• I don’t mind getting spam from scammers, but when the scammer emails back with a whiney “why haven’t you replied” note, then Julie Smash. #
• For anyone who avoids fanfic ’cause “it’s just a lot of porn”, try this: http://bit.ly/9h6WDh No porn, but it might make you think. #
• And this is why you get the money up fromt: http://bit.ly/dCYywG #
• Wow. This is big. http://bit.ly/Wdstx #fb #
• Desk at work got moved again. Will now spend the rest of the week
  readjusting to a different ergo setup. Bleh. #
• I have to take my glasses off to clean them, but then I can’t see what I’m
  cleaning. Aaarg. #
• For 100K labels I’m sending a proof, even if it is a reorder with no
  changes. #
• Cleaning keyboard crud // is a good way to kill time // on dull afternoons #geekhiaku #
• Delayed opening at work. I got to wake up after the sun for once. (though the cat obv. thinks it’s a weekend now…) #
• …aaaand there’s more snow. Bugger. #
• For cases where wordpress is being used as a CMS, a “sort posts by last modified date” would be very helpful. #

Sadly, I can’t paint a sound.

More of the “re-doing old pieces to see what I’ve learned in the last few years”. First, the new piece:

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The first version, done sometime around 2004 I think. (It’s amazing the metadata that gets mangled in 3 different computer migrations.)

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And finally, the original photograph.

• The boys are playing Magic. I’m painting. Life is good. #
• I’ll be going down to 1-2 pics per week in the near future. (I’d like to do more with spring than spend every blessed moment at this desk.) #
• More snow tonight. Yay. And by that I mean, please kill me now.  #
• One interestng thing about scheduling posts well in advance is I’m almost as surprised as everyone else when they show up. #
• Is there some sort of PHP debug tool for dummies out there? I don’t mind my template changes borking but I don’t know /why/ they’re borking. #
• Or why thery’re working, for that matter. #
• Stevie Nicks can cheer me up out of almost anything. #
• Netflixed some eps of friday the 13th (tv) and the 1990 dark shadows. They’re horrid, but I can see why they caught my 15yr old imagination #
• It’s amazing how impossible it is to sleep in when you have a headache and a hungry cat.  #
• I’ve completely cleared my WIP folder and have posts scheduled up though early May. Wow. #

So, I’m considering buying a cassette tape converter. (which doesn’t always mean much – I’m good at talking myself out of spending money most of the time.) I’ve already re-bought some most of my old tapes, but I’ve got a bunch of mid-90′s folk, filk, and renfair tapes that are either completely out of print and unavailable or are out of print and expensively hard to get.

That’s not a huge hardship. I only get a real burning urge to listed to them every few years, (ah, nostalgia) and we do still have a tape deck in the house, but 1.) these are old tapes and every run though the player degrades them a smidgen more (not that I took stellar care of them back when…) and 2.) I’d have to dig though the damn closet to get to the storage bin, and that’s a lot of work for something I’m going to have to re-pack into storage. Also, 3.) I am quite used to digital convenience by now and would like to use some of these tracks in a modern (ipod-esque) manner.

So this may be one of my spring/summer projects. If I don’t get distracted first. :)