Power of the Wolf

This website has been circulating via email among my friends lately, no one knows who discovered it.  It has to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen.  It's better that ranting on Craigslist.  It's an awesome product on Amazon, but don't get sidetracked by your desire to buy it right away, read the reviews and look at the customer images.

Phone Pics

So I'm really bored right now. I figured out how to send the pics from my phone to my T-Mobile Album online, then move them to Picasa, so I can post them here!

This is a statue at a park on Lake Washington in Kirkland, WA. It's been there as long as I can remember, and I always loved it as a kid. I never thought of putting clothes on it though. (Update: It's Marsh Park)

I'm using the library wireless from a bench outside because they aren't open yet.  I thought this tree looked cool.

I Love The Onion

Police Still Searching For Missing Productive, Obedient Woman

I am SO handy!

Because I had nothing to do after I finished teaching, I decided to satisfy my craving to make something with my hands.  First, I made some curtains for the living room window, but that wasn't hardcore enough, so I made an island for my kitchen.  This was tricky because, being a poor renter, I do not have many tools.  My only "real" tool is the $10 drill I got at Fred Meyer from the Christmas clearance table.  It's pretty awesome.  It's cordless, but if I use it for five minutes on battery power, it gets too weak to drill into anything but drywall.  So I had to take many breaks to let it charge.

The next challenge was to design something that could be assembled with only a crappy drill.  Solution: precut lumber and shelf brackets!  Lowes will cut any wood to length for you, but I was worried because the guy helping me seemed super-stoned and was having some difficulty operating the giant saw.  He managed to get it cut correctly, though, after some time.

I learned a lame lesson in this project.  Apparently, wood is always smaller than the dimensions on the label.  This sucks because my building plans assumed that, you know, a 1x2 would actually be 1 inch by 2 inches. So I ended up having to go back to the store to buy more wood when things weren't fitting right. Grrr!  Like this piece was supposed to be 3 inches...

I also had to be creative in other ways.  Who needs a clamp when you have heavy things?

The funnest part was pouring the epoxy on the top.  It's a resin that starts out liquid when it is first mixed, then hardens slowly.  You have to spread the goop across the surface with a spatula then keep it protected from dust for 8 hours.  The box says it's equivalent to 60 coats of varnish. Now it's all shiny and professional.

Here it is all painted in it's place in the kitchen!

I Made Bread!

The other day, I learned how to make bread.  Here is my masterpiece, can you tell what it is?

I found a great new econ blog today, that actually rivals the entertainment value of Freakonomics. It's economistsdoitwithmodels.com

A little ways down, I found a post with this video:



Freaking hilarious!!!

She also had a recent post featuring an xkcd.com comic, so that makes her pretty cool.

Craigslist as Therapy

This just totally made my day.  I love a good rant.