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Continue reading →: Grapey
Remember my bowl of wild grapes, harvested from the rose corner? The juice spent some time in the freezer, but finally became a very small dish of not-quite-gelled-enough grape jelly. It maybe more like heavy syrup than jelly, but it tastes awfully good. Still, I pruned all the vines out…
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Continue reading →: Well then
Somehow the three-day weekend has completely gotten away from me. Here it is, Sunday afternoon, and all the things I was going to do are undone. I read a novel, and played games on the computer, and watched Criminal Minds, and chatted with friends and enjoyed Irish music. I guess…
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Continue reading →: A New Year’s success??
I just might have fixed the LiveJournal Crossposting, which would make me incredibly happy. I’ve wasted a great deal of time futzing with it, mostly because not having a functioning crossposter makes it impossible for me to have posts written in advance and posted to LJ as well as here.…
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Continue reading →: Ice sculptures
On New Year’s Eve, I walk through the site of the State College festivities on my way to work and take pictures of the ice sculptures. Here’s 2007’s best photo: And my 2008 favorite: But here’s what the 2009 sculptures looked like this morning: They’ve changed the format, and instead…
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Continue reading →: Fiddling around
My extra-special-bonus-day has turned into an afternoon of playing with string, but mostly of fiddling around on the computer, learning some new things, and organizing whole piles of odds and ends. I’ve been saving links, and if I post them I don’t need to save them any more. As you…
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Continue reading →: Icicles
I get an unplanned afternoon off, courtesy of those cute little icicles on my patio chair.
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Continue reading →: Good old USA
This sucks. Canadian science fiction author Peter Watts was stopped by US Border Patrol agents on his way out of the US, beaten up, detained, all his things confiscated, then kicked out. In shirtsleeves. In December. In Ontario. And he’s been charged with assault too. Many people have discussion and…
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Continue reading →: Pancakes
My brother Nathan is quite a bit younger than I am – enough so that when I moved out of the house for college he was also shorter than me. Not so any more. (Nick is the shorter one, and he’s not actually short.) It was rather interesting seeing Nathan…
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Continue reading →: Snow
I don’t have the plugins fixed. I don’t have the LJ Cross-posting working. But I do have photographic evidence of snow.
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Continue reading →: Crossposting
I still haven’t gotten LJXP working again, despite assorted upgrades, so I’m trying out JournalPress. ETA: No love there either. I get the same error from both plugins: “transport error – HTTP status code was not 200.”
Welcome!
I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.
I also do some science and write some fiction.
I’m Phiala most places on the internet.
