House Forlorn #2 on Chogger.
..HF.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
House Forlorn on Chogger, #1
Chogger is a new Pittsburgh start-up, designed to allow users to read and create comic strips. House Forlorn is a great vehicle for talking to people...let's see how it does as a comic strip! :-)
[...fixed here, a la Chogger]
NB: The picture this embedded code & link should show does not appear to work...Chogger is in Alpha, so I'm communicating with their webmaster. In the mean time, here's a JPEG:
..HF.
[...fixed here, a la Chogger]
NB: The picture this embedded code & link should show does not appear to work...Chogger is in Alpha, so I'm communicating with their webmaster. In the mean time, here's a JPEG:
..HF.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Weekend Work for You
Owner, it's the weekend.
Podcamp Pittsburgh 3 is still a month away, and the Introduction to Social Media sessions at Northland Public Library can wait another 7 days.
You, there, owner. You had fun on the shores of the rivers yesterday, and you're not at work servicing clients, drafting documents and padding the company's bottom line with sales and service fees. You're at home, so do some work on me!
I like the changes to my cover page at houseforlorn.com, but it's time to get off the computer, down on your hands and knees, or up on a ladder and work on me! Clean my windows, scrub my floors, vacuum my floors and carpets, pick up those newspapers (where do they all come from???), pick up those clothes and throw them into the washer! Clean, clean, clean! Quick, while the kid is with the grandparents, while you don't have social media obligations, while the sun is shining and the clouds are at bay!
Get out there and cut the grass. No, it needs no fertilizer or other lawn-care products...just a little T.L.C. Cut the grass, trim the hedges, clean up the pre-fall leaves, sweep the walks...anything to work up a sweat!
In other words, enjoy the weekend. Fortunately, I know you're not a sports nut, so you won't be facing the boob-tube all weekend...but get out there and clean me!
..HF.
Podcamp Pittsburgh 3 is still a month away, and the Introduction to Social Media sessions at Northland Public Library can wait another 7 days.
You, there, owner. You had fun on the shores of the rivers yesterday, and you're not at work servicing clients, drafting documents and padding the company's bottom line with sales and service fees. You're at home, so do some work on me!
I like the changes to my cover page at houseforlorn.com, but it's time to get off the computer, down on your hands and knees, or up on a ladder and work on me! Clean my windows, scrub my floors, vacuum my floors and carpets, pick up those newspapers (where do they all come from???), pick up those clothes and throw them into the washer! Clean, clean, clean! Quick, while the kid is with the grandparents, while you don't have social media obligations, while the sun is shining and the clouds are at bay!
Get out there and cut the grass. No, it needs no fertilizer or other lawn-care products...just a little T.L.C. Cut the grass, trim the hedges, clean up the pre-fall leaves, sweep the walks...anything to work up a sweat!
In other words, enjoy the weekend. Fortunately, I know you're not a sports nut, so you won't be facing the boob-tube all weekend...but get out there and clean me!
..HF.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Whirl Magazine
Have you seen any recent print editions of Whirl Magazine?
Whirl is a Pittsburgh magazine about the people and their places here in the Pittsburgh region. Their places include their homes (!), their restaurants, their sporting events and their social events.
Oh, social events.
As a structure with a foundation, I don't get out to many social events; and being a small house in a working-class neighborhood, my owners down through the decades haven't hosted many soiree's. They've enjoyed their single-malts, cabernets and pale ales, but only with a few select friends at a time. So the odd magazine left in my rooms have been my sole entre into the greater world of glamour, fashion, haute couture and other houses with more than six rooms.
Ah, that's the thing that caught my eye: Whirl has tons of advertisements showcasing my larger, more recent or more presentable brethren. "Residential communities", like the Village at Palmer Place, on up to $1.8M mansions of Shadyside. I'm able to dream beyond my single dormer roof, beyond my single central staircase, beyond my gravel driveway. :-)
..HF.
Whirl is a Pittsburgh magazine about the people and their places here in the Pittsburgh region. Their places include their homes (!), their restaurants, their sporting events and their social events.
Oh, social events.
As a structure with a foundation, I don't get out to many social events; and being a small house in a working-class neighborhood, my owners down through the decades haven't hosted many soiree's. They've enjoyed their single-malts, cabernets and pale ales, but only with a few select friends at a time. So the odd magazine left in my rooms have been my sole entre into the greater world of glamour, fashion, haute couture and other houses with more than six rooms.
Ah, that's the thing that caught my eye: Whirl has tons of advertisements showcasing my larger, more recent or more presentable brethren. "Residential communities", like the Village at Palmer Place, on up to $1.8M mansions of Shadyside. I'm able to dream beyond my single dormer roof, beyond my single central staircase, beyond my gravel driveway. :-)
..HF.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
I Wanna New Human
I wanna new human. I cannot tell you how badly.
Well, okay, I can.
I want a new human to wake up inside me every morning,
to run water through my pipes regularly,
to make human smells and aromas permeate the air,
to slam my windows shut just before a summer deluge and
to periodically slam my doors when she feels angry.
I wanna new human, and I want 'em soon.
..HF.
Well, okay, I can.
I want a new human to wake up inside me every morning,
to run water through my pipes regularly,
to make human smells and aromas permeate the air,
to slam my windows shut just before a summer deluge and
to periodically slam my doors when she feels angry.
I wanna new human, and I want 'em soon.
..HF.
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