Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love by Amir Levine I almost stopped listening to this in the first half hour, because it sounded like the worst of all possible pop-psych books, where it’s mostly a sales-pitch for how this wonderful new science will solve …
Mar 25
Mutant Flower
Sometimes we make simple flowers in hot shop when class isn’ t yet over, but there isn’t enough time to make a vessel. You get a small gather, heat some frit into it, press it into a disk, then get it nice and hot and molten. Sitting at the bench, you use the tweezers to …
Mar 18
Bottlecaps First Group
Whenever I want to do a small project that doesn’t involve a lot of thought and preparation, I make some of these bottlecap magnets. I bought a special hole-punch which cuts circles of exactly 1″ in diameter, which makes this project go even faster. First I get about 24 bottlecaps, throwing out any that are …
Mar 14
Book Review: Happens Every Day
Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story by Isabel Gillies I got this as an audiobook from audible, read by the author. This is a sub-genre that I haven’t read much, a sub-genre one of my teachers called “Adirondacks chair books” because they usually have an Adirondacks chair on the cover, symbolizing a woman who has …
Mar 12
Here Birdy! Birdy!: How Not To Pick Up Women
So this guy approached me in the local supermarket. He was in his mid thirties or early forties, dressed casual but not sloppy, black, but not unattractive. He said “excuse me” and asked me what my name is. We were on the far side of the store with the socks and make up and feminine …