifth one came out and we read the first four practically in one sitting back in 2002. We pieced together a few fragments and have a general idea of the rest of the series, but we were badly in need of a refresher. I've been looking around the internet for a while now and finally found the Wikipedia entry on Harry Potter. It seems to give a fairly thorough summary of each book. I'm looking forward to reading this over! I also suggest checking out J.K. Rowling's site.
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July 07, 2005
I bet I could put one more link here, if I really tried.
William Gibson has a short essay on the phenomenon of the remix up at Wired. Dave and I recently read his novel Pattern Recognition and really enjoyed it. I first decided I needed to figure out more about William Gibson after reading this Slashdot interview (see question #4) with Neal Stephenson. Anyone have any other favorite William Gibson books to recommend?
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Planning a vacation?
Okay, why didn't I know about this place before? A small village called Fucking, Austria.
Thanks to Gridskipper for the info and photo.
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June 22, 2005
This is kind of cool...
Spell with Flickr, via Cool Hunting.
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May 13, 2005
Another silly quiz
Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 50% General American English |
| 40% Yankee |
| 10% Dixie |
| 0% Midwestern |
| 0% Upper Midwestern |
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May 10, 2005
Quick one
I really love English Cut and this post is a perfect example of why. I'm fascinated by all aspects of sewing, designing, and tailoring clothes (which can be seen in my addiction to "Project Runway" this winter) and this fellow gives such careful, vivid glimpses of his craft. I like it.
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May 07, 2005
iPod vending machine
iPod vending machine
Originally uploaded by sbisson.
Via boing boing, this fellow discovered an iPod vending machine in the Atlanta airport. I just don't know how I feel about that...
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May 05, 2005
I was an excellent speller until I learned Spanish.
Let's not even get into vocabulary right now... huh.
Your English Skills: |
| Grammar: 100% |
| Punctuation: 100% |
| Spelling: 80% |
| Vocabulary: 40% |
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