Archive for December, 2006

My Five Things

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

After reading danah and Molly, I got the meme bug. Here are five of mine….
1. A spectacular ski accident
Years ago, I was an avid skier who could be found at Mammoth many weekends charging up the first chair at 8:oo a.m. The winter of 1969 had been harsh. In the Los Angeles area it rained […]

Bismarkia nobilis replaced

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

I was palm-napped. Someone stole my birthday present palm, a beautiful Bismark palm with blue-green leaves. So yesterday, we went back to the Palm Patch to replace it. As we had taken two cars this time, it was an opportunity to indulge in another palm as well, and a Butia capitata (Jelly Palm) was added […]