Errant Thoughts
“You never paint what you see or think you see. You paint with a thousand vibrations the blow that struck you.” –Nicholas de Stael

Archive for February, 2007

Errant Cats & An Odd Music Thought

Monday, February 26th, 2007

As one tiny part of what my husband is doing to the site, I moved the cat photos from our own hosting to a flickr set. That option wasn’t available when the photos were first taken, but now it’s the easier way to go. If you have too much time on your hands and just can’t get enough of cat photos you’re welcome to look at them, but they’re mostly for our own viewing pleasure.

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Review of “Luscious Lemon Desserts”

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Today’s review is of Lori Longbotham’s Luscious Lemon Desserts.

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Wordcount progress meters & a cookbook review

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

I’ve always loved wordcount progress meters and charts. They’re such fun doohickeys, and when I was working writing contracts they’re how I kept myself on course.

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“Warcraft Widows”

Monday, February 19th, 2007

I couldn’t help looking through this thread on “warcraft widows” and the wide gamut of comments.

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This is my brain. This is my brain on CSI.

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

I can’t remember the last time a TV show actually occupied my thoughts this way. I’m hooked on the CSI “miniature killer” plot–it’s the best-scripted mystery I’ve seen in a long time.

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Cookbook Review and… 500+ Reviews!

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Today’s review is of Jewish Holiday Feasts, a wonderfully delicious little cookbook from Chronicle Books.

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O Rapturous Day…

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Ah, Valentine’s Day. We never plan anything momentous; we sometimes try to do something nice, like some special chocolates or a nice dinner, but that’s about it. Otherwise we try to avoid the stress of worrying about it. Yesterday… yesterday was interesting.

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A link and a review (not in that order)

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Also in the vein of kvetching about reading comprehension, or maybe how observant someone is: I just love it when I get an email from someone saying they’d appreciate a link from our links directory, and even mentioning which sub-part of the directory they think they’d suit, but they apparently didn’t notice the handy little “submit new link” link right at the top of that category. Sigh…

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Reading Comprehension FTW

Monday, February 12th, 2007

One of the more popular things on this site has been the pdf “365 Character Questions for Writers and Roleplayers,” found via the writers’ exercises page. Every now and then when I look through our stats I find that someone new has linked to it, usually via a blog entry or forum post, because they’re answering some of the questions for their own characters or suggesting it as a resource for others.

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A New Milestone in Gaming Apparel

Friday, February 9th, 2007

Today we hit a new milestone in our cafepress venture: we sold a thong.

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