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Moved! 24 Apr 2013 | 03:22 pm
We are all settled in at the new address, if you've forgotten to change your RSS feed and you're wondering where everyone is: http://www.swistle.com If you are thinking of moving a blog, I can't eve...
Moving Day! 29 Mar 2013 | 05:00 pm
Hello! We're taking this blog to a new address: http://www.swistle.com I've been putting this off for literally YEARS, and I see I was right to do so: I've been working for two weeks on moving thing...
Like Soylent Green, the Internet is People 28 Mar 2013 | 06:28 pm
[This is all that was in my drafts folder. Just the title.]
If You Believe It, You Can Be It (as Long as What You Believe Is Reasonable for You and Your Circumstances) 28 Mar 2013 | 06:24 pm
[Here's another one from the drafts file. After I wrote it, I thought, "I'll bet someone else has already done this, and better." So I was going to look around and find out. Then I lost the energy for...
Fertility Vent 28 Mar 2013 | 04:25 pm
[It turns out that if you're taking a blog from Blogger to Wordpress using the Wordpress import thing, all your drafts get published. So I'm going through 250 drafts to see if anything is worth saving...
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen; Social Obligation 24 Mar 2013 | 11:23 pm
I can't really think of a movie title that appeals to me less than Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Amazon, Netflix), so I was surprised when it showed up in a Netflix envelope. I read the description ("a...
Another Appetizer Report and Some Hand-Wringing About Socializing in Groups 21 Mar 2013 | 04:30 pm
I tried another of the appetizer recipes for a get-together and I am ready to make a report! This time I tried Emily's party bread, which a friend of hers posted about here. It's a loaf of Italian bre...
Down 18 Mar 2013 | 04:26 pm
You know what's incredibly frustrating to launder? Anything filled with down. It floats like a duck. Water rolls off it like....water...off a duck's.... I think I see the problem. But how to get our d...
Sharing/Splitting a Tab 14 Mar 2013 | 03:21 pm
It was only very, very recently (this school year) that I figured out what to do if I was in a group of people standing around (like, at preschool pick-up), and I was talking with one person in the gr...
Data, A Love Story; The Night Circus 13 Mar 2013 | 05:24 pm
I read two books. Now I will say things about them. (photo from Amazon.com) Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match, by Amy Webb. My sister-in-law's sister mentioned this book...
