Jelly-making in the Rockies

High altitude is great for crisp dry air, beautiful winter snow and alpine flowers. It is not good for baking, candy making or jelly making. I nearly fumbled the jelly this year by trying to follow the recipe. I don’t see any high-altitude directions, so assumed there weren’t any major differences. How wrong I was!
Trying [...]

Total Geeky Binary Love

greenKarat-Jewelry Product Detail Page

This is a geeky-cool-lovr product.
It’s a binary ring with five pits going across the ring to represent 2^5, or a binary representation of the digits 0-31. That’s more than enough to represent the 26 characters of the English alphabet.
There are a series of 20 spaces around the ring for your characters. [...]

Amoré

It’s that time of year again. Many years ago I thought this holiday to be rubbish because of some serious Linus-like frustration straight from a Peanuts cartoon.
17 years later I met someone who thankfully put an end to my envy-spite-bitter-blahtitude towards the day of the cupid. Even so much as to produce one of [...]