2007 Tokyo International Quilt Festival — truly stunning art, and Mennonites don’t have the market cornered on gorgeous quilts. (Though it was cool to see a couple patterns I recognize from the family collections.) (Courtesy of Hélène.)
Quinoa is pronounced “KEEN-wah” or “KEE-no-ah”. Why it took me so long to finally look that up, I’ve no [...]

*The subject line refers to a Twitter joke from earlier today. To my knowledge I am not a thing of any import in Uzbekistan.
Anyway, Sherry alerted me to our nominations for Best Personal Blog at the Canadian Blog Awards. (We’re about halfway down the list.)
I don’t know who nominated me/us (‘fess up for smoochies!), but [...]

Two recent reads that I heartily enjoyed and recommend:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life: I believe I found this one via the WPL’s website recommendations. It’s by Barbara Kingsolver, but is not fiction like her usual efforts. It also seemed a good complement to The 100-Mile Diet, which I have on the hold [...]

Apologies for those subjected to a big list of crap spam links if you’re reading this in RSS. Looks like I got hacked again. Lovely.
Many thanks to Dana for bringing it to my attention. Password changed, and upgrade to WordPress imminent. (Of course, I suspect that’ll bring a whole ‘nother world of pain…)
Grr.

I learned about Red Canary last summer when I was job hunting. The property is an effort by The Laudi Group, a recruiting firm out of Toronto. I liked the material, the writing, and was particularly impressed that a Toronto firm had such a solid grasp on tech business and culture here in KW. (The [...]

So a few folks were all, like, “Dude, your site’s not working!” Plus I noticed my template was broken — if you actually come here and don’t just do RSS you would have seen a gap at the top of the “paper” part.
Turns out I done got hacked and some spam shit was inserted [...]

To celebrate his blog’s 7th birthday, Mr. Gaiman has plans to make one of his books available for free (presumably via the website).
The Birthday Thing
Head on over and cast your vote. Everyone could use more Gaiman.
As the gentleman notes:
What I want you to do is think — not about which of the books below is [...]

Stolen from Sherry because I am savouring my remaining day of laziness.
Instructions: Look back at your blog – take the first sentence or two from the first post for each month of 2007 and see what you get.
And so…
January: So I won’t be homeless.
February: I am so tired, and so sore, but I am moved.
March: [...]

Just sayin’ is all.

Overprotective parenting and bullying: Who is to blame for the suicide of Megan Meier? (danah boyd weighs in)
Megan Had It Coming: I’m Lori Drew (The comments say rather a lot…)