Partner in crime

Sam the tailor with his headlamp, working on his girlfriend's Alice in Wonderland costume.

Lit up

Total carve time from transfer to completion: 3 hours. More for hollowing out and harvesting pumpkin seeds for baking.

Step 4: Carving complete!

Step 3: The carving begins

Step 2: thumbtack tracing

The beginning of the carving process

Dexter punkin, step 1

Truth.

(The Daily What)

Sigh.

The Case for Obama | Rolling Stone Politics

The Case for Obama | Rolling Stone Politics

Did I already blog this? My browser is hella slow after doing genealogy research for the last several hours. I made it back to the early 1500s in England. Craaazy. Also: Quakers. Lots of Quaker farmers in rural PA.

Today's Reading List (Planitizen)

Architects and Designers Explore Urban Pandemics | Planetizen

Levee Construction Around New Orleans Enters a Period of Uncertainty | Planetizen

Hello Moynihan Station - Goodbye Penn | Planetizen

In completely unrelated news, considering buying a diamond-tipped Dremel bit set for a few dollars off eBay and completing those rune stones from Irish beach pebbles that I started several years ago.

It's gotta be better (read: more productive) than playing God of War for three straight days.

Today's Reading List

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Connecting Delta Cities

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Future City: Seattle on the Threshold

Wind Power Too Loud for Maine Residents (Video) : TreeHugger

The Now Habit: Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play

The Now Habit: Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play

More good tips from Lifehacker. I'm going to try the unscheduling.

I start my new contract sometime in November/December. I'm looking for short-term work but haven't made appointments with temp agencies yet because I really dislike some of the placements I have to do (front desk, mainly). But once they offer me work I can't, in good conscience, turn it down. So I just haven't made the appointments. Garrgh.

In other news I freaking love Star Wars: Battlefront and Civ 4. Sigh.

What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker

What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker

A great article. On one hand, I feel much better that other 'great' people struggle with procrastination, from Nobel laureates to General Maclellan to Victor Hugo (loved that bit).

On the other, I doubt my procrastination speaks to some great existential crisis that I'm not facing.

Hmm.

Well, maybe it does at that.

(insert "I'll think about that later" joke here)