Some interesting definitions from The Jargon Lexicon: bletcherous: /blech’@�r@s/, adj. Disgusting in design or function; esthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. “This keyboard is bletcherous!†(Perhaps the keys don’t work very well, or are misplaced.) See losing, cretinous, bagbiting, bogus, and random. The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is losing or bagbiting may be failing to meet...
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Snow?!
It is snowing here. This is so strange. It’s supposed to be 60F on Thanksgiving. This just seems so wrong… Related Images:
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So the recital was last night! The good news is that the top held together and fit. Last thing you want to do is have your top fall apart when you are belly dancing! I spent most of the day getting ready for the trip to Chattanooga. I left the house at 3:00 to arrive in Kingston at 4:00. All of us caravaned down to Chattanooga for the reciatal (which began at 7:00)....
Continue reading...Pre-Recital Stuff
So far everything has been going well. I am not going to do any workouts tonight like I normally would. I’ve practised the choreography a few times, reviewed the steps and the music. I feel comfortable with everything. Here’s hoping tomorrow goes well! Related Images:
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Mom posted two pictures of Isis up on Sidar’s foal page. Isis pictures from July 2006 show Related Images:
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If you have friends overseas, here are some great resources for using a domestic dial-through number to make free international calls. Here’s how it works: dial the access number for the international dialtone (in this case, the number is based in Iowa), dial the international number at the dialtone, and then you’re connected to the overseas number. Free Call Planet Future Phone Related Images:
Continue reading...Seamstresses RULE!
My friend the seamstress just called. She said that she can meet me during lunch with the completed velvet coin top and the skirt. Amazing! She has really saved me a lot of time and difficulties. Related Images:
Continue reading...Impending Recital
It’s now barely four days until the recital. I feel like I know the steps well enough, but I don’t feel like I’m really dancing it. There is a fluidity when you watch other dancers. I don’t have the transitions between steps down to where they look flawless and easy. I still look like I’m having to think and struggle with the steps at times. (Which is annoying, because I remember dancing in...
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Microsoft has released a version of the Firefox browser. Yup, you heard me correctly. I read it, reread it, and still keep checking to see whether it’s April 1st. There is something innately wrong about Microsoft releasing a version of Firefox and calling it Microsoft Firefox 2007 Professional. It is just wrong. It has to be a spoof site. It just has to be. Related Images:
Continue reading...Seamstresses are your friends
For the past week or more I’ve been faced with a sewing project. Sewing really isn’t my cup of tea. I’m more apt to do cross stitch or sculpture than I am sewing. With a pattern, I am reasonable. Nothing fancy, no-frills, and I definitely loose patience if the project takes more than a few hours. The skirt I ordered for the upcoming recital finally arrived. Instead of being a reasonable length, it...
Continue reading...Headaches
It’s that time of year again. Whether it’s leaf mold or some other allergen or a weather front, it’s sinus headache time. Thursday night I woke up with a nasty headache: the type that sits behind your eyes and pounds. It was aggrevated by sleeping at a funky angle. The headache lingered into this morning and worsened as the day went on. Some sinus headaches have migraine-like symptoms, including light and sound sensitivity....
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Roof is leaking. Again. (sigh) Time to call the guys who patched it last time… Related Images:
Continue reading...Finally…
After several years, the W3C announced on November 6th that CSS 2.1 is finally in the Last Call stage. From the W3C home page: “The CSS Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1 (CSS 2.1). Comments are welcome through 7 December.” It is good to hear that CSS2.1 is finally making it towards Recommendation instead of Draft. Now maybe the rest of the...
Continue reading...Photos of the Kids
Here are some photos of the kids taken with the new camera. It seems to do pretty well with action shots. These pictures were taken at dusk, so please forgive some of the grainyness and blur. It is amazing to see Isis like this, after just two months ago she was so different. Related Images:
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I got a new digital camera: Fujifilm S9100. It’s a 9 MP, 10.7x optical zoom wanna-be DSLR. My old camera, Sony Cybershot F707, is still a good camera, but it couldn’t take action shots, like pictures of the horses running, without a lot of work. I also ran into trouble when I wanted to zoom in. The 5x optical just wasn’t enough. The Fujifilm has a nice lens with a 28-300mm telephoto lens....
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