“The Curious Incident”
A review of Mark Haddon’s “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
Hobbies
Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land”
The bookclub decided to read Heinlein’s masterpiece — the brilliant spectacular and incredibly popular novel (quote from the back cover of the Ace Science Fiction edition, published in 1987). The book Stranger in a Strange Land hasn’t quite stood the test of time (assuming it ever did match up to the breathless praise). A couple [...]
Fife
Some time ago I promised our son that I would knit him a sweater. He picked the pattern, and the yarn, picking something (of course) in a fine yarn that took seemingly forever to finish. However, finish it I did, eventually.
The pattern is Alice Starmore’s Fife, from the Fishermen’s Sweaters book. It comes in one [...]
More Coffee
Not that I’m actually addicted (in fact at the moment I’m not drinking much coffee at all, the occasional latte is about it for now), but I came across another coffee-related link for Vancouver. This one proves just what sort of coffee-loving area I live in - according to Delocator there are 69 “non-corporate” (their [...]
Do-it-yourself Coffee Roasting
For the truly addicted connoisseurs: Dave Shea’s Caffeinated posting shows you how to roast your own coffee beans, with instructions and comments. This is one of the more interesting uses of Flickr from my perspective.
Snarky Crafts
When you’ve almost come to the end of the current list of craft projects (something that will probably apply to me in about, oh, the year 2012 or so if I’m lucky), and you’re looking around for ideas, here are a couple of web sites you might enjoy. Actually, look at them before you get [...]
