dirty martini

a very nice evening at woodmont grill with the mister.

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taptilt magazine for iPhone and iTouch

currently awaiting approval from apple is taptilt, the on-phone magazine for iPhone and iTouch...the premier issue-may- covers, baseball, art, gardening, and a lot more. 
i contributed the gardening section.
please look for it soon!

design something every day challenge

wow...i have definitely been designing something every day lately...just cant say what. let's just say, it will be available in the app store soon, and can be accessed from your iPhone,  iTouch and  iPad. more details soon, but check out my first app, master gardener, in the mean time: designed and developed with my brother.

happy st. iPad day!

did you spend the night in line at your local apple store, or wait behind the velvet rope at the same this morning for an iPad? did you pre-order the iPad through the apple store earlier this week? i did not.  i am hopeful someone lovely buys one for me for my  birthday. im a leo-virgo, fyi.

spring has sprung...and i like it!

before the rain started, I spent a couple hours raking out my flower beds, doing a little weeding and prepping for mulch. the sedums are starting to froth and the crocus are up!

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flood watch

i get alerts on my i-phone when anything bad happens or is going to happen in the dc metro area. right now, its a flood alert , and that is not good! all of the sand, salt, garbage, asphalt scrapings, car drippings, kitty litter, dog crap, and varied rubbish from the last few months of wintery hell will be washing down the sewers to the creeks and rivers, and finally into whatever water you live near. polluted stormwater overflows into our water supply. here are three ideas from the audubon naturalist society we can all do to try and reduce the toxic stew.

1. fix leaky cars

2. choose organic fertilizers, but don't apply them if your yard is frozen or before the big rain storm. 

3. use CMA-calcium magnesium acetate- for future de-icing ventures

here are ten other very easy household ideas to help our local waterways and reduce your carbon footprint.

digging out

the big dig continued all day. we have received a total of 45" since last weekend's blizzard, phase 1. three vehicles have been dug out: the old white pick up truck is still parked in the neighbor's driveway, covered in snow; the motorcycle trailer appears to have collapsed under the snow's weight. our street finally saw a county plow at about 5:00pm today.

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hello cupcake

bill and penny invited us to the cosmos club last night for dinner and a presentation on puget sound and the Chesapeake bay: it was a wonderful evening! penny is the proprietor of hello cupcake, hands down: the best cupcakes in dc! penny actually brought us 4 hello cupcakes, but I ate the strawberry one before I photographed it!

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day 19: design something every day

pig on a blanket made of bacon ring was quickly drawn in my sketch pad and photographed with my crappy iPhone camera to honor my pledge of 365 consecutive days of design in 2010.

winter vignette

i think multiple presents -xmas and etc.- look pretty good combined together. who gives someone a chicken candle? and who makes a fantastic vignette with it?
weird...weird like a feather star.

(crappy iphone photo, btw)

master of your own domain? there's an app for that!

master your domain with the master gardener app for iphone and itouch! i have been using master gardener for a few days to organize my winter crops and plan for seedlings in january. i have a wish list of edibles i want to grow consistently, and the huge data base of 40,000 plants makes specifications so easy, plus i have wikipedia access for research and link purposes. i have to say: when i typed in 'arugula' i got a blank screen and had to enter it manually, but it was really simple and quick, frankly! i can easily add other gardens to my journal and include my own photos for reference. it is a gardening tool i can utilize in so many different ways! excuse me for saying 'it is kind of awesome!', because my brother, anita and myself designed it after a conversation last christmas dinner...eleven months later-and a lot of hard work- it was accepted into the apple store last thursday! please check it out and let me know what you think: we will try to improve it and version 2 is already in the apple pipeline for release asap. i love my iphone and this is just another reason i cant live without it: please join me!

fish story

went with the mister to buy fishing stuff at rw sport shop and take photos for my fake fishing blog...they have cool stuff there, including an abundant-and neatly organized- fish spice selection. who knew?
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grey skies are gunna clear up!

yet another rainy weekend...and it gets dark so early these days: i already cant take it! I think the end of it is in site!
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colorWatch app for iPhone

ok...it's monday and we all got an extra hour of sleep thanks to the end of day lite savings time. but, im pretty exhausted from spending the weekend changing time on my vast collection of clocks: i think i have over a hundred... make that a hundred and one cuz i just loaded the colorWatch app onto my iphone! This is the iphone-Version of the Chromachron Watch, designed in the 1970's by swiss designer Tian Harlan. The color circle represents the course of the day by light and color degrees. very colourful! With a little practice, you'll be able to tell the time with an accuracy of about 3-5 minutes. Not exact? Well, that's the point! By using the Chromachron watch, you'll be less stressed, because it's always "about... 5:00"! hey, that's the cocktail hour: lush!

tasty diner

a tasty dinner at tasty diner in Bethesda
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beautiful beauty bush

How gorgeous is this beauty berry bush? purple and green is one of my favorite color combinations!

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too scary for halloween

uhmmm...no: not festive, just frightening.

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ibend

love the artist' series of iphone stands from ibend.

laptop and iphone skins

my macbook pro is two years old and is a little knicked, so i have been thinking about getting a custom skin for it...that and i have seen multiple blog postings and ads in the last few days on the subject. there are a lot of cool options out there and companies like gelaskins employ some amazing artists and graphic designers, or you can customize it with your own design: the options are limitless! here is a great posting from weburbanist on the latest trends.

sterling silver ipod earbuds

ok...people get popped daily on the metro for wearing the regular white headphones...they are $400...this pendant is decadent... but, i wish i had thought of casting these sterling silver ipod headphones: totally me!