Author: Ruby Sinreich

Butterfly @ the Clevand Botanical Garden. (The postman aka heliconus melpmene)

in Cleveland, OH

If you’re in need of some hurricane pr0n, look no further than Flickr’s Hurricane Katrina Pool. The most amazing stuff to me is 80% of New Orleans under water. Here’s some good discussion of the disastrous potential. This is still unfolding, New Orleans is in a very tenuous position.

Continue reading “Can’t stop looking…” →

Before I start ranting, let me just say how very much I appreciate Public Allies recognizing me with a Change-Maker Award, and what a nice gesture it was of the Raleigh News and Observer to take that occasion to write a profile of me. But…

Why do old media journalists have so much trouble grokking new media? The N&O reporter who wrote this story about me is no older than I am, and I spent at least 30 minutes trying to express this one concept to her: I help progressive nonprofits use the Internet to accomplish their missions.

And yet the article still comes out sounding like an awkward introduction to some kind of space alien. We don’t really get her, but isn’t she quaint?

Continue reading “I ain’t no Punky Brewster” →

In case you’re wondering, Level 5 in Wilmington is a good place for a bachelorette party. 🙂

When Ray from Sawyer Pest Control came to assess our cockroach problem, he told me an interesting story. He said he had recently encountered a similar infestation in a home that was brand new, before the owners had even moved in! Turns out they got cockroach eggs imported in a brand new stove from Lowe’s.

Guess where I just bought a stove 6 weeks ago! 🙁

Continue reading “I think I paid $400 for a roach farm” →

Justin at the Stinking Rose in San Francisco. We even had garlic ice cream. And it was good!

At the Wild Side West in Bernal Heights, SF. A very nice place.

I used to have a little “Where’s Ruby” feature up on the corner of my site because my friends (understandably) could never keep up with when I was in town or away. I may re-institute it depending on how much travel I end up doing for my new job. But for now here’s your update: I’m in San Francisco.

When I get back I will have one whirlwind day professionally evicting some very unwelcome guests from my home, then I’m gone to the beach for what we call a “bachelorette” party, for lack of a better term. (Mental note: Get supplies at Good Vibrations while I’m in SF.) I’ll be back for 3 days and then Brian and I are off to a Rakoff family (my mom’s peeps) gathering in Cleveland.

As usual, when it rains it pours. But I sure can’t complain.

PS: I’m reading a crazy wonderful bizarre book, which I hope to blog about more later, but meanwhile let me just say that Cintra Wilson is an evil genius. Go, girl.