All photos and graphic designs on this site are ⓒ Sue Owen unless stated otherwise. Here's a little more about the headers I like to rotate out: Photo my Dad snapped in Kerrville on Dec. 26, 2012. I still absolutely cannot grasp this Texas A&M football season. I will always love him and Coach Sumlin... Continue Reading →
A Twitter friend drew my attention to this explanation of Amazon's new push to offer authors and publishers a bigger slice of royalties in return for a lower price per book on the Kindle -- that is, even though the e-book is cheaper, the writer gets a bigger slice. The publisher doesn't go to the... Continue Reading →
Aug. 11, 2013: This is the most-clicked post on the blog, which is terrific. Happy white sinks, everybody! Here's the short version: THE METHOD: Coat the stained part of your white sink with a layer of dishwasher paste -- the thick gloopy stuff you put into the dishwashing machine, not the liquid soap you use... Continue Reading →
I can now add to my previous posts about Monty Python and other great British TV shows on Netflix Watch Instantly (streaming video to your PC or Mac) two eminent figures in British entertainment: Sherlock Holmes and the Doctor. Lots of old "Doctor Who" episodes have long been available on Watch Instantly, but now they've... Continue Reading →
Sunlight reflects off a methane lake on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Holy wow. The lake is called Kraken Mare, and it's in Titan's northern hemisphere, which began to come back into daylight in August after 15 years of night. (This pic was taken July 8 by the Cassini spacecraft.) All this according to NASA's release... Continue Reading →
As I'm wrapping up my Christmas shopping for this year, I wanted to share a photo of a gift I made last year: an Othello game board for my Dad. Isn't this a pretty piece of African mahogany? (It cost $8!) Dad taught me to play Othello when I was a little girl and I... Continue Reading →
Yesterday had been widely touted as an opportunity for some snow, a rarity in our area. Journalists, of course, keep a wary eye on the weather, because the worse it gets, the more important it is that people know what the eff is going on. People come in early, stay late and all hands are... Continue Reading →
Yesterday's NYT had a very interesting story about biologists discovering evidence that humans are naturally helpful to each other -- very young humans, before our parents presumably whap it into us. Of course if we didn't cooperate to some degree we'd have croaked long ago... and if we weren't kind of warlike, we wouldn't have... Continue Reading →
It's been a lovely Thanksgiving Day here, and to celebrate, here's a little tribute to a beautiful bracelet design by Shanna Steele of Auntie's Beads in Southlake. It uses Czech pressed-glass beads shaped like leaves, with rich colors and coppery highlights. Following her great instructions, which include a video on the weaving technique, I made... Continue Reading →
Below are some ramblings wherein I wonder: Did being smart just simply never go out of fashion in Britain? But first: There's even more Python than I mentioned before that you can "Watch Instantly" on your computer via Netflix: Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969) - Choose from a veritable buffet, skit by skit. And Now For... Continue Reading →
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