When Bainbridge Beat recently asked islanders which choices define them, starting with the two local grocery stores in the post T&C or Safeway? a number of passionate responses followed in the comments. T&C is Town and Country, a grocery store located close to the ferry terminal downtown. Last time I heard, the store was owned […]
Entries from May 2005
The choices we make every day
May 9th, 2005 · 2 Comments
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The big pink cookie principle
May 9th, 2005 · 2 Comments
Beth Freeman, a once and future Bainbridge Islander, commented on this blog in the past week and directed my attention to the blog where she is a co-author: Creating Passionate Users. In the post Fine-grained treats = user happiness, Kathy Sierra quoted Iris Murdoch and a study in Scientific American Mind to make the point: […]
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Mohnkuchen und Kopfsalat: food mp3s auf Deutsch
May 9th, 2005 · 1 Comment
Ich mag Mohnkuchen! I was happy to discover Roland Tanglao with Boris Mann auf Deutsch, speaking on the delights of poppy seed cakes and other German treats available in Vancouver. Note to Ted Wenn wir wieder nach Canada gehen, mussen wir Mohnkuchen kaufen! On my first trip to Germany at age 15 I enjoyed the […]
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Breaking my usual policy
May 6th, 2005 · 3 Comments
In the talk I am preparing for Gnomedex, I discuss the limits my husband and I have placed on our blogging of our family life. While I may post pictures of my kids, I do not publish pictures of their faces. However, these images of my daughters peering through a playground bridge (at Island Lake […]
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My Gnomedex presentation in progress…
May 5th, 2005 · 4 Comments
Elisabeth shows she is a Geeks Gone Wild Girl, playing with a notebook from Gnomedex 4.0 (picked up at a blogger meetup last fall). To create the presentation I will be giving at Gnomedex 5.0 in Seattle seven weeks from Friday, I am starting with the talk I gave at Northern Voice titled Making Masks: […]
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