Ullr and Skaði Give Us a Winter Wonderland!

We’ve been praying to Ullr and Skaði for weeks that they would bring us snow.1 Finally it’s happened. We’re at about 4 inches and it’s not stopping! Here’s our front yard and back yards in the glory of snow. We’re still about 4 hours from peak snowfall here in Hood River, so Jess and I are pretty excited about what’s yet to come. I’ll tell you what’s next to...

When Is An Abyss Just An Abyss?

So, I’m going to try to do something that I may or may not succeed at: I’m going to tap my shift key repeatedly. Okay, I won’t try that, but I am going to try something else, I’m going to try to pull of pretending to be as good as one of my blogging heros: Cami Kaos. What am I going to do? Dress like Sean Young in Blade Runner? No, I’m going to try to write a short post, that reaches...

Mead Recipe 08M05: Freyja’s Demand

So, this Thanksgiving Jessica ran off and left me. Luckily, I had friends that I could turn to, so I prepared to make my signature squash pie. Luckily, as she so often does, Freyja had other plans for me because the Goddess of fertility didn’t make the squash people have babies. Not finding any good pie squashes, I decided to buy cranberries planning to make a sauce. Still she planned, and my friends...

CyborgCamp PDX… It’ll probably suck anyway, right?

CyborgCamp PDX? No thanks. I mean, considering that I’m an anthropologist, a programmer and a geek, you’d think that I would want to go to something that bills itself as “An unconference on the future of humans and technology.” You’d think that this is the kind of thing that would be right up my alley. You’d think that I would ignore whatever social obligations I’d have in...

Does Your Company Have Friends? It Should.

I found myself in an interesting and unexpected position earlier today. I want to talk about this position because it’s important in the context of The Live Web. But first, a little background. Iterasi’s Woes Earlier today, I realized that I’d fallen a bit behind on reading some of my RSS feeds. While I like to pretend that I’m not, I have to admit that I’m a bit of an information...