Friday, August 31, 2007

Thing 11: Librarian Heroin

Let's just say that I really lurve LibraryThing. Like Oreos. And Colin Firth. I may require an intervention.

Comment on Thing 10

I love my Meez because she really looks like me, only it's me 10 years ago before I had children and the 25 extra pounds. AND she's doing two of my favorite things: laughing and going to order some tuna rolls from the sushi bar. And she has clogs!! She'd be absolutely perfect if she were holding a beer. ;)

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Thing 10: Meez

Thing 9: Merlin

I went to Merlin and subscribed to their RSS feed--it's now on my iGoogle page. Yipee! I played around with Technorati and Feedster searching for blogs on beekeeping or honey bees, and I'm not exactly thrilled with the results. The sites cast a REALLY wide net, and I got tons of junk to wade through. Maybe I'm just a picky librarian beekeeper, but I don't have all day to stare at the computer and wade through all those results. It blows my mind that others do.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Thing 8: The Feed Thing

I have an iGoogle page, and have my feeds set up there. Like some other people I know and love doing 23 Things, I have the Jon Stewart quote of the day coming to me. I also get news, weather, the latest YouTube stuff, recipes from "Real Simple", and Bart Simpson quotes. Today's Bart quote: Your father was a loser, and his father. It's genetic, man.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Thing 7: Waxing nostalgic on technology

I just moved into a new house, and as I unpack my life from the boxes, I find myself rediscovering old treasures, finding things I thought were lost, and occasionally finding things I wish I had thrown away. The treasures I found last night were my children's baby albums. My older child has a beautiful album of photographs that document the first two years of his life. My younger child has an equally beautiful album that documents the first two months of his life. Why?? Because that's when we bought a digital camera. It's not that we didn't take pictures of our younger son, it's that they're digital, stored on the computer, emailed to faraway friends and relatives. We can remove the redeye, crop as we see fit, and we never have to set foot in the camera shop. And sure, I could print the images out and finish the album for my younger son, but I never seem to have the time to do it. Someday I'm sure I will, just because I feel a little guilty about it, but I wonder if my kids will value the albums. We're a technology-driven society, and our kids will be even more electronically-inclined than us. I wonder if my sons will someday rather have the images on a CD or flash drive or whatever the technology will be than the print I so lovingly assembled...I suppose I'll just have to wait and see.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Thing 6: The Mash Thing

I think I just found my toy of the week: the Flickr Flowers Experimental Colr Pickr. You choose a color out of the spectrum, and then it feeds you images from Flickr of flowers in the shade you've chosen. I just did reds. Way cool. I'm sure my bees would love this.

Thing 5: Flickr

So I have this thing about baby pandas. And let me tell you, if you don't look at this photo and go "Aaaaaawwwww," there's something seriously wrong with you. By the way, Flickr is a lot of fun, and I think it has pretty decent searching capability, too.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Thing 3: Settin' up the blog

Oh my God, I have a blog! Now if I only had something to write about....