Archive for March 2009
the dream becky has terrible taste in men
Thursday night’s dream: I encountered Mr. X (someone with whom, in real life, I had an extended and passionate dalliance during our younger days, and who I haven’t seen nor talked to in years). I knew he was now married but I went back to his place anyway. Our tryst was interrupted by his wife,…
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This chicken (rooster?) was spotted by me at the rest stop above Santa Maria today. I was delicately picking my way back home after a lovely weekend in San Francisco (which lacked for nothing — except for sleep). Last night, I attended the deepest, funnest, loveliest, most breathtaking pageant I have ever been to —…
Read Moreweighing in on the social networking hub-bub part 1: photos
I am deeply devoted to flickr. It is a photo sharing site that functions primarily (to me) as external storage for my images, which I can categorize and group to my heart’s content. A wonderful secondary aspect is that I have made new friends and strengthened existing friendships through its use. The site is full…
Read Moredee dee doo dit dit dit (morse code sound i use when i get excited by science)
What’s cooler than scientists? Supercrafty scientists! What’s cooler than supercrafty scientists? TEENAGE supercrafty scientists! Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon Teenagers armed with only a £56 camera and latex balloon have managed to take stunning pictures of space from 20-miles above Earth. more So intrepid and so cool! I will never…
Read Moreafternoon of the dead
Last week at work, I visited a website which installed some excellent pieces of malware into my system (I can honestly say that I was surfing sites for a work-related project!) My computer was turned into a zombie and started spewing spam to the four corners of the earth. (“Spaaaaaaaaam!”) It took the intrepid IT…
Read Moremarch madness (oh i made a funny)
My life is weird and quite busy right now. I’ve been taking on freelance jobs the way one might stockpile food in preparation for the apocalypse. I played devil’s advocate recently, where I initiated a thought experiment with a friend: what if this recession/depression/economy crisis we’re in truly becomes cataclysmic? Like, what would you do?*…
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I’m sorry that I’ve posted two consecutive “HEY LOOK AT MY STORE”s blurbs, and absolutely no content. I have a nearly-completed draft about my phobias but my self-esteem is a little shaky and I don’t think I can handle a look-at-how-crazy-I-am post right now. Am I’m fresh out of i-am-so-fucking-awesome drafts. But anyway! The store…
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