Donna and I went to Settlers Cabin Park today just west of Pittsburgh with my friend Eric and his fiancee Julie. The dogs came along and we cooked out and had a nice little picnic. After going on the teepee trail, I came across a woolly bear caterpillar. I’ve always found these caterpillars really interesting, [...]
Archive for 3 September 2007
Woolly Bear Caterpillar
Posted: 3 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: caterpillars, dogs, friends, insects, mobile pics, park
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Daedalus is a sucker for some good sunbathing and stick-chewing. When he should be doing his business, he likes to plop down on some warm grass, grab a stick, and then proceed to gnaw it down until he almost chokes to death on it and I have to rescue him. Once he had a stick [...]
Pecha Kucha
Posted: 3 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: art, business, conferences, japan, pecha kucha, performance art, presentations, youtube
I came across this article in Wired today about a new format for presentations called Pecha Kucha, which comes from the Japanese word for chit-chat. It was invented by a foreign architect duo Mark Dytham (British) and Astrid Klein (Italian) living in Japan who saw a need for a way to showcase their work that [...]
Stardust
Posted: 3 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: blagoblag, books, fairy tales, family, fantasy, greenville, movies, neil gaiman, postmodernism
Over Christmas while visiting family in Greenville, SC, I bought a stack of books at my favorite old haunt: Barnes & Noble. Among those books was Stardust by Neil Gaiman (more about this in a sec). Being a grad student with a raging blagoblag addiction, I don’t have a whole lot of time to read [...]
