LKL’s Blog

Got an invitation to join Plurk, and even though the interface seems a little strange, decided to go ahead and do it. Come visit me: LKL at Plurk

I’ve been writing so much for my new chick lit blog that I felt it was time to review a completely different kind of book. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is one of the best books ever written, and I actually envy you if you haven’t read it yet, because the [...]

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always loved construction paper. Making art with construction paper (or any kind of colored paper) has always sparked my imagination much more than painting or drawing. My latest spurt of creativity has involved flowers, and while I know it’s not fine art, it’s colorful and fun and definitely [...]

OK, I’m going to do a little free publicity for something that I couldn’t live without – my mailbox. When I moved to Costa Rica last year, I realized that I needed a permanent solution to the mail problem. While I pay all of my bills and check my bank accounts online, and I got [...]

So it took me a while, but I finally watched all four seasons of the show Lost. I loved it, I really did, but I have to say that I’m a little disappointed that it’s going to run for another two seasons. I felt like the fourth season was wrapping things up, and even with [...]

While I don’t recommend using online translators, sometimes you just have to – like when you don’t speak a word of the source language. However, online translators only work (as well as they can) when you can identify the source language – and I just discovered a handy little tool for this. Paste a couple [...]

I don’t watch a lot of online videos, but I had to make an exception for this one: Swan Lake by Chinese acrobats. “Phenomenal” doesn’t begin to do it justice. Chinese acrobats are some of the most incredible performers on Earth. I saw the Golden Dragon Acrobats perform in New York City a couple of [...]

I was having some trouble with my blogs the other day (they were loading properly but then in FireFox the top half of the page would dim/fade and all the links within that section were unclickable). I couldn’t find any info about similar problems on Google, but I did run across a FireFox plugin called [...]

I’m addicted to chick lit, and I’m finally ready to talk about it. You can read all about my guiltiest pleasure on my new blog: Chick Literate – Confessions of a chick lit fanatic To make my new blog a little more fun and playful, I created a rating system of 0 to 5 hearts, [...]

Here’s a very cool site that lets you look up flags by background color; horizontal vs vertical stripes (further divided by color combinations); and “other designs,” including squares, wedges, crosses, animals, plants, and fancy. Very useful if you see a flag and have absolutely no idea what country it might belong to: Easy Flag Identifier