Also, the basil plant on the balcony is blooming.
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Category Archives: Miscellany
Smashwords announces new Library Direct feature
You can read the original blog post here: http://blog.smashwords.com/2012/08/new-smashwords-direct-enables-libraries.html
The upshot of this news is that Smashwords (a website that hosts and distributes self-published e-books) has just greatly expanded its ability to distribute its books with public libraries. As a Smashwords author, I think this is great news. Smashwords authors get to have their work in libraries, so one of the disadvantages of self-publishing (that you don’t get to be in libraries) is gone. Libraries get to vastly expand their lists of titles. And Smashwords, of course, gets to do more business 🙂 .
Sorted This Way
A Hufflepuff house pride video. Dang … check out the production values on this thing!
Summer
You can tell summer is here because I found fresh currants for sale at the co-op.
Here they are glowing in the morning sunlight.
The tomatoes on the balcony are ripening so fast that when I come home from work in the evening, they look oranger than when I left that morning.
Help with a plant ID?
Beautiful flowers are popping up all over here in the Twin Cities. I’ve been enjoying all of it, but there’s one species that’s got me puzzled. It looks like a member of the nightshade family, and it seems to like growing in weedy places on parking strips and drainage gardens. It’s all over the place.
What is this?
Foliage
Flowers
Fruits. Sorry it’s blurry.
Also, for your viewing enjoyment, here’s some milkweed and bee balm:
Balcony Garden Update
Something ate my lettuce.
There was twice as much lettuce in there last night.
This is a balcony on the second floor of an apartment building. What could possibly have gotten up here? A bird with a taste for greens? A trapeze-swinging bunny?
Saint Anthony Park Arts Festival
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This artist’s website can be found at www.sleepingdragonstudios.com.
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Balcony Garden Update
My little container garden has been out on my apartment balcony for about a month now. It’s time for an update.
The tomato plants have set fruit…
…the lettuce seeds have sprouted…
…and the mots are getting huge!
Neil Gaiman’s Commencement Speech
An inspirational speech Neil Gaiman gave about starting a career in a creative field:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikAb-NYkseI&w=420&h=315]
Consequences of the Printing Press
Something to keep in mind when people complain about all the YouTube poop out there:
“One of the great diseases of this age is the multitude of books that doth so overcharge the world that it is not able to digest the abundance of idle matter that is every day hatched and brought into the world.”
Barnaby Rich, ~1850