Random Scan Sunday 15: Going back to Cali...

I sketched this during my first stint of apartment hunting in Los Angeles. Didn't end up living there, but eleven years later, I still have the drawing. It's always a pleasant discovery when I flip through my folder of old apartment info looking for something else.


A year ago on TTaT: Heart-stopping KABOOM!

A good day for Muppets

More Muppet marvelousness.

3 years ago on TTaT: How to get ribs without mange

Art + Nature

Right after this shot, I thought Damn, I didn't point my toe, but the mosquitoes had found us and my photographer was out of patience with my direction.

Woodpeckers, man, crazy.

Two years ago on TTaT: The Road is my Favorite Place: Day 3

Free Rice is all new kinds of awesome

You know Free Rice, right? Multiple choice vocabulary builder, for each word you get right, the site donates 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger.

It's not just vocabulary anymore. They've added several other subjects: famous paintings, chemistry symbols, multiplication tables, world capitals, English grammar, and some foreign languages. So cool!

Also, you can even pick the level you want to play at now. Very cool. Had to see what the fuss was about at level 60 in the vocabulary since I've been stuck at 54; I just got 3 words right at 60. Sweet. Think I'll switch subjects before I break my streak.


A year ago on TTaT: Dream soundtrack

Her hypocrisy triggered my stubbornness

Why I let myself get dragged into a heated argument with my Mom when I was already tired is not beyond me. It wasn't the sort of argument where either of us was actually upset; it was just the adrenaline-raising exhausting sort: voices raising to be heard over the other, incredulity over the other's unwillingness to give in over something so stupid.

It went on too long and too far precisely because I was wiped out to begin with. I'm calmer now but can still feel a vestige of excitability crackling underneath, sapping my strength.


Two years ago on TTaT: 32

10 Meter Platform Diving is still my favorite

How adorable is Matthew Mitcham? Watching him dive and rip his entries made me exclaim Wow, while his happy excitement and friendly waves to the camera after getting his scores just made me grin.

If you don't know his name already, go watch some video (just type his last name into the athlete search box) or read up on him here.

Congratulations on your gold, Matt! Your dives were beautiful!

Random Scan Sunday 14: Olympic pins

A year ago on TTaT: Roofers, you better be completely done!