Last night was once again craft night at Casa Granade. We had a small turnout but that allowed us to really spread out and work and chat.
I am excited to say that Craft Night is becoming all that I dreamed for it to be. Everybody is working on different kinds of projects but it works [...]
If you’re a scientist or engineer, you’ve got a pretty good chance of having to write a scientific proposal. If you’re an academic scientist or engineer, your chance goes up to around 100%. That’s one of the downsides of getting to choose what kind of research you’re going to do: you have to convince people [...]
When Eli was Liza’s age (around 2) he was decidedly uninterested in coloring. He did not want to play with paper or crayons or markers or paint. You can well imagine how sad this made me. But I dealt with it, thinking he would learn to be creative in other ways.
I got the book The [...]
I’ve mentioned before that I read a ton of craft blogs. Actually that’s misleading, look at the photos on a ton of craft blogs, would be more accurate. This is a list of my favorites that I look forward to seeing every day.
A Print a Day: She does beautiful illustrations and posts every day. On [...]
by Eli
Once upon a time, there was a green-headed robot. He was lonely and very sad. But…he had no friends. But then one day, he met a purple-headed robot, Joe.
“How do you do, Joe?” said Sparky. (Mom, the purple-headed one is Sparky.)
“Good!” said Joe.
“Good!” said Sparky.
“But we don’t have any more friends!”
“You’re right!” said Sparky.
“We [...]
This poster was for the “My Bloody Valentine” library event that happened this past Friday night. We were playing up Friday the 13th and Valentine’s Day happening back to back this year. I was really pleased with the way the poster turned out. A friend attended the event and emailed me that Dr. Bass, one [...]
When I was in high school, I wanted to be a pretentious art school student but I was hampered by attending a regular high school with my good and very nerdy friends. In order to gain my pretentious art school street cred, I made all my friends participate in my daily creation of Lunch Deceased.
Lunch [...]
If you’ve been following me on Twitter, then you know all I’ve talked about lately is the work I’ve been doing. Working from home as I do and doing zero self promotion as I do, the work tends to come and go in waves. Lately it’s been a bit of tsunami and I am completely [...]
So I wasn’t content with just one way of creating M3U playlists out of iTunes. I went and wrote another. There’s more than one way to do it, as I learned writing Perl programs.
Pity I’m writing in Python.
Anyway, this method only works on a Mac, because it uses Applescript. Actually, it uses appscript, an event [...]
Because I have a crazy byzantine digital music setup, there are times when I want to take an iTunes playlist and move it to our Xbox running XBMC, because the Xbox has nice speakers whereas none of our iTunes-running laptops do. XBMC, like all sane media players, accepts M3U playlists. iTunes, however, will only export [...]
