I should have taken you to my favorite crafty peoples store when you & nick were in town!!
― sweet tater, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
By hand!
― KitCat, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
My craftiness is very limited. I'm excited by that stuff but suck at it. I can only handle really small projects.
― KitCat, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Deej, if you want to help a thriving nonprofit org apply and get some grants and get paid on a commission basis, if that's anything that suits you, I might have a lead.
― Eazy, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z128/ericzieg/your_image.png
― Eazy, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
ha!
― KitCat, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Eric is an old black man with pink hair.
― KitCat, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Eric: where should a group of 8 eat dinner in st. paul?
― sweet tater, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
I emailed you already so as not to bore people.
I would not be bored by this.
― jaymc, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
I think that you could totally make those bags by hand. It will take a bit longer, obviously, but they would be so charming! You can do a draw string closure or a button or anything like that. I would avoid a zipper w/o a machine only because frustration could run high but it's do-able. Or explore the world of embroidery! You could do hankies or napkins or lingerie bags or travel laundry bags (one could be for "clean" and the other could be for "dirty" or something like that). . . . or kitchen towels or pillowcases . . .
― sweet tater, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
I'll forward you the email, how about that?
― La Lechera, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Khyber Pass or, if you want to splurge, Heartland is fantastic ($30 for three-course prix fixe veg menu - maybe higher on weekend nights, but very good value for what you get). Other than that, Dara Moskowitz knows best.
― Eazy, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link
You know those bags you put bags in? That are cloth and gathered at the ends like a piece of wrapped candy? Maybe I could find some blank ones and then put a design on them somehow.
― KitCat, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Nick: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1338/998416066_fcddf1053b.jpg?v=0
THANK YOU!!! I knew you'd have some good options. Sadly, one of the people we're eating with is the pickiest eater I've met since my 5 year old self, so I'll leave it up to her.
― sweet tater, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Also: I'm totally on your team wrt Dara. She's awesome.
― sweet tater, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I just read her recent review of Dave & Busters. I mean, here is this James Beard award-winning food writer, really knows her way around cooking and wine, and she goes to this place and has a great time. I really can't think of a music writer equivalent of her. She's the best.
― Eazy, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
I want to have DM's babies.
― Jordan, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
I've really appreciated her approach to food & her writing is really fun to read.
― sweet tater, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
I tried to do that Simpsonizer thing, but it didn't like the photos I submitted. Oh well.
― jaymc, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
I'll be your wing man, Jordan.
― Eazy, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, in the non-productivity department, I keep trying to write this blog entry about baby names, but I just spent like an hour just inputting data into Excel, after which point I can't really justify ignoring my actual work anymore.
― jaymc, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Did you guys do an automatic Simpsonizer thing? The one I did was piece-by-piece manual (hence the green lips).
― Jordan, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah, i did it all manual, too.
― kenan, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
http://simpsonizeme.com/
I don't have a photo with high enough resolution on this machine.
― dan m, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Mine was automatic, but they had options to revise stuff piece-by-piece aftewards. I didn't change anything though.
― KitCat, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah, that's the one
I tried putting this one into it, but no dice.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/232/521904112_5c0365d2ca.jpg
― dan m, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Eazy - i'm interested, altho i don't have much grant writing experience ... but how hard can it be? i'll take some info
― deej, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link
I did mine by scanning a photo. I tried customizing one first, but I think the camera don't lie.
Deej - send me an e-mail, or get my address from Jaymc.
― Eazy, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link
I want a Dave and Busters FAP. Getting drunk and playing video games and skeet ball, I can't think of anything more enjoyable.
― Jeff, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link
mattttt had a birthday party there a while back. It was fun, but there were too many little kids around getting the games all greasy.
― dan m, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd go back, because I still have one of their cards with some game credits on it.
― dan m, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
LOVE skeet ball
Do they have good girlie drinks?? If so, maybe I should have my birthday party there. Oh, xpost.
― KitCat, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes, they do. Answered my own question.
― KitCat, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
skeet ball
Ew.
― jaymc, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
I like the basketball shoot too. Much more enjoyable drunk.
― Jeff, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
and the race games that vibrate.
― Jeff, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/895/yourimageyy6.png
― jaymc, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
looooooooooooool
― dan m, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
skeet skeet
― Jordan, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
"My name is Otto, and I like to get blotto!"
― kenan, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1241/998809230_94ca5be73d_o.png
― sweet tater, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Heh, both of you!
― Eazy, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link
That Simpson might have been accurate in 2003. I think in the photo I submitted, my hair blended into some tree branches.
― jaymc, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
aw. The simpsonizer keeps telling me to come back later. :(
― kenan, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
It's because I'm jamming the place up trying to simpsonize my family.
― KitCat, Friday, 3 August 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
See?
― KitCat, Friday, 3 August 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
hm. I figured it out. It won't work on Firefox for Mac.
― kenan, Friday, 3 August 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Commission based grantwriting?! For shame on that non-profit! xpost
― sisut, Friday, 3 August 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link