PSA: Free TMBG song.
They Might Be Giants is sharing a free song in honor of the elections taking place in the US today. Download Vote or Don’t now! (Direct link to MP3.) You can also check out the video.
Yearly Archive: 2012
PSA: On voting.
Driving home this morning (having spent last night at Jenn’s), I intentionally drove past my polling place to see how long the lines outside were. To my surprise, there weren’t any. Upon arriving home, I double-checked that my polling place hadn’t moved due to some bizarre storm-related damage or something similar, and it had not. Armed with this knowledge, I grabbed my knitting and headed back out into the world.
I didn’t even get a chance to open the knitting bag. There was no line. I’m hoping that this is because all of my neighbors got their voting in early (and often, of course), and not because of a general lack of voter turnout. However, given the lines I was seeing at the early voting polling place (which is just across the street from my house), I tend to think it’s the former, and not the latter.
So, if you’re eligible to vote, get out there and do it.
A few days ago, I was talking with the son of a friend from high school. Today will be the young man’s first voting experience. He was asking me some questions about what he should do and how he could be prepared. Here’s part of what I came up with, in a more presentable form. (more…)
Ah, daylight saving.
I hope you all are enjoying your extra hour of sleep. For me, instead of taking that extra hour, my brain and body said, “Nope! 4 AM! Time to get up!” This, of course, means that I’ve been up since 3 AM, thanks to the time shift.
Still not king.
New Font: FontAwesome
If anyone out there does layout and design and needs some pretty decent iconic imagery to use, I’m passing on an icon I recently found: FontAwesome. It includes 220 icons and vectors. It even has IE7 support. (And, from the developer’s page: If you need it, you have my condolences.)
I thought some of you might find it worth checking out.
But it pours.
*sigh*
I have somehow managed to go from a state where I have almost nothing to do to a state where I’m feeling a wee bit overwhelmed.
To help matters, we appear to have a hurricane bearing down on us. And I’ve borrowed Turtle and Drama (two of my favoritest dogs on Earth) for a week or so, so I get to figure out walking dogs in a storm.
Oh, and G and I both get migraines induced by shifts in the barometric pressure. Something I’m sure won’t be happening at all over the next few days.
All in all, a great big don’t wanna.
PSA: Important Knitting Rule.
If you are the sort to have an occasional drink, it is a good idea to keep around a knitting project that you can safely work on after having a drink or two. There is, in fact, a whole book
Having had a drink, I think I shall put away the Terribly Intricate Project for the evening, and pull out a nearly-fool-proof project.
Returning to my roots.
I’ve spent some time over the last couple of days wrangling with Dreamweaver. I started to write up what Dreamweaver is, and what its alternatives are, and why those pieces of information are pertinent to the story. But then I realized that, if I have to explain these things, you’re not really going to get the story, which is ok. Not everybody has to get every story. Instead, the story shall stand on its own.
Calling all vim geeks.
If you don’t know what vim is, don’t worry about it, you probably don’t need to. Also, you’re pretty safe in skipping this post, or any other post with this subject.
Still here? Righto.
Assuming you use color syntax highlighting (and if you don’t, you can stop reading, too), what is your must-have vim color scheme? Do you have different favorites for :set bg=dark vs :set bg=light?
Back to the Googles.
It’s what’s for breakfast!
Li hing cherry and a Coke, that is.
I have no earthly idea why I’m up this early, but I figured I might as well stop trying to fall back asleep and actually get up. So here I sit, yawning and typing at you. Not that you’re not fascinating. It’s just, 4:30 AM, you know.
Today’s plan: Mad progress on at least 2 projects I’m working on. I’m hoping to get a little bit ahead of the game for the week so that I go out and play tomorrow night. Kinda nervous. Kinda excited. Then kinda nervous again. 🙂
Anything fun happening in your neck of the woods? Do I need to send you li hing cherries and a Coke? 🙂
Monday, Monday
It’s been a productive morning thus far. Knitting (of course), and YAMA. Then G and I finished divesting my car of all traces of anything that it didn’t originally come with. This is to prepare the vehicle for detailing, which will take anywhere between 2 and 4 hours. In order to keep myself from going completely bonkers whilst waiting, I have wound more yarn for a couple of projects, and have some papers printed for layout project I’m working on. I’m also charging my iPad and Kindle and phone. I’m a hard chick to bore, if I have a little advanced warning. 🙂
How are y’all spending your Monday?