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Here's Looking at You, LiveJournal
I think the time has come for me to euthanize my LiveJournal account. The way LJ works just doesn't resonate w/ me. I have started a blog at http://countswackula.wordpress.com/. So. -
Dada uber alles
Lately I've been visiting a lot of art museums. My roommate, an art-enthusiast coworker, and I took the MARC train into D.C. last week to see the dada show at the National Gallery as well as Cezanne and whatever else was around ( Read more... ) -
Thank You for Irrigating, Eh
I am fortunate enough to have a friend, S., who instigated my attendance at a screening of "Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea" by Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer, narrated by John Waters. This hilarious yet thought-provoking documentary examines the history and controversy around a man-made body of water in the desert close to Palm Springs, CA ( Read more... ) -
Dirty Dozen Brass Band Show
My friend C encouraged me to attend the DDBB concert on Friday. They were great. Something about the overlaid and sometimes converging riffs is very satisfying and very danceable. Being from New Orleans, they covered "When the Levy Breaks ( Read more... ) -
RSS
I just sent some friends an email about how to use RSS. Since being put in charge of a group dealing w/ RSS at work, I've become a big ( Read more... ) -
nutritional tracker
Look at this site built by my friend Jason:
http://www.mealographer.com/index.phpNerds are so great that I could just swoon and pass out and smash my head into my keyboard! Knowing nerds is about as exciting as knowing celebrities, except celebrities will not help you fix your computer. Actually, I don't know any celebrities, but I'm pretty sure ( Read more... ) -
Public Library humor
I was inspired by the Read PosterS pool on Flickr to craft this fine item. (If you are unfamiliar with the huckster pictured, count yourself lucky.) -
You are Strongly Advised not to read This weblog post
I greatly enjoy Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events (the book series, not the movie) but somehow I have not taken the time to read any of Daniel Handler's other books, even though one of them is set in Pittsburgh. Imagine my overwhelming excitement when, while idly perusing his Wikipedia entry, I discovered that he was the accordionist on ( Read more... ) -
More on The Mighty Amazon
Ther other week I got to attend a day of Computers in Libraries, a biggish conference for some of the more tech-forward librarians. One of the dubious online tools brought to my attention was Amazon's Text Stats. In addition to trying to gauge the reading level of books, it provides such valuable information as the number of words per ounce and per ( Read more... ) -
A9 Yellow Page Search
Today I read, uh, somewhere about an interesting feature of Amazon's A9 Search engine: http://a9.com/If you do a Yellow Page search (I ran a few including Kinkos near MPOW (my place of work)) and pick a location, you can view photos of the street (!) as well as ( Read more... )