Category: Random Thoughts

There goes Josh, making me think of random things… Some day I will repay him. Some day…

• I am unable to make this into an ordered list. Blogger hates order? Perhaps. More appropriately, though, I’ve simply never taken the time to explain the ordering of lists to Blogger’s CSS. This must change. Eventually.
• I’m working today, even though it’s Memorial Day. I can only think with irony of the email our college president sent out calling on us all to “take a moment” to remember blah, blah, blah… Well, I’d rather take a day. And yet I giggle as I anthropomorphize my institution and watch it ask, “Days that are holi? I do not understand. What are these days you call ‘holi’? And why won’t my mail be delivered?”
• I love to anthropomorphize things, especially pets. My pets speak to me, and I speak back. Trees and tables and weather also have personalities. It’s just the way things are.
• On Friday my sister gave her last concert prior to her graduation. I’ve been going to amazing choir performances by elite student choirs for just about 8 years because of her, and I’ll miss this activity. She’s ended up in some truly fantastic concerts, and I’m not just saying that because I think she’s amazing.
• My online life has become more important to me than I ever considered possible (or healthy) before I started this whole adventure. I’ve met the most amazing people and learned the most amazing things. I’ve even gone on to meet some of you in a non-virtual sense, and that’s priceless.
• I drink a lot of tea.
• Students on my campus are still here because classes go to the end of this week and finals are next week. Why is that? Because we run on the quarter system. Stupid quarter system.
• I come from a family of four siblings, and each of my parents come from very similarly sized families (4 and 5 siblings, each of which has a family of 2-4 children). And all of our layers of family are very close (though not in a spacial sense) So unlike Steve, I find gatherings of 40-odd related people to be quite normal, if a little overwhelming.

And that’s 8 (I think, though counting bullets is not easy). And no, I don’t do the tagging thing, at least not formally. I tag YOU.

And now back to catching up from being gone for 3 and a half days…

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I just realized it’s taken me two years to figure out that I could change my bookmarked URL for my library to the proxified URL… It doesn’t interfere with my on campus clicking because it realizes no proxy is necessary from there, and it automatically prompts me to log in when I’m off campus (which cuts down on the “find good resource — click into it — be denied — navigate back to library log-in page – log in – re-find useful resource” cycle when I’m putting together classes over the weekends). Now, if it took me this long to figure out (and I teach people how to log in to the proxy server every day), I bet most of my faculty haven’t figured it out. Now’s when I wish I had a newsletter… or a blog… ;)

Also, about the no-posting thing that’s happing here lately. I’m sorry. I’m busy. Freakishly busy. But I’m keeping notes about what I would have blogged about and I hope to get to at least a third of them when things settle down later.

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This has been my first full weekend at home in over a month, so my list of household tasks was daunting, to say the least. But partially thanks to fine weather, partially thanks to a cat who really didn’t want me to sleep in (and even decided to rouse me two hours earlier than I would have thought necessary), and partially thanks to the pleasure I get from crossing things off of lists, I made it through 23 of the 25 items on my to-do list. I also started to gather some of my flickr photo sets into a collection I’ve called “Flickr Cook Book” … because I’m creative with names.

So what were the two things I didn’t get done? Oh, just the two most important and time-consuming items on my lists, both having to do with a writing project I’m doing. I sure hope my co-author hasn’t pasted a picture of me next to the entry for “slacker” in her dictionary. It’ll get done. I promise. I’ve never not gotten something like this done before, and I don’t intend to start now.

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I’m having an easily-annoyed afternoon, so take this with a salt shaker of salt, but I’m just sayin…

Is it really a good idea to syndicate content from everything you do online to everything else you do online? If your photos get automatically included in your blog’s feed, and you up load a whole boatload of them, my aggreggator creaks and I get depressed. If you syndicate your linkblog and your blog to twitter, that means I either click on those TinyURLs or get browster to retrieve them for me only to find that they lead to a post that leads to a link. So… click on link to find link to click on… wash, rinse, repeat. This does not make me a happy camper.

The problem being, I really do want to keep up with the other stuff in your feed/twitter/blog/etc. But feed readers and twitter don’t have any filtering system.

I guess what I’m getting at is that there’s some value in giving me choices about what I subscribe to and not forcing me to double-sub by syndicating something I’m already subbed to to some other thing I’m subbed to.

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