Elaine

Goodbye Encyclopedia

In J-Walk Blog: Goodbye Encyclopedias, John Walkenbach posts about reading the encyclopedia for fun when he was a child. Hey, I though I was the only one who had done that. I won’t swear I read every article in our edition of Compton’s, but I read a high percentage of them.

Minor changes

This morning, I made some minor changes to my weblog, including a “Squidfingers”:http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns/ inspired background that I created with “The Gimp”:http://www.gimp.org/.

Chinook Sunrise

BrowserSpy

BrowserSpy can tell you all kinds of detailed information about you and your browser. Stuff like the version of your browser. What kind of things it supports and what it doesn’t support. This site shows a lot more than sites I have seen before that tell about the browser and the operating system. (via “J-Walk”:http://j-walkblog.com/blog/)

Modern Illuminator Rubber Stamps

Modern Illuminator Rubber Stamps is an “angel” company which has unmounted images with a medieval and renaissance theme.

Full Moons

I’ve always liked the long descriptive names for full moons, such as Hunter’s Moon or Harvest Moon. There are a lot of varying lists on the WWW. The Farmers Almanac – Dates and Times of Full Moons webpage gives one, along with some associated historical information. In a few days, we will have the Worm Moon.

Cool Tools

I’ve been reading the weblog, Kevin Kelly — Cool Tools, for a while now. The weblog reminds me a lot of the Whole Earth Catalog in its heyday, both in its choice of subject matter and in its tone. One of the items today was a review of a pruning saw. We still have the one I used to carry on trail rides back in Maryland. We rode in heavily wooded areas, and there were always tree branches drooping hazardously over the bridle trails. I used the pruning saw from the back of the remarkably phlegmatic horses.

Author: Elaine