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if you are in So Cal, go tonight! 🙂 (also, this is my new portfolio piece, and a favor for Elizabeth. lots of fun!)
links for 2008-12-12
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The Billie Jean pictured further down is one of my co-workers. (A great graphic designer!) I think, but am not 100% sure, that karaokeoly/Rob is her hubby.
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what I really want is "ride today?" with a combination of temp, precip, and wind speed. I wonder if I could hack it together myself?
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alternatively….(tags: coldfusion)
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may need soon. :\(tags: coldfusion)
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"Parker pursued a thief after he grabbed a collection box of money donated for the library's Family Book Club. In the process, she broke her leg and the thief got away – but not with any money." awesome. sucks that he got away & that she broke her leg, but wow, that's actually pretty bad-ass.
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"The pilot spurred many positive yet unexpected outcomes—especially Flickr members’ willingness to devote great effort to photo-related detective work and their level of engagement with historical images." Old pictures are fun!
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“the trouble with science is that I can’t get at the numbers behind the headlines; what is the sample size, how was the trial run…†omg, totally. have had this experience since C's stats class at UWT. also, I think everyone should take statistics. stats, arithmetic & algebra are the core of life-useful math, IME.
links for 2008-12-11
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cute. network names advertising specials, asking you to buy a coffee (cheapskate!), or maybe one for "that cute girl".
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Apparently the ACTUAL trend is that teens are setting off FEWER bombs. Tales of my youth: my HS/college sweetheart & his best friend made nitroglycerin in a bathtub in their early teens; I knew another boy who almost lost a hand from a homemade pipe bomb.
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need 2 pick something for xmas day game.(tags: gaming)
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"He observed that most people — including those who hold the job — don't actually know what lieutenant governors actually do. But in New York, he said, "we have it in statute… What you do is you wake up in the morning at 6:30 and call the governor's mansion. If he answers, you can go back to sleep."" heh. pretty entertaining akshully.
links for 2008-12-10
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"He observed that most people — including those who hold the job — don't actually know what lieutenant governors actually do. But in New York, he said, "we have it in statute… What you do is you wake up in the morning at 6:30 and call the governor's mansion. If he answers, you can go back to sleep."" heh. pretty entertaining akshully.
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I don't know quite why, but this one tickles my fancy.(tags: funny)
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it's kinda simplistic, but I found it very helpful.(tags: design inspiration)
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"My World of Warcraft account is now more secure than my bank account." I find the business model interesting, too; they're selling the fobs for $6.50.
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why TF does newegg's list look entirely different from shuttle's?(tags: misc_tech)
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ram for ye olde SK41G(tags: misc_tech)
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I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier.
links for 2008-12-07
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awesome! via the other Elaine.
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met this guy on Friday at the Sherwood Press open house. (he built her new bindery building.) very nice guy, knowledgeable, and works in an aesthetic that meshes with ours.
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huge friggin' list of classes!
links for 2008-12-04
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"The idea that tight fiscal policy when the economy is depressed actually reduces private investment isn’t just a hypothetical argument: it’s exactly what happened in two important episodes in history." connect the dots to the higher ed funding stories!
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"At my cc, the operating budget for next year is currently projected to be 10 percent lower than two years ago, even before adjusting for inflation. (If you adjust, the cut is even worse.) 80 percent of the budget is labor. (Another 7 is utilities.)" And I imagine that a good chunk of that labor is heathcare. (See the graph in the previous link. Healthcare cost increases & tuition cost increases track each other more than either tracks to CPI.)
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“When the economy is good, and state universities are somewhat better funded, we raise tuition as little as possible,†he said. “When the economy is bad, we raise tuition and sock it to families, when people can least afford it. That’s exactly the opposite of what we need.†Indeed. I've been eavesdropping on some bits of a twitter-conversation about higher ed in this budget environment. (start with wnalyd, who also blogged about it in re:web.)
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consider this a sort of follow-up to my facebook post. (I like the advice of one of the "editor's choice" comments: just have fun with it, for goodness sake!")
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do want. probably won't get around to it.
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need this.
links for 2008-12-03
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super cute! not sure if my sony would fit, tho(tags: photography gifts)
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calculates gas cost for a trip, given a specific car. (it's 50% more for us to take the truck to LA vs the kia, for example!)
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"Meermeer, which is set to debut as an online service and Dreamweaver CS4 extension on Adobe Labs sometime next year, is a cross browser web site testing tool that will be delivered as a service." whoa.
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"So is there any hope to be found on the retirement front? Is there anything you can do to right your listing 401K ship and steer happily toward that blissful retirement horizon? Like so many others, I was curious." Seeing as how her interviewee is president of the "Profit Sharing/401k Council of America", he's pretty upbeat, but I think there's some reasonable points nonetheless. Interesting advice to think of your family health history as part of your retirement planning.
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pretty, altho I want to add the "mark all as read" button back in.
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might make that tonite. (we have extra sour cream.)
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like homemade hamburger helper. mmmm.
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"UPS is putting cyclists on the road across Oregon and southwest Washington to deliver holiday packages." Apparently they also have delivery bikes in Germany.
links for 2008-12-02
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whoa. grid-tacular.
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Reimaginings of the lovely WPA poster style.
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I don't quite know why, but I find this fascinating. (Me, I'd like to buried under a tree, with a stone bench for sitting on.)
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"A bicyclist who became irate at another bicyclist for saying he should get a light on his bike followed the man home, grabbed him by the head, twisted him to the ground and then kneed him in the ribs before pedaling away, police said." In Madison.
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"Three minutes into the movie, there was my photo." wacky story of a Flickr photo. I'm sort of tempted to Netflix the movie again just to see if I can spot it.
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"for the most part, parents only learned of bullying once it had escalated to unbearable levels" I started writing a note, and then it turned into a blog entry. yipes.
links for 2008-12-01
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I've put both of the books on hold, something to plan for next spring I suppose. (Also, the tree-planting method sounds like the one Neighborwoods teaches.)
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"I note with amusement that this gave me a real-life yoga instructor playing a contortionist, and a real-life linguist playing a mime." 🙂 sounds way entertaining. will have to look into StoryCards. (via Dorothea, aka Chichi Alexander & the Flying Macedonians.)(tags: gaming)
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the Harvard angle in the linked Techdirt article is somewhat amusing.
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kinda like squidfingers.
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I'm still doing wordpress stuff (neighborhood assoc, christmas tree lane assoc, plus my own site); looks like some useful tidbits here.(tags: wordpress)
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"Beginning in January, my plan is to spend six months or so writing about trends and best practices in the field, both in the U.S. and abroad." sounds fascinating.(tags: journalism olyblog)
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interesting stuff, connecting the geeks & the reporters.
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found in a Seattle antique store.
links for 2008-11-26
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I have to put in $20 to buy a $5 geegaw? dammit. but that is exactly what I need for a work project, and I know it'll take me more time than that to recreate it. ::sigh::(tags: flash)
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for me, 18 miles is a long f'ing ride no matter what time of year, but it does tempt me nonetheless. and maybe by then I'll finally have my rainpants? 😉
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I totally want to get some of the "Shepherds" Xmas cards. (apparently they outsell all other holiday cards 5:1!) also, I know a few people who would appreciate the Chanukah card.
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this was actually really easy & kinda fun.(tags: photoshoppery web_dev)
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beautiful photos of Jefferson's bible editing project. I read about it in a book I read over the summer about the founding fathers & religion, which gave me a new appreciation of the complexity of their thought & the religious environment of the Revolutionary Era.
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I tried this a few years ago; the soup I made turned out pretty lousy, but I think that was mostly a poor choice of noodles. (whole wheat. bleh.) Might give it another shot. Comments have some good notes about safer cooling methods.
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The color contrast issues (part 2) were entirely new to me. (Elizabeth, do you find this to be so?) Most of the recommendations in part 3 are pretty straightforward good-readability stuff, IMHO.
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Funny: quick little snippets for arguing either side of the current political debates. Oh so very glad not to be doing the holidays w/Mom's extended family! Also, I'm amused by the 3 options for "Bush Is the Worst President of My Lifetime" — I'm on the cusp of "Dude, heard of Nixon?" and "Yeah, definitely; more pie?"
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IIRC, the first time I ever drank it was Zima, on a college orchestra trip to Portland in '93. (Which is weird: the article says Zima came out in '94, but I would *swear* that was what somebody bought on that trip, which would've had to have been in '93. Anyway.)