Monday, March 24, 2008
My Library es Tu Library
I love this one! I had to make myself get off so I wouldn't try and recall every single book I've ever read. I added My Library to my blog (scroll down...down...down...) too, so that's fun. It's interesting to see how many people tag the same books as I do. One of my all-time favorite books, Cloudstreet, only had a little over 200 tags! Crazy! You people are missing out!
I completed the LinkedIn exercise today. It's a handy little site, I must say. I found some friends from school and linked with PPLD coworkers, too. I am not sure I could ever be the type of person who keeps up with all of these accounts and sites I've joined. Once 23 Things is over, I may just allow things to fizzle. I can't deny it...that's just the way I am! I fizzler. Out of sight, out of mind. Absence does NOT make the heart grow fonder. Hmm...could explain my current relationship status. :o)
RSS= Really Stinky Site
Hi hello.
Thing #9: Subscribe to a coworkers blog on your RSS page.
Check.
I subscribed to Vicki and Virginia! Yaaay Vicki and Virginia! Let me tell you, though, I don't like this RSS stuff. It's just not pretty enough for me. It's full of words and links and text boxes...I don't like it. I like things to LOOK simple, even if they aren't. RSS is supposedly simple, but it LOOKS complicated, and therefore I don't enjoy it. It's just a really stinky site. But that's just me. :o)
Hmm...nothing more to say about that. Adios.
Thing #9: Subscribe to a coworkers blog on your RSS page.
Check.
I subscribed to Vicki and Virginia! Yaaay Vicki and Virginia! Let me tell you, though, I don't like this RSS stuff. It's just not pretty enough for me. It's full of words and links and text boxes...I don't like it. I like things to LOOK simple, even if they aren't. RSS is supposedly simple, but it LOOKS complicated, and therefore I don't enjoy it. It's just a really stinky site. But that's just me. :o)
Hmm...nothing more to say about that. Adios.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Ugg RSS
Ugg...RSS bloglines.com confused me. Apparently this is not my day for this things. Shall try again later...But I DID complete the 8th things! (I think.)
Flickr: Understanding the Cosmos
I know that Flickr is intended to be a fun and creative outlet for people everywhere, and I also understand that 23 Things is supposed to help us all feel more confident in our place in the technological cosmos. These are very good goals, and I applaud them. But I must say: in my case, neither goal is met. I hang my head in shame.
Ok. Goal #1: Flickr = creative and fun outlet for people everywhere.
Reality #1: Flickr = way too time consuming for perfectionists like me, resulting in a very, very lame profile. Thus, my sense of creativity is thwarted. Thus, I feel defeated, ashamed, minuscule, somewhat twitchy, and definitely the not-so-proud owner of a sufficiently un-fun Flickr page.
Goal #2: 23 Things helps us feel more confident in the world of technology.
Reality #2: Ignorance is bliss, baby. I was a perfectly happy person when I was ignorant of the enormity of the global online community. Perfectly happy. (Well, mostly.) But now, thanks to 23 Things, I am acutely aware of how BIG the Internet and it's many sites are, and how enormously insignificant I am. The more I explore, the more I realize that I am not nearly as creative, talented, connected or even cool as I once believed. This is a shattering blow to my ego. I intend to contact a lawyer as soon as can locate that old-school device of the Phone Book in the cozy, non-global, non-wireless, single-occupancy community of my apartment.
But...looking on the bright side...the ability to see the photographs of people everywhere is mind-blowing. Digital photography has ushered in a whole new era of high art. (I mean that in every sense of the phrase.) It makes me wonder what on earth museums will look like in a hundred years. Wow...
And so I leave you, legions, with this thought: you are miniscule. But if you happen to be savvy in the ways of technology, you can build a web page that makes you feel less miniscule. If you're lucky, someone, somwhere, may find it. But you'll still be miniscule. (Sorry.)
Ok. Goal #1: Flickr = creative and fun outlet for people everywhere.
Reality #1: Flickr = way too time consuming for perfectionists like me, resulting in a very, very lame profile. Thus, my sense of creativity is thwarted. Thus, I feel defeated, ashamed, minuscule, somewhat twitchy, and definitely the not-so-proud owner of a sufficiently un-fun Flickr page.
Goal #2: 23 Things helps us feel more confident in the world of technology.
Reality #2: Ignorance is bliss, baby. I was a perfectly happy person when I was ignorant of the enormity of the global online community. Perfectly happy. (Well, mostly.) But now, thanks to 23 Things, I am acutely aware of how BIG the Internet and it's many sites are, and how enormously insignificant I am. The more I explore, the more I realize that I am not nearly as creative, talented, connected or even cool as I once believed. This is a shattering blow to my ego. I intend to contact a lawyer as soon as can locate that old-school device of the Phone Book in the cozy, non-global, non-wireless, single-occupancy community of my apartment.
But...looking on the bright side...the ability to see the photographs of people everywhere is mind-blowing. Digital photography has ushered in a whole new era of high art. (I mean that in every sense of the phrase.) It makes me wonder what on earth museums will look like in a hundred years. Wow...
And so I leave you, legions, with this thought: you are miniscule. But if you happen to be savvy in the ways of technology, you can build a web page that makes you feel less miniscule. If you're lucky, someone, somwhere, may find it. But you'll still be miniscule. (Sorry.)
Inspiration by Poster
Hello, you great legion of unseen fans. I greet you in the name of the Great and Noble Flickr.
Flickr is Wondrous and Awesome. Flickr is Kind and Vast in Much Knowledge. Flickr is Connector of Bored People. Flickr is Creator of Inspirational Posters.
That's right, people. Inspirational Posters. You thought you got away from them when you graduated from your middle school humanities class. HA! Think again, legion, for the Great Flickr has brought them back into your life...and there is no graduating this time. (Do you hear the chilling laughter of the Great Flickr? The hair on your neck should raise at such a sound.)
And so it is, the Great Flickr has allowed even me, little peon that I am, to craft an Inspirational Poster. It is a beautiful and wondrous thing. Please go see it.
http://flickr.com/photos/24440261@N02/2341866302/
That is all.
Flickr is Wondrous and Awesome. Flickr is Kind and Vast in Much Knowledge. Flickr is Connector of Bored People. Flickr is Creator of Inspirational Posters.
That's right, people. Inspirational Posters. You thought you got away from them when you graduated from your middle school humanities class. HA! Think again, legion, for the Great Flickr has brought them back into your life...and there is no graduating this time. (Do you hear the chilling laughter of the Great Flickr? The hair on your neck should raise at such a sound.)
And so it is, the Great Flickr has allowed even me, little peon that I am, to craft an Inspirational Poster. It is a beautiful and wondrous thing. Please go see it.
http://flickr.com/photos/24440261@N02/2341866302/
That is all.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
For my birthday I...
gave myself a Flickr account! Yaay! Just what I've always wanted!
So my flickr account is lindsay.lackey (creative, I know) and so far I have a whopping one picture loaded. I can see how flickr can(/will?) become completely time consuming. I am such a visual person, and I plan to become an expert photographer in another life, so photo sites = less sleep for Lindsay. Ah well. PPLD can just put another notch in it's belt of "ways it consumes my life"! :o)
Oh, and in case you missed the shameless plug...today IS my birthday, and you should all send me presents. I like chocolate, clothes and cash. (The three "c's"...easy enough to remember!) ;o)
Juuust kidding.... But hey, no one reads this anyway!
So my flickr account is lindsay.lackey (creative, I know) and so far I have a whopping one picture loaded. I can see how flickr can(/will?) become completely time consuming. I am such a visual person, and I plan to become an expert photographer in another life, so photo sites = less sleep for Lindsay. Ah well. PPLD can just put another notch in it's belt of "ways it consumes my life"! :o)
Oh, and in case you missed the shameless plug...today IS my birthday, and you should all send me presents. I like chocolate, clothes and cash. (The three "c's"...easy enough to remember!) ;o)
Juuust kidding.... But hey, no one reads this anyway!
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