We did this today, after an exhausting weekend of having a yard sale. I also spent a little time at Art-A-Whirl. It was a busy weekend! We decided on the raised bed “square foot” method because of the arsenic in our neighborhood and because we don’t know much about gardening and this seemed like a simple method. We’ll see!

I finally finished Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I left it at work over the weekend with a mere 20 pages left, and I was itching to see it out. It was very moving for something super surreal, leaving it very murky what is real and dream — the blurred lines were nice. You can read the first chapter here, and I enjoyed this NY Times review.

Also got the latest Bidoun — what a fabulous magazine! It never fails to provide something that strikes me. Alas, the article about Eldridge Cleaver isn’t online. It’s quite something. Where else could you find a story about “taqwacore” — a Muslim punk/hardcore. (Clearly, The Taqwacores needs to be next on my reading list.)

Back to my failing Ubuntu installation…

I owe a couple people several beers for their help with the lightbox. You know who you are! Roger’s design is, of course, beautiful.

Jay Reatard at my favorite spot on the Lower East Side, Cake Shop. I just want it here so I can play it a lot.

A few sites I’ve done for the Learning Technology Center at the Science Museum as of late. They are both Drupal, and very similar concepts. The other exciting thing is that these sites (and a few others) are all part of a Drupal multisite just for the LTC. So these are all pointing to the same Drupal installation! Very happy with that.

We’re painting the porch, peeling the cool-but-aged wallpaper & painting in the stairwell this weekend. Here’s some before-photos from scraping the porch. Fun! Lead!