I would like to wish j and her family, the other Scratchpad contributors, and the Scratchpad readers a safe and happy 4th! You should try to take out the movie 1776 from your local public library, if you get a chance. It’s a musical loosely based during the Declaration of Independence period in Philadelphia. Cheers [...]
nbsp;Lifehacker.com, a nifty website, usually posts Ask MetaFilter roundups, one of which had the following question: “What am I missing in my diet that I crave Chocolate Chip cookies all the time?: “I want to eat chocolate chip cookies almost all the time. The only time I don’t want to eat them is the couple [...]
Greetings While I was reading the feed from Steve Cohen’s LibraryStuff blog, I came across a posting about his chat with Prairie Spinner, mentioning a knitting community site called Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/account/login It’s by invitation only so you need to sign up! Here’s the link for the rest of the story:
The Toscanini Ice Cream store in Central Square has reopen after making a partial payment for back taxes from donations. Here’s the rest of the story: http://tinyurl.com/yu6ncb This should make j happy! Also Brigham Ice Cream is offering 42,000 free cherry on top ice cream bars at all Brigham locations from Jan 25 through Feb [...]
I would like to wish j and her family, the other Scratchpad contributors and the Scratchpad readers a safe and prosperous Happy New Year! Cheers posted by Rich
Single female librarians: sit down. Hero of librarians everywhere Gary Price married his partner Lisa Cohen. Congratulations, Mazel Tov, and may you have all the best things married couples should have. Many wonderful years together~ (Oh, the things you can find on search engine weblogs these days!)
I need to upgrade my home Internet service from dial-up to something quite a bit more robust. I want a connection that could, oh, support someone with an intense computer job telecommuting for ten hours a day. It needs to be able to handle the typical things we like to do on a T1 line: [...]
Various musuems across the country are having a free Museum Day on Saturday, September 30 joining the Smithsonian Institution in offering free admission to visitors. The Museum of Fine Arts, Plimouth Plantation, USS Constitution Museum and various Massachusetts Audubon Wildlife sanctuaries are some of the participating museums in the Boston area. You do have to [...]
Mmmmmm a spaghetti sauce recipe from Scott, who admits to reading his aggregator in the kitchen sometimes and solving tech problems while cooking. I wonder if I’ll ever have time again to cook … I also find it’s a good time to ponder and sometimes brainstorm and solve problems. One of my apple crisp variations [...]
Ok, I admit this post is horribly, horribly off topic and is something I don’t think is entirely appropriate for this space, but I got tagged as the scratchpad by our dear friend, fellow reader, mentee, and colleague Amy Disch to give four answers (remember the Friday Five?) to some questions in a blogosphere equivalent [...]