http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/ Nerdly Glee. en-us 2010-09-02T01:57:56+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/09/#001401 Yes, this.... Janer 2010-09-02T01:57:56+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/08/#001400 Stay classy, Enbridge.... Outdoors Janer 2010-08-31T21:19:41+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/08/#001399 Sadly, after five years into my early-adoption Biodiesel experiment, it's become next-to-impossible to find a regular supply of fuel. There's only one gas station on this side of the state that sells B20 and it's a half-hour out of the... Janer 2010-08-30T14:53:07+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/08/#001398 When I teach workshops, I always warn my attendees to not get overly attached to specific art supplies, to just use what's at hand. Getting hung up on not having your special pencil only causes one more block between you... Comix Janer 2010-08-26T17:44:11+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/08/#001397 ... I find this post from Pandagon's Amanda Marcotte, also about language use and sensitivity in writing, to be a useful counterpoint. More useful discussion here.... Janer 2010-08-17T20:50:58+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/08/#001396 Start here: When Writers Fail To Understand How Words Work and then go here: Because writing a book for fun and profit is totally just like what happened at Bataan and then here: Patalim and finally end up here: Your... Signal Boost Janer 2010-08-10T01:44:27+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/08/#001395 Booyah! Boo. Beautiful.... Signal Boost Janer 2010-08-05T13:16:52+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/08/#001394 We went sea kayaking at Freshwater Bay in the morning -- I don't have any photos of the trip, because I didn't want to risk the camera to my clumsiness. The trip was great, and we saw all sorts of... Outdoors Janer 2010-08-05T04:42:58+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/08/#001393 Okay, some overdue trip photos from Day Three. Dungeness Spit. Some of the douglas firs were two and three hundred feet tall. Hard for us Michigan flatlanders to wrap our heads around the idea of a tree as tall as... Olympic Trip Janer 2010-08-05T03:47:17+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/08/#001392 Seriously, I laughed so hard at this that I nearly peed myself.... Tchunes Janer 2010-08-03T04:22:30+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/07/#001391 Man, the Kalamazoo River oil spill is just heartbreaking. Nearly a million gallons of crude, dumped right in my back yard, gives me new respect for the horror the Gulf Coast's been going through. Terrible pictures of oil-slicked Canada geese... Kalamazudlians Janer 2010-07-29T13:15:00+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/07/#001390 Seriously, the whole package is so gorgeous, from the hand-stamped wax-sealed stacks pass to the bookplates to the Spinoza patch to the adorable Luther sketch (Dylan, how is your hand still capable of gripping a pen so soon after... Comix Janer 2010-07-22T21:42:39+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/07/#001389 Biggs|Gilmore wins Advertising Age's Best Small Agency (76-150). Biggs is a fantastic place to work, and I love it. Nice to see other people catching on to how awesome the company is.... Janer 2010-07-21T13:59:37+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/07/#001388 Nickelodeon announces a new ANIMATED Last Airbender series! ETA: More info in this interview! **KERMIT ARMS**... Nerdery Janer 2010-07-21T13:57:59+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/07/#001387 On the second day of our trip we got up early, had a nice breakfast with Dave and Brenda, and then drove and ferried our way out to Port Townsend for an Orca Tour. Alas, there was a gale warning,... Nerdery Janer 2010-07-19T03:48:50+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/07/#001385 It's going to be too hard to write a complete trip report -- we just saw too much amazing stuff. I kept a diary during the trip, but even copying parts out here would take hours. So rather than spend... Nerdery Janer 2010-07-19T03:14:09+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/07/#001384 Paul and I returned on early Wednesday morning from a beautiful wonderful awe-filled trip to Seattle and Olympic National Park. I'd have liked to've had a post up sooner, but between all the catching up required during the return to... Kayakery Janer 2010-07-18T03:28:07+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/07/#001383 The next time somebody has the audacity to claim that we're "post-racial" now as a society, point them to this heartbreaking story about a young black man with autism who was arrested for sitting on the grass, and imprisoned and... Signal Boost Janer 2010-07-02T13:24:18+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/07/#001382 Rotten Tomatoes on the Avatar: The Last Airbender movie. Paul would like to point out that Marmaduke is currently scored twice as high, at a still-abysmal 10% fresh. Also, These other articles are worth reading.... RaceFail Janer 2010-07-01T13:23:20+00:00 http://www.vogelein.com/JanerBlog/2010/06/#001381 So Thomas Dolby has a recording studio. In a lifeboat. Powered by... wait for it ... wind power. And best of all? It's named after one of the ships in the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey-Maturin series. If this studio were any... Luddite loves her technologies Janer 2010-06-28T02:38:39+00:00