21 things that became obsolete this decade: PDAs, email accounts you have to pay for, dial-up, getting film developed, video stores, maps, newspaper classifieds, the landline, long-distance charges, public pay phones, VCRs, fax machines, phone books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, calling 411, CDs, getting bills in the mail, buttons, losing touch, paper.We can no longer wear those [...]
Archive for December, 2009
this site is so lovely. and meaningful. you’ll probably look at it all day.
the Olympic torch passed through Bruce County yesterday – day 60 of the 106 day Canadian Olympic Torch Relay. It went from Hanover to Walkerton to Kincardine to Port Elgin to Southampton to Saugeen First Nation to Owen Sound-Â where it spent the night. Because Rob and I had spent the morning/afternoon in Barrie and [...]
Rob and I painted a tree on our wall. It rules. We also made a time-lapse film of it with gawker. Tree! from Lindsay Wright on Vimeo. My grandfather made us some incredible shelves for our bedroom. Right from a dream. He, my dad and Rob installed them a few weeks ago. Rob finished the [...]
up to reading: the new House&Home, The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb loving: cosmic photo collection, visiting with family, making time-lapse movies eating: nerds and milk buying: fun blue sunglasses and india ink playing: christmas music (yes, still) making: personalized paperdolls.
Christmas day has come and gone. The Morgan/Hess Christmas dinner was a little bit different this year for a few reasons… rob & i hosted it in kincardine; sarah/susan/leah/chris/justine were in london, england; matt/cat were in windsor; rachel was on the beach in sydney, australia; there was a toddler; there were 4 new people who [...]
I received an email from Kate a little while ago, reminding me of how 10 years ago, on New Years Eve 2000 (our last year of high school), a bunch of us got together and made predictions for ourselves and each other, 10 years in the future. Kate saved these predictions and sent them to [...]
i left my camera cord at school. and I can’t use a card reader. sigh. I have a bunch of photos of new things to post – like my class and their christmas performance and some new shots of our amazing giant bookcases, courtesy of my grandfather. but, until then – and only for a [...]
there is a yearly status generator on bookface right now. i like it. it generates a pretty little square with a selection of your fb status updates of the year. i played with it for a while, but i decided that i didn’t want to choose statuses (stati?) to make myself look cool, i wanted [...]
 I miss the old bezerk games. In the late 90s I played Acrophobia until the cows came home. It was a game where it’d flash several acronyms, and each person in the room would have to make a sentence out of the words, and each player would vote for the best. Loved it. I [...]
