snooze

We've got two used but worthy sofas that are free to one or two lucky fans of the Dirkmonster blog.

I have one of those alarm clocks that has a cd player in it.  I don’t always use the cd alarm to wake up and if I do, the Snooze is usually hit before much music plays.

Not this morning.

Following up on our recent post about comparing the Democratic candidates with their corresponding computer platforms, today we introduce political analysis based on typography. Really, could this blog be any more geeky?

Many of you know that my parents got their very first computer recently. I spent a few hours with Mom one Sunday showing her how to access her email. We practiced composing emails, sending emails, storing emails, opening attachments safely, and deleting emails. She emailed my sister to thank her for a Smilebox creation that Jen sent showing off some vacation pictures.

At holiday time I am a serious online shopper. It has gotten so my younger self, who lived for a day out at the stores, has retreated to our cozy living room, by the light of my laptop and our newly decorated Christmas tree, to pick out all the holiday goodies to go underneath. Needless to say I've been perusing about every shop I've ever bookmarked in the past few weeks, and this evening I happened upon some work by Lorena Siminovich at Doe