Recycle, Reuse

A while back I mentioned an IKEA bed frame that we bought last year. Never again! We got a new box springs and mattress for the bed and found that the design of the bed frame allowed the box springs to slip through the frame and get unevenly wedged! So we finally went out and got a new metal bed frame which is great.

The question became what to do with the old bed frame. We felt we couldn't give it away--it was defective. As I was hauling it out Wendy looked at the head board and said "That's a really nice piece of wood. Pity you couldn't use it as a desk."

The light bulb appeared above my head!

IKEA does sell nice table legs. I went and bought a bunch of them. Turned that into my new desk in my study. The foot board turned out to be a very nice elevated shelf for the the back of the desk. So now I don't feel quite as bad about the purchase of the bed frame. But still--I don't think I'll be buying anything like that from IKEA anytime soon.

Another haiku from Wendy

Morning Haiku II:

I want a donut
and a steaming cup of joe
Dunkable goodness

(c) 2007, Wendy J. Gennaula, all rights reserved

A haiku from Wendy

Morning Haiku:

Dad makes the coffe
According to the Bible
The book says He-brews

(c) Wendy J. Gennaula, all rights reserved.

A haiku from Thomas

Endless Possibilities, a haiku:


Possibilities
Good or bad they are endless
Use them all your life

(c) 2007, Thomas N. Gennaula, all rights reserved

In honor of Halloween

I've decided to change the colors on our blog in honor of Halloween and autumn. My latest craze has been del.icio.us. To quote from their about page:

del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website -- the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.

They have a feature where you can display your favorite tags on your blog or webpage--hence the new item on our blog. Follow one of those links to see the things I've marked on the web.

Tell the MPAA

Tommy, the wise (my son) has pointed out that a Pinky and the Brain Movie should be rated NC-17.

Why? for animal nudity of course.

(Oh dear! What is this world coming to?)

The history of computer languages

For my fellow geeks:

http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html

God bless St. Nick

Here's a link to Nick Coleman's piece on the Bishop Tutu dust up at St. Thomas. It is a pity that Ann Coulter got to speak there without a prior question, but Bishop Tutu gets uninvited and then re-invited.

My childhood memories of being Catholic involve "throw[ing] open the windows of the Church" to paraphrase Pope John XXIII. Unfortunately the zeitgeist now seems to be one of a bunker mentality where the question is "are you Catholic enough to be in the bunker." Throwing open to the windows did not mean welcoming someone who speaks hate as well as Ann Coulter. I hope the re-invitation perhaps reflects a willingness to open the bunker doors and see what is around. (Something that St. Nick points out has a tradition at the University of St. Thomas.)

There goes the neighborhood.

The grown-ups are moving in folks. It's in the NY Times, so it must be true.

Read the article.