February 2012
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Kitchens are messy places
hipsterhousewife:
I do the dishes every night before bed. Or I try to.
My kitchen is not spic-and-span. But it stays neat enough, and it is useful.
Scott cleans the oven. He does a nice job.
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Modern urban visual environments are controlled by corporations and city...
– Raymond Salvatore Harmon
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… when anyone elects to speak or write discourses which are worthy of...
– Isocrates
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The affection of the mind for argument by analogy may afford a fertile theme to...
– Winston Churchill (on Analogy)
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Lincoln, a master orator, debater, and rhetorician, was the most consciously...
– How to be as Persuasive as Lincoln
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I play Dungeons & Dragons twice a month
My husband is the Dungeon Master, and we play with three of our friends every other Sunday at our kitchen table. It is THE MOST FUN THING IN THE WORLD because it is just playing pretend and rolling dice sometimes. I want to go back in time and teach it to past me, age 7.
It is also the best thing ever because I spend the entire time drawing. I can’t HELP but want to draw what we say...
Anonymous asked: Hold up, you like TNG more than DS9!? What!?
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Somebody stole part of our car
It was parked in our driveway overnight this January, and they just pulled up next to it, crawled underneath, and sawed off the catalytic converter. We figured it out the next day, when Scott went out to start the car and it ROARED to life. Our car is a 4-cylinder Honda Element. It could never roar.
I had to drive it to pick Scott up one very cold night before we had it repaired. It was so loud...
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something...
– William S Burroughs
(via rachelbuse)
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Cat Consultant
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I will never have good hair
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Nipples, drawn as 3's, work best
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Good Parties
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[View the story “I looooooooove you Des Moines” on Storify]
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[View the story “9 comics I drew during the superbowl” on Storify]
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The Books of Barcamp Cedar Valley
Was:
Fun
Awesome
Energizing.
Scott taught me Markdown — really, he gave a Barcamp talk on it, but I was hanging on, like, every word. Am now practicing in in this post.
@ajrawson kicked off the morning in the Creative room with the popular book-sharing session. Here’s what people listed as their favorite books/good recent reads:
(These all link to Amazon, but you might be...