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Honeymoon and stuff

Saturday, June 5th, 2004

Monday, we had planned to go to Sea World while everyone dispersed, but between loading all our junk into the cars and taking Michael’s mom to the airport, we didn’t get there until 3 in the afternoon, just as the temperature went over 100. It was still a lot of fun, and I have pictures [...]

Mawwiage

Friday, June 4th, 2004

I’m back. I’m married. I’m not used to saying that yet.

Lisa has a few photos up. More pictures to come as soon as we collect them from the various photographers.

If you are a hotel events coordinator…

Friday, May 28th, 2004

... and you were contracted four months ago for a ceremony and reception, you really cannot wait until two days before the wedding to decide that your events room will hold only enough chairs for 2/3 of the guests.

You just can’t.

If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go dismantle a couple of people and feed [...]

Stuff

Monday, April 26th, 2004

I was really cranky on Friday, in case you couldn’t tell. Saturday was entertaining. It’s not every day you get to see someone take a pair of scissors to a dress that costs about what I make in a month, let me just say. After the fitting, I dashed back here for a shower hosted [...]

Ceremony spot

Sunday, February 1st, 2004

If all goes well, the wedding will be in the courtyard at La Mansin del Rio. I did an almost-360 with the camera and pasted them into a panorama, although things don’t line up just right. Click the photo for the big picture. It’ll take forever to download, but I had to do it twice [...]

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Talking Points Caribou Barbie — rape kit sold separately.

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Being the Book Lady — this made my day.

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A fanfic writer goes to Clarion. “...all the sandcastle skills you learned over in Sandbox Someone Else’s Canon are a lot harder to use when you’re not given sand to start with.” Great post.

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Tina Fey and Sarah Palin Side by Side on CNN. “That was the first time I’ve ever heard the parody on SNL actually use exactly what was said…”

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The Texas voter registration deadline is October 6. See if you’re registered. If not, find your county registrar to fix it.

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Have you created your 5 Second Test? — a nifty little test for web designers.

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Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet — How much do I love Maureen Dowd right now? LOTS and LOTS.

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Download ‘Boojum,’ by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette — in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day.

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TwitterKeys — “TwitterKeys is a browser bookmarket that pulls up expressive characters for easy copy & paste of all those crazy unicode symbols that people love to include in their emails and blog posts.” Very handy. See also: ⌘C ⌘V Character.

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The great Before & After Magazine talks about designing business cards for arts and crafts sales, including tips on photographing the items.

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If you have not yet seen Firefly (infidel!), it’s now streaming for free on IMDB, via Hulu. The episodes are out of order, though, so you might want to refer to the Firefly wiki’s episode list rather than IMDB or TV.com, both of which list the massively incorrect original airing order.

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