November 2007
Footprints
it appears my carbon footprint is appx 5 tons/year. there are lots of carbon-footprint calculators out there; i liked this one from BP – and not just cuz it says “tonnes” (aww, bless) – it’s more thorough than the one on the Inconvenient Truth site. and thorough is important when you’re gettin your calculations on… i didn’t actually see that film. i figure:...
Deck my halls
here’s to my first solo christmas tree! (i’m trying to bribe some folks into trimming it with me… spiked soy eggnog is on the menu. now i just need to find a dvd of a roaring fire, and some bad holiday music – good bad, not actual bad…)
Speaking of. . .
Darjeeling Limited – i really want to get my hands on a knock-off piece of the Louis Vuitton luggage used in the film – a gift for someone who shares the same initials. were the real ones already auctioned off for UNICEF? what did they fetch? (criterion collection dvd of this film, please exist someday)
Darjeeling Unlimited
i have found my dreamtea… organic, fairtrade, and biodynamic (whatever that means). plus, their teabags aren’t full of dust n’ fannings like most out there. hampstead tea, i love you emphatically.
Project Oneway
dress a dummy how did i miss the season premier of Project Runway last wednesday?? also, why can’t i ever properly say “project runway”… project wunway… project oneway…
Today I Learned...
a word: CamelCase (aka BiCapitalization, InterCaps, InfixCaps, MixedCase, HumpNotation, PolyCaps, or medial capitals) = the practice of writing compound words or phrases in which the words are joined without spaces and are capitalized within the compound. CamelCase has been sporadically used in English since ancient times, for example as a traditional spelling style for certain surnames,…...
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of...
– H.G. Wells
To Do
move to portland; write a zine about my crushes
charades. the best part - getting it right.