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okay, that was insanely easy.
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could contain some useful information for my custom viewbook idea.
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email to SMS. cost?(tags: sms)
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Elizabeth has some fun pictures of putting up the lights on Christmas Tree Lane, an Altadena landmark less than a block from the house.
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“unlike most other agencies of the state, we [public higher ed] have alternate revenue sources” — fascinating, if depressing, take on the financial state of our industry.
life on venus
you know that Ray Bradbury story set on Venus? with the girl locked in the closet? we are having that sort of rain now.
it has not stopped for so much as 10 minutes since yesterday afternoon. rained most of Saturday, too.
and it’s quite the torrential rain. river and streets flooding, that sort of thing. oh, and a sinkhole opened up on the freeway. wtf?
our ‘moat’ is really earning its name this week. I will be very lucky (?) if I’m able to cross it in the morning.
even if I’d gotten around to buying raingear — which I haven’t — I wouldn’t ride in this weather!
also, I am tapping this out on my fancy-pants phone now that I’ve finally gotten it to communicate with my access point. 🙂
links for 2006-11-04
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lots of opinions on this topic. several years ago, I did very well on the Hacker’s Diet. right now, I’m just trying to avoid the excess sweets in the office.
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the house I grew up in is going to be a set in an upcoming episode. (Elizabeth thinks Friday after Thanksgiving.)
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Elizabeth took a bunch of photos of the house after the TV people had set up their stuff. Surprising (to me, anyway) how much of the incidental decor is ours.
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survey of audience members at AIGA-sponsored talked by Z.(tags: web_dev)
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something to do at the next brainstorming meeting. (I did something similar, several years ago, for card sorting.)(tags: photography productivity)
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fried rice techniques(tags: recipes)
links for 2006-11-03
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“a buzzing fluorescent light that you can’t turn off” — New Orleans journalist’s story of depression. via the inimitable dooce.(tags: depression katrina-rita)
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fun!
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this is fantastic! the site is along my daily commute, and I was kinda wondering what had happened to the cow pasture.
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Willamette’s blog policy. I just like the page title. 🙂(tags: academia blogosphere)
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University of Saskatchewan. Interesting that content is CC-licensed by default. I wonder how many people bother to change that….(tags: academia blogosphere)
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“The Greasemonkey Security Professional’s WebThinger” via C.
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“they really only have one community: the people who give a shit about their magazine” fascinating. I really enjoyed Derek’s talk at WebVisions, too. he’s one of those people, I think, who really loves the web.
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OMG. the whole thing, online. dig, especially, the lettering.
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(Karine needs shorter titles.) Good tips here. Student Outreach interns? …..(tags: academia blogosphere)
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“under your desk” …reminded me of a story. when I was at UWPC, the woman who had my job before me was somewhat notorious for once having taken a nap under her desk. somebody found her sound asleep that way.(tags: weird productivity)
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great idea for pre-seeding a wiki.
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would it count if I took a picture of my mailbox? I kinda wish I hadn’t voted already…it would’ve been fun to take a picture of the ballot laying out on the table in the front room.
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in progress.
links for 2006-11-02
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“Hundreds of PHP scripts, tutorials, and articles; One purple walrus”
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at this rate I’ll never get around to watching this, but at least now it’s out of my tabs.
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a clever idea to try in November’s newsletter!(tags: email-newsletter)
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UW interndisciplinary site: blogging & pedagogy(tags: academia blogosphere)
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some interesting mac software suggestions, including in the comments. since the last update, Cyberduck seems to be quite stable, btw.
definite fallishness
October turns into November and it’s cold! Down into the 20s overnight the last two days, and about that cold first thing in the morning, too. Which makes riding a little more…invigorating. I definitely need to get some sort of facemask/earmuff thing going on. At least, with the change to standard time I have a few more days of light in the morning, even if it’s pitch dark when the van pulls into the parking lot.
I’m trying to do two crazy project sprints at once this month:
- Finish the kitchen, finally, for $DEITY’s sake! Tonight we’re going to review our timeline, make sure it’s sane, and start organizing tools & supplies.
- NaNoWriMo! I’ve started an entirely new novel, inspired by a comment from Morgan, something C said, and a short story I’ve worked on off and on for several months. I’m trying to decide whether to post it here. (I have no particular ambitions as to its publishibility.)
We’ll see if sanity holds up between now & Thanksgiving….