Yesterday, the family was enjoying an afternoon snack of yogurt. After reading On What to Eat by Michael Pollan, Amber has been a lot more conscious of what kinds of stuff we are buying & eating. She started reading the list of ingredients for the yogurt, after 20 lines of text stumbling over 10 letter [...]

This is our new-old wood floors. There was carpet covering these beautiful floors, until we did the awesomeness of ripping it out. There is a wonderful metaphor there, just waiting to be uncovered. There is a little more work to be done, like putting covers over the transitional areas and putting in a base board [...]

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For many people valentine’s day is a special time to express one’s love for that special other in one’s life. Although sadly it has be co-opted by those who wish to exploit the holiday of love into an opportunity for profit. I am lucky to have a wife who doesn’t expect me to follow the [...]

There is great open letter/essay to the president by Michael Pollan (HT Brian McLaren) on the topic of food and farming in America. His basic argument is that we need to move away from oil based single crop farming and instead move towards more sustainable practices of sun-centered farming. I got rather carried away, but [...]

{Update: I have finished this project, here are pictures.} Recently my dad gave me some wood, which was actually the excess from what he had been given from someone else. When he called with the question of my desire for it, I had not idea what I would need it for, but I have learned [...]

A few weeks ago, I was clearing out one of the spare rooms at my parent’s house. The room has been used for a lot of different things over the years, guest room, my bedroom, storage room, art room, green house, and currently computer/storage room. Well in my work at reclaiming the functionality of the [...]

I found these helpful hints on “GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 2.2″ ((http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/principles-broad-userbase.html.en)): Sensitivity to cultural and political issues is also an important consideration. Designing icons and sounds, and even choosing colors requires some understanding of the connotations they might have to a user from a different part of the world. Examples of elements it is [...]

Sometimes it is easy to forget what one’s life is composed of. Everything goes by so quickly, that at the end of the day you can’t even say one thing that happened. I have put these pictures together for different reasons, partly because I simply like them, but also because they seem to describe so [...]

For all those RSS readers out there who don’t actually visit my site often, I have added a little color. My daughter, Raine, (pictured below) received a nice card, from her granny, in the mail for thanksgiving, and like all good kids do, she recycled it into art. The card wasn’t really a card at [...]