Monthly Archives: June 2009

Lifestream, WordPress 2.8 update, Will Post MOAR

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My friend Mike Brinker got into blogging. He’s the kind of guy who gets into something, and he REALLY gets into something. He got his own webspace with HostGator. He’s got wordpress and hooked up with all these crazy plugins. So his mania for blogging has now become my mania for blogging. A couple weeks ago I changed the design of my blog — i.e. I grabbed a different theme cause I hated the bare bones one that comes with WP. I secured my blog against spammers as best I could. Now I’ve added stuff like Lifestream to my blog. It aggregates all the shuff and crap from my other online hangouts, not that I hang out at them often, but you can see my naughty doodles over at Deviant Art, read my non-existant Twitter feed, catch up on what I’m wasting my time with on my XBox 360, and view what kind of porn movies I’m getting via Netflix.

While I was doing all this updating another friend, Scrabecake, asked “You going to update it once and a while?”

“My blog or twitter?” I respond.

“Your blog!”

Consider it updated with much more to come. I’ll try and keep it down low with the random bits and bring this site back to what I originally intended it to be, a blog for sharing my short stories. I write every morning now and I try to get some time in during the evening too (I suppose this counts).

You Got Spiders In My Grapes Yo!

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I didn’t realize this was actually a somewhat big issue and has been for a couple of years, but organic farmers are using spiders for pest control in their grape vineyards. That means if you buy a bunch of grapes you might find cobwebs on them. And then you might find a spider.

I found one today washing some green grapes I bought a couple days ago. The bag didn’t say that it was organic. They’re seedless grapes from a company called Sun World and from the brief glimpse of their website they don’t say anything about being organic, but I’m pretty sure organic or not, you’ll find a spider in your grapes anyway.

Luckily, it wasn’t a black widow.

I always wash my grapes. My parents have a method of washing them and I’ve learned to do. First dose it with cold water and then use salt and wash them, finally rinse again. Some food boards recommend using warm water, so I guess I’ll add that to my list of things to do when washing them.