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[child] Holiday wreath sale

It’s that time of the year again. the_child‘s school is offering a holiday fund raiser of fresh-cut wreaths from the Cascade Mountains here in the Pacific Northwest. These can be delivered locally on 12/1, or be shipped nationwide (lower 48 only) by UPS, with delivery in early December. The options include:

Shipped via UPS:

18″ wreath — $35 each (shipped)
22″ wreath — $40 each (shipped)
24″ swag — $40 each (shipped)

Local pickup for Portland area:

18″ wreath — $20 each
22″ wreath — $25 each
24″ swag — $25 each
30″ wreath — $35 each
Garland — $2.50 per foot

If you’re interested in wreaths for yourself or a friend or relative, please let me know in comments or via direct email by Wednesday, November 9th.

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Tags: Child, Northwest, Personal, Portland

Posted: 5:57 am Mon October 17 2011 | Comments(0) |

[links] Link salad goes back to work, sort of

Gay Weddings: Is There A New Etiquette?

Crop Circles: Biggest and Most Bizarre Designs — Scientist says they’ve been improved by lasers and GPS.

NASA going green with solar-powered Jupiter probe

Chinese teachers are on a U.S. mission — Dozens of teachers from China are in Los Angeles to prepare for the opportunity of a lifetime: a chance to teach Mandarin in American schools.

DB Cooper may have lived 30 years after 1971 plane hijack as FBI reveal new suspect only died a decade ago

Vonnegut Banned – Again — As Vonnegut himself said years ago, If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own. There’s a lesson lost on Christianists and conservatives alike. The free exchange of ideas strengthens us and opens our minds — both of which are demonstrably antithetical to their worldview, especially when it comes to the deliberate miseducation of children as practiced by Republican dominated school boards and state boards of education across the country. It saddens me that our country comes back to this again and again. (Via @icowrich.)

Wake up GOP: Smashing system doesn’t fix it — Conservative David Frum on the GOP’s recent behavior.

Zakaria: Tea Party Tactics Immoral, Dictatorial — Conservatives are brilliant at enacting the tyranny of the minority.

?otD: Whom?

8/2/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (post-op recovery)
Body movement: 30 minutes stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.5 hours (solid)
Weight: 225.4
Currently reading: Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

Tags: Books, China, Cool, Culture, gay, Links, Northwest, Personal, Politics, Science, weird

Posted: 5:58 am Tue August 02 2011 | Comments(1) |

[links] Link salad takes out its guitar and plays

A reader reacts to Escapement — And Pinion.

Adam Engst on iPad and ereaders — Interesting thoughts on the ebooks publishing process. (Via a mailing list I’m on.)

Language nudges Art — Language Log on linguistic gender and cheese. Mmm.

Similar quake due to hit Northwest — Home, sweet home.

A false color map of the Honshu earthquake’s tsunami wave height — One of the more frightening images I’ve ever seen, in a weird way. (Via Bad Astronomy.)

Japanese official says pumping system caused nuclear plant blast — I really feel for Japan already, but this is a twist that cuts deeply into a unique scar on their cultural psyche.

How Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami Warning Systems Work — The world’s only earthquake warning system likely helped limit damage and loss of life. Government spending in action.

Coase Goes to War — Bribery as a precision guided munition.

New FAA Rule Turns Airplane Lavatories Into Deadly Traps — To quote danjite “Number of terrorist attacks on US planes per year, average: 0 Number of legitimate deployments of oxygen masks per year: 40-50. FAA: Remove oxygen from toilets to prevent terrorism!”

pecunium on how government regulation saves lives

Dumbing Deficits Down — Paul Krugman on deficits, healthcare and the disingenuousness of politicians.

?otD: Heavy metal or easy listening?

3/12/2011
Writing time yesterday: 2.75 hours (2,800 words on Sunspin, much WRPA)
Body movement: Urban hiking to come
Hours slept: 8.0 hours (interrupted)
Weight: n/a (forgot)
Currently reading: Esprit de Corps by Lawrence Durrell

Tags: Art, Books, Cheese, ebooks, Escapement, healthcare, Japan, Language, Links, Northwest, Personal, Pinion, Politics, Publishing, reviews, Science, Travel

Posted: 8:03 am Sat March 12 2011 | Comments(1) |

[conventions] Cascade Writers Workshop

The Cascade Writers Workshop (née Writers Weekend) is open for registration now. I’ll be teaching there, along with Hugo Award winning writer David Levine and Tor Books executive editor Beth Meacham. I know registrations are already coming in, so if you’re interested in working with us, sign up soon!

Particulars:

July 21-24, 2011, at the Ocean Crest Resort in scenic Moclips, WA, out on the Pacific side of the Olympic Peninsula
http://www.cascadewriters.com/

Hope to see you there!

Tags: Conventions, Cool, Northwest, Process

Posted: 4:04 pm Wed November 17 2010 | Comments(3) |

[child] Holiday wreath sale

It’s that time of the year again. the_child’s school is offering a holiday fund raiser of fresh-cut wreaths from the Cascade Mountains here in the Pacific Northwest. These can be delivered locally on 12/3, or be shipped nationwdide (lower 48 only) by UPS, with delivery in early December. The options include:

Shipped via UPS:

18″ wreath — $35 each (shipped)
22″ wreath — $40 each (shipped)
24″ swag — $40 each (shipped)

Local pickup for Portland area:

18″ wreath — $20 each
22″ wreath — $25 each
24″ swag — $25 each
30″ wreath — $35 each

If you’re interested in wreaths for yourself or a friend or relative, please let me know in comments or via direct email by Saturday, November 6th.

Tags: Child, Northwest, Personal, Portland

Posted: 8:28 am Thu November 04 2010 | Comments(1) |

[photos] Your Thursday moment of zen

Your Thursday moment of zen.

This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Tags: Northwest, Photos, zen

Posted: 5:26 am Thu January 07 2010 | Comments(0) |

[photos] Your Wednesday moment of zen

Your Wednesday moment of zen.

This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Tags: cars, Northwest, Photos, zen

Posted: 4:25 am Wed December 23 2009 | Comments(0) |

[personal] A glimpse inside my mind

In case you were wondering how my mind works, here’s a partial list of the things that I thought about on my pre-dawn walk this morning, in semirandom order as I can recall them an hour later:

Why the local police have switched from Crown Vics to Dodge Chargers
The value of a passive predation strategy that relies on stupid prey (ie, spiders in their webs)
World building and character elements in Sunspin
Whatever happened to wooden wheels on cars?
some more
The question of artifactual intelligence vs nonartifactual intelligence, and whether the human race as a whole is missing the point
That I need to go to the grocery store today or tomorrow
Where the hell the moon was, since I’d seen it in the sky yesterday morning
‘s new school year
What was the animal in the bushes that sounded like a wounded howler monkey
Oregon weather
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction