Things I think that Robert should want

Damask.... it's no longer just for bedspreads!

Dishes

A tiny tiny projector!

Here's a micro projector that you can slip into your pocket. It's small, portable, and runs for two hours on batteries. When you take it out, it can throw up to a 60" image from 8 feet away! You can project movies and shows from your iphone/ipod (or a slideshow from your laptop/ipod). It's awesome! They are trying to integrate the technology into cell phones--the possibilities are endless! I'm wracking my brains to think of people I know in Japan.... as Engadget is reporting that it's being released there in less than a month!

After the last couple days

I think we all need one of these

If only mutually comforting squids were part of the economic bailout package for our citizens

Fiat Lux!!!!

So I'm starting to feel the effects of basically non-stop rains here in the Pacific Northwest. I don't know how people do it. There's a store that sells "living" products to old people in the mall near where I'm living. The store sells reacher prongs, walkers, electric scooters, bedpans... the like. But it also has a whole display of "light therapy" products. I walk by this store to get to my Post Office box. Today I was drawn in like moth to a flame (or, more precisely, wet anthropologist trying to get out of the rain).