urbazewski's Journal: more updates

I just redid the alt.personae writing/photo index at my website, adding a couple of essays that I wrote when I was in grad school.

The main page of blog-O-rama is as always but I've added a b & w version for people who don't think that purple-on-purple is the coolest color scheme ever.

Recent entries include:

the erector shrine
recounts my attempt to overcome childhood trauma by building my own space station. with photo-documentation.

marie osmond saves the day
describes how my blog entry went pfft! and how marie osmond got it back for me.

weekend
I had an actual weekend. really.

smart people are stupid
my comments on the 'preferred upgrade' poll I submitted to /.

From the archives:

what do ladybugs eat?
people.

Thanks for checking it out.

Harmonia axyridis

[sporktoast]

Welcome the Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle [osu.edu] to your neighborhood. I'm surprised they haven't yet moved into your home for the winter. Introduced exotics always do such interesting things.

Here in Ohio, they've been around for about a decade or more. In fact, I'm more an interloper than they, as I've only moved here in 1996. Mostly harmless (the bugs, I mean, though that might be said about me as well), though it is suspected that they are out-competing some of the native Ohio species. I hear growers of