I got this wild hair up my nose about "wouldn't it be cool to show a random item from my Amazon wishlist on my site?" the other day. I looked around, found plenty of wishlist scripts, but none of them did what I wanted. They all showed the first X items on your list sorted by Y, for various Xs and Ys. Nothing random out there. Read more

Sometimes I get a little annoyed at having to navigate around a pile of books or a bag of computer bits, or dig through a pile of detritus to find a power cord, or spend an hour trying to find a book in all the bookcases. It can be irritating. Why can't my place be nice and clean?

The girl's friends, though, love to come visit us. They say it's homey. Even when they lived with us and their friends lived in huge houses (like "yeah, they have a theater in their house. No, a real theater"), they preferred to stay with us. Our place felt like a home, they said. Read more

I'm getting back into the darkroom after a bit of an absence. Breaking out all the chemicals, I wasn't sure what to expect from year-old developers.

First up was Lauder Chemicals Formula 76, basically D-76 with a not-so-original name. Devved a roll of film, fixed, washed, take the roll out of the tank...completely blank! Even the frame numbers, gone. Stupid developer had completely died, and I'd fixed away everything. Oh well, out with the 76. Read more

About a month ago we were out tooling around, taking photos and whatnot, when Michele tells me, "Let's make some beer tomorrow!" I never turn down requests like this, so we headed over to SF Brewcraft to pick something up.

I don't typically carry around beer recipes (although that might be a good idea), so the plan was to just grab a copy of their bitter recipe and buy the ingredients. "Oglethorp's Best Bitter" is one of Michele's favorites, so of course they don't have a copy of the recipe handy. Read more