Chicago Public Radio just broadcast an amazing documentary about the old Zenith manufacturing plant, which closed 10 years ago. They interviewed several former employees and intercut them in a really compelling, evocative way. I was transported to another time and place as I listened. Somehow, I managed to keep enough attention on the road to get home safely. You’ve got to hear this, because it’s not just people talking about where they used to work. They’re talking about who they used to be, and what this country used to do. Today marks the 10th anniversary of a historic plant closure…
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Succeeded. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Initiate Lapcat Chinskritch By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 2 Dec ’08, 7.17pm CST PST Succeeded. Ginny I can has iPhone?
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Total elapsed time after arrival: 10 minutes. Feed: nom nom nominal Error log: 1 interrupted install (teakettle whistle alert tone) End log: 5 minutes. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Lapcat Install Compleet By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 2 Dec ’08, 6.30pm CST PST Total elapsed time after arrival: 10 minutes. Feed: nom nom nominal Error log: 1 interrupted install (teakettle whistle alert tone) End log: 5 minutes. Ginny I can has iPhone?
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Southwest Airlines (WN) is giving out free socks from Old Navy today at their Dallas Love, San Francisco, and Providence counters. How do I know? Because they Twittered it, of course. They “tweet” as @SouthwestAirlines and even took pictures (will add links later).. Here’s one adorable lady repurposeing her socks: UPDATE: Isn’t this lady awesome? So cute and feisty. She reminds me of a friend at Holy Moly. Same playfulness. Clearly, she loves her sox.
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Ice Tree By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 1 Dec ’08, 5.21pm CST PST Ginny I can has iPhone?
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I admit it, I have Turkey Anxiety. I’ve never actually cooked a complete Thanksgiving meal, and in fact I very, very, very rarely cook at all. David handles most of the day to day stuff, although I have a few things that I make for the two of us. We never entertain, because the house is almost never company-ready. There’s too much stuff to put away and no place to put it, and yadda yadda. But every now and then, I get the wild urge to make a turkey dinner around the holidays, with the side items that are my…
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We saw lots of Georgian buildings on our trip to Dublin in August, and many of the best-preserved must have benefited from the work of the Irish Georgian Society: Now observing its 50th year with a series of celebrations and a lavishly illustrated book, the revived Irish Georgian Society has been credited with restoring dozens of architectural gems across Ireland, from a former union hall for Dublin tailors to the country’s oldest Palladian house. (The society’s early preservation efforts focused on Georgian Dublin, but in later years it expanded its mission to cover noteworthy buildings from any period.) Perhaps more…
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Another glorious image of Jupiter and Saturn, taken in Chile: Night skies over Chilean mountain top observatories can be dark and clear, with glorious cosmic vistas. In this recent example, the plane of our Milky Way galaxy stretches parallel to the horizon, the galactic center’s star clusters, dark dust clouds, and glowing nebulae hovering in the west. Recorded after sunset, the wedge of light extending upward through the scene is Zodiacal light, sunlight scattered by dust along the solar system’s ecliptic plane. A faint meteor was also caught in the view, but approaching a conjunction, brilliant Venus and bright Jupiter…
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Every once in a while, something will appear in the night sky that will attract the attention of even those who normally don’t bother looking up. It’s likely to be that way on Monday evening, Dec. 1. A slender crescent moon, just 15 percent illuminated, will appear in very close proximity to the two brightest planets in our sky, Venus and Jupiter. Via Venus, Jupiter will ‘shine’ Monday night – Space.com- msnbc.com I noticed two bright “stars” on my way home the other night near the Moon; this must be Jupiter and Venus, setting up for Monday’s big show. I…
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Creme brûlée, thank God. Could have been bean paste. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: What is it? Dessert? By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 28 Nov ’08, 7.10pm CST PST Creme brûlée, thank God. Could have been bean paste. Ginny I can has iPhone?