little feet, big sky

dealbreaker: The cutest puppy in all of Los Angeles needs a...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:30:46 -0800

The cutest puppy in all of Los Angeles needs a home!

Birdie was found on Feb. 14th around Echo Park Lake.

She’s 4 1/2 months old and has had her first round of shots. She’s getting her 2nd round next week. She’s a little under 10 lbs. The vet says that she wont get much bigger. We guess that she’s a mini pin/ terrier mix. Interested? Contact Linnea: Linneattoney@gmail.com. Know someone who might be interested? Show them this link. Reblogs are helpful too. Let’s find this puppy a home!

(I have spent a lot of time with Birdie and she really is one of the cutest dogs I’ve ever seen. If you hold her long enough, she’ll fall asleep. Enough said -Dave)

gah. so tempted.

Wow. I really had a lot of time on my hands before I had a...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:01:56 -0800

Wow. I really had a lot of time on my hands before I had a child. ;-) Seriously though, these embroidered baby wraps were adorable, easy to make, and would make a great shower gift for hipster parents. You can pick up these mad skillz from Jenny Hart’s Sublime Stitching.

Photo reply with your embroidered bits!

make your own baby legwarmers for less than $2/pair. I used...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:00:50 -0800

make your own baby legwarmers for less than $2/pair. I used these with onesies when Spice was a baby, but now they make great toddler legwarmers under skirts or dresses, or over tights for extra warmth/kneepads. :-)

Photo-reply with your own if you’ve got ‘em!

Life has been challenging lately. Every day wears on me harder...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:43:46 -0800

Life has been challenging lately. Every day wears on me harder and harder, and sometimes it feels like I’m barely staying afloat. There’s the struggle to get enough done, to do it right, to move on, to make people happy (or at least content) and then dreamy, blissful sleep. And then up, awake, sunlight streaming in and it all starts over again.

Eventually, I find myself doubled over, gasping for breath, wondering how I got here and what it’s all for. And then I see her, so sweet and content in the world. And I know this is one thing I can do perfectly, as easily as breathing.

afternoonsnoozebutton: Saying sorry, you’re doing it right

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:26:26 -0800

afternoonsnoozebutton:

Saying sorry, you’re doing it right

wallpapers i love :: BioDraft by `niteangel on deviantART

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:02:51 -0800

wallpapers i love :: BioDraft by `niteangel on deviantART

wallpapers i love :: Underwater Collaboration by ~staford on...

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:02:16 -0800

wallpapers i love :: Underwater Collaboration by ~staford on deviantART

Possibly my most favorite wallpaper ever. I love being underwater and this gives me that same calm feeling in a very techie way. Plus, it blend well with my term screens and TextMate theme.

spreadtweet :: twitter for those poor souls stuck in office pods...

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:02:04 -0800

spreadtweet :: twitter for those poor souls stuck in office pods looks just like Excel. ;-)

wallpapers i love :: TRI OKULAR by +ekud on deviantART

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:01:55 -0800

wallpapers i love :: TRI OKULAR by +ekud on deviantART

Everything I Know About Parenting I Learned From MythBusters

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:01:50 -0800

Everything I Know About Parenting I Learned From MythBusters

wallpapers i love :: THE ROADSIDE DAYDREAM by +ekud on...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:00:52 -0800

wallpapers i love :: THE ROADSIDE DAYDREAM by +ekud on deviantART

Pixus :: Really neat on-screen Adobe Air ruler. I think I almost...

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:11:52 -0800

Pixus :: Really neat on-screen Adobe Air ruler. I think I almost like it more than Free Ruler.

I love the freeways in L.A. They’re the pulse of the city...

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:11:51 -0800

I love the freeways in L.A. They’re the pulse of the city and the valleys beyond. Drive them for long enough and the rhythm of it gets under your skin. Merging on and off feels like a leaf skimming the surface of a river; speeding in the fast lane, like powerful currents pushing you further.

Photo-reply with your favorite thing about L.A. :-)

The spouse-unit picked up lots of avocados at the farmers’...

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:11:50 -0800

the recipe.

super green frothy goodness.

The spouse-unit picked up lots of avocados at the farmers’ market this past Sunday. As in, way more than I should be eating now that I’m (supposed to be) watching what I eat. Some of them were these funny thin-skinned ones that got bumped and bruised on the 7-minute car ride home. Somehow, they ended up in the fridge and it took a few days for me to notice them.

Of course, they were rather sad-looking by then, and there’s nothing better for sad-looking fruit and veggies than a trip over the Rainbow Bridge in your trusty blender. For this reincarnation, I turned to my cooking Bible (Old Testament version): How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman.

Fast Avocado Soup was, indeed, fast. It was also, whaddayaknow, very avocado, to Spice’s delight and the spouse-unit’s dismay. Frothy, cool and light, I seasoned mine with Old Bay and totally forgot the heaps of cilantro I meant to toss on top. But it was still really good and I’ll be bringing this one out again over the summer.

sweetxblasphemy: You do know spaghetti is my favorite food ever...

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:11:28 -0800

sweetxblasphemy:

You do know spaghetti is my favorite food ever right? I’ll be there in 15.

Wow. I think spaghetti is my least favorite food EVER. I’m pretty sure it was the grade school lunches that killed it for me.

Up super-early to bake a loaf of bread for a co-worker. [yawn] I must be crazy.

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:32:43 -0800

Up super-early to bake a loaf of bread for a co-worker. [yawn] I must be crazy.

Playing around with Aperture 3. So far, very very cool.

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:06:44 -0800

Playing around with Aperture 3. So far, very very cool.

Umm, why is there a lampshade in the bathroom…

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:14:21 -0800

Umm, why is there a lampshade in the bathroom…

Wow. See that fence in the background? It’s wrapped around...

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:52:52 -0800

Wow. See that fence in the background? It’s wrapped around an empty lot. An empty lot that used to be the first job I ever had, working in a cheap run-down old movie theater.

I won’t name the chain, but it started with an ‘E’ and happens to be the name of a certain Twilight hunk. a-hem The place was really old and run down, but the worst part was the roaches. We had to clean the bathroom every few hours (or at least pretend to), and I would cringe every time I went in there and heard the little scurrying sound of lots of little cockroach feet. Bleah. (I think this at least partially explains why I’m such a theater-snob for the Arclight now.)

Plus, the manager was a total dick. I remember some rather vast lady coming up to the concession stand to buy popcorn and making a fuss about what kind of oil we used and if it was heart healthy or not because she had a heart condition, blah-blah. (Lady, do you really need a 16-year-old to tell you that you just shouldn’t be eating cheap, gross movie theater popcorn — ever??) The manager just lied through his teeth, waxing on about how they used the “best oil for your heart” or some equivalent bull$hit. I was totally freaking out for the next two hours that said lady was going to have a coronary right then and there in our dingy theater and stuck thinking what a horrid way that would be to die.

Anyhow, it’s gone now. Too bad the roaches are homeless now, but I really don’t have any good memories of the rat-trap, other than it getting me out of the house at the time. ;-)

Now, see here, Ralph...

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:52:45 -0800

fireflydayparade:

I love you, Mr Emerson, but can you please a little clearer on what you mean by “the self”?

I think it was an indirect, non-religious way to refer to the immortal soul, the kind that we share with God and everything else in the world. He was a transcendentalist and a lot of his ideas cross over with Vedanta, a philosophical branch of Hinduism.

In Vedanta, there’s God (as an otherworldly immortal energy in the universe) and there’s the Self (our immortal soul, temporarily distinct from God or the universal energy). And that’s what/why we’re always trying to reconnect to.