the only draw back with macos snow leopard is that an application & a printer driver are not compatiable yet…

haven’t been able to print neccessary documents all day & booksmart isn’t openning any of the files i’ve been working on during the last week…

just installed mac osx snow leopard, ate two cold pieces of homemade pizza & drank leinenkugel…

deactivated tumblrs

i noticed several tumblrs i used to follow have recently, in the last 2 to 3 months, been deactivated. anyone else notice this trend?

Do you ever catch yourself staring at your coffee cup? I do. http://tinyurl.com/l8xksu

swissmiss

yeah, just found myself staring at the bottom of my coffee cup thinking, i can’t believe the cappuccino is gone…

Authenticity comes from evolution, not from creation.

John Moore, marketing medic [via brandautopsy]

Well-selected letters, drawn with force and quality, arranged in good proportion, tone and color, and grouped … may be as fine and as complete as (any) design.

Sallie B. Tannahill, P’s and Q’s – A Book on the Art of Letter Arrangement [via graphicology]

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it’s a mature brand… the counter culture always becomes the culture… i don’t know if [rolling stone] is irrelevant… they’re still in business… they sell more than million copies…

music journalist, kurt loder [in this video] — regarding current rolling stone versus the old rolling stone

listening to freeman dyson discuss poetry, science & global warming…

borborygmus

wordjournal: noun • noises that the stomach makes (ex: growling, rumbling); bowel sounds.

religious people… read the bible looking for ways to be the hero of their own life…

mark driscoll

maybe not a good idea to make a late night latte… insomnia…

how to make a homemade latte with a coffee press…

great smokies fall courses 2009 just arrived in my inbox. i want to sign up for a class, but that would cost money. i could teach another writing class at the flood gallery fine arts center, & that might earn some money. this quandry may turn philosophical: social objects vrs capital objects?

i hate scanning through my inbox & finding email i haven’t replyed to in 3 months…

the last legal high

in other news, the homemade cappuccino i made this morning using my coffee press turned out surprisingly well…

art & science & cover design

i knew i was going to get in trouble when i started criticizing magazine cover designs… a wise man would keep his mouth shut… but i’m a fool & attempted to articluate that good book &/or magazine cover design is a combination of art & science culminating in creative expressions within the framework of sacred geometry…

listening to a public conversation on reinhold niebuhr & the american present…

somedays i want to move to portland…

… just so i can hang out all day at powell’s books

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

T.S. Eliot (via crookedtooth)

75% of college students said they would prefer print to digital texts.

Students Give E-Book Readers Mixed Reviews – WSJ.com (via fluffynotes)

good thing i started my monday last night around 9 p.m.

it’s been quite a busy morning. i had to produce a 10 minute audio broadcast before noon. then there was an unexpected meeting followed by several micro-meetings. now a late lunch with a good book & then on to print design projects.

the dirty little secret to this quasi-productivity… i haven’t checked email yet today. #fb

the south garden patch, mid august: last night i smiled at the single pepper that has grown in one of the three remaining pepper plants. but this morning i discovered it had been a feast for bugs last night. now i’m wearing my sturgeon face. this garden has been an exercise in futility. first i lost all the cabbage & spinach & then most of the pepper plants. the cherry tomato plants appear to be fine, but no blossoms yet.

previous south garden patch updates: [july] [june] [may]

the north garden patch, mid august: this week, within three days, some sort of blight destroyed all the pumpkin, winter squash, zucchini & cucumber. earlier this week i discovered light gray freckles & assumed i was dealing with a plant mold. one treatment includes a ground cinnamon solution. the next day the pumpkin leaves were completely gray & all the blossoms gone. then we used another organic solution, but that didn’t seem to help either. so this morning i cut all the affected pumpkin leaves & discovered one pumpkin plant with green leaves.

the corn suffered another ravaging. i suspect it is from a raccoon i spotted in late july. only the stalks remain & i plan to cut them down later today.

on a good note, the family has enjoyed zucchini, cucumber & beefsteak tomatoes from the north garden. the zucchini & cucumber plants appear to be concluding their yield while the tomatoes are just coming in to it.

maybe it’s too early to tell, but i think i’ve lost all the pumpkin, winter squash, & zucchini plants. the cantaloupe & cucumber plants don’t seem to be too far behind the pumpkin plants. i really suspect it’s a plant mold due to all the rain this area has had recently. the beefsteak tomato & cherry tomato plants appear fine.

no one said organic gardening would by easy.

previous north garden patch updates: [july] [june] [may]