Co-incidences in the mid-to-late teens

We have not posted since 2013, but today Lucia in Durham sent me and my other friend Julia G. an email with this link that she discovered on my Goodreads profile.

I looked at the old entries, including the early ones when I lived on the coast of Southern Maine (and Julia lived with her mom and still worked in an office and had just met her wife.)

Additionally, on my way home tonight, I started brainstorming group call-and-response songs that I could lead the 3rd graders in tomorrow morning when it is my turn to lead the 3rd Grade Morning Meeting at my school. I thought of one, Hey Hey Bo Diddly Bop, which I learned from my friend Andrew and led routinely during one year that is well documented on this blog (2011.) 

When I arrived home, I checked the mailbox. A postcard from my friend Andrew! In the postcard he said that he had moved back to Portland, ME! See you soon, he wrote.

(And I just thought of this one. I was already thinking of Andrew this morning, even before Lucia's email. Andrew always likes to spell my name with a lot of silent "g's." Today, I visited a 5th grade classroom and one student spells her name "Leigha." It's the first time I saw that spelling for real! It does exist!)

things that are the exact same color as other things

Contents of my bag

1. slingshot planner
2. mypod
3. my dangerous desires by amber hollibaugh 
4. mywalit
5. checkbook
6. keys
7. pens
8. lunch: quirky salad (baby kale, pea shoots, refried beans, avocado, radish, feta) and strawberries and a mini banana

Canadian artist Jon Rafman finds moments of synchronicity on Google Street Views

things that are the exact same color as other things

Submitted by Amy F.

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Contents of my bag

in the big pocket

1. a whole loaf of Baker's Bounty health bread -- slice it yourself
2. my ipod ("mypod")
3. The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
4. last week's NYT magazine
5. umbrella from Caroline's work
6. slingshot planner
7. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories, by Carson McCullers
8. The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities, by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt
9. my wallet (actually, my walit)
10. important (???) letters from my health insurance that I haven't opened yet but keep bringing to work because I think I'll do something with them there

in the small pocket

1. many loose individually wrapped non-applicator tampons
2. some tea bags (woman's moon cycle, chai)
3. a pen that doesn't work very well but is not out of ink yet, so
4. Ricola cough drops original herb flavor (mitte zucher)
5. my keys
6. business cards for the nanny, housekeeper, elder caregiver and employer hotline run by Domestic Workers United

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images left on the computers in the antioch university new england computer resource room

Photoperiod and Moon Phase

For homework this week, I have to use information available through Sunrisesunset.com. Create your own local astronomic calendar to keep track of photoperiod, lunar phases, or moonrise and moonset.

*Latitude and longitude are not for navigational purposes.

dream

i had a scary dream about dachau last night. i dreamt that a woman had survived but only her head. so she was living, but only her head. it sat on a satin-lined basket. i guess this is a casualty of my line of work.

a photo.

women at dachau waving at liberation. april 29, 1945. from USHMM.

virtual slide rule

NdeGT alerted all 987,679 of us to this incredible VIRTUAL SLIDE RULE that moves when you move it.

ah mazing.

You can also obviously move the thing in the center of the slide rule. Now I just need to know why and how to use a slide rule.

I feel like I would really appreciate a virtual sextant so I could brush up on my celestial nav while at work.

January 21, 2013

January 19, 2013

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it's my birthday / child's names

today is my birthday and we're going to a place called woodland that i've passed many times before and always totally rolled my eyes at but actually their menu looks pretty good.

the best part is their list of cocktails which may also be read as a list of future child's names and is right on target for both child's names and drinks i like

i want to read these books*

Incredible book covers for Radiolab episodes
http://wnycradiolab.tumblr.com/post/39955587506/sorry-guys-you-cant-buy-these-books-but

*actually i've read most of them already

games, outdoors, wintertime

can someone say MAGIC MONDAYS???

It's freeze tag on wall street! Sunday January 20th from 1pm-3pm.

Skipjack's Nautical Living

Maybe we want this, Leah, for our lives

http://skipjacksnauticalliving.blogspot.com/

From them: Collecting and decorating with authentic nautical antiques and furnishings, original marine art and handcrafted nautical accessories, ship's salvage and other nautical paraphernalia, re-purposed for the traditional coastal home and featuring the finest of nautical-coastal living.

You can get some monkey's fist drawer-pulls:

I guess it's just a store.

cleaning out photos folder

from my office computer desktop. inspired by leah's post