Silly Site o' the Day

Are you not entertained? You may be by Minerva:

Via Laughing Squid.
 

Silly Site o' the Day

Witness the pure genius that is Pure Genius! Great, great AI takedown. Via PZ Myers.

Incremental Forward Movement

Like a friggin' wristwatch's second hand. I gave myself two major chores to do today: steaming some lighter tops with the summer-like weather on the horizon, and catching up on finances. Both were accomplished, and I even made some headway on my list of Where I Have Money Now, but that felt way too much like work so I'll finish it another time. (Especially after throwing away lots of old maps and timetables made obsolete by yon internet.) Tomorrow we get the laundry done, put away my winter comforter, and get back into the weekday routine.

Blossoms Everywhere

And of course that means allergic lethargy (allethargy?), at least in the Riggs Residence where we seem to be affected more and more every year by the colorful and lovely and very welcome spring buds. I mean, welcome in the sense that it's really been a tough winter, but it's very hard for us to sustain any kind of energy when we're this wiped all the time, despite allergy meds. So we had been thinking about car shopping but, after seeing the craziness on the roads despite it still being spring break (commuting to and from the fairly empty supermarket was a breeze), we opted to stay inside. I still want to accomplish some things, and even made a spring cleaning list of sorts, but it's all dependent on our pollen tolerances (pollerances?), outside noise (lots of screechy childers during this spring break), and not overdoing it.

Down to Earth

Well, both NY baseball teams are losing, so it's a good evening to watch the crew of Artemis II splash down in the Pacific off the coast of San Diego. Everything was so lovely and precise! I'm both elated that we're exploring space again and disappointed that it took us this long. Without a made-up international rivalry things just don't get done, I guess. But we're certainly trending in the right direction there, and I hope the same for my personal and professional life...

Silly Site o' the Day

Still a bit too cold for me but things are trending upward weather-wise, so check out this interactive isometric pixel art map of almost all of NYC (via Laughing Squid). I say "almost" because you cannot see our house from there, this map considers us part of Yonkers rather than the Bronx so, you know, bummer.

Silly Site o' the Day

Looks like we may be through the last of the April cold, and once my IT band exercises bear fruit and I can walk properly again maybe I'll go looking for some cool things on the sidewalk using the Worldwide Sidwalk Joy map (via BoingBoing). First I just need to stop being so chilly...

Silly Site o' the Day

Why am I so hungry? And yet, I'm not on Reddit or any of the other umpteen forms of social media because I'm An Old, so you'll have to discover We Want Plates for yourself.

Silly Site o' the Day

Busy week so far (and it's only Monday!), so running links to sites of interest instead. Today we examine the food storage guide Does It Last? (via BoingBoing). The title's in Spanish but it still works with the English language.

Easter Consolidated and Cleaned

Lots of really good stuff accomplished today. I cleaned the bathroom a bit, got through all the issues of my local paper, and tackled the surprisingly large task of consolidating all our tax returns and stuffing them into an accordion file that used to hold some returns (not in order), important papers, and immigration stuff. The latter has now been moved to an expanding document portolio that used to hold a lot of my old Rothstein Kass stuff (most of which was thrown and I kept a few things in my "office stuff" under-bed storage), and the accordion file is now in the library with all our tax receipt boxes. Rob's currently shopping for a decent shredder as we really only need to keep the last 7 years' worth of receipts, and we now have to concern ourselves with all the stuff currently in our loft space as we try to downsize our possessions in the next couple of years prior to my retirement. But one thing at a time!