random furniture post

This weekend I need to get rid of all the cardboard and Styrofoam I've accumulated and put things away. I've been picking my way around my new desk (which is still in the middle of the living room) all week.

Here's my new coffee table.

Here's my desk, which Ikea apparently wants to keep secret. I'm kind of sorry they don't have the instructions online (heeey! there's an idea!) because that means I can't show you the FOUR POUNDS OF HARDWARE that came with it. bryghtboy and keyef can tell you.

Gonna copy rubberneck with one of the memes: I love looking at people's icons, but I don't always *get* them. I often wonder stuff like, "Who's that guy?" or "Where's that quote from?" but I tend not to ask, for various reasons. So here are my icons in all their technicolor charm, with creators listed. Pick one (or more!) that you're curious about, and I'll try to explain it. Or at least explain what I like about it.

Actually I think most of my icons are fairly straightforward. But you never know. If you have burning curiosity about one of them, now's your chance to satisfy it.

note to self:

Self, please remember in future that chicken breasts with the bone in, while tasty, are very difficult to eat with plastic cutlery.

Love,

me.

Thought for the day

Via, as always, gristmill_rss:

This bears repeating

Warning: there is no merit, journalistic or otherwise, to this post. But recently, while looking through my nephew's Ask magazine -- a cool science rag for kids -- I learned a little something. It seems new research shows that pandas pee on trees while doing handstands. (And hey, if the BBC's reporting it, it must be news.)

In this gloomy world, when all talk is of climate change and other catastrophes, let us simply take a moment to savor that.