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i find it a little creepy but a fact of social networking on the world wide web that strangers request friend connections or email. i won’t say yes (unless you’re that hilarious guy who makes jewelry from black flax seed pods. i really am looking forward to meeting that guy. i love flax plus, that cereal, and crafting from black flax seed pods seemed a little to me like making quinoa surprise, so i figured we were kindred.)

the point. some dude today sent a request that involved a note. and i paraphrase here:

hello, i’m writing to ask if you would like to add me as a friend. i know we don’t know one another and this might seem a little “gay” but… blah blah blah blah.

to which i declined with the note:

did you just use the word “gay” to mean “stupid”?

to which dude replied, and i paraphrase again:

oh, i see. you’re from philly.
yeah, i did use “gay” meaning stupid.
oh well.
you’re loss.

nonlinear logic, i like; but ignorance i don’t.

Dina Pinza just launched an online sales site for her jewelry at dinapinza.etsy.com.

Congrats to dina for launching and also for selling a piece already — in her first day of being online!

this is a disappointment.

definitions given for the word eft

1. n. newt, especially the European smooth newt
2. adv. again, afterwards

whenever i’ve played the word “eft” in a scrabble game in the past, just after i have commended myself for knowing it is a scrabble-approved word, i have chuckled because i’ve always thought it was how scrabble spells fuck in the imperative. as in, “go get eft.”

but it turns out, this is not the meaning. or at least, not the meaning that scrabble approves of.

the other day, i was playing lots of scrabble with katie and mike and tried to play poo which mike, properly challenged. it is not that poo is not a word. it is that scrabble is a “family” game that allows neither slang referring to feces nor, as it turns out, curse-verb imperatives.

sara schuenemann just launched her site burningsphere.com!

she’s working in philly, making glass beads and jewelry.  her site and work is great.

lately, i’ve been making dioramas — started out as just a project to entertain myself and has turned into a project to entertain myself as well as to entertain other people. it’s been surprisingly social — asking advice, getting inspiration from other people, also, hopefully inspiring other people to make dioramas too. i’m making a few now that are collaborations — stories other people helped me create with their real-lives or with other bits and pieces they provide.

i’m in a little bit of a holding pattern in the northeast and it’s been a fun thing to do with a day — making an object, taking pix, being social (digitally mediated socializing, of course).

check them out on oysauce.com.

marilyn just sent me this link to an article in wired about dioramas! pro dioramas and shooting them. some fun tips about shooting; and whoa, these are awesome.
Nature Conquers Micropolis in Dioramas Photographed to Look Real, article in wired