meta rock
Originally uploaded by bradeuchre
This is my entry into Color War 2008’s first battle — Flickr RoShamBo! Things you should know: I’m throwing rock, for the Orange Team
Stuff about sleep
First, caffeine withdrawal feels like angry jetleg with headaches.
Second, and this is a very local thing. One of my dreams last night had a creepy fictional wild-west amusement park south of Temple on Cass. There was a saloon, an arcade, and trains going EVERYWHERE. It was AWESOME. Just my opinion, but I think Detroit should build “Wild west town” just north of Foxtown.
An Alternative Interpretation
Are intellectual pursuits sexy? I contend the answer is ‘yes,’ and my super-strong argument is “because John Lennon sang so.”
In the song “A Day in the Life,” the phrase “I’d love to turn you on” is first preceded by a reference to reading ["having read the book"] and then by a witticism [that whole Albert Hall thing]. The juxtaposition is good enough for me!
Refs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Day_in_the_Life
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/beatles/a+day+in+the+life_10026556.html
People are making pretty themes!
Before I launch the gallery feature (which I want to get right the first time, given that many people have made default-identical themes just to test out the app), I’m the only person who’s had an easy look at all the themes people have been making. It’s quite exciting! For instance:
From a recent Finnish visitor. Keep up the good work, everyone!
Simple Productivity Hack
If you Google yourself often (and we all do)(and we should), you can actually save yourself a bit of time by mashing together two simplefree web services.
All you gotta do is set up Google Alerts to send searches for your name (or anything you care about for that matter) to [darn near anything]@mailbucket.org . Then, subscribe to the feed located at http://www.mailbucket.org/[darn near anything].xml . Personally, I send the alerts to my gmail, filter them, then forward them to mailbucket, but that’s a personal preference.
[Hints: Daily is annoying. Weekly seems just about right. If you don't have a huge online presence, you might get a lot of repeats.]
Why not just read them as an email, you ask? Well, it’s mashing two things together, so it doesn’t have to make sense! In my mind, my email and my aggregator are the same darn thing, except that I choose what I want to show up in my Google Reader.
Special thanks to David Cross for the idea. You’re funny.
If you want to keep tabs on me, you can subscribe to http://www.mailbucket.org/bradczerniak.xml