Archive for October, 2001
my happy sweet tooth
We carved our jack-o-lanterns, and they were lit and sitting on the front step. (That’s Marlin’s on the left and mine is on the right.) We were well prepared with candy, considering we ran out of candy last year. So is it terrorism anxiety? Anthrax scares? Or maybe it’s nothing as sinister … the temperature [...]
eek!
Oooh, I just love style sheets. A few minutes of futzing around, change the CSS file and one graphic, and suddenly the leather egg is all, like, pumpkiny and Halloweeny. It’s spooky! So do you want a trick or a treat?
takin’ care of bizness
I think I need to post a Post-It note to organize my Post-It notes. Currently stuck on my monitor:
Reminder to meet my father-in-law after work so I don’t leave him in the city tonight
Call my insurance company to find out why I didn’t receive my public transportation credit on my car insurance policy renewal (I [...]
orange, orange everywhere
It was a plan I was a bit dubious about: Marlin, his dad (who is visiting for a couple weeks) and I went to Keene, NH on Saturday to experience the annual Keene Pumpkin Festival. I was concerned the trip would be more kitsch than I could handle in one day. But how often does [...]
poopin’s cool
It was a Saturday Night Live skit several years ago, but now it’s a real product: Colonblow. The website, at first glance, appears as though it may be a spoof. But it’s real … they just take a humorous approach. You have to check out the customer testimonial page. Some highlights:
“If you look south and [...]
today’s ‘top’ story
Some interesting numbers in yesterday’s site stats for leather egg … I got 14 referrals from nakednews.com. So of course, I had to poke around the site to see if someone was linking me. I couldn’t find any links, but I did find streaming video of the news show. Was it intentional that the camera [...]