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I’ve probably bored everyone with my oft-repeated boast that pretty much everything I eat now is home-made. There are a few conscious exceptions. I don’t make the crackers I eat at lunch, and I go out to eat two or three times a week (usually at a sit-down restaurant). But it is a fair amount of work. I find myself in the kitchen pretty much every day to keep ahead of my appetite. It isn’t hard; it’s […]

I’m working on an animation idea. Here’s your chance to influence an animation (well, a possible animation) at its earliest stage. What do you think of this girl? Drawn by Monica Marier I’m looking for general impressions and ideas. What’s her personality? What does she like to do in her spare time? What’s her favorite dessert? Comments: Gret To me she seems like the typical unhappily married wife that […]

I finally watched Jin-Roh a couple nights ago. It’s been out for quite a few years, but I never got around to it. It looked a bit too heavy-handed and dark for my tastes. And sure enough, it was very heavy-handed and dark. It was created and directed by Mamoru Oshii, who can consistently create jaw-dropping visuals, but frankly little else. His plots are so laden with metaphor that […]

My gardening sprint continues. I spent a good chunk of this morning staring at my front yard, trying to figure out how to make it look less bland. For reference, here’s what it looked like three months ago. I’ve decided to put a low shrub border along the sidewalk, then build several sweeping stone walls to create curved borders going up both sides of the walkway. Then fill those borders […]

So I played my first game of Ultimate Frisbee yesterday. And boy, my muscles are tired. I feel like I’ve been hit by a car. I had fun, though. The rules are relatively straightforward; one team plays defense and throws the disc to the team playing offense, then tries to prevent the offense team from getting the disc to their end of the field. If you catch the disc, you can’t walk or run from that spot; […]