Archive for the Geekery category
May 17th, 2007
The Canon PowerShot S3 IS has arrived. The Canon PowerShot SD110 is out. Yay!
I have a lot of buttons to figure out. There’s a lot of features to learn. However, I can already tell just from toying with it even in the dreary, rainy, overcast light we have today that the new camera is 100 times better. It’s going to be so much more fun to use.
Tuesday night my mother pointed out that I was really hard on the SD110. I’m going to have to be much nicer and kinder
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Tags: bird watching, Rusty Blackbird, Blue Jay, Northern Cardinal, Chipping Sparrow, photo blogging, Canon PowerShot S3 IS, camera, Canon PowerShot SD110
May 3rd, 2007
O.K. So apparently I was kind of wrong. That kid with the corner market on mowing the neighborhood lawns still lives in my new neighborhood. He’s about my age now and has a cute little girl and a Pug named Bruno.
He also has a riding lawnmower and for $25 a mow, he’ll mow your lawn and every other mow, he’ll weedwhack — by the way, spellcheck doesn’t like the word “weedwhack. His little girl rides up on top of the lawnmower with him, which is probably one of the cutest selling points. I think
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Tags: grass, garden, lawnmower, yard work
April 25th, 2007
When I moved into my new house, Fall had pretty much set in real good. The leaves were long gone from my crabapple trees in the front yard and my lilac trees along one side of the house. There were two bushes at each end of the front of the house, which I’m told are rhododendrons, and a bunch of really dead looking plants in the front garden.
I’ve been looking forward to Spring and the possibilities of a garden since January and then the snow finally hit Maine and just. would. not. go. away. It lingered like a relative who doesn’t know he’s outstayed his welcome, borrowed too much money, and eaten all of your stockpile of junk food. And then he had two really wild parties two weekends in a row before taking off until next year — you know, he’ll stay away just long enough that we’ll forget how frustrated we were by this year’s visit.
By the time the snow had gone, I’d given up on gardening. My dreams of a vegetable garden and sunny afternoons planting flowers in the yard had somehow drifted away through the long days of staring at a plain white yard. I’d come to believe that there was nothing but snow underneath all that snow…and even when the snow had begun to melt away and grass began to peak through, it was only a taunt because another Nor’Easter would just cover it up with another 10 or 12 inches of more snow.
But finally after that horrible Nor’Easter April 15th - 17th when first the snow pounded the North East and then the rain and wind came with such intensity and timing that water was pouring down the outside of my chimney and seeping up through the foundation of my basement floor, suddenly Spring arrived, not with a whimper, but with a bang — the beginning of mud season.
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Tags: garden, flower, bloom, Winter, Spring, Nor\'Easter, crocus, daylily, daffodil, photo blogging
April 20th, 2007
Well, the Wordpress DB is upgraded to 2.1.3 and the plugin directory has been cleaned up. There are a lot less plugins in use now. My Flickr plugin stopped working so I need to figure another way to show off my new hobby. 
I started redesigning the look of the site a little too. That should be evident in the new headers, which are all fractions of photos I’ve taken. I’ll be adding more and switching out some as I get bored. I’m working on a new color scheme, something a little more Spring/Summer-like.
I’ll be
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April 19th, 2007
I’m just wanted to say I am planning on coming back on a more regular-like basis. I have a whole lot of opinions and things to work through.
However, behind the scenes here, the blog is a few versions behind and some of the scripts and plugins seem to not be working correctly anymore. So, I’m giving in and doing the upgrade to the latest version ofWordpress and as a result, dumping a lot of plugins because they don’t work with the new and improved Wordpress, and as a result, redesigning the blog — hopefully this will lead to
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Tags: redesign, Wordpress 2.1.3, flickr
January 18th, 2007
The source of my green educational Thursday Thirteen this week is Crissy Trask’s It’s Easy Being Green.
Thirteen Things about N. Mallory
- Biodegradable: The Federal Trade Commission defines “biodegradable” as a substance that has been scientifically proven to break down entirely and return to nature within a reasonably short time after disposal. However, because most detergents and soluble chemicals degrade in wastewater systems, they don’t always completely break down into eco-friendly substances. Read the label carefully to make certain the product is made up of nontoxic, renewable ingredients.
- Cage Free: While this label guarantees that
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Tags: green living, recycle, biodegradable, animal rights, organic, humane, waste, Thursday Thirteen, bloghopping, memes
January 17th, 2007
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- Wow, halfway through January already?
- I’m feeling slightly better, just some residual pain in my back and right side but not feeling like I’m splitting in half anymore.
- Pugly is acting very odd lately. I’ve been having to carry him to the car every morning to go to doggy daycare and sometimes I have to catch him to put the leash on him to go outside. Then there’s the weird matter of him not wanting to jump down from the car when we get home. Very strange little dog.
- I’ve been watching HBO’s Rome and I just love love love
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Tags: discombobulated, Seventh Generation, Joy, project365, knitting, gardening, wellness, the puppy, bottled water, Brita, HBO\\\\\\\'s Rome
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January 16th, 2007
I’m annoyed at my mother.
Last night I was excitedly starting to tell her about this book I’m reading about gardening and what I was planning to do when Spring comes and she, being who she is, pooped on my party. She told me not to get too excited about it and not to go all out and invest too much in it and start too big. She told me I should start with a small garden and go from there because I didn’t want to overwhelm myself and take on more than I could physically handle.
*hrmph*
The sad part
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Tags: gardening, mother
January 12th, 2007
I finally finished that scarf I started knitting back in October. Yay!
Tags: knitting, scarf
January 12th, 2007
Did you know that having an MP3 player is a “Green” Lifestyle choice?
I was surprised to learn this. Apparently, according to 
It’s Easy Being Green, if you download music rather than buy CDs, you are already making a “greener” lifestyle choice…even if you are only doing it some of the time. It’s still better than the alternative.
CD-Roms and DVDs are made of polycarbonate plastic which is not biodegradable. Think about all of those CDs that came to your
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Tags: recycle, green living, CD-rom, DVD, biodegradable, landfill, crafts, iPod
January 11th, 2007
Today’s Thursday Thirteen is brought to you by the letters W, I, and G, and the numbers 5 and 23.
I found these all in less than seven days. I swear, New Englanders have the most Vanity Plates per square mile. 
Thirteen Things about N. Mallory
- This guy is just “CREWZN.”
- I can only imagine this person is a self-styled “gangsta”. Though, in a Mazda? Probably not very credible.
- This must be a mother.
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Tags: vanity plates, photo blogging, thursday thirteen, meme, bloghopping, license plates, automobiles, cars, parking lot, parking garage, Maine, New England
January 10th, 2007
Here are the goals I’m setting for myself to work on this year to work toward greener living. (I’ve chosen these from the book It’s Easy Being Green by Crissy Trask.) Through the year, as I check things off to my satisfaction or want to update the list, I’ll be doing it over in the memos/pages area.
- Use my printer’s sleep/stand-by mode.
- Turn off the water while brushing your teeth or shaving. Running the water continuously for just two minutes can waste three gallons of water!
- Buy a shower curtain that will far outlast cheap plastic ones; a shower
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January 10th, 2007
Thanks to Buttercup, I discovered it’s National Delurking Week. Who knew? And who comes up with these things and when? Inquiring minds want to know, you know.
Anyway!
So what is it? Apparently, it’s the week when all the lurkers out there are finally supposed to own up to the fact that they visit blogs — you know, come out of the virtual blog closet, so to speak. The idea is that if you read a blog and have never actually commented, you’re supposed to leave a
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Tags: National Delurking Week, bloghopping, commenting
January 10th, 2007
Over at Thudfactor, James has talking about how companies are willing to give things away to bloggers who mention them or review them in their blogs.
I don’t mean those payperpost folks that give you some piddling fee to misrepresent yourself and tell everyone you’ve used a product or a website and highly endorse it, heck, you’ll bet your first born’s life on it… (Yes, I checked it out. It made me feel dirty and slimy. I never did see where anyone got anything for free to try when the product cost money to buy
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Tags: bribery, blogging, Adagio tea, Microsoft, Vista, payperpost, free stuff
January 8th, 2007
Random Joy
- After a long day, I like to kick back with…? HGtv, my afghan, and my animals.
- Do you know anyone “famous”/who is the “most famous” person you’ve ever met? I’ve met lots of famous people at sci-fi conventions — actors, writers, and artists. Most seem to be more down to earth at them. Laurell K. Hamilton, Jewell Staite, Ruth Thompson and Timothy Zahn come to mind. Didn’t care for Anne McCaffrey or Claudia Christian at all.
- What is your favourite piece of classical music? - Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
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Tags: Monday\'s a Bitch, meme, bloghopping
January 8th, 2007
I’ve been toying with the sidebar for a few days. Let me know if it’s easier or harder to find things.
- Put all the pages into a drop-down menu so they take up less space.
- Moved the blog description to the top.
- Moved all the drop-down menus (category, archive, and page selections) to just below the search box at the top so they are all in one place.
- Added a button to add this blog to your technorati favorites as well as a button linking this website to project 365!.
- I moved around some of the “flair” so that it actually fit
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Tags: website update
January 4th, 2007
My mind works in strange and mysterious ways…
Thirteen Things about N. Mallory
- How often do other people change out the underwear in their underwear drawer? I mean, so they schedule a regular amount of time? Twice a year maybe to go through and throw out all the ratty old underwear they wouldn’t wear on vacation or on a date or in front of their cats and replace them?
- Speaking of underwear, am I the only one who’s ever bought new underwear just so I didn’t have to wash clothes? Or whole new outfits
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, blog meme, meme, bloghopping, WAL-Mart, Target, the puppy, South Park, underwear, The Closer, Monk, Eureka, T.V., Amazon.com, mold, mildew, fibromyalgia, migraines
