lists and pies

Lists I am currently maintaining:

1. Items I look up on Wikipedia. (Latest: rhumb line.)
2. The number of emails in my inbox when I start work each day. (Currently it's at 665, down from 1193 a few weeks ago.)
3. Innocuous terms that annoy the heck outta me. (Witness: "Eco Bag".)

Speaking of which, Daytum is fantastic. There's something very compelling about tracking the mundane. I have yet to decide what exactly I'm going to track, but the power of the pie charts is there, beckoning. I can almost taste it.

sky light

Some days, after a long day's work, you walk outside and look up. Then your day starts again, for real this time.

I don't know what's going on up there, but I like it.

free science kit

I resisted.

love at first listen

I heard this song for the first time today and I love it.

"Natural" by Okay.

It's a creaky, beautiful song in two parts with a fantastic build.

I want you, I want you to be happy.

lost & found

While searching for another file on my laptop, I came across this sketch from a couple of years ago. It's yet another unfinished project I started, but I kind of like it incomplete and messed up like it is.

bats, birds and fur

Some days need theme songs; this is especially true of Saturdays. Recently, my weekend theme songs have featured bats, birds and fur.

The Saturday before last: "Fangs on Bats" by Tullycraft
Fangs on bats. Heavy metal heartbreak. Taking over the world.

Last Saturday: "I Saw the Light" by State Bird
I saw the light, yeah, it shined in my eyes, now I cannot look away. Clouds opened up and the sun came through, it was a glorious day.

This Saturday: "Furr" by Blizten Trapper
So I drove into the woods and wandering aimlessly about, till I heard my mother shouting through the fog. It turned out to be the howling of a dog. Or a wolf to be exact.

search for zen

Search stats are so interesting. Really. I like discovering what people are looking for - and what led them to me.

The stats feature on flickr is particularly fun (be sure to turn it on if you have a Pro account); they're like little stories about people out in weblandia.

Today I thought the referral search terms were being particularly poetic. It's almost a little haiku, minus all that 5/7/5 hoopla.

little gymnast
giant fan
wardrobe
foot tattoo