Capitalism attacks with tiny sharp teeth

This post on Albany Craigslist got yanked down, but it stayed on my RSS reader. It was from a few weeks ago, but the sit­u­a­tion is get­ting even more ridicu­lous as Christ­mas nears.
“It would be nice to be rich,” my dad mused. “I would buy all of the robot ham­sters avail­able and then donate them


Visual Week(s) in Review


Visual Week in Review: Sort of New York Edition

My phone bat­tery died before the actual meetup started, partly because of some enter­tain­ing all-day e-mail exchanges. So enjoy ran­dom things that I thought needed to have pic­tures taken of them over the course of the day while I was trav­el­ing down to New York, and look­ing for sweaters.
Don’t ask. I need sweaters.


Visual Week in Review

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Knitting School with the Northrups

It’s nice to be able to talk knit­ting with my mom. (She’ll start list­ing on Etsy soon.) I made a few Uno­rig­i­nal Hats because hat sea­son is com­ing soon, and Mom liked mine so much that she decided to buy the nee­dles and yarn to make her own. So far, it isn’t going well.
She mostly works


Visual Week In Review

Lots of knit­ting, not much trav­el­ing this week.


Visual Month in Review

I like my visual week in review posts, but I haven’t done one in a while. So now that I’ve located an SD card reader and finally trans­ferred things over, here are all of my cam­era phone pic­tures since mid-September, instead!
Included adven­tures are dog-sitting, an ill-fated trip to New York City, a night out in


Trying to burn the foreheads down

Jonathan Coul­ton and Paul and Storm cover one of my favorite songs of all time.
Side note: I can’t believe Flood is almost 20 years old.


Confusing advertising

I’m not really sure what this Face­book ad  is try­ing to sell me. What it looks like it’s try­ing to say is “get waxed so you have no unslightly armpit hair when some­one gives you the Heim­lich maneu­ver.”
But that’s an oddly spe­cific pitch, so some­how I don’t think that’s it.


Google is cute

Oh, very, funny, Gmail Labs.