my life
Reboot
I’ve been fortunate for the past two decades to get most of intersession as paid time off — one of the perks of working in higher education. I’ve often used part of that time off to do a redesign project with my blog.
This year, it’s not just a redesign, but a total reboot. New blog [...]
Baking Bread and Other Creative Outlets
Sometimes, when the creative horse runs into your corral, you’ve just got to strap on the saddle and kick the spurs. In the past 24+ hours, I redesigned the blog. Simplified it quite a bit too. I like it much better. (Editor’s note – this was written about the final design on the old blog [...]
May in photos
It’s been a slow month around these parts on the blog front, but that’s not to say it’s been a slow month in my life. When the month of May is said and done, I will have spent about the same amount of time here at home in Massachusetts as I have spent in Pennsylvania. [...]
I'm melting, I'm melting
Mark the calendar … Thursday April 10th was the day the last bit of snow finally disappeared here at Leather Egg central. The last remains of Wicked Witch of Winter Past melted, leaving a trail of gritty salty sand and anti-skid in her wake. We’ll have lots of raking and sweeping to clean up the [...]
the spy who went to Penn State
Reading through Christmas cards and letters this year, I was delighted to discover my friend Debbie (aka Beanie) is blogging at woven and spun. We go way back to our days as Penn State undergrads, so it was fun reading her blog entry about discovering that Valerie Plame, the CIA agent outed during the run-up [...]
the autumn bullet list update+
I love this photo I saw on the Boston Globe site, attributed simply to Reuters, of construction workers flying a banner during the Red Sox rolling rally. They apparently didn’t have any white paint to cover up the misspelled D-corrected-to-T in CONGRATULATIONS. And you just know the “Yankees Still Suck” was added after a lot [...]
47 things
Courtesy of Will at designerblog, here’s a multi-question meme with some out-of-the-ordinary questions that struck me as interesting. Your mileage may vary.
1. What Do You Say Most When You’re Trying Not To Swear?
I don’t bother trying not to swear, god damn it.
2. Do You Own An iPod?
I own 4 iPods (5 if you count the [...]
the it list
Frankie has tagged me on a recent meme — list 10 random yet interesting facts about my life.
Since I’m as old as the hills, and in blogging years I can remember the Magna Carta, I’ve actually done this before. For all I know I may have started this meme when I posted this list (linked [...]
