Monthly Archives: October 2009
Root Cause Analysis
Cube Guy: Is this a drill? Manager Dude: Better not be. It’s cold and rainy. What would they be thinking? Me: Yeah and it’s before 7:00. There’re not enough employees here to make this fire drill a worthwhile test. Cube … Continue reading
Note to GeekMe
Hey, GeekMe, Check out the OS Gameboys, this Brazilian band that only does covers of video game music. Buzz on Metafilter has it that they’re very very good. (can’t watch until WorkMe goes home.)
Perfect Understanding
In my lectio this morning I read “Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” — Matthew 5:48 “Perfect,” in my modernist worldview, means “without flaws.” But it turns out (thanks to Fr. Ron Rohlheiser) the word “perfect” is a … Continue reading
Ooh, Pretty Dots!
I’m a sucker for info-viz toys. Slate’s News Dots gives a graphical analysis of patterns in over 500 news stories per day over a three day running window. Makes me clap and giggle like a little geeky girl. And the … Continue reading
Vitamin P
I’ve not read much poetry lately. Glad to have come across this beauty. Reminded me that a deficiency in Vitamin P causes dehydration of my soul. Eating Poetry Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness … Continue reading
Groove Goodies
CeU (seh-yoh’) is a Brazilian artist who reminds me of Bebel Gilberto or a Latin answer to the UKs Morcheeba. Imagine chilled-out, acoustic, bossa-nova-infused grooves with sultry vocals. You can download a live KEXP studio podcast from the artist here. … Continue reading
I pray, I am, He is.
I’ve a habit of provacatively stating to my fellow churchy-ites that I don’t really care if God exists. What I mean by that is that I feel no need for proof of a God beyond my understanding and believe that … Continue reading
My Inner Nine-Year-Old
I am filing this under the category of “Really cool but irresponsible and possibly dangerous stuff I’d like to try” — How To Blow The Bottom Out Of A Bottle. A number of years back I heard about this trick … Continue reading
The Poetic Life
“I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. To desire to write poems that endure — we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we … Continue reading
Powdery Goodness
I made my first foray into molecular gastronomy this morning, thanks to the gastro-geek wonderland that is Nuts Online. I went looking for some Citric Acid power to use as a fruit preservative and a tartness agent for some of … Continue reading