Best photo of the day - Grand Prismatic Spring

From the WashingtonPost.com,

Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, captures the essence of Yellowstone's world-renowned geysers and hot springs that are fed by the enormous heat from its active volcanic system. This 60 meter-wide, boiling hot spring has an array of vivid colors produced by thermophile bacteria that thrive in hot water.

Photo by Henry Holdsworth, Courtesy of Robert B. Smith

Best tool of the day - MeetingMeiser

Found at NYT.com:

a sister publication of CNET, BNET has found a way to figure out how much $$ is being wasted by a meeting. Called the MeetingMeiser, it uses the calculator from PayScale.com, which is usually used by job hunters trying to figure out how much to ask for.

Best quote of the day - Love, bread and sci-fi

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone,” the novelist Ursula K. LeGuin wrote in The Lathe of Heaven. “It has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

Source: Culinate, The staff of life; Family time is bread time by By Zanne Miller, October 31, 2007

Two key notes: My mom had yards and yards of bookshelves dedicated to sci-fi so as a kid, I knew the importance of what Ursula said. And two, I love to bake bread.

All Hallow's Eve

Seems like an appropriate time to start this thing up - putting on an online persona is a component of blogging, no? It should contain some element of the underlying person and yet be a separate thing - different from the in-person me.

Can't think of a particular theme for my blog, nothing like "wanna-be urban homesteader yuppie" or "frustrated writer/cook who needs an outlet for snark and recipes". Not that there's anything wrong with having a niche - who knows - I could luck into one. Listen, all I'm saying here is that I'm not really doing this for the greater good - mostly just a place to dump out the things that collect and hopefully connect with other great people who are great writers, too.

xxoo