megalotta

Cookies

2009-01-27T20:06:16Z

Hello all,
I forgot my password for a while, but finally realized how to get back on here. YAY!
My daughter has joined Girl Scouts and is a Brownie now... She's selling cookies. If anyone is interested, please let me know. Thanks!

Oh yeah... and I've finally joined up on Ravelry for those that care. I'm "LadyMeg" on there. :)

Amasong Concert this weekend

2008-12-10T17:16:34Z

Hey,
I'm in a choral ensemble and we're having out winter concert this coming weekend. Would love to see some friendly faces in the audience so stop by if you can!
There's more info on the group website:

http://www.amasong.org/

We've got some wonderful music to share... world music from places like Finland, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Australia, China, Egypt/Lebanon... as well as things a little closer to home like Appalacia.

The concert is free, but they recommend a donation of $10-20 if you can.

employed and loving it...

2008-03-28T21:48:18Z

so for those of you who haven't heard, i have a job now. it's part time as a bread baker for strawberry fields. i have a set schedule, and currently it's mon, wed, fri, & sat 6am-2pm. i get out earlier if the bread is done cooling, sliced, and bagged quick enough. usually it's been between noon and 1 that i finish up. the schedule is perfect for me right now because my daughter is in school until 2:30 which means i only need someone to watch over her from about 5:30-8:30 each morning... and most of that time is her sleeping. since i live with my mother right now, the sleeping part is covered, but i have my dad and gf helping out for the part where someone needs to get her ready and take her to school.
so far i love the job. i definitely like the people i work with, which helps. i like that they pretty much only use organic ingredients in their bread baking. it rocks. i also like that i frequently get free bread and other stuff. yay free food!
i'm not sure how it's going to work out over summer, but i'll just have to have faith that someone will watch my kid... lack of school does make things a bit different, doesn't it.
whatever happened to kids being raised by the whole village? that's what it takes... or at least that's how i feel about it.
anyway, my daughter just found out via an easter card that she's a big sister. her daddy and his whoever had a baby boy. i'm happy because it takes the pressure off of me. my daughter's been bugging me for about five years to give her a baby sibling. now she gets one and i don't have to go through the hassle of raising it. :)
my daughter lost a baby tooth for the second time. each time we go through the discussion of "do you really believe in the tooth fairy, mom?" and my response being something like "do you ever know me to believe in anything that isn't very clearly factual and backed up by evidence?" it must be tough. i don't believe in the tooth fairy, but i also don't want to tell her not to believe in it... i kinda like the idea that kids believe in that stuff.
anyway, i'd better get off the computer. life calls out to me.

new blog: knit2tog

2008-03-27T18:22:45Z

hey all, i just started a new lj blog. it will be dedicated to the process of sharing the projects i'm working on. irene'll be sharing it with me, so you can find stuff from here there as well once she gets on and posts.

knit2tog

go friend me there if you wanna know more about my knitting and artsy-crafty projects.

Grrr... Family!

2008-02-18T06:26:30Z

I am so very sick of my family.

I am so sick of people making plans with my daughter only to break the plans which really makes her sad, disappointed, & feeling unloved.

I am angry!

lesbian silly stuff... just wanted to see how i compare to abovenyquist

2008-01-23T05:18:58Z

What Type of Lesbian Are You? (Inspired by Curve Mag.)
created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as The Granola Dyke

Your love for the environment and passion for your beliefs can be a bit overwhelming at times, but your friends and family know you mean well.

The Granola Dyke

70%

The Bohemian Dyke

60%

The Student Dyke

50%

The Surprise! Dyke

35%

The Vaginal-Reference-Making Dyke

30%

The Sprightly Elfin Femme

25%

The Quasi-Gothic Femme

25%

The Stud

25%

The Femme Fatale

25%

The Pretty-Boi Dyke

15%

The Little-Boy Dyke

15%

The Magic Earring Ken Dyke

The Hipster Dyke

current life

2008-01-22T18:43:25Z

I'll be going to a class in North Carolina from May 24-June 7. (the same school where I took my glass blowing class two summers ago) I'll also be taking a class later in the summer, Aug 10-22. If I get into the ones I have as my first choice, I'll be doing "the basics of steel smithing" and "hot summer fun" which is glass blowing. My girlfriend is also applying to take the classes with me. If we get in to the same stuff at same time and with some sort of scholarship, we'll get to have a bit of a learning vacation together. Won't that be a real blast! (not like it wouldn't be fun on my own... that would just make it amazing!)

This semester I've decided to skip any credit classes and instead focus on taking classes of stuff I want to learn. So, I'll be taking beginning glass beadmaking, beginning stained glass, and glass slumping and fusing basics from a local place as well as some belly dancing. My girlfriend and I will be taking a course in couples massage. :) I'm totally excited about all this. It's all non-credit, so no stress, and low-cost. Most of these are evening classes starting around 7pm.

Whenever I have energy, I'm working to get my house under control. Things are feeling okay today... I've really been fluctuating high and low lately. Today I'm up and working on cleaning my room. Hope I can get it done, or at least mostly done before I swing back down to the low end of my spectrum.

* house plants aplenty
* somewhere to sprout and grow baby garden plants
* desk drawers organized
* laundry basket placed in such a way that I naturally throw my laundry into a basket rather than on the floor
* dresser of clothes easy to get at when i wake up
* empty table to put together puzzles and play simple games with my girlfriend
* bookshelf organized with paperbacks
* videos and dvd space since I moved the tv, vcr, & dvd player in here
* floor vaccumed
* organized space for my knitting & crochet projects
* everything else OUT
* ? pets - ratties and hedgie in my room???
Yesterday my mom paid Shae to come and clean our kitchen. (what an amazing gift!) It had just gotten to the point where I was unable to get it back under control. It was simply too much. Now it's clean. I'm much better at keeping it up than I am at catching it up. Hopefully I'll be able to maintain it for a long while.

I'm close to caught up on laundry. Need to put away the folded stuff and that should be about it... maybe one or two more loads of the stuff that's straggling around in the mess of other stuff. I even managed towels, sheets, and blankets. :)

I have my daughter's room under control. I have more to go in there, so that might not last, but I have the potential to keep it organized. She loves having it nice and clean and does a lot to help maintian it luckily.

That's it for now... maybe will write again soon.

little sockies

2008-01-14T05:01:36Z

okay, so this week i've been knitting obsessed.

i'm making a pair of lavendar practice socks that will hopefully fit my daughter. this is very much exciting to me. i'm very single-minded focussed on it and having a difficult time caring to do anything else.
hopefully i'll do something else once i've finished this project... like dishes and laundry.
anyway, they're totally cute and i plan on also making grown-up socks which is far more exciting that the ones i'm doing now. i spent some time earlier this week learning how to do some more complicated things like left and right slanting decreases, yarn overs, picking up stitches, etc. now i can do all sorts of cool patterns. next is to learn cables and how to change colors to create cool patterns.

for those who know or care, this is a top-down sock knit on two circulars. i'm doing both socks at once, which i find to be rather fun seeing them both grow at the same speed. just for fun, i may go back to the top of the sock and put on a crocheted ruffle. i know my daughter would enjoy that.
i've started my first pair of grown-up socks already as well. needleworks had sock yarn on sale and i picked some up... i've started a pair of brown socks. they will also be top-down pattern. they have a simply faux cable pattern on them that looks very nice. i'll be busy with them as soon as i finish these little lavendar practice ones. the brown ones are also super-wash merino wool... which just feels divine! they're not a solid brown, but have some nice variation in the coloring, very subtle though.
i also bought some black, blue, green, and multi-color sock yarn and i plan on making some socks with that once i've conquered my first pair of adult socks in the brown.
the green is planned for irene, the blue for my mom, and the multi-color for me... with the black to fill in on each of them since i don't have enough of the main colors for the entire sock.
i guess i should add that this is only my third knitting project ever. first was a dishrag out of pink cotton yarn on a circular needle given to me by shansu while i was visiting her in ohio. i did a decent job on it and haven't yet forced myself to wash a dish with it. second project was going to be these mini-socks, but i got distracted playing around with this yarn. instead i made myself a pair of fingerless hand-warmers. (kinda like fingerless mittens)
that's done, so now i'm really going to town on the little sockies.
i'd say i'm over half done. i've done the cuff, the leg, the heel flap, the heel turn, the gusset, and am now almost done with the gusset decreases. have left to to the foot and the toe. most likely will finish this week.
on a similar note, i've been working on an afghan for a while now... and have finished crocheting all the hexagons and half hexagons for it. all i have left on that project is to block the pieces, stitch them together, and crochet the border. i'm in the home stretch if i could just get back to it and start blocking the pieces.

my daughter's been ill all weekend, so i didn't get my usual break from her. she stayed here rather than visiting charleston like usual. as a result, i'm feeling like i seriously want to hide under my covers and be alone for a while.
instead, i think i'm going to go have lunch and hang out with irene tomorrow after i drop my daughter at school. i will probably spend much of that time knitting on little lavendar sockies though.
i should sleep now... more another day.

presidential allignment

2008-01-08T03:49:45Z

100% Dennis Kucinich
98% Mike Gravel
79% John Edwards
76% Barack Obama
75% Chris Dodd
72% Hillary Clinton
72% Joe Biden
69% Bill Richardson
32% Rudy Giuliani
27% Ron Paul
24% John McCain
19% Mike Huckabee
15% Mitt Romney
11% Tom Tancredo
7% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

saw this on friend's blog and now see just how in line my beliefs are with the candidate of my choice.

by the way, did i mention that denis kucinich should have your vote!

megalotta @ 2008-01-02T22:15:00

2008-01-03T04:15:01Z

today started okay, but then between a phone conversation this morning and my computer being a real pain all afternoon, i kinda lost all positive outlook i had upon waking. by mid-day i felt pretty crappy and ended up ignoring everything and everyone in my life for most of the day.
i'm sick of being me.
when things go wrong, it's like i can't just "take it in stride" and adapt. instead i short circuit. when the stress happens, i instead just withdraw and shrink.
i know that i pretty much turned off mentally for a few hourst in the afternoon and early eavening. took a while of mental effort to come out of it. still feeling wholly negative though.
suck suck suck.

i did a load of dishes and a load of laundry though... and had lunch with irene... so all was not lost.

new year's?

2007-12-28T15:19:26Z

is anyone planning a new year's party? i haven't been keeping up on the reading of lj lately and was wondering if i've missed something.

brain balancing therapy in indianapolis

2007-12-12T03:17:36Z

brain balancing seems to be going well for me. not so well for my mom, probably due to many reasons... such as - she's older and her brain is less spry, her issues are much deeper entrenched as a result of having them for far more years than i've had mine, and she has a far greater quantity of problems than i have. but, progress is being made and i actually kinda feel cheerful tonight. exhausted but a cheerful.
more sessions tomorrow.

phone works again! yippee!!!

2007-12-08T06:43:46Z

Okay, this evening I spent time hanging out with my good friends at verizon. as a result, i have a phone that works. yup... i done got an upgrade. :) this new phone is just about the coolest thing EVER EVER EVER!!! it is what they called "ruggedized" which means it can withstands shocks, drops, and...

wait for it....

wait for it.........

...

...

submersion.

yup, was tested for submersion of up to 1 meter for half an hour without being damaged. dropped 3 feet onto concrete sidewalk and came out okay. (not mine exactly, but another phone of the same make and model mind you.)

hopefully this one will work far better than the one i'm retiring.

anyway, i am feeling a little bit anxious. i leave sunday for indianapolis to have my brain essentially "defragged" and "debugged" so to speak.

Hope it makes living a bit easier for me so I can focus better on the things I want to be doing with my life.

back from wherever i've been lately

2007-12-04T21:26:14Z

I guess I've felt like taking a time off from being in touch with people. I've not read online stuff, answered phone calls, gone out with people, etc., for quite some time. Today, for the first time in ages, I feel like I want people back.

So, in the last few months, I've tried lithium, given up trying lithium, had some therapy, helped my mom get a lawyer and get divorce papers written up only to have her cave and not file them... instead we worked on the process of moving my father out of our house, and I completely dropped out of school this semester, so don't even ask. I've been "re-constructing" my life... meaning trying to find my home amid all the mess of my house. I'm making REAL progress. It feels good. I almost have my living room DONE. It may be another week or two yet before I'm completely satisfied with how it ends up once the dust settles from my crazy organizing/sorting/getting rid of/etc spree.
As it is, having my father NOT live with me makes a world of difference. I guess I just couldn't honestly feel attatched to the house/home here with him in it. I didn't feel like I could exert any effort at making his house nice, but once he's gone I can put forward quite a bit of energy in that direction.
His apartment rent basically comes from the money I previously was spending toward things like meds and therapy. Since that money is now going to his rent, I am no longer able to get therapy. But the good news is that I'm not having serious mood flux lately. Hopefully that's a sign that his exit from this house will have a lasting positive effect. Since bi-polar is very affected by stress, the lack of stress caused by his absence is really milding out my disorder. I still have plenty of problems though.
Aside from having a home that's free from vermin (father), I have other big news...

I'm going to Indianapolis for a new therapy which will supposedly correct brain issues, namely things related to bi-polar, stress, etc.
It's called brain balancing and is a permanent improvement to what ails the mind.

Check out their website if you want to know more. www.brainstatetech.com

I guess the way I understand it, is it helps the brain repair and overcome areas of trauma and find balance in brain functionings through real-time neural feedback.

My aunt knows people who have done it and had very very very positive results.
I've talked my mom into doing it as well at the same time I am doing it. My daughter will be staying with one of her school friends while I'm away, so hopefully that will work out well. I'm leaving sunday and will be gone for a week. I hope and hope and hope that it works.

This might be something that could help some of you as well... worth looking at to see at least.

My daughter's ill today. She became ill over the weekend and is still not doing better - fever, headache, sore throat, mild ear ache, clogged/runny nose, bit of a cough, etc. Will see what the doc says a bit later today.

Soon I should be able to resume games at my residence like I want to.
I'm feeling impatient for that.
As it is, I have a jigsaw puzzle going... and that has been great. I'm on my third for this week. It's very relaxing and fun.

Irene and I are, well... wonderful. I'm so thrilled to have her in my life still. She's such a good fit for me in many, many, many areas of my life. Eleven months and I am still feeling amaizingly happy about being with her.

I'd better get back to cleaning stuff. I'm making daily progress. Sometimes not as much as I'd like, but I'm getting through it. My living room is going to be two things... living room and dining room/game area. It's going to be great not trying to cram everything in here. The amount of "space" left after my dad's gone is really making things feasible.
I've sorted through books and am able to fit them all on the cherry shelves in our living room. Getting rid of boxes and boxes to make that possible, but am doing it. We've gotten rid of cable tv access, which I've been pushing my mom to do for five years now. We'll be getting rid of house land-line soon as well, soon as dad switches it over to his apartment. I don't need it nor do I use it, so I will be happy to have that expense leave our house.
For Christmas this year, mom and dad bought us a big electronic keyboard. I'm looking forward to practicing piano stuff again... it's been way too long.

Mom's moving her "office" into her bedroom. We're putting all of our art/craft/creative stuff in the basement... with lots of room to cut out, sew together, glue, paint, etc. I'm really excited about having all that space to dedicate to creative ventures. I will probably spend the next year or so getting it all organized and set up and ready, but at least now I have space to do so... whereas before I didn't. Things are improving here. If I can keep making progress on the organizing & getting rid of stuff I might even get a glass flameworking & stained glass area in the garage next year.

I am still very focused on my goals of cleaning house and putting it all together in a way that it's functional. Please forgive me if I am not very involved in social activities for a while yet. I miss having people around, but I guess doing this and spending copious amounts of time isolated from ppl is just part of my process. I don't think that it will last forever. Truly miss everyone, but am not exactly inclined to spend time or effort seeking people out to do stuff.

Am off to get ready for daughter's doc visit.

Hugs to you all!

wanted to share

2007-08-25T12:42:22Z

Here's a speech given about 90 years ago that seems just as relevant today as it was then. Please take the time to read it.
Meg

http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/debs-speech.htm

extended travel

2007-08-04T16:58:37Z

I'm going to Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage with my girlfriend. Following that, I'll be helping her pack and move from where she is (3 hours drive north) to where I am. I'll be gone about two weeks. Might be able to check internet from time to time, but will probably mostly be distracted with living and having fun instead. Will get back in contact after my return.
Hugs all!

I need LUCK!

2007-08-04T03:47:05Z

My dad has been a serious ASS all day and I need to vent a bit...

He bought and assembled two book shelves for my mom... to house her mysteries... and after putting them together realized that they don't fit downstairs where she wanted them. So, they agreed to swap out the position of them with the filing cabinets in the living room (hallelujah) and could I please help move stuff? I agreed but said I needed to finish the call with Irene first... because we were making plans about D.R. and I didn't want to cut her off.
Anyway, while I was on the phone, dad came into the living room (where I was talking to Irene) and slid the filing cabinets across the floor gouging huge scratches on the hardwood, and started to carry the shelves up from downstairs BY HIMSELF and in general doing the impatient "macho" shit that could very easily throw out is back and have him whining like a baby for months about his injury.
Then he spent half an hour trying to convince me that I should make Rebecca give up plans to visit Shae's family in Wyoming so he could take her to visit my brother and sister-in-law and their two boys in Massachusetts. He's got a full week before she's leaving for WY and is unwilling to discuss going now and being back in time for the WY trip as an option... instead he's been trying to down-play the importance of Shae and Shae's family. I admit openly they're not that much on the importance scale TO ME, but TO REBECCA... they mean a great deal.

He also keeps leaving the doors to the house open letting hot in and a.c. out, plus leaving the gate to the back yard open... thus further infuriating me. I'm kinda already sick of his presence here and I've only had to share the place with him FOR ONE FUCKING DAY!

There's more, but that's a beginning to the vent... I feel I can move on...
Needless to say I was pretty pissed of at him most of the day.

Now mom is dangling another thing to hope for and be let down about. Apparently dad is applying for a job opening at UMR, the university he used to work for in Rolla, MO, and potentially moving down there. She says if that's the case, they would move there together and rent an apartment for the time they're there. (doesn't make sense to me... would be more economical to buy a cheap house than to rent for years... but that's the me that's sick of pumping money into a dwelling and never getting anything back!!!) I'd even suggest they rent from our friends who still live there, Betty and John Volosin, who never seem to be willing to let go of a house rather than a random apartment.
Anyway... the story mom told me goes like this, I would then get this house to myself with Rebecca... and could rent their bedroom to a friend or my gf or whatever.
Now isn't that just about "picture perfect"!!!?!?!!!?!!!?!
If you have any good mojo to wave at the "goddesses & gods" now's the time. Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease!!!
I really want this one!

Here's just one more hope for HIM to get outta my house that may or may not go well. I hope it DOES go well though. Wish me luck. Cross your fingers. Send me a 4-leaf or lucky rabbits foot or horse shoe or whatever. I need this one to happen! They'd be close enough for visits with Rebecca, and far enough away that they'd be outta my hair. Mom insists that she wants this house for when they are "growing old together" after he gives up on work.
I have really seriously lost hope in this sort of long-shot, but there's still a tiny bit of me that's way way way too excited at the thought of this one.

I guess that's it. I've got to go attend to some other stuff. (like folding laundry... it's really a never-ending battle, isn't it?)

exciting new hair

2007-07-19T15:37:47Z

Okay... so I took the plunge and did my hair different. I cut in some layers and dyed it dark purple. I'm thrilled with the results and can't wait to see all of you! Hope to see you monday at SubV. :)

plumbers?

2007-07-03T19:54:47Z

what plumber would you recommend? having to get major fix done and my dad wants me to get a few estimates before we get things worked on officially.

megalotta @ 2007-06-18T19:02:00

2007-06-19T00:02:28Z

I'm wanting to go visit Irene and was wondering if anyone could help with my chickens and garden... I'd like to leave tomorrow a.m. and return friday a.m. This means there would be six times I would need help. Morning time with chickens means opening their pens and filling their water and food dishes. Evening time is when I put the chickens back in their pens and water the garden. Basically it would be tue, wed, thu evening and wed, thu, fri morning. Maybe someone could do a.m. and someone else could do p.m.?
Would anyone be able/willing to done some or all of this care while I'm away? I can't pay at this time, but could throw together a dinner for you sometime in the next week or two.
Thanks in advance...

Oh yeah... I live in Urbana near Cottage Grove and Illinois Ave. It's about eight blocks east of Lincoln Square Mall. I usually do the p.m. stuff between 7:30 and 9:00 because they start to be more docile and calm around dusk... and they kinda gather near their pen as well which makes it much easier to put them away... and the morning stuff I try to do by 8:00am. (sometimes it gets pushed back to 8:30 or 9:00, but the earlier the better.)

some thoughts on how bad america has become...

2007-05-28T22:06:10Z

http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=331

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2063979,00.html

these are a couple of websites I found links to in another's blog... thought I'd post them too since I believe that ignorance is not the way to overcome the corruption in our country.

liberty underground

2007-05-20T05:08:11Z

Hello, just thought i'd share that i'm quite enjoying my new online subscription to the yahoo group "Liberty Underground" which has some real journalism. I'm quite impressed with what I've read on there so far.
And, it's not a chat group... only one post per day. Makes it managable for me.

quote from tonight

2007-05-17T05:03:21Z

"Birds of a feather shit on the same car."

Gamers Gone Wild...

2007-05-04T20:59:09Z

Here's a post from my friend Emera in the Kansas City area. Thought I'd share since I thought it would appeal to some of my geek friends.

My co-worker was telling me today that when she was a kid her dad used to role play. Then she described the rash of gamer suicides that happened in the early eighties. I remembered this being an urban legend and also that there was a terrible Tom Hanks movie that used this as its plot. Oy to the Vey. >: | So I found this on the Religious Tolerance website. Go here www.religioustolerance.org/d_a_d3.htm if you'd like to read the complete article.

Role-playing games:
Criminal acts by gamers?

There are many anecdotal stories about youth who have become involved with RPGs, and have become totally obsessed with the game. They become emotionally linked to their pretend RPG character. They lose the capacity to separate fantasy from reality. Some stressor makes them snap. They either commit suicide or go on a murder rampage. These stories make excellent material for an "urban legend". Such stories are widely discussed throughout North America. Fortunately, RPGs simply do not work this way. A gamer who commits suicide after having lost his identity in a RPG is probably as rare as a person who goes into a deep depression and kills themselves because they went bankrupt playing a game of Monopoly. Pro-RPG groups have investigated each of the murder-suicides which are allegedly caused by gaming. No causal link has ever been found.

The claims by conservative Christian groups that gamers commit suicide or engage in criminal acts do not appear to hold water:

Michael Stackpole calculated expected suicide rates by gamers during the early years of Dungeons and Dragons. He used B.A.D.D.'s estimate of 4 million gamers worldwide. Assuming that fantasy role game playing had no effect on youth suicide rate, one would have expected about 500 gamers would have committed suicide each year. As of 1987, B.A.D.D. had documented an average of 7 per year. It would appear that playing D&D could be promoted as a public health measure, because it would seem to drastically lower the suicide rate among youth. 1,2
Suzanne Abyeta & James Forest studied the criminal tendencies of "gamers" and found that they committed fewer than average numbers of crimes for individuals of the same age. 3
The Association of Gifted-Creative Children of California surveyed psychological autopsies of adolescent suicides and were unable to find any that were linked to these games. Their National Association has endorsed Dungeons and Dragons for its educational content. 4,5
The American Association of Suicidology, 6 the Center for Disease Control, 7 and Health & Welfare (Canada) 8 have conducted extensive studies into teen suicide. They have found that no link to fantasy role-playing games exists.
Dr. S. Kenneth Schonbert studied over 700 adolescent suicides and found none which had fantasy role-playing games as a factor. 9
The Committee for the Advancement of Role-Playing Games was organized in 1988 to counter the attacks by B.A.D.D. and other groups. The Committee has investigated each of the 130 suicide or criminal cases that B.A.D.D. advanced. 21 are missing name, date and/or place and could not be located. Of the over 100 that the Committee has found, they have been unable to find any that were caused by role-playing games.
William Schnoebelen has listed 11 suicides or murders which he believes were tied to D&D.

Just outta curiosity, do any of you out there know of anyone who's dead or violent as a result of gaming???

*grinz*

Nah, didn't think so.

swords to plowshears

2007-05-03T17:16:23Z

This is very moving. Take a look at what some peace keepers in Africa are doing. This site describes the program:
http://www.pressureworks.org/play/art/treeoflife.html#
(advance the slides at the top of the page)

Here's a look at some of the artwork created this way:
http://www.africaserver.nl/nucleo/

This is the sort of thing that gives me a smidge of hope for our world.