Eat, drink, and be merry (in Nashua, NH)
It would take Democrats three turn-overs to control the US Senate. And, at 9:42 p.m. they project…. R — Sen. Santorum out in PA… R — Sen. DeWine out in OH R — Sen. Chafee out in RI Nashua’s Crowne...
View ArticleMore funny ha-ha and peculiar political ads
People around the world are interested in the crazy excesses of political spin. What was the funniest TV ad this campaign? The stupidest? The meanest? Go to MSNBC to see some amazing candidates. Here’s...
View ArticleHi there, we’re just moving into this new place…
Wow, looks spacious–clean–no cat hair on anything–we’ll, we’ll soon fix that. Cecil Coupe with his MvManila software managed to collect all the posts and all the pictures I created using Manila over...
View ArticleEinstein might have gone about this a little differently…
Here you see Einstein (happy birthday, professor!) on the front porch of the Princeton house where Frank and I later spent about eight happy years. It’s an artist’s conception, so you don’t see any...
View ArticleTwitter: Social string theory, not just nextbigthingitude
Nextbigthingitude? What a great word Halley has dreamed up for Twitter. But it’s more than that. Twitter is an experiment in turning OFF a few social taboos, to see what happens next. Twitter, like...
View ArticleUseful: 101 quick dinner ideas for summer
Smoked salmon with horseradish-flavored whipped cream Originally uploaded by betsythedevine Mmm, restaurant food–but that quickly gets old. My quick-dinner fall-back, which I learned about in the...
View ArticleNH librarian in Sweden and the NY Times!
From today’s NY Times, here you see mother and daughter jaunting and laughing through summertime in side-by-side bus seats, because “My daughter and I wanted to see the Swedish countryside, and a bus...
View ArticleToo much on plate?
English Sunday traditional roast beef with Yorkshire pudding just got multiple updates–from a bright orange Mexican plate to the colorful veggies, steamed lightly to please modern taste buds. But this...
View ArticleCurtain up, light the lights …
Lighting board, a photo by betsythedevine on Flickr. After this weekend, it will be curtains for Curtains in Arlington, MA, and I am really going to miss this show. I started working backstage for them...
View Article“I don’t know where I’m going to be on July 11″
When I was a little girl, a sentence like this would have made no sense to anyone in my family. We all knew exactly where we were going to be, just about every day–waking up in our own bedrooms in our...
View ArticleDid it start with dialup for you?
Oh those quaint old days of the 20th century! Do you remember them too? Do you remember the soft creaky groaning of dialup, when you waited for that connection? Do you remember when Netscape Navigator...
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