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http://txmagpie.com/2009/02/omg_squeee1_hol.html
I got email from Wil Wheaton!!
I mean, yeah, it’s because I bought a book of his from lulu.com, but still! It’s pretty cool :-)
http://txmagpie.com/2009/01/supercross.html
Last weekend we went to the Supercross. I got tickets for the MO as a Christmas present. They were good seats:
http://txmagpie.com/2009/01/game_on.html
Nan’s gift certificates for Christmas + awesome friends = potential for January to be a banner month!
So many games, so little time….
http://txmagpie.com/2009/01/gooooooo_gators.html
That said, that was some horrible sports coverage. Did Fox forget there was a football game going on? Why no replays of the bazillion penalties? Why all the stupid camera angles on the few plays they did deign to show us again? What do they have against showing us a play clock? Weird (and very long) broadcast. Good result, though :-)
http://txmagpie.com/2009/01/chicklets.html
Baby chicks (redundancy alert) really are cute. When I was a kid we had chickens for a while. (Rabbits, too, but that doesn’t have anything to do with this story. I just tossed it in there because bunnies are cute, too.) I built (well, prob’ly my dad built) an incubator for a sixth-grade science project and hatched a couple of eggs. I got a yellow chick and a brown stripey chick. I named the brown one Parsley (nope, no explanation for that) and I don’t remember what I called the yellow one. Buttercup, maybe? They were very cute but not really exactly fun pets—messy and not very affectionate. Which is just as well because neither chick lived to chickenhood. The yellow one got et by a weasel or some other predator-du-jour and the brown one drowned in a water dish. Not too bright, chickens.
http://txmagpie.com/2009/01/more_wire_work.html
The larger links are sterling that Mom and I made and the tiny ones are niobium (the “air” mix) from Spiderchain. It’s a Japanese 6-in-1 weave and finished it off with two foldover clasps right next to each other.
http://txmagpie.com/2009/01/when_at_first_y.html
I originally wanted to make a “chain” with the twisted brass jump rings joining alternating Swarovski rings and gold-filled stampings, but the jump rings weren’t quiiiiite big enough. So I fiddled around some and came up with the first effort:
http://txmagpie.com/2008/12/surreal_phone_c.html
Confused Guy: Do y'all do watch repairs?
Me: No, we're a software company.
http://txmagpie.com/2008/11/top_ten_lolcat.html
I only just found out about "cataloons" even though "I made you a cookie" was my introduction to lolcats.... I suppose technically this lovely kitteh isn't displaying cataloons but it's close enough for me :-)
http://txmagpie.com/2008/11/siriusly_you_ca.html
This morning on my way to work I found out that the Sirius Led Zeppelin channel had become quite definitely unLedded. BOO! The bland and distinctly non-Robert-Plant-ish alt-pop-boy voice that issued forth from my speakers was entirely unwelcome. I am bereft. Plantless. It was soooooo good while it lasted, but now it's back to channel 24, KTRU and CDs. Sigh.
http://txmagpie.com/2008/11/kalashnikitty_f.html
Eric is printing up a batch of Kalashnikitty shirts, and this time he's also doing long sleeves and sweatshirts. I still have the t-shirt I ordered a few years ago and it looks great. These are really good quality shirts. Here is the scoop:
http://txmagpie.com/2008/10/ft_lauderdale_c.html
Smashing Magazine had a roundup of photoshop tutorials and this one in particular caught my eye, so I thought I'd try it.
http://txmagpie.com/2008/10/probably_really.html
For the most part I'm pretty happy with Vista. I especially loooove the built-in Windows Photo Gallery and I use it exclusively to organize my pictures and all my digital scrapbooking elements.
http://txmagpie.com/2008/10/lorax_likes_shi.html
Mom and Dad gave me three cool gemstone display trays for my birthday. I put them out to take pictures and Lorax immediately settled on the one with the faceted stones. That cat has good taste :-)
http://txmagpie.com/2008/09/indianapolis_mo.html
The MO and I had been planning our trip to Indy to see the MotoGP for months, and when it turned out that Ike was bearing down on Texas as were scheduled to leave, we didn't think too much of it. At that point, the hurricane was still predicted to hit far south of Houston, and we knew that our neighborhood was not flood-prone, so our outdoor preparations were limited to not putting the trashcan out front for collection. We left a key with Prime Time Lou and the Fiberglass Badger so they could stop by and gather the mail and feed the cats, and off we went, visions of motorcycles buzzing in our brains.
http://txmagpie.com/2008/09/convergence.html
I just saw this Houston Press cover at Southland this afternoon where I was waiting while they made a couple of key for My New Front Door and here it is on Sugar Frosted Goodness....
I love teh intarwebs.
(The Texans may be hosed, however.... T...
http://txmagpie.com/2008/09/its_a_new_door.html
We had our new front door delivered and installed today. What a commotion! We've had such wonderful luck with the Pella window installers, and we got our first window guy, Eli, back for this door install, so I had no doubt that the results would be perfect. The man is a perfectionist, and super-nice besides.
http://txmagpie.com/2008/09/i_wont_even_hav.html
They've done it all for me already! The MO sent me a link to this cool online brochure thingamajig, just in case I wasn't looking forward to it enough already ;-)
http://txmagpie.com/2008/09/more_catdip.html
Mom's latest CATDIP is up on the CATDIP V page and on flickr (click through the pic below).
