November 2010
1 post
Erotic Service Providers & Happy Meals: Yay San...
The Golden Gate city made me smile twice today.
Smile # 1
A friend posted a snapshot of his ballot. It shows candidates vying for three school board slots. Starchild IS real.
Smile #2
San Francisco bans McDonald’s Happy Meals with Toys.
McDonald’s meals are not so happy in San Francisco after the city’s board of supervisors banned restaurants from giving away toys with...
May 2010
1 post
She who lives in a glass house...
I live in a glass house.
I’m lucky to live in a glass house. I also live on a lake. The views are fantastic. I am blessed to live in a glass house on a lake.
Living in a glass house on a small peninsula in the middle of a private lake is… pretty damn nice. It’s a National Geographic show on weekends; and every sunrise and sunset.
From this glass house on the lake, I am able...
March 2010
2 posts
This liberal supports health care reform
According to Pew Research, I’m a liberal. My leanings are typical of an American who has lived or grown up overseas. I’ve never pigeon-holed myself in the past as a liberal. I’m conservative in some areas and mostly middle-of-the-road. I took Pew’s survey and there you go. I’m a liberal.
As a military brat, I’m also intensely patriotic. I know what...
Types of Bitches →
Posted March 4th, 2010 by Jeff Simmermon… http://andiamnotlying.com/2010/types-of-bitches/
Extensive list of types of bitches as found on the floor of a 3rd grade classroom. LOL. Curious as to the missing pages. Gotta say I’m # 27, 29, 74 & 76.
December 2009
8 posts
Well hell...
I am not enjoying on of my current client project and find myself procrastinating like nobody’s business. How to work myself into a motivated production machine?
listening to "Pussycat Dolls - When I grow up" →
Skittles! Imma dancing with my dog. LOL @DjDiddlesSkittle: “LOL @pixelmongress: “Now I’ve got a confession when I was young I wanted attention…”“
listening to "Pussycat Dolls - When I grow up" →
Now I’ve got a confession when I was young I wanted attention…
listening to "Hey Soul Sister - Train (full song)" →
I’m lurking getting dressed for work (albeit late) listening to ya’ll. :)
listening to "Train - Calling All Angels - Album... →
☼v☼ @Unaturalsoul: “@pixelmongress: “”I need a sign to let me know you’re here…”“”
listening to "Breaking Benjamin - So Cold" →
;-) @Unaturalsoul: “@pixelmongress: “You’re so cold…keep your hand in mine…wise men wonder… while strong men die”“
Listen to my station on Blip.fm! →
Vintage cigarette ads →
Link found via @iamkhayyam on Twitter.
November 2009
3 posts
“There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they’re good,...”
– Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (Incubus Dreams)” — Laurell K. Hamilton
Flies Painting →
Random find…but wow…umm…wow
http://fenyu.org/flies-painting/
It's been a long time.
Ouch. Haven’t been blogging or retumbling. Might have to get my act together soon. But it’s been BUSY! Thank God, it’s been busy. :)
August 2009
4 posts
On vacations
Here I am on vacation in what most would consider paradise and I’m tired and missing home. All previous vacations to the same destination left me wanting to move here. All of a sudden, I’m ready to go home. WTF?
Mayhap it’s our new home or something to actually DO? I’ve read, umm….let me count…SEVEN books while here. I’ve gone walking, hiking, swimming,...
July 2009
63 posts
Finished Guillermo del Toro's/Chuck Hogan's The...
I was sitting at the airport when I started this book. It was raining and dreary outside, we had a good 45 minute wait before boarding. The first chapter began - passengers on a plane and the “dead” plane on the the tarmac.
“Uh oh, should I really be reading this when I’m about to board a plane?” I thought to myself.
I couldn’t help myself. Between dozing and...
25 Elegant Workstations for Your Inspiration →
OMG…this…this…yah, I’m inspired to upgrade. Some in the article are “prettier” or Macs that just look fantastic. But this…this I could work with.
http://sixrevisions.com/design-showcase-inspiration/25-elegant-workstations-for-your-inspiration/
Designs on Policy →
Designs on Policy by Allison Arieff, New York Times http://arieff.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/designs-on-policy/ Apparently, our currency’s design is cluttered and needs a good revamp. A contest for submissions was sponsored here - http://richardsmith.posterous.com/.
Real blogging requires writing. Is the written...
Once upon a time, a long time ago, I used to like to write. I’m an avid reader and my literature tastes have always run to fiction - from one end of the spectrum to the other. I remember in my youth, I used to enjoy writing short stories and poetry. Yes, even poetry. Today, I find myself reluctant to write. Why is that? I started pondering that question after dropping off the kids in...
“The Legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate...”
– Prologue - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
flyChat: The Strangest Social Game to Ever Hit... →
….a new app designed to let you interact with completely random strangers by attaching your message to virtual flies who buzz around on the iPhones of other users. The idea is to help you meet new people; the methodology is quirky, strange, and buzz-worthy…..
http://mashable.com/2009/07/17/flychat/
listening to "Into The Night - Santana →
Love this one! “Santana & Nickelback- Into The Night” RT thru @judi & @lovely_london:
30 Most Influential People In Web Design →
Alright, so some of these I recognize and will defnitely check out others. It’s a shame Eric Meyer isn’t on there. A pioneer and continuing workhorse in CSS and nowhere to be found. What’s web design these days without CSS?
listening to "Lithium - Nirvana" →
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listening to "All at Once - Jack Johnson" →
“All at once, the world can overwhelm me there’s almost nothin’ that you could tell me that could ease my mind.” @ironstef Take a break and go eat!
“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of...”
– Kahlil Gibran The Prophet, On Children
“Stupidity isn’t punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of...”
– Anita Blake, The Laughing Corpse, L.K. Hamilton
For Josh @existenceforinstance
Nielsen Report - Facebook Now the Internet's...
Google still #1 and Bing is now #3? Source: mashable.com According to Nielsen Online’s June report on Internet usage, people now spend more time, on average, on Facebook () than on the other 9 top web brands.
With 87 million visitors, which had spent an average of 4 hours and 39 minutes on the site, Facebook is first (out of the top ten web brands) when it comes to time spent and sixth when it...
Seeking software mgmt tool
Anything out there that will manage Twitter/Blip.FM/Tumblr/Facebook/Gmail all in one? Or at least three out of four?
Missed it! Obama in Second Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkL45Vlu1vY
http://foo.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2009/07/watching-obama-in-ghana-from-metaplacesecond-life.html
WatchStone Sour - Through Glass
I’m looking at you through the glass Don’t know how much time has passed Oh God, it feels like forever But no one ever tells you that forever Feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head
listening to "the lines of my earth - sixpence... →
“The lines of my earth, so brittle, unfertile, and ready to die. I need a drink, but the well has run dry.”
Study: Social Security Numbers May Be Hackable →
NPR.org, July 6, 2009 · Information experts say they can predict most of a person’s Social Security number if they know their name and place and date of birth.
The key here is SSNs assigned AFTER 1988. Crap, my kids were born after 1988.
They discovered that in one try, they could predict the first five digits of a person’s Social Security number 44 percent of the time if the...
Lesson of the Day: Word usage: Troika
Ran across the word “troika” in a tech article today. Within the context of the paragraph, I understood the meaning. But in all honestly, I’d never seen it applied in general consumer literature.
Excerpt:
“a widget platform for watching and sharing documentary films that’s being headed up by a troika of ex-AOL executives (Ted Leonsis, Steve Case, Miles Gilburne), did not...
Microsoft Office 2010 Puts Word, Excel, and... →
Microsoft Office 2010 Puts Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on the Web.
They just couldn’t let Google Docs be the only ones out there.