Archive for October, 2007

Fall season shaping up

Friday, October 26th, 2007

I’ve been seriously neglecting my knitting, partly because of other hobbies, partly because the last time I picked up needles, a couch ate them. Nonetheless, Pushing Daisies earned a sizeable helping of my love recently with the line, “Big daddy needs some new yarn.” (Major male character knits? Awesome. He’s not even gay, although he [...]

More TV fast commentary

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Ugly Betty—Still awesome.
Life—Surprisingly not awful, although mostly for the lead actor’s facial expressions and the often totally inexplicable strings of offbeat dialogue he spews.
Journeyman—It’s very much a ripoff of Quantum Leap and Daybreak, even including one of the cast from the latter, Whatsernmae Blooddingnus, who seems to professionally date time travelers. Still, I haven’t tuned [...]

Juvenile Black-Crowned Night Heron in flight

Friday, October 5th, 2007

I’ve been pretty good about shifting photo content to Plentvent 2.0. However, I just achieved a small personal bird-photographic coup: reasonably acceptable images of a Black-Crowned Night Heron in flight. Normally I’m lucky to get these skittish fools sitting on a branch—typically at the sacrifice of my neck—and when I get them in flight, it’s [...]