Three grandmas talk about the Kardashians and end up watching the Ray-J and Kim Kardashian sex tape.
(Some day I’ll catch up and share more of my saved links and such. Probably not until at least after next weekend’s concert.)
Month: May 2012
Anybody Have Some Time I Can Borrow?
So the new job is going well. I’m still trying to wrap my head around ConnectWise, but I’m getting there. The people there are great, the company’s philosophies are good, and things are going smoothly. And I actually get home earlier from work, so I can see my kids more (shorter commutes are nice, though I did have to wait at a train crossing three times in the last week).
Meanwhile, since it’s the end of the school year, and there are a bunch of concerts, recitals, and other end of the year activities with the kids, including my own mess of stuff. I have rehearsals and/or concerts tonight through next Tuesday, which means I won’t be able to come up for air much after work or on the weekends.
In other words, this blog is going to be neglected for a bit more time. I have a ton of fun reading material and videos to share, but I actually need to sleep now and again.
With that being said, good night.
Don’t Text and Walk
Bad things happen…
Post Last-Day Reading Material
Since I gave my notice, I’ve been spending the last few weeks trying to finalize and document a metric ton of projects as well as find replacement(s) for the various work I do. Today was my last day in Sunriver, and it was with a bit of sadness that I left. While I’m looking forward to the new challenges and the people I’ll be working with, change is always a bit scary. But change sometimes has to be made, and I’m looking forward to a bit of change in my life. It was a bit weird removing a few e-mail accounts from Thunderbird.
Meanwhile, here’s some reading material that I’ve been sitting on for a while:
- 67 Books every Geek Should Read To Their Kids.
- If your site has a terms of service, making it easy to read like this is a good idea.
- This review for this product is absolutely hilarious.
- Bath image resizing made easy.
- Metafilter now has a “Best Of” blog.
- Zingiri Bookings is a nifty looking little online property booking app.
- The most common cooking mistakes
- Create your own election with the WaPo interactive tool.
- I’ve never played Monopoly this way, but it’s actually the right way to do it.
- Descriptive Camera: point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture and print a text description of the scene.
- Need an essay written? This should help you get a laugh.
- Fake S3 — Save time, money, and develop offline.
- Filepicker.io is a better upload dialog for the web.
- When you have an employee whose last name is Null, it can screw with programming.
- Parting out a UPS to provide battery backup to a critical sub-panel in your house.
- Fat Dogs are awesome!
- Gmail full? Clear out some big emails.
- Goodbye -9999px: A new CSS image replacement technique.
- The secret meeting that changes rap music and destroyed a generation.
- How computers boot up.
- How to access Gmail when its down.
- How to hack your own Wi-Fi network.
- How we use Trello and Google Docs to make UserVoice better every day.
- The new iPad’s screen under the microscope.
- Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours.
- Yelp, You Cost Me $2000 by Suppressing Genuine Reviews, Here’s How You Fix It.
More tomorrow, as I have a bunch of links I’ve collected.