| IT'S EARWIGS!!!!! |
[Jul. 3rd, 2008|09:44 am] |
see Art Avenue at: www.artavenuegardenstudios.com and www.ArtAvenue.etsy.com
Got em! Something comes in the dark of night. Something eats every tender plant held dear. Devours it over several days. Smashes your dreams in an agonizing way. Not quick and sure like the rabbit. Leaving no path to follow like the slug. Something hideous and secretive. And I have found it out....
Been gardening for years, never had anything so diabolical , (well, except maybe the deer) so puzzling, (except maybe turkey), so persistant, (except the slugs). But last night we made cones of big paper to cover the 3rd(!) set of eggplant trying to see who comes in the dark of night and feasts on the upper leaves. We thought, "It must fly in." We were wrong. When I pulled the cones from the plants this morning out fell the earwigs. I squished them by hand. I felt like Alia of Dune brandishing the knife.
Tonight I will fill many cans with cheap Safeway oil and plant them in all beds. (I've caught quite a few this year that way) Many cans. Many cans, one for every plant bitten and devoured.....
Next year my husband has agreed to a couple of chickens! |
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| Ockham's Razor |
[Jun. 30th, 2008|11:26 pm] |
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| | Ockham's Razor - Ten Thousand Miles To Bedlam | ] |
A friend and I are going to see Ockham's Razor on Thursday at 8 at Kells Irish Pub near Pike Place Market. Anyone else interested in coming with us? We can meet up at my place and walk down from there or just meet at the pub. It'll be a roaring good time for sure! |
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| Internet Regional Encoding |
[Jun. 26th, 2008|10:55 pm] |
So I was just trying to share a cool YouTube video with my brother, and it took me about 15 minutes to get him going, which was really frustrating, to say the least. Short story: if you're a Canadian and want to watch an awesome video on YouTube that's marked as US-only without having to use a proxy server, just go to http://youtubeproxy.org and enter the URL of the YouTube video on that page.
Also, if you want, you can fake which country you're in by using a proxy server listed at http://www.xroxy.com/proxy-country-US.htm (by editing your proxy settings via your browser's connection settings); however, many of these proxies have sites such as YouTube banned, so you won't be able to access them through the proxy. There can also often be a significant lag as all your browsing is redirected through the proxy.
I also found out my brother was using IE, so I informed him of the surfing benefits of Firefox with Adblock Plus. :-) |
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[Jun. 23rd, 2008|03:25 pm] |
Because I feel like it, and I started keeping track one year ago today, I'm going to recount here all the books I have read in the past year in order. It's a time-killing strategy. You see, I am supposed to be doing math right now.
1 A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
2 The Neon Bible - John Kennedy O'Toole
3 Shampoo Planet - Douglas Coupland
4 Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close - Johnathan Safran Foer
5 Screwjack - Hunter S. Thompson
6 Schroedinger's Cat - Robert Anton Wilson
7 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
8 Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
9 God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian - Kurt Vonnegut
10 The Captain Is Out To Lunch, And The Sailors Have Taken Over The Ship - Charles Bukowski
11 Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes
12 Snow White - Donald Barthelme
13 Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
14 Coraline - Neil Gaiman
15 Great Days - Donald Barthelme
16 Switch Bitch - Roald Dahl
17 The End of Alice - A.M. Homes
18 I, Coriander - Sally Gardner
19 The Coma - Alex Garland
20 Happiness - Will Ferguson
21 The Kitchen Boy: A Novel Of The Last Tsar - Robert Alexander
22 Dream Boy - Jim Grimsley
23 Everything On A Waffle -, The Happy Yellow Car -, The Canning Season - Polly Horvath
24 Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut
25 Skinny Legs And All - Tom Robbins
26 Forty Stories - Donald Barthelme
27 Into The Wild - John Krakauer
28 Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey - Chuck Palahniuk
29 My Life As A Fake - Peter Carey
30 Bridge To Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
31 Observatory Mansions - Edward Carey
32 The Final Solution - Michael Chabon
33 Hollywood - Charles Bukowski
34 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
35 Parvana's Journey - Deborah Ellis
36 Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry
37 The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed - John Vaillant
38 The Memory Keeper's Daugther - Kim Edwards
39 The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
40 Ape and Essence - Aldous Huxley
41 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
42 Fat Girl: A True Story - Judith Moore
43 The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
44 Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen
45 The Old Gringo - Carlos Fuentes
46 Trout Fishing In America - Richard Brautigan
47 Theft - Saul Bellow
48 The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie
49 The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
50 The Business - Iain Banks
51 Ignorance - Milan Kundera
52 Saturday - Ian McEwan
53 Everyman - Philip Roth
54 Speedboat - Renata Adler
55 Complicity - Iain Banks
56 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America - Barbara Ehrenreich
57 Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
58 The Child In Time - Ian McEwan
59 Island of the Sequined Love Nun - Christopher Moore
60 Blindness - Jose Saramago
61 Fluke - Christopher Moore
62 Atonement - Ian McEwan
63 The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove - Christopher Moore
64 All The Names - Jose Saramago
65 The Cave - Jose Saramago
66 Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf - Peter Lovenheim
(I started Remembering Babylon by David Malouf and couldn't get past the first few chapters)
67 A Song Of Stone - Iain Banks
68 You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers
69 The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
70 The Tale Of The Unknown Island - Jose Saramago
71 Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje
72 Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right - Al Franken
(at this point I read about thirty pages of Ann Coulter's Slander before I just couldn't do it anymore)
73 Drinking Coffee Elsewhere - ZZ Packer
74 Seeing - Jose Saramago
75 No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
76 Bound For Glory - Woody Guthrie
77 Canal Dreams - Iain Banks
78 Kafka - David Mairowitz with Robert Crumb
79 When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden - Bill Maher
80 Nagasaki 1945 - Tatsuichiro Akizuki
81 Alva & Irva: The Twins Who Saved A City - Edward Carey
82 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
83 The Book Of Other People - various authors, edited by Zadie Smith
84 The Devil's Highway: A True Story - Luis Alberto Urrea
(I read two years worth of Peanuts comics, 1953 and 1955, here)
85 Beautiful Losers - Leonard Cohen
86 The Wine Of Youth - John Fante
(I finished 107 pages of Bleak House by Charles Dickens before giving up on it)
87 Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
88 Where I'm Calling From - Raymond Carver
89 Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
90 A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
(and I'm currently on page 87 of Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe)
I think I've probably missed a few.
That was entertaining. |
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| things. |
[Jun. 22nd, 2008|07:34 pm] |
while i'm here, using the internet, my mother hovers nearby and reads what i'm writing.
she opens my mails, too.
it's disgusting..
i do have an apartment, i am painting the living room very very red, i haven't really started work but i am now cpr certified (they changed cpr training since the last time i did it, which i find to be funny since it's such an important thing and the red cross is saying oh nm all that, do this now, and has said they are going to change it again real soon) - i'm probably going to have to just quit and i'll feel like an idiot, but..
i am moving to arcata at the end of august.
i will be attending hsu for journalism.
i'm going alone.
well, with my two cats. or just one of them. this hasn't been decided.
so i need to start working, need to save, need to pay my sister back for the rent money she's going to be lending me from her ssi check, need to.. oh, i don't know.
things are strange. |
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