Leora the Sane

Roomba… with passenger

Leora — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:14:19 +0000

For Cloudscudding, who has what some might call an unnatural fondness for her Roomba…

It’s just so true…

Leora — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:08:21 +0000

Teehee!

And there are more…

(via cloudscudding)

He’s Not Black

Leora — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:38:17 +0000

Here’s a brilliant op-ed piece about Barack Obama and race, focusing on what it means to be of mixed race, and making a point (which I find important as someone of mixed race myself) that “He’s Not Black.”

Free Friday… Thanksgiving Edition

Leora — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:38:35 +0000

Good afternoon! I am fully aware that, once again, I am posting a bit later than Friday. But I trust you will find it worth the wait.

Because today I unveil the Free Friday offering I’ve been working on for the past few weeks, a Leora the Sane 2009 calendar!

The calendar features several of my photos and has a lovely hand-drawn feel, if I do say so myself. Each month is sized to be printed as an 8×8 square, which you can post or bind as you wish.

Here at the Sane household, we are planning on mounting a picture rail in our entry way, so we can keep three months, printed on card stock, up at once.

If you use the calendar, leave a comment to let me know how you use it and what you think of it. I’m thinking of doing something like this every year, as well as offering other printable things on Fridays, in addition to my current collection of desktop images. Maybe next year I’ll design something more traditional, or maybe something even more… unique.

To download the calendar, right-click each half of the year and “Save link as…”. This will download a zipped archive of the corresponding JPG images for the pages for that six months.

1st Half of Year

2nd Half of Year

Happy belated Thanksgiving! Thank you all for reading and enjoy!

Free Friday

Leora — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:10:04 +0000

Just enough time to post before heading off to a birthday party.

This is another of my favorites, some bare fall trees silhouetted against a gloomy sky.

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Enjoy! And if you are heading to the party this evening, see you soon!

Monkey King

Leora — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:29:09 +0000

The story of Monkey, and his journey to the west, has always been one of my favorites. I’ve read my favorite abridged translation about 3 or 4 times, and I just recently finished reading the 1400 page original version (well, yes, it was a translation, too, but you know what I mean).
As much as I love the story, I love artists interpretations even more. This is why I will probably buy myself the new album by Hewlitt and Albarns (yup, the guys behind Gorillaz have made a Monkey album, based in part on their opera). This is also why I love this painting.
Phew… I never thought I’d ramble so much using this tiny onscreen keyboard.

SLAM BOSMA: Paintings

Mystery Monday

Leora — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:46:17 +0000

For my tenth Mystery Monday, here’s a photo to bring back thoughts of summer (much needed as it gets colder and colder here in Minnesota).

My last Mystery photo, posted a week before the election was the closed eye of my brother’s chameleon, Dunin. So, yes, Mom was right (although she had an unfair advantage, in that the picture was taken when Dunin was asleep on her chest). But we also had good guesses from Ren and Doom (both of whom commented through Livejournal, which was dutifully passed along by my lovely wife).

This week promises to be another busy one, as I will be taking my microeconomics midterm on Friday afternoon. Yep, I get to spend my entire day off tomorrow studying. Yay, me.

With any luck I will not be in a terrible post-exam mood on Friday, so I can put up a Free Friday offering.

Wish me luck…

What is that a picture of?

Leora — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:02:59 +0000

Ignore my bad grammar and instead focus on the fact that someone has actually created a search engine capable of taking an uploaded image and identifying it.

I know that this has been something a few of our friends have dreamed of, so here’s the link: TinEye Image Search. (via Photocritic.org)

Almost makes me wish we had a traditional wedding cake…

Leora — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:55:58 +0000

Just so we could have had a cake toppper like this…

This seller on Etsy has countless other things I adore. I could spend a ton of money on them. But you know I wouldn’t actually have anywhere to put them. Oh well…

What kind of Port?

Leora — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:47:10 +0000

USB Port, of course.

Because Doc was incredulous…

A nice bottle of USB - Boing Boing Gadgets