Author: lis

perhaps in honor of the first day of google’s new privacy policies. but more likely because I thought a whole bunch of googly eyes was funny.

I’ve been wanting to take a picture of this church for ages. It’s a UU Church, believe it or not, probably one of the more elaborate ones out there. Someday I will get a shot of it at sunset, because it’s truly gorgeous then.

I know that last weekend Venus and Jupiter were flanking the moon, so I suspect that at least one of these stars is one of those. But my knowledge of astronomy and star charts pretty much stops at….well, it just never gets started really. 

I always find it a bit alarming to see my car off the ground like this…

Saw these at a used book store today. I was never into the Hardy Boys, but my best friend was a big fan. I didn’t read Nancy Drew either….

we have a reasonable collection for take-out. I suspect we will get more familiar with it when the kitchen project gets going….

dear store owners,

there’s a project going on at work which involves cataloging a lot of collections objects from the East Asia program. they’ve got this very professional looking arrangement for taking the photos–all very impressive. 

it just sat on this broken stool in the back hallway for a good part of the afternoon. no one knows who put it there, and no one ever ate it. in the end, it wound up in the trash.

the thing is, it’s not really all that unusual to see an expired certificate in an elevator. why is that somehow considered OK?