English Country Gentleman

Jamie and I started watching the tv show about a year All Creatures Great and Small about the veterinarian James Herriot. James Herriot is a veterinarian in the English countryside in the 1940's (the show was made in the '80's). Basically Herriot and another vet stomp around in their galoshes in the middle of the night to get to cows and then put their hands into animal bellies. They use real animals in the show, and although it its probably meant to be "family friendly" it gets pretty gross. After watching several seasons, I decided to create a sort of James Harriett Wardrobe. Rachel Scott describes it as "English Country Gentleman". I just recently finished one of many essential pieces, a great grey wool vest to add to this very dapper look!

Parking and Kansas City

(Photo From Commuter City: Introduction By Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller of AGENCY)

AGENCY, a design, architecture, and research practice based in New York, has written a series of interesting articles about car culture and its architectural effects on Kansas City, MO. And best of all, nice graphics and photos!

Commuter City: Introduction
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Transient Space

Also, this group had a show at Charlotte Street Foundation's La Esquina space in the past month or so, they appear to be everywhere.

Yearlong Projects Completed

I started working on several crafting projects during the summer of 2008, and have only recently finished them. I never anticipate a project taking this long, nor do I anticipate having the patience to spend a year doing a mindless crafting task! This is a huge crochet blanket (If interested, I used a pattern from the book Vintage Crochet)


I also just finished a much too large quilt! (Some hand quilting and some machine quilting)

Computing Query!

Computing Query! I have recently been looking for a site on the internet to serve as a sort of external hard drive.
I like how flickr works in that I pay a small fee ($15 a year or something like that) and I can upload an unlimited number of photos. I use it a lot to backup my photos and when I'm looking for something specific, its easy to find.
I can't seem to find something like this for all files, not just photos. I've found a few sites that will upload for a fee but they always want $15 or more a month, and for that I could just buy another external hard drive. Anyone have any ideas?