First Robin

The singing birds this morning seem to have decided it is spring, snowcover be damned.

Surprise Song Trio

Brown-Eyed Girl
Buffalo Soldier
Build Me Up Buttercup

Snap Time!

Heard this morning on the inane radio show:

DJ One:

DJ Two, objecting because of the events in Japan: "In lieu of recent events, how can you say that?"

_________

Yeah, I know ad-libbing should get more leeway than writing, but I have to draw the line somewhere.

help, humor deficit

I don't understand the cartoon below. Any assistance would be appreciated.

http://i.imgur.com/fReaw.jpg

(it would be further appreciated if everybody agreed that it is ununderstandable I am not out of the loop. thank you.)

Surprise Song Trio

for the last month or so, I've been listening to all the songs on my ipod in alphabetical order by song title

this method puts songs in unusual juxtaposition ... creating parallels previously unseen ...

Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
Black Water
Blackbird

tsunami video

Riveting beginning to end, but things get really interesting around 4:30

Happy Pi Day

But only to three decimal places. Gosh, 2016 is going to be a PAR-TaY!

(I wonder what the celebration was in the year 1592? Six decimal places, baby!)

Beyond Belief

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm

Hover your mouse from right to left to see the before and after. No words.

Weekend

Love having Nick and Sarah here! Just had a great dinner at Martha's in Nashua.


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Snap Time!

Too early to joke about the tsunami etc., but this post has to be given the snap:

"She tweets, 'A tsunami just hit. I am taking pictures from the second floor of my house. The flooding continues and I am afraid of being left behind. Please come to my rescue!!' The tweet was followed by her address and a grizzly picture."

Do you expect a big bear to be riding the waves into Japan?

(ps, the picture is not so much grisly as astounding and scary: here)

NO LIMP FISH!

NOTE to EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD:

People assess you based on your handshake.

Do some research and improve yours.

Snap Time!

Hey, 40% more! That's great!

When grocery prices all seem to be rising and contents shrinking, it's nice to see a...

wait a minute...














you've got to be kidding.

(dear french's marketing team:
i see what you did there)


related: xkcd.com/870/

Her Favorite Place Was the Porch

tornado visualized

amazing video -- start at 0:25 or so



the videographer gets quite close at the end

Goodbye

Farewell, Leia, little wiggleworm.

You may have been my sister's cat, but I loved you as my own.

Surprise song trios

for the last month or so, I've been listening to all the songs on my ipod in alphabetical order by song title

this method puts songs in unusual juxtaposition ... creating parallels previously unseen ...

ain't misbehavin'
ain't no sunshine
ain't no woman (like the one I've got)


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Earworm

Played the word "stooge" in scrabble, after contemplating "stogie" instead. So now I have roger miller's King of the Road in my head.


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Special delivery

In our mailbox this afternoon: bills, junk mail,a magazine, an unopened jar of Jamaican jerk sauce, and a single knitting needle (bamboo, size 7).


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kumihimo

Japanese braiding - new interest - uses a braiding board, notched; makes round or flat braids; can incorporate beads


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Easter candy

Brach's "orchard" jelly beans are miles better than normal ones or jelly bellys. Just saying.


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me too! for freelancers

Caveat: I truly like and like working with MOST of my freelance clients. There have been, however, the few who make this kind of invoice inviting:

http://jhische.com/sneakpeek/day-ruining-invoice.jpg

Ha.

Sounds cute, maybe I should change my name...


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Volpe Medway Musicals

I saw South Pacific, The Sound of Music, and My Fair Lady. I participated in Oliver, Guys and Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof, and Music Man.

On the iphone, btw, autocorrect turns "Volpe" to "Color."


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Dream

a kitten was playing in a corner of olivia's room
it was chasing something that belonged to olivia, a little vial containing powdered perfume
a little girl that I didn't know, blonde, started playing with the vial and spilling it
I told her sternly to stop and she wouldn't

[later Bob asked who I had been yelling at and I remembered the dream]

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Amplify

Please see my Amplify page (http://sarahmbruce.amplify.com) for sites that I find interesting. (Mostly crafts, but some other stuff mixed in too.)

My cousin-in-law Pam calls it her clipping service.

I'm likely to update it a LOT more often than I update this blog!

Crocheted iPhone Case

Sometimes I want to put my iphone in a pocket with keys, etc., but I can't in case the screen will get scratched.

I have a regular case for the phone, but I prefer using it without a case.

So I crocheted this pouch to use simply for storing it in a pocket (or one-pocket bag, or whatever).

 I put it in head first so that the speaker is at the opening.
(the color in the first photo is representative)

New Crocheted Bag in Progress

to be called “Uncle Sam's Tote”

(see my Etsy store, http://www.etsy.com/shop/SarahMBruce)

Aaaargh!

I DETEST MICROSOFT WORD

Strange Brain

Ever since I can remember, I have considered colors (represented best by the Crayola 8 we used in early grades) to have gender: blue, purple, yellow, and orange are girls, and red, green, brown, and black are boys.

I can remember coloring in kindergarten or first grade and the girls and boys even had distinct personalities (still do): purple is the heroine, blue the mean girl, orange plain and sweet; red is the prince, green the snide iago, brown the stalwart friend.

Obviously, these assignments have something to do with society and my personal tastes—purple has always been my favorite color, and green is often associated with sickness and jealousy. But those explanations only go so far, because I was awfully young, and the sex assignment isn't limited to colors.

I have come to discover that this sexing of inanimate objects (and I'm not even French!) extends to many other categories: numbers, letters, even shapes. The numbers have personalities like the colors do, but not the letters so much.

An accounting:

Girls

3, 4, 7, 9, 13, 14, 17, 19 (higher numbers are just mixed, both feminine and masculine)

a c e f o p q s u v w y

circle, triangle, heptagon

Boys

1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18 (0 itself is neuter)

b d g h i j k l m n r t x z

square, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, octagon

I don't know how to explain how ingrained these sexes are. I don't have to sit here and ponder it, "r" just "is" masculine, "4" just "is" feminine. And although I tuned in to the phenomenon only recently (except for the colors, which I've realized for many years), it goes as far back as my memory.

Is this related to synesthesia? (that would be cool!) Anyone out there know what I'm talking about?

Motown vs Elektra/Asylum

Bob is listening to music through his bluetooth fancy-schmancy earphones (which I gave him for Christmas); I have music playing through my computer speakers. So imagine the cognitive dissonance that results when he sings along to “Dream Weaver” while I hear “Reach Out I'll Be There.”