The tree hasn't fallen, and I haven't done anything about it, but I have made at least one bidder angry... If Tina Fey weren't so much like Sarah Palin those sketches would be even more pointed... I am tired of being sick, sick and tired... Clone Wars was alright, it's a solid DVR add... My pile of work has become formidable, even with it taking the Juniors more than two weeks to make 24 feet of moulding... Cubs, lose, world, yawns. I wish I could say I was surprised, but really after Steve Garvey it's all been the same for me... New gadgets on the green page, and over 30 posts today, if only I that were really my job... I think, I am pretty sure I'm going to the Jeffs. Mom's getting a lifetime achievement award. Going to make for a lot of travel that week... More and more often its begining to sound like "my dog ate my homework" - could be time for a policy change... They don't have fried chicken at Fridays. I guess the country is passed fried chicken... The Steelers game put a real crimp in my Sunday TV. At least they won... Mrs. TANBI and I came up with a fairly cool gift for a friend today... The cats now wait anxiously to play with the laser. They really like laser... I think I am getting passed my bank angst, and I think it has little or nothing to do with the federal bailout... It's very nearly time for the next large show to be out of scope. I can't wait... I now have four possible plans for Playground week next semester. One of them is even a playground piece... What am I going to do about my folks? This is an unpleasant place to be in so many ways... I think we ought to give away more t-shirts... I watched the first three episodes of Fringe. I guess I will hang with it a while longer... Just where did September go? I got to pay more attention...
Monday, October 06, 2008
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Fourth Anniversary Post
So this post is actually more than a month and a half overdue. Sometimes I guess life just gets in the way and we don't have all the time we might need for things like blogging. Plus I spend an awful lot of time maintaining the other blog, I average about 1500 articles a day coming in through my Google reader account - something for my own edification although it also generates this feed and the Green Page, and then there's Twitter, and most recently Facebook. It's a lot of computer time for one guy. Add Xeno Tactic and there's pretty much no time for CivIV, let alone StumbleUpon.
The RSS feeds thing has really changed the blog. I spend more time reading and less time writing, and when before I might see something on TV or hear something on the radio and then write about it; now I am more likely to read about it online and post a link. It's pretty much done away with the "Link of the Day" idea, although there are still occasionally that type of post. Posting in general had dropped way down until July when LoudTwitter started shipping batches of tweets as a daily post. Now the numbers are way up although contentwise we're still down.
The numbers:
351 Posts
17 Ellipses
The whole idea of "most" photos or videos has sort of fallen apart because of the use of other sites for embed, and the meme thing is just so over - so we won't be counting those this year.
Best pic:
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| From Halloween2k7 |
Worst pic:
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| From There are no bad ideas |
I don't know what I was on that day, but clearly I needed a nap.
Top 10 posts, as chosen by me - the guy that did them:
They are in no particular order. It's hard to compare being funny to being serious to home projects to work, but I think overall they're a good group. And representative of a decent year.
Perhaps That's Her Achilles Heel
Sarah Palin's college daze. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine: "Was she really unsure about the meaning or proper pronunciation of the word caricature? Had she truly failed to notice that John McCain jumped down Barack Obama's throat when Obama publicly proposed attacking al-Qaida in Pakistan's ungoverned tribal regions? Why couldn't she name a single newspaper or magazine that she read on a regular basis before being tapped for the national ticket? Why couldn't she name a single Supreme Court decision she disagreed with apart from Roe v. Wade?* In an earlier (2007) interview with Charlie Rose on PBS, why did Palin, after mentioning C.S. Lewis ('very, very deep') as a favorite author, go on to cite George Sheehan, a onetime columnist for Runner's World?"
Shorties
- 15:47 3D CAD today. Everyone draw a chair, yes the instructions do work. #
- 23:45 Sanctuary was eh. I'll watch again, but then I watched all of Flash Gordon too #
Friday, October 03, 2008
Shorties
- 12:00 soldiering into the day even though I'm really not up to it #
- 18:55 thinking I was going to vote Obama - then he spent Springsteen to Philly while us Yinzers got "Vampire Weekend"? - now less so. #
- 22:21 Biden shoulda said "my Achilles heel is when someone asks me a question I answer it" #
Thursday, October 02, 2008
It's Really Not My Country
ABC News: Batons Stilled After 'Girl Kissing' Song Flap: "Three Texas high school students are being disciplined after performing a baton routine to the popular Katy Perry song 'I Kissed a Girl' during a pep rally last week."
Shorties
- 17:40 @thespophile Sure there is, but not in a four year footprint - but that's not about Drama, that's about college. #
- 20:24 @thespophile observations of past participants would indicate that the investment is not wasted, although that may be difficult to see now #
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Shorties
- 15:59 @aerdin giant secret job - congrats #
- 16:01 @thespophile that's overstating it, yes? there've been a lot of people that have changed direction - although maybe that's not backing out #
- 16:02 thinking how the Rabbi's "be an Angel" message had me hearing "1000 points of light" #
- 20:57 wondering if the facebook wall is a decent place to have a complex discussion #
- 21:07 is it possible that when hammered on earmarks the McCain/Palin people should respond "don't hate the player, hate the game?" #
