You're welcome, Jandy, and thanks everyone
- Kamilah Gill
Yes I will agree, the Jandy drawing is supreme. This and the Mo/Haggis one are my two favorites now (besides the one of Alton/Anika of course).
- Adrian
I'm glad you saw yours too, Iris. I tried to make it so that both portraits would show without clicking the "more" button, but I guess the images were a little too wide.
- Kamilah Gill
Now that I've been drawn, I think I exist as a more real person on FF. :-)
- lris
I can see a little resemblance. The main thing I wish I'd done differently here is to have moved the caption over to the right so that it wouldn't obscure the top of her head. I'll remember that for next time. It's a learning process.
- Kamilah Gill
"Gearhart (1869-1959) worked as a school teacher, never married and lived with two sisters who also were artists and teachers. (Sounds like the makings of a Jane Austen novel to me!) Well known in her time, she fell into near obscurity in recent decades. This show is the first retrospective of her work."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
The best book on programming for the layman is “Alice in Wonderland”; but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman. - http://griffey.tumblr.com/post...
How many eggs do you need to make Linux from scratch?
- s t e v e
Scores of eggs (source packages). A bit of flour, sugar, milk, and love, too. Hopefully, none of the eggs will be rotten, or any of the milk spoiled.
- Julian
I remember compiling a kernel every few days, back in my "early" Linux days (only, oh, 8 years ago). Thankfully Ubuntu came along.
- Neil Saunders
Hopefully, the oven will be strong enough for building. I'd go with Ubuntu on this machine, but it's not friendly with all of the hardware. If Ubuntu had not been brand new in early 2005, I would not know how to do this.
- Julian
I have already crashed the system trying to build a package using the portable HDD for storage. Probably something to do with the USB. (I built the kernel way too long ago.) Will have to try building this thing from the most recent LFS LiveCD. [Edit: The LFS LiveCD project is pretty much dead. No new LiveCD since December 2007.]
- Julian
LOL! It's early! I haven't had much coffee! You both have two r's in your name! I was just reading something Barry wrote! *slinks off with a red face*
- s t e v e
*elbow bump* (it's my wife's name, so I'm in the club)
- Micah Wittman
*fist bump* LauraCon was sparsely attended but nevertheless awesome this year at #IL2009 Also met Lori Reed. What do you think, Ladies? Are Lauries and Loris LauraBrarians?
- Laura Norvig
As long as I don't get called Laurie/Lori, Lauren, or Laurel, I am down with having them on board.
- laura x
it was good to meet another of the Laurabrarians! Botts, you are just about the only one left ;)
- holly
laura x, my Laura could not. agree. with. you. more (re Laurie/Lori, Lauren, Laurel and other imitations ;)
- Micah Wittman
Feel free to include all the others! Yes, I'm going to have to get to one of these meetings at some point.
- Laura Lou Who
Well, we didn't really have a meeting. I introduced myself to ellbeecee and Laura Harris and that was the extent of LauraCon. Still, it was awesome.
- Laura Norvig
Yay for Lauras! I get called Laurie or Lauren by patients all the time. >.<
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
That makes no sense. Penguin sounds nothing like Laurie or Lauren. :-)
- Bruce Lewis
Wow, are you one of us, Penguin? I've never known you by any other name!
- Laura Norvig
Yep! I started going by Penguin online a while back... I feel so ashamed sometimes for hiding my Laura-ness! ;)
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
Names are weird. I don't know that I've ever truly owned mine. I don't love it and I don't hate it. I'm very indifferent towards it, really. Do you think there are people who love their own names?
- Laura Norvig
I love my last name, and I like the way my full name scans.
- laura x
I like your last name too! Your name could easily be a character in a novel.
- Laura Norvig
I'm not sure I knew you were a Laura, Penguin! Yay!
- Laura Lou Who
I'm not a Laura, or a librarian. Just a fan. Which means I'm your fan! Woo! Yay Laura!
- FF's Bubba of Arizona
What am I thankful for? Life. My friends. Unconditional love and the fact that my fears and insecurities haven't frightened you all off. That I woke up today with the hopes of being a better person than I was yesterday. And knowing, above all, that you, me, us...we all matter.
How could any of your fears and insecurities scare us off when your comedy and your caring are always present in such wonderful abundance? :) ((hugs))
- edythe
from iPhone
awww....Barry, that was very sweet! :-))
- Anna Haro
Well, I'm glad I finally ordered Library Bomb...and opened it up. Thanks, Laura: I'm honored. (Takes me back to 1994 Midwinter and a surprise party, after I finished nine years as LITA Newsletter editor and my term as VP/Pres-Past-Pres. One friend did a brief oration from my much-less-prolific writings...)
Before I shipped it I asked Laura "did you ever tell Walt about the poetry?" She said "I guess I didn't. I'll tell him now." I said, "nah, let it be a surprise."
- s t e v e
Good call. It was a pleasant surprise.
- Walt Crawford
Boys are having a "slumber party" (just the two of them) in the family room tonight. Item number 3 on Mr. 7's list (he has a list. on a clipboard) is "rock and roll dance party," and the music had to be on vinyl. "Dad do you have any heavy metal records?" Not really but we went with Fun House and Zen Arcade.
"“Jess, Bend, Oregon, 2009” is part of my newest photography project, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” a series of photographs of closeted men and women in the United States military. For each image, I have asked the individual to wear their uniform, while staging the photoshoot in the bedroom or local hotel room where that person is currently stationed. The reason for this is that I am most interested in the intersections between public and private space, and the government’s policing of our private spaces – the bedroom being the most representative space of this. I have purposely shot each image in a way that obscures to some degree the identity of the individuals, and the final image that is released to the public is first approved by the subject, and is in many ways, their expression of their closeted-ness and lack of identity. The name and location is also fictional: I have asked the subject to give me a first name and a location that is significant to them, but does not actually refer...
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- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
maybe y'all should take a drawing trip together. go out to the mountains or someplace like that. if i remember my art ed background right he's one level past his normal age group (it's been a while since i looked, but he's def above level a bit)
- Sir Shuping
Come to think of it, this is about the first thing I can think of that he has drawn from observation (more often it's monsters and such).
- s t e v e
Sorry it's not a great picture and hard to make out. And seriously I can't tell you how awesome it is to have all these beautiful faces to look at through the day. Still have some spaces to fill in.
- aden
from email
"Last month, Stone made good on his word, opening a soaring 17,000 square-foot library with a barrel-vaulted ceiling, 56 computers, and white oak ribbing,"
- Sir Shuping
from Bookmarklet