“Frio” by Ricky Martin
Commuting
Trying out the “quick photo” in the iPhone wordpress app.
May 10, 12, 14!
An outsider’s view
. . . of a fantastic Quaker meeting: “pretty much the weirdest thing I have ever been to.”
It’s really a fantastic essay by a college student who visited Freedom Friends Church.
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Favorite websites
Funny how odd it seems to be making this list on my blog! I’ve never been much of one for blogrolls, even back when that was a major part of most blogs. I am, however, a voracious consumer of RSS feeds. I use Google Reader to manage them. Here are a few of my favorites.
- Whatever (John Scalzi)
- The Daily Dish (Andrew Sullivan)
- Velveteen Rabbi (Rachel Barenblat)
- Wim van der Meij (photoblog and etchings)
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Kottke.org (Jason Kottke)
In my bag
Or, in my case today, in the pockets of my jacket!
- cell phone
- Framley Parsonage (The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1957 hardcover pocket edition)
- bus schedules: 92 and 93
Blog goals
Goals? Who said anything about the blog having goals?
- originally, as the subhead says, an aide-mémoire (but only useful if I actively blog!)
- to vent on political or social topics for which I feel I have no other venue
- to be on record publicly
- to influence whoever might come across or follow the blog
- to be findable by old friends and coworkers
Least favorite words
I don’t think I actually have “least favorite” words per se (at least not that I can put on a blog), although context does put me off as an editor.
- “And” or “but” when used to begin a sentence.
- “However” when used to begin a sentence with the sense of “although.”