perpetual motion mama pauses, blogses

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2009-12-22T04:30:32Z

06:14 Moëbius Bagel instructions: www.georgehart.com/bagel/bagel.html (via CrystalPyramid on LiveJournal)
07:41 The Morgan Freeman Chain of Command: www.joeydevilla.com/2009/12/15/the-morgan-freeman-chain-of-command/ **amused**
08:18 Now that the bears are pretty well asleep, we can feed the birds again. Just usual suspects right now: jays, chickadees.
08:51 Catching up on webwandering... heard about earthish planet with water on radio first. More: bit.ly/77qEJO
11:20 "Avatar": radio review & stills make me want to see it, but dialogue excerpts sound trite as a box of twinkies. Go? No? Babysitting? Hm.
12:23 Gorgeously sunny on the snow. Shoulda been outsid
e this a.m. more! Must separate from computer now!

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2009-12-20T04:30:27Z

18:22 ECHO was really fun yesterday. Thank you notes done today (baby stuff). Attempting to tidy house. Please tell me this is not a lost cause!
19:48 M is walking around w/ portable phone (on speakerphone) attached to headlamp ... hands-free just like his dad does it. Hee!

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2009-12-19T04:30:26Z

00:39 Ordered 1 of my own cards from @Zazzle; curious what prints are like - www.zazzle.com/137380252727892820?rf=238248367253009980
09:05 Pint-Sized Science at ECHO today... if we can get out the door!

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2009-12-15T04:30:30Z

17:58 R & M got our tree this afternoon. The smell of balsam is filling the house. Lovely!
21:40 Thanks, buyer in NY, for choosing the Parade print! www.cafepress.com/whimsicaldreams.27285886

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2009-12-07T04:30:28Z

05:54 Thanks to D in LA and E in MA for liking and buying Dragon Reader gear from www.cafepress.com/whimsicaldreams/3888037 ! #cafepress
08:54 jQuery permits easy pic-cycling, but can't find a CSS bug that's preventing centering of the images. www.thefieldfarm.com/ ##CSS

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2009-12-05T04:30:23Z

08:02 One thing I like about @cafepress is that I can manage prices store-wide by product type. (Can't do this in my other outlets - yet?)
08:06 On thing I like about @zazzle is that they retweet their members' sales tweets.
08:07 One thing I like about @deviantArt is the artist's prices. And they don't put their logo on the backsides of cards ASFAIK.
08:10 New: "Unexpected" (aka "Dragon Tail") metasilk.deviantart.com/art/Unexpected-145668786
Thanks, KH, for encouraging framed prints!
12:10 Bit frittery; researching referral-to-Art (eh) and building FB Pages. Kid is online (SciAm Frontiers then PBS Kids Island). Baby sleeping.
14:09 > Get coffee.
IT'S IN MUG.
> Go outside with kid and bike.
DON'T FORGET BABY IN BJORN.

Right.

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2009-12-04T04:30:24Z

11:51 Thanks to Someone for the yarn website work referral! (You know who you are)

Dragon Reader...again. Yay! Why just that one?

2009-12-01T04:30:25Z

22:22 Another Dragon Reader Journal sold! That sells best, but there are more blank books from Whimsical Dreams

I must have picked (guessed) the right tags for this one; it comes up in the CafePress marketplace searches, I think. Or perhaps it's because there's an affiliate store that lists it.

more dragons in the snow

2009-12-01T03:16:58Z

Yuletide Dragon and Snow Fleas are also up.

Hope to get them up at my Zazzle shop and deviantArt prints in addition to the CafePress one... if anyone has preferences as to which outlet they like the most, I'd love some feedback.

painted presents, printed.

2009-11-30T06:16:39Z

New art in Whimsical Dreams, plus holiday designs and a revised 2010 calendar. Enjoy!

"Mermaid Dreams" featured...

2009-11-30T04:30:27Z

22:45 is grateful for my "Strange Pillows" mermaid watercolor being featured in a #deviantArt news post: fav.me/n95342

Admittedly, this happened in October, and I"m so behind I only just now noticed. Didn't result in any print sales, either. **sigh** I need to coordinate my offerings better... not that much sells (yet, dammit, yet!).

illegally obtained "papers"... can't make'em public just any old where

2009-11-26T04:30:25Z

15:58 UEA climate change hacked e-mails: tried to upload to RealClimate.org: www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cru-hack/

The thing that boggles me is that the hackers (thieves) tried to upload the stolen emails on a site where some other climate researchers blog. I'm not at all surprised by the fuss Glenn Beck and such are making. Are they forgetting that just maybe we aren't supposed to steal info? Admittedly, maybe greater transparency into the statistical process and grumpy personalities might be useful. But... maybe not. I generally grok the math, but then, I spent some time in grad school messing with this stuff, and goodness knows I'm rusty. And a lot of folks aren't as numerate as might be useful to them... **grumble**

barter with someone cool: Ellen Million!

2009-11-25T04:30:24Z

23:24 Need art (fantastical)? Want to write, trade DVDs, have bellydance gear? Barter with Ellen: ellenmillion.livejournal.com/989984.html

another journal, yay! (It's my biggest seller)

2009-11-24T04:30:19Z

23:10 Thanks to D for buying a Dragon Reader Blank Book from my @cafepress shop! www.cafepress.com/whimsicaldreams.180455150

bats v. fungus: fungus winning

2009-11-18T04:30:28Z

23:17 Bat, dying off. It matters.
www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2009/11/15/whats_killing_the_bats?mode=PF

wee scattering of work done

2009-11-14T04:30:35Z

13:36 Maple leaf candies in 3 sizes from the Field Farm! Photos of small sizes to come soon: http://www.thefieldfarm.com/maplesugar.htm#candies

daily scatterstatus: reading, searching, learning link

2009-11-08T04:30:29Z

17:18 Tying narrative/learning to search/info on WWW:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/you-can-get-there-from-here-websites-for-learners/

conversations with words and motion

2009-11-07T04:30:32Z

13:14 www.echovermont.org/events/cafescitopics/topic10.html
Soon: we detect food pathogens & more ourselves. Consequences? Discuss @ECHO
17:30 Yesterday, we went to the student matinee of Momix ( http://www.flynncenter.org/show_pages/SMN10M.shtml ). Fabulous, fantastic, phenomenal!

daily scatterstatus: a daughter!

2009-11-05T04:30:51Z

11:57 is "officially" on maternity leave with new baby girl, Abigail, 10 lbs 1oz. Yay!

daily scatterstatus: client newsletter sent

2009-10-27T03:30:30Z

ReVisions' most current newsletter. Comments on content? Send 'em to Merryn Rutledge of ReVisions. Comments on layout? Send 'em to me. The funny URL is because we use MailChimp for our e-newsletter service (quite happily too). Subscribe if you like; she usually writes about leadership and other management concerns, and sends 3-4 issues a year.

10:44 Ideas for Leaders 12(4): Meta Leadership Across Organizations - eepurl.com/esbh

AFK...but not for labor; link for sib

2009-10-26T03:30:31Z

13:24 was not online for 3 days! Withdrawal? (Preschool had inservice so no work :( , baby appts (all well); at home with family). Getting to some work today!
14:22 Especially for Kaile (via EllenMillion on LJ):
www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/nov/13/pop.art.copyright

daily scatterstatus: Elfwood Member of Day

2009-10-22T03:30:31Z

11:04 I'm a "Member of the Day" at www.elfwood.com/ !! Woot!

daily scatterstatus: notes from a KidSwap day

2009-10-20T03:30:34Z

10:38 Client newsletter: full version on site; mailable ver. ready to go after one last client check... Phew! Time to stretch...
10:52 blog.echovermont.org/
12:18 For the 3rd time this past week, a hairy woodpecker is tapping on our house. Not sure whether to worry about the house or the woodpecker.
18:56 Great afternoon with kids b/c of sisterK! Yay! She's so awesome.
23:10 Thanks to GM for ordering http://www.cafepress.com/whimsicaldreams.27285886 !! Much appreciated!

daily scatterstatus: conversations and weather distract from work somewhat

2009-10-17T03:30:35Z

10:46 Involved in conversation about God, world as it is...I find I can discuss this without having same belief in God as my friend has. Cool.
12:04 Did I mention it's SUNNY??!! Glorious!!
(Must rest now; was stacking some wood in lovely sun + breeze. Slowly, I promise! Very slowly!)
17:05 Uncut version of client newsletter finalized, as are newest contacts. Phew. Now to make website version, cut version, & get it mailed.

Re that God bit: One thing I found interesting was how in the course of responding to some posts recently is that many of us responding felt it needful to clarify our own lack of similar belief. Some of us, not so much. So I was wondering: is it necessary to say you don't share the same ideas (full disclosure sort of thing)? If someone asks for "your thoughts and prayers be with us" or something like that, do you find it needful to explain that you can't quite do as they ask because your beliefs are different? What if the requester is a believer in Faeries, or Norse Gods, or Christian God, or Judaic God? Does how you respond change? What if the believer is sort of similar to you in belief, but not quite? What if you are vastly different? What if the requester is atheist or agnostic, and asking only for well-wishes, and you want to also pray for them?

I'm perfectly happy to talk about my beliefs, but I'm not always sure that mine are particularly relevant to a conversation. This leads me to wonder: can one discuss, debate, analyze, and tease out theological ideas without getting into one's own beliefs, and still do this honestly? I hope so, since that's what I've been doing...I feel like I can ask relevant questions, suspend (as it were) my own disbelief (if any) long enough to say "if so, then what about...?"

Anyway, this natter is mostly an outgrowth of thinking about stuff jaipur has been posting, but not just there (of course); my family has a fairly diverse range of beliefs from member to member, and I'm often interested in exploring the consequences and ramifications of a set of beliefs without wanting to get into who's got the truth of it and whether or not we should agree. I suppose this ties into my sense of a sort of independence of validity (someone's feelings about a circumstance can be valid and appropriate regardless of whether I would have the same feelings about or in those circumstance).

Clearly, I am beginning to ramble. Ooops. Better head off to bed. Or to watch some very silly TV streaming on Hulu. (jere7my, thanks for the recommendation for FlashForward. I like the characters less than in Fringe but think (so far) the story has more interesting layers. Fun combo.)

daily scatterstatus: Ewwwww! Cool.

2009-10-14T03:30:39Z

14:48 For readers of my LJ "blog": I've added details & thoughts to the short status update entries (Oct 5-yesterday). (More for me than you? :) )
16:15 Ewww. Cool. (via Supergee) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091008-giant-sea-mucus-blobs.html