I’m obsessing about Project Runway again. Misty thinks Suede knows Suede is over the top. Someone told me Tim Gunn had a podcast. Anybody know anything about that?
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In the Armory
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Information or Conversation?
July 24, 2008 – 8:26 pm
Some blogs you read for the information they contain, whether that’s technical tips or the latest goings-on in a friend’s life. Some you read for the conversation among the blog’s regulars and its author. I’m curious to know which style, if either, you prefer.
I go in cycles. I’m fond of blogs that have good conversations [...]
Boom Monkey Update
July 24, 2008 – 8:14 pm
Information Wants to be Non-Informative
July 24, 2008 – 7:51 am
Boom Monkey
July 23, 2008 – 9:08 pm
For Christmas, Misty’s mom got me a set of boomwhackers. They’re pitched plastic tubes — think handbells for people too nerdy to play handbells. After I got them, I had fun playing various simple songs for Eli. Then I started wondering: could I do something more complex with them?
The result, through a chain of reasoning [...]
It’s What’s for Dinner (Sometime Last Week)
July 23, 2008 – 2:03 pm
We have around 900 pictures from Japan. I’m not kidding, after the first cull, we still have 900 photographs. Needless to say, it’s going to take me a few days to get back in the swing of things, process all these photos, love on my children, catch up on my mail and projects and remember [...]
Can You Improve Gas Mileage By Filling Your Tank Half-Way?
July 22, 2008 – 10:38 pm
Here’s a question for you: can you improve your car’s gas mileage by only filling its tank half-way? Or should you fill your tank completely each time?
Since I’m a physicist, I might as well make some back-of-the-envelope calculations and use them as the basis for sweeping generalizations. If you’re smart you’ll check my work.
On the [...]
Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety Jig
July 20, 2008 – 4:40 pm
Secret Bird Project
July 20, 2008 – 10:30 am
I was making Liza’s butterfly when I found this bird pattern on one of my craft blogs. I knew I wanted to make it and combine it with this quote:
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang best.
–Henry Van Dyke
I’ve been working on them [...]
In Death!
July 17, 2008 – 10:56 am
Of late, Misty’s been reading a lot of J.D. “Surely No One Will Guess I’m Nora Roberts” Robb books. I didn’t realize until I saw the third or fourth that all of their titles end “…in Death.” No, really. There’s even an Excel spreadsheet listing all of them.
This seems a lot more restrictive to me [...]
