Monthly Archives: September 2005

Huh.

I real­ized while mak­ing notes for a mys­tery shop ear­lier this week that I have a very hard time judg­ing anyone’s height over, say, 5’6″. After that point, they become sim­ply “taller than me,” and it’s hard for me to judge inches.
Top­Five weighs in on Britney’s baby. Pho­to­shop scares me.

My new favorite word

Frisket”
We’re learn­ing about hand­press books and paper-making in Rare Books class.

Clearing out the tank…

I let my gas tank run down to empty this week, and decided to fill it up as long as I was at a gas sta­tion with a decent price ($3.19/gallon)
$44. Ugh. $44. And that’s for my sweet lit­tle Accord! It’s a decent-size car, but hardly a gas-guzzler…
In my search for

When I try to turn on my iPod.…

This is what I see.

It won’t start up, or even turn on, or take a charge. Just the lit­tle sad Mac face. It’s funny, actu­ally. I worked out for about an hour and a half today (bike, weights, ellip­ti­cal.) The iPod decided to freeze up and then die two min­utes before the

Juicy local peaches…

10 Rea­sons to Eat Local
I’m get­ting into this now. What I can’t buy local (say, bananas) I tend to buy organic. Not sure I’ll do too well with this in Jan­u­ary, though.

Found on my hard drive

Some people–by which I mean, prob­a­bly nobody, but I’m cer­tain that some­one asked about it–have won­dered about the book in which I appear with my fly open. I was kick­ing around my hard drive and dis­cov­ered my copy of the photo John Freyer took of me
So here is the shot of me that appears in

Neat!

Just got this e-mail at my work account:
PBS His­tory detec­tives paid a fact-finding mis­sion to Albany this
Spring to explore the mys­tery sur­round­ing a 1667 Man­hat­tan land grant.
Tele­vi­sion inves­ti­ga­tor Tukufu Zuberi called on Dr. Charles Gehring of
the New York State Library’s New Nether­land project to help explain
the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing a 1667 land grant that listed a slave