Monthly Archives March 2008

Ellen DeGeneres has class

Leave it to Ellen Degeneres to respond to Sally Kern with grace and humor–

The original video has had nearly a million views since it was first posted to YouTube on March 11. Sally Kern is a hateful and dangerous woman, especially in her position as an elected official.
More information here.

Hard drive failure: The good, the bad, and the fugly

Or, “Not how I wanted to spend my Saturday”
THE GOOD

The new hard drive was covered under warranty
Files were backed up to an external hard drive

THE BAD

The last backup was February 23
How well the backup worked remains to be seen
Nothing was retrievable from the original hard drive

THE FUGLY

The images from Open Mic were lost, save for [...]

Open Mic 2008

Our school has an “Open Mic” every spring, which is a talent show of sorts, but different from what you often find in high school talent shows. There are no auditions; no competition, no awards. Everyone that wants to perform, may perform. It’s casually eclectic—blue jeans, mohawks, t-shirts and hoodies. Sometimes even the [...]

You can even knit with this stuff!

As much as I love just looking at, petting, and photographing my own handspun, it’s come to my attention that one can also actually knit with it, too! Imagine that!
So I did.

Here’s my sweet baby James playing his birthday guitar* (Epiphone John Lennon acoustic electric from Utah’s own Guitar Czar) and wearing his birthday [...]