Some of the cleverest amongst us have been saying they wished we had livejournal back in this age of facebook and other social media. The only way to make it happen is to be back. And I am here.

 http://www.facebook.com/notes/dan-lennon/in-search-of-a-graphic-designer/10150151517327901Are you a graphic designer? Or maybe you know one. I need help having sweatshirts made for a fictitious sports team as birthday gift my my Mom and Aunt (twins ( Read more... )

I had thought I'd be taking a long (2 week) international trip at the end of February, but now that's been called off. But it did get me thinking that I'm capable and interested in something like that. It must be time to start planning something ( Read more... )

Reading mr_chip 's thoughts on his personal archives of media and got me thinking, or perhaps wanting to expand on some of those ideas as they apply to me.

I don't have same affection for tangible books, music, movies, and video games that many people have. My media selection is easily constrained to one one bookshelf. Also, and probably much to the ( Read more... )

The other day, I got tired of ads on the internet.

I don't usually begrudge most ads, and I'm sort of fond of the text ads that tend toward the relevant.

On the other hand, if an ad includes stealing focus, loading slowly while preventing the content I actually want to see from loading, video, or audio, in desl 's America, you'd be tarred and feathered ( Read more... )

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Whereas livejournal has become a bit of a ghost town, i'm not bothering with a cut. It's time to send the old refrigerator a way, now that a shinier one is here.  Now is the time where I remove all of the magnets in preparation of sending it off to it's new home that I begin to feel a sense of loss as I sacrifice the carefully written refrigerator ( Read more... )

Quickly.

On Saturday I took a multi-pitch rock climbing class through Outdoor Adventure at UC Davis. Although it was logistically challenging, the class was really fun, if intense, as hanging by ropes a few hundred feet off the ground is likely to be.

These were the routes.

www.supertopo.com/rock_climbing/Lake_Tahoe_Lover% ( Read more... )

As anyone who has dined with me in the past six months has noticed I've been eating a bit differently of late.

Essentially I'm high-protein, low-carb, low-fat, low-calorie though surprisingly not all that low-fun. It  does seem to to make dining with vegans a it of a trick if you like variety since the overlap is quite small: sauted veggies ( Read more... )

This morning, I heard a story on morning edition (www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php) about Safeway doing innovative things to control healthcare costs. I'm generally in favor of what they've done, as I subscribe to the idea that we should encourage what we want and discourage what we don't want.

However, and this is a pretty big however, one of ( Read more... )