Twitter Digest for 2011-08-12
- @einmaleins fwiw, it's a common issue in govt & grant funding. Not all money can be used for all purposes. in reply to einmaleins #
- @einmaleins not interchangable $. Parks/sidewalks fund was voter-approved measure, abt 10 yrs ago iirc. (Pretty sure before I moved here.) in reply to einmaleins #
- @einmaleins park building/buying is generally funded by parks/sidewalks (bond? Tax? Don't remember) while maint comes from general fund. in reply to einmaleins #
- @Oakwright mmmm, fruit inspections. (re: church of steve the fruitbat) in reply to Oakwright #
- @revoltpuppy yep, we're at 9% IE7 for this year. Everybody Dance Now! in reply to revoltpuppy #
- @Oakwright you need to write a blog post about this. in reply to Oakwright #
- @alixito CONGRATS! in reply to alixito #
- @laurasolomon oh hey, isn't that what anti-trust law was created to handle? in reply to laurasolomon #
- @olybuzz "China’s advantage: ability of co's to form partnerships with local govts & obtain loans at v low rates from state-owned banks." in reply to olybuzz #
- @olybuzz looks like not *enough* involvement by govt to me, or too much involvement by Chinese govt (subsidies, tax breaks, loans). in reply to olybuzz #
- @MarkMessinger I guess the one thing I can say for my alma mater bugging me for $$$ is that it's almost always for scholarships, not sports! in reply to MarkMessinger #
- @MarkMessinger there was a great NYT article in the early 2000s about college sports funding. IIRC: not as self-supporting as they sound. in reply to MarkMessinger #
- @MarkMessinger I'm with you. (the other half of the top 10 are univ heads and UW surgeons.) in reply to MarkMessinger #
- @jackbrewster in total: Venture Bros Vols 1-3, Zoolander, Star Trek 2, Shakespeare in Love, Office Space. in reply to jackbrewster #
- @jackbrewster I have an absurdly tiny DVD collection, pretty sure the whole thing would fit in a single tweet. (Netflix FTW?) in reply to jackbrewster #
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Today’s Links 8/12/2011
- Google’s Success May Mark The End Of Everything Else | Fast Company
"With successful domination in social, mobile, and local, the combined integration will make all other entities and companies vying for our attention online unnecessary. In essence, Google will have a presence in everything." ugh. I can haz anti-trust law plz?
- A Park A Day: The Cobb Estate (or the Haunted Forest), Altadena: LAist
One of my favorite places in my teen years. Wrote a melodramatic fantasy novella inspired by that walk. (And come to think of it, pics of Cobb Estate & the Mt Lowe Railway were in my folder of inspiration photos for my 2009 NaNoWriMo project.)
- How we know we’re causing global warming in a single graphic
as predicted by experiments done in the 1860s.
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Twitter Digest for 2011-08-11
- OMG found Office Space on friends sale shelf. Score! (@ Olympia Timberland Library) http://4sq.com/qWac5k #
- @Oakwright totes de minimis. in reply to Oakwright #
- @SalalCU not really. have tried Mint, doesn't click the same way. in reply to SalalCU #
- @secstatewa FWIW, looks like those three UW profs are all surgeons. in reply to secstatewa #
- @Oakwright want. in reply to Oakwright #
- @SalalCU ::sigh:: starting to, finally, sorta. (used to use Wesabe for tracking my money, so sad when it went under.) in reply to SalalCU #
- @SalalCU checkbook register? whoa, that takes me back. 😉 (srsly, gave up checks — and register — when I moved in 2002.) in reply to SalalCU #
- @webchick my condolences. sending hugs. in reply to webchick #
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Today’s Links 8/10/2011
- Fuck Yeah Ugly ’90s Clothes! | Mimi Pond comic in Seventeen, 1992 In the ’90s,…
freaky. I remember this cartoon. IIRC, I used to read Seventeen at the library on my break. (way in the future was July 2012? a year from now? damn.)
- xkcd: Password Strength
In conclusion: "Through 20 years of effort, we’ve successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess."
- The Cooper Journal: Subject: Error message when I try to save my PowerPoint
"When you work at a design company you are surrounded by designers. They are all intelligent, perceptive, have a great sense of humor, and they often indulge in good-natured ribbing. They also have Photoshop skills."
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riot and memory
[hopefully part one of two; copied from Google Plus]
So prompted by a post* the other day, and brief comment back & forth with Baldur Bjarnason, I dragged my boxes of journals out from under the bed this morning, specifically looking for the period around the 1992 LA riots. I found it: I had one diary volume from December 1991 to August 1992. (The very last page is from my first day in Tacoma!)
And of course the way I remember those days at the end of April and beginning of May is different from what I wrote at the time, but not completely, and it does confirm my feeling of it being — for me — a very transient thing. Everything went crazy for a few days, but it hardly touched me directly, and it was quickly past. My diary goes back to family & dating woes, worry about a friend who didn’t like me anymore, and SO MUCH CALCULUS.
Actually that was probably the biggest surprise in reading a diary I haven’t looked at in years — it looks like I took a lot of notes from calculus class directly into my diary. Of course, my diary was a spiral-bound lined notebook, not a “diary.” I wish I had any idea whatsoever now what all those equations and sketches were about.
More later, I think. Also, when I do get around to writing more, I’m hoping that Kermit and Elizabeth will chime in.
* In which I shared a link posted by Kathy Gill with the note “Reminded somehow of the Kerner Commission (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerner_Commission) – just because rioters are assholes, doesn’t mean that there aren’t serious problems.”
Twitter Digest for 2011-08-10
- Ok, girl, do you really have to have an involved personal phone call for the whole hour bus ride? #TMI #
- Earlier I said I was torn btwn amazon ebook & paperback. Then I wandered into Borders… #30 off #feelKindaGuilty http://moby.to/h0z1hf #
- @notlikenormal iirc @olybuzz finally got into twitter (& briefly facebook) upon losing his voice. All that verbosity has to go somewhere. 😉 in reply to notlikenormal #
- @briansawyer amusingly enough, found it at borders (!) in seattle this aft, price between kindle & amazon paperback, so bought it then. in reply to briansawyer #
- @briansawyer was ambivalent abt having as ebook (am reading library ebook now) esp since I want to make notes, so higher price matters. in reply to briansawyer #
- @wsdot yay! (mom worked in hospital in her 20s, was ADAMANT we wear 'em. was 1st thing she said to my 1st boyfriend #embarassingTeenMoments in reply to wsdot #
- I was ::this:: close to buying the kindle edition of a book…and then noticed that I could get it on paper for 25% less. #wtf #
- @MsAllieD congratulations! (I've lost big toenails several times. gnarly.) in reply to MsAllieD #
- Testing twitter image uploading. Not sure what the TOS is for this tool. (Also: custard!) http://t.co/Ngyt7hI #
- @denisejacobs does getting over anxiety about asking for help count? have a tiny story from a month ago or so. in reply to denisejacobs #
- @RaeBeta @TiredFairy I worry that she's contributed to "Torture and Abuse of Needy Families", despite being a good person generally. in reply to RaeBeta #
- @RaeBeta @TiredFairy my mom is retiring from job at a welfare office in CA, does fraud detection, I think it's made her VERY cynical. 🙁 in reply to RaeBeta #
- @kitchenmage photo instead of text (was in a hurry this morning), but…donut recipe: http://t.co/Xyvrrkr #
- @decorabilia "aaaand it's gone" (south park margaritaville) in reply to decorabilia #
- @TiredFairy YES. This. Also: growing up in part means letting go of things. (per old lady with junk) in reply to TiredFairy #
- @kmcdade 🙂 in reply to kmcdade #
- @kmcdade add blueberries for OMG WHOA. 🙂 in reply to kmcdade #
- @briansawyer also, really enjoy the book. (would give extra copy as a gift) finally made a cheese sauce for veggies that didn't suck. in reply to briansawyer #
- @briansawyer in that case, Pacific. 🙂 in reply to briansawyer #
- @briansawyer @cookingforgeeks west coast? in reply to briansawyer #
- @MarkMessinger http://t.co/6sULfsq – also, 13 Bankers, The Big Short & Crisis Economics, if you haven't already read them. in reply to MarkMessinger #
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Today’s Links 8/10/2011
- Internet Filtration System of the Year | Geek in Heels
grammar hilarity (no, really)
- 10 of the Best CSS3 Code Generators » SitePoint
- Nickel and Dimed (2011 Version) | Mother Jones
troubling.
- 15 Ways to Recycle and Reuse Old T-shirts | Wise Bread
I have way more t-shirts than I’ll ever wear.
- The Books And Beliefs Shaping Michele Bachmann : NPR
Dominionism, basically.
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Twitter Digest for 2011-08-09
- @purehunger yay! I need to figure out what I'm making, have done an orzo/spinach salad the last 2 yrs, might try something new. in reply to purehunger #
- @Oakwright http://t.co/yYDpAqf in reply to Oakwright #
- @shelleypowers yeah, Path Redirect is amazing when you have lots of legacy URLs…some *printed* in form letters I didn't know existed! in reply to shelleypowers #
- @Oakwright I have the opposite problem. people sometimes talking TO me from next cube & I totally don't hear it at all. #codeBrain in reply to Oakwright #
- @purehunger don't know if you live in @eastsideolympia, but we've got a potluck picnic this Saturday. 😉 http://t.co/NvwccGE in reply to purehunger #
- @heyrocker I like it! in reply to heyrocker #
- @libel_vox http://t.co/EdQ8n1X "community anger over a fatal police shooting of a 29-year-old father of four" in reply to libel_vox #
- just discovered fullscreen editor in wordpress. How did I not know about this sooner? #justWriting #
- @shelleypowers aaaand then I clicked on yr link. Good to know that there's a new module for D7. Will have to note on my upgrade spreadsheet. in reply to shelleypowers #
- @shelleypowers Path Redirect? Freaking awesome. (thx @davereid!) in reply to shelleypowers #
- @kitchenmage which reminds me that I owe you a donut recipe (1964 Good Housekeeping) – will have to look when I get home. in reply to kitchenmage #
- @flaneur @meriwilliams cat in a box: http://t.co/278Uk0Q in reply to flaneur #
- @meriwilliams I had the same reaction after spending almost 3 days in the woods: WTF rioting? in reply to meriwilliams #
- @Oakwright /jealous in reply to Oakwright #
- @olybuzz have fun!!!!! in reply to olybuzz #
- @MarkMessinger having read All the Devils Are Here, I don't have any faith in rating agencies' ability to judge anything accurately. #
- @heatregister my cuecat is a PS2 connector! Not sure I even have a PS2->USB thingamabob anymore. 🙂 in reply to heatregister #
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Today’s Links 8/8/2011
- What Happened to Obama’s Passion? – NYTimes.com
"It was that there was a story the American people were waiting to hear — and needed to hear — but he didn’t tell it." sigh.
- How Well Do Miss USA Contestants Represent Their States? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network
"This is not to say that Americans have no opinions about evolution until they get that call, only that there are several sets of information and intuition triggered by questions about evolution, and slight changes in circumstance can shift which of those sets will dominate a person’s mind at a given moment."
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