How To Move Your Bedroom Outside
If you’ve got no AC (like us) and your house is hard to cool down (like us), let me recommend moving your bedroom outside. Step 1: Find an Aerobed. Handy if you have company later. But great for sleeping outside for a night. Camping mats or hard foam mats can also work well. Step 2: Inflate the bed. Look for a place that won’t get direct sunlight at 5:30 in the morning. Step 3: Hang a sheet. This is so the neighbors can’t see you in your skivvies. (if you can, a deck umbrella helps with this as well) Step Read more…
“HeartLand” Indeed
via strangemaps.wordpress.com “The heartland portrayed here is a very literal one, composed by cleverly arranging all 50 US states to have their oblique sides help form the outline of a giant heart. Texas’ pointy southern extremity represents the bottom part of the iconic heart-shape, while the slightly wedge-shaped top of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is very aptly chosen as the place where the tops of both heart halves merge. All in all, this picture is a very nice fit – considering that all states are drawn to the same scale.” — Strange Maps I think it’s pretty cool.
At my aunt’s in Plain, WA. This is the view looking up the Wenatchee River from their deck.
We’re here for the night. We’ll leave tomorrow and spend Monday and Tuesday in Chelan. We’re escaping the Tacoma heatwave by going some place even hotter! (Upper 90s in Leavenworth today) I like the Eastern Washington heat a little better, though. If I’m going to roast, I’d rather do it here. 🙂
That said …
If I watched shows simply based on the posters, this poster would convince me to fly through Season 2 so that I was caught up for the new season.
“The Best Show on Television”
Every so often you hear, that some show is “the best on television.” The two that come to mind are The Sopranos and The Wire. I would say, “Yeah, they probably were.” Recently, I kept hearing that Mad Men was the best on television. We were excited to watch it and got the first season. But it just never measured up. Having just finished the final episode of Season One, I’m still not even sure I’ll want to keep going. My biggest hang-ups: I don’t like the “superiority” it tries to engender in the viewer. I feel like I’m supposed Read more…
Would You Give A Stranger A Kidney?
There's an article in this week's New Yorker that I found affecting. In theory it's about asking whether we should allow people to sell their kidneys. But the affecting part is the stories of people who decide to give a stranger a kidney. Here's the abstract, which is of course not affecting at all. Find a copy of the issue if you can.
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