Kaye took this photo by dropping a marble in front of the camera just as she triggered the shutter. If you agree with me that it should be in the National Gallery, you can vote for it using your Facebook account.
Click the photo or this link.
Did you see the ice bow around the sun yesterday morning? I took some photos, but they were through dirty windows.
Since I’m a member of the knithacker photo pool on Flickr, I uploaded photos of my favourite knitted item. It is the spaceship woolie that Manon made for me. It is mounted on my home office desk and reminds me to aim for the stars.
And aiming for the stars reminds me of my favourite James Thurber fable, the Moth and the Star. [Wikipedia entry]
Have you seen the exciting new holiday video from Astronaut Love Triangle?
Last week, before the weather turned ugly and before my PowerShot died, I took this picture of a pole warmer on Gladstone Ave (north side, just west of Kent Street). On the weekend, I uploaded it to Flickr along with a few other shots of it and today I received this notice:
Group invites
You've been invited to add this photo to the group
knithacker.By group admin
lily dustbin
Of course I clicked the "accept invitation" button. It took me to the knithacker page where I was told that to submit a photo, I would have to become a member. No membership fee, so I signed up and now my photo is one of the 5,306 items in the knithacker group pool.
I feel a bit like a fraud, but the invitation still made me happy.
p.s. I know that other local bloggers have spotted some of these, but I'm not sure if anybody caught this one and I don't have time to search around because I promised to have fried rice ready when Manon gets home.
Back in the summer, I got a new computer at work. I'd been using it without incident for a couple of months before I noticed the warning sticker between the "delete" key and the up arrow.
I nearly jumped out of my chair. Have they given me an exploding keyboard? I wondered.
But then I checked the website on the warning. It has advice on workstation setup, posture, and health and work habits; not bomb disposal tips. So I have relaxed about it.
Do you read sales flyers for the grocery store, circle deals you like and then leave the flyer in the cart when you're done shopping? If so, I'm grateful, because someone like you tipped me off to excellent prices on sugar and berries at the Loblaws last week.
As a thank you, here's a tip for you.
For years, I've been buying extra large eggs on the theory that bigger must mean cheaper per amount of egg.
Guess what.
I was wrong.
Here in Canada, large eggs weigh 56 to 62 grams and extra-large eggs weigh 63 to 69 grams. So an extra-large egg is about 12% heavier than a large egg. This means extra-large eggs will be worth buying if they're less than 12% more expensive. So if a dozen large eggs are $2.17, extra-large eggs are worth buying if they are less than $2.43.
Where I've been shopping, a dozen extra-large eggs are priced much higher than $2.43.
So now I'm buying large eggs.
And I'm eating about 12% less on weekend mornings, which is an added bonus.
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