Today, I am happy to welcome Mary to the spatialdrift fold. Longtime readers know her from n00bcakes, !blog, and as the mistress of the cake at my wedding. As of yesterday we merged all of the back-posts for both of her blogs into the database here at spatialdrift, and all of her awesome content is […]
Can you believe it? Today is the spatialdrift’s four-year blogerversary! It all started out in 2010 with a half-baked idea to make something to write regularly, a post about making sushi at home on a free Blogspot blog, and no small amount of inspiration coming from working closely with consummate bloggers Lar and Cath of […]
Hey hey! I’m several weeks behind in this final post, but it’s time for me to report on the last week of the 30-Day Minimalism Challenge! Here’s the list of the last tasks required: Take your time: This evening take your time – with everything. Once you relax for the evening it’s time to turn off […]
If you didn’t know, I actually run two blogs: n00bcakes (duh) and !Blog (pronounced “not-blog”). n00bcakes will always be nothing but cooking and baking, but !Blog consists of many more of my other hobbies, mostly technology or nerd-related. In a small deviation, however, I recently started a month-long series with Emily of Spatialdrift (oft times […]
And so the minimalism continues! Here’s this week’s set of minimalism challenges: Pick one corner and remove everything that doesn’t belong Opt for a digital picture frame Take an hour for yourself away from all electronics Clean out the toy chest Donate items you’re holding “just in case” Opt out of store email offers Turn your […]
Well the first week of our Simplicity month – and of our 30 Day Challenge – is in the bag. Let’s see what we had to accomplish, and how it went. Day One: Place one item a day into a donate box for the next 30 days (the length of this challenge). Designate a “Donate” […]
The first week of the Minimalism Challenge is over, and it’s off to a slow but steady start. Here’s the first 7 days of the challenge: Place one item a day into a donate box for the next 30 days (recurring) Eliminate the need for a “junk drawer” by tossing all the junk Recycle one […]
Starting September 1st, Mary of !Blog (and as you may recall, n00bcakes) and I are joining forces to recover from the insane busy-ness of July and August, and simplify our lives. We’ll both be doing the 30-Day Minimalism Challenge, as well as some extracurriculars to help be more minimal. The word minimalism usually refers to […]
Since I bought a nice second-hand DSLR from my buddy Emily over at SpatialDrift I’ve been slowly but surely figuring out how to take nicer pictures. For both this blog and my baking blog, n00bcakes, I have a habit of taking pictures in the evenings when the light is at best “sub-par”; I finally took […]
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TDB II: More Desserts Than Your Body Has Room For I don’t think too many readers have been reading long enough to remember the first Thanksgiving Dessert Bonanza, but back in 2010, when I was but a nooblet of the interweb blagging scene, I became in charge of desserts for Thanksgiving and decided to challenge […]
You may (or may not) remember the wailing and gnashing of teeth a few months ago when Blizzard announced that there would be no BlizzCon this year. While this has been bothering me less and less as time goes by, at the time I was stonily determined to still have my annual nerd vacation to […]
Recently my parents dog-sat for me while I was gone for an entire day doing an Atlanta-based scavenger hunt. As a thank you for them doing me the favor on such short notice, I ran to Google for ideas on a recipe. Something new, something light and Spring-y. Something…not difficult. Since I’d made the Lemon […]
This post really should have gone up about a week ago, but my other blog has been eating up some of my life – sorry! Luckily for you I spent Sunday working on writing about some things I’ve been baking over the last month, so we shouldn’t run dry for awhile. Hooray! But on to […]
Our last day on the John Muir Trail began with a hike up Half Dome. Yes, the dome that multiple people have died falling off of. And yes, I definitely had that on the mind when we started up. We got up early and grabbed a bite of energy bar before starting our walk up […]
Day 2 of our hike on the John Muir Trail was…arguably the most uneventful. Not that it made the scenery any less beautiful. We didn’t have any “major” points of interest to climb over or walk past, but yes, the same beautiful and varied terrain entertained us all day. The day started with an excellent […]
Day 1 got us off on the John Muir Trail in good spirits, but tired bodies. The night before my father and I had flown in from the east coast on a 2 hour delayed flight. This meant instead of getting in at around 10pm, we got in around midnight. Add a few additional hours […]
Hey look – I’m still alive….again! Wow, sorry it’s been so long since making a post; life has been full of craziness, what with work, the impending WeddSplosion, and training for my incoming backpacking trip at Yosemite. Still, I feel a slacker for neglecting my duties here at n00bcakes. While I don’t think I’ll ever […]