Miles did a great job on his history fair project, titled “1916 Easter Rising to Irish Independence.” This week the kids brought their boards to school and presented their projects to 3 judges. There was also a history fair open house evening, with more presenting and a whole lot of…

Awesome lighting and monitor! New job is going well too 🙂 (added 2/19/12) On Friday I got a second monitor, and now I have an unprecedented amount of what they call “screen real estate.”

The black bits are black tapioca balls.

Star anise pods, a photo by cynren on Flickr. Via Flickr: Atmospheric shot of my new favorite spice. Shown here as a great accessory to my new cutting board! Cross-section of daikon radish. Making dinner takes a long time when you get distracted by how beautiful vegetables are.

Beautiful! Love going downtown and revisiting treasures like this.

Sergio’s roof, a photo by cynren on Flickr. View of Sergio’s roof from the upstairs window this morning, reminds me of art school assignments of making a painting in all white. It was still snowing this morning, but has stopped now. The heavy snow yesterday caused some chaos during commute…

Lourdes is in labor (maybe), a photo by cynren on Flickr. Via Flickr: I found this file folder during a recent cleaning event. Ah, urgent communications pre-cell phones. Despite the urgency of this note (scribbled on a manila folder which was probably the first thing I could grab to write…

We got snow at last! It was very pretty and sparkly last night, light and easy to shovel, and only about 6 inches. A perfect snowfall.

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.  See the most popular posts of 2011!!  Happy New Year Everyone! Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,100 times in 2011. If it were a cable car,…