This is a lightweight personal site for me to record my thoughts and the things I'm working on. Most of what’s written here isn’t written anticipating any ki...
It freaks people out to hear my daughter has her "own phone", a fact she is frequently telling everybody, but it is not a cellular phone and it doesn't even have a screen, instead it is a corded phone that lives in my office. It is a VoIP phone that works using a normal phone, which plugs into an adapter that a corded phone then plugs into. I don't have one handy, but apparently a proper rotary…
Recently I’ve been kind of sad about the idea that, despite having thousands of pictures of my children, they aren’t recorded on any film negatives at all. The digital record is extensive, and it’s objectively pretty safe since I’ve backed it up in a number of places, but it feels less real. So I picked up a cheap half-frame camera kind of impulsively. I enjoyed shooting it on my vacation so much…
I work remotely but I also have two small, preschool aged kids, I used to have help with them at home but now I don't. Every work day I need to travel to a different place to get things done, taking one or both kids with me where they can be watched while I do my meetings and tasks. On Mondays and Fridays, both kids come with me to the mother-in-laws' house. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, my daughter…
Musselburgh by Ysolda Teague
I've recently learned that my husband was impressed by my hard drive replacement the other weekend, which is pretty cool. It was not a difficult thing to do, except for the screw placement thing I already complained about (and at length, offline), but it did take me a number or hours and it seems to be fairly wizardy to non-computer people. Personally it's more that I always felt like kind of an…
I can't settle on how (or even if!) I want to collect feedback on my blog. I've decided to try out a guestbook , and I had a little fun setting it up! The checkbox to prove you're human is comically stretched though which I am going to need to figure out a solution to, but I'm too tired currently. I also spent my afternoon up to my elbows in computer guts, trying to install a new 8TB HDD I got for…
I bought an entry level fountain pen recently, which is something I'd been thinking about for a long time, but I hadn't gotten around to it until a few weeks ago. Even though I had years to research the purchase I just impulsively grabbed one labeled "for beginners". (It is a Pilot Kakuno, for pen-knowers.) It is so nice to write with! I don't know if it's just this pen or if any fountain pen…
It doesn't happen often, but sometimes somebody makes a post here on Bear Blog that I totally hate. Maybe I think their analysis of politics is not very good, or they're making some harsh judgements about a field of work or study they (in my estimation) don't really understand. Maybe they're painting with a very broad brush and their worldview is just too limited or depressed to really back up…
There is currently a trend to reduce screentime in general, and in particular to replace screens with e-ink equivalents as a tool to do it. The Xteink X4 is a very trendy device right now (if you're in nerdy circles anyway). You can buy e-ink computer monitors , tablets you can write on , with color screens to read comic books on . Is e-ink a screen? Literally yes, obviously. But e-ink is static…
Link to project Ravelry page . project notes I started these when my boy started showing signs of walking, thinking I would whip them out before his first birthday, and then I hated doing so much ribbing (the backs are all ribbing!) on double pointed needles that it took me an eternity. Eventually what forced me to finish is I needed the needles for another project. They took me so long I worried…