[personal] Miscellaneous updatery redux
Today is my last day in San Francisco for this trip. Back to Portland this afternoon. My flight is scheduled to arrive during President Obama’s downtown political rally, so depending on how paranoid the Secret Service is feeling airspace may be restricted or closed. In other words, I have no idea when I’m actually getting in.
Tomorrow calendula_witch and I are off to Surrey International Writers’ Conference for the weekend. We are taking the_child with us. She turns 13 on Friday, so the trip to BC is sort of a birthday present as well.
calendula_witch and I have been having a lot of challenging conversations lately in this post-chemo environment. Productive but difficult, especially since we’ve seen each other exactly once over the past two weeks. In person would have been a lot easier.
Also, my mom, a/k/a tillyjane, has been in the hospital since Monday. Major surgery is scheduled for next Monday. Please keep her in your thoughts.
Tags: Calendula, California, Canada, Child, family, Personal, Travel
Posted: 5:37 am Wed October 20 2010 | Comments(2) |
[art] “Eyeice” by the Child
“Eyeice” by . Medium: iPad 3G, Brushes app.
© 2010 B. Lake. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission.
Tags: Art, Child, iPad
Posted: 5:35 am Wed October 20 2010 | Comments(0) |
[photos] Australia: Touring Melbourne, grafitti alley part 5
We also visited Hosier Lane famed for its graffiti.
These rats are said to be a Banksy stencil.
And a few images from elsewhere in Melbourne, to finish off this series…
As usual, more at the Flickr set.
© 2010, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Tags: Art, Australia, Calendula, Photos, Travel
Posted: 5:33 am Wed October 20 2010 | Comments(3) |
[photos] Your Wednesday moment of zen
Your Wednesday moment of zen.
Flooded pot garden, Portland, OR, photographed by The Child. © 2006, 2010, B. Lake.
This work by B. Lake is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Tags: Child, Photos, Portland, zen
Posted: 5:31 am Wed October 20 2010 | Comments(2) |
[links] Link salad al fresco
The brilliant Daniel Abraham muses on what it means to be a genre
Scrivener’s Error on, among other things, the most recent closure of Realms of Fantasy
Solar eclipse, from space — Wow.
The Economic Argument — xkcd is damned clever. Single best piece of New Age debunking I’ve ever seen.
Why Does Abu Dhabi Own All of Chicago’s Parking Meters? — Yet another example of the conservative fetish for privatization gone terribly wrong.
US military accepts openly gay recruits — ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy suffers another blow, but activists still warn applicants not to reveal sexuality. Oh, noes, teh gayz are running the world now! Or just maybe, life will go on as normal.
Christine O’Donnell’s church and state gaffe makes voters laugh — Self-proclaimed Consitutional expert and Republican senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell unfamiliar with First Amendment. Which pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the Tea Party right there. Daniel Larison has more.
?otD: Frida or Diego?
10/20/2010
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (distraction factor)
Body movement: 45 minute urban walk (San Francisco hills, faster pace)
Hours slept: 6.5 hours (solid but underslept)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo/post-op stress index: 4/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy, emotional distress)
Currently reading: The Loving Dead by Amelia Beamer
Tags: Cool, Culture, Funny, gay, Links, Personal, Photos, Politics, Process, Publishing, Science
Posted: 5:29 am Wed October 20 2010 | Comments(0) |
[books] METAtropolis Cascadia cover art
As previously, discussed, on November 16th, Audible.com will release METAtropolis: Cascadia. This is the sequel to METAtropolis, was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Audie Award (the top honor in the audiobook industry), as well as being published in print by both Subterranean Press and Tor.
The line-up is:
Here’s the blurb for the anthology:
As the mid-21st Century approaches, the Pacific Northwest has been transformed — politically, economically, and ecologically — into the new reality of Cascadia. Conspiracies and secrets threaten the tenuous threads of society. The End of Days seems nearer than ever. And the legend of the mysterious Tygre Tygre looms large.
Tags: Art, audio, Books, Publishing, stories
Posted: 5:57 am Tue October 19 2010 | Comments(0) |
[help] Identifying a piece of furniture, part 2
Thank you very much to everyone who made comments and suggestions on yesterday’s post about the curio cabinet belonging to calendula_witch’s family [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ].
As a followup, calendula_witch’s mother has provided more detail and additional photos.
This cabinet has been in our family since at least 1940. It came with a 2nd husband (aged about 50 at that time)of my grandmother. He had inherited it from his wealthy New England family. They originally came to this country from Germany, and his father became a naturalized US citizen in 1885.
The decorations are painted, not inlay or decal. The design on the top includes a lyre on top of a scroll of sheet music. It seems mostly solid wood, except for the top surface, which is veneer. The gold accents are metal, tack-nailed on. There is no label or mark we can find. There are 2 metal keys. The shelves are thick glass, with a mirror on the back inside wall. There is no light in the cabinet.
The curved glass has no distortion. The solid pieces of wood are butted, and probably joined with dowels that can’t be seen.
A while back I found something similar on eBay that was French from about 1850, so this may be the same or a later reproduction. It would be nice to know. It is about 4’8″ tall. Also, there are some screws on the bottom, holding things together, but the curved wooden pieces are solid. My husband thinks the wood might be ash.
Also, it was mentioned elsewhere that the wiring visible in some of the photos is incidental to a lamp. The cabinet itself is not wired for electricity.
And the photos…
Photos © 2010 K. Salonen, reproduced with permission.
Tags: Calendula, family, Help, Photos
Posted: 5:50 am Tue October 19 2010 | Comments(3) |
[photos] Australia: Touring Melbourne, grafitti alley part 4
We also visited Hosier Lane famed for its graffiti.
As usual, more at the Flickr set.
© 2010, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Tags: Art, Australia, Photos, Travel
Posted: 5:40 am Tue October 19 2010 | Comments(0) |
[photos] Your Tuesday moment of zen
Your Tuesday moment of zen.
Sidewalk, Portland, OR, photographed by The Child. © 2006, 2010, B. Lake.
This work by B. Lake is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Tags: Child, Photos, Portland, zen
Posted: 5:39 am Tue October 19 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad wakes up, wonders, and goes back to sleep
Why There Can Never Be A Competitor to Google Books — Publishers are about to grant Google monopolistic pricing power and permanent exclusivity over countless “orphaned” works. Ah, tha banal evil that is the Google Books Settlement.
Prometheus Rising Through Saturn’s F Ring — More APOD awesomeness from NASA.
O’Donnell’s Ignorance. Again. — It amazes me that a party that managed to elect intellectual lights such as Jim Bunning and Michele Bachmann has scraped even deeper into the loon barrel with such success.
America’s Holy Writ — Tea Party evangelists claim the Constitution as their sacred text. Why that’s wrong. Wait, angry conservatives mistaken about something? Why, them being wrong on the facts is as unlikely as the sun setting in the west! (Via shsilver.)
Tea Parties and Fairness — Daniel Larison on an interesting point.
?otD: Why?
10/19/2010
Writing time yesterday: 0.5 hours (distraction factor)
Body movement: trade show walking to come (overslept my hill walking time slot)
Hours slept: 7.25 hours (solid)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo/post-op stress index: 4/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy, emotional distress)
Currently reading: The Loving Dead by Amelia Beamer
Tags: Links, Personal, Photos, Politics, Publishing, Science
Posted: 5:39 am Tue October 19 2010 | Comments(0) |
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