I know I can be a bit picky at times, but this doesn’t really strike me as something I want to buy used:

I’ve posted the Barco for sale on Cragslist. With any luck, I’ll soon have a few extra square feet in my bedroom.

We’re just a few days into the year, and I’ve already had what will surely be my greatest stroke of genius. The product of my brilliance? Single-Serving Whipped Cream Packets. Or, more likely, whipped topping packets. Why has no one thought of this before? It would be perfect on everything!

Glancing over my site this evening, I noticed that a good portion of my posts use exclamatory punctuation in the title. This led me over to Wikipedia, since I was curious as to whether it’s considered a “mark” or a “point”. All trivialities aside, I did manage to learn two things:

1. I’m really a woman, given my predilection for the things.
2. There’s something called the interrobang, my new favorite punctuation mark‽

If anyone can manage to find a key combination for producing the interrobang on a Mac, I’ll be forever indebted. Until then, I’ll just have to keep using the Special Characters palette.

That is all.

Eat your collective hearts out! I have the most popular Web site EVER!

PS- I thank you, whoever you are.

After installing Leopard on my MacBook, it seems I finally have full access to all 4GB of my RAM!

My memory arrived this evening. Installed easily, working perfectly!

Here you can see the new RAM showing up in About This Mac:

And here you can see (most of ) its presence in Activity Monitor:

As expected, I’m only able to use 3 of the 4 GB installed, due to mapping limitations in Intel’s chipsets. But I’m okay with that. I still get to use more than the official limit of 2GB without sacrificing video speed.

Another Friday night, another contribution to The Great Pumpkin Experiment of 2007. This week, we have Macadamia Nut White Chip Pumpkin Cookies. Before we get started, I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone about the importance of…

TEAMWORK!

Cookie me!

Just as I was getting ready for bed last night, I noticed something odd right next to my pillow. I flipped on the lights to find this little guy punching the air:

More mantis!

My dear readers, I’d like to introduce you to the Great Pumpkin Experiment of 2007. This all started a few weeks ago when Aaron found a cookbook at the store. Little did I know, Aaron is quite the fan of pumpkin confections, and this book was certainly full of recipes for them. With the help of Todd , we selected the appropriately named recipe for Great Pumpkin Cookies to launch the experiment. With our (mostly organic) ingredients purchased, and Aaron manning the camera, we set took the plunge.

Of course, a project of this magnitude can’t go anywhere without coffee. Or tea, if that’s your choice.

Way to look excited there, Todd. You’ll definitely want to read more