My friend Jenna’s fantastically awesome daughter, Jaqi, has started out on a new venture. Ask Jaqi is an advice site for kids and teens written by a teen who has been there and done that. So if you have a kid, know a kid, know someone with a kid, have once in your lifetime seen a kid… check it out.
I swear, I’m not being paid to advertise. I just think she’s a cool kid :)
Posted in: linksCan't say I want to write anything too substantive on these links, but I do want to get them out there anyway because they're cluttering up my tab bar.
Monsters of the Programming World is a neat little poster anthropomorphizing common programming errors. I've been meaning to pick this up for our office.
Jeffrey Friedl has developed a Lightroom export plugin for Flickr. I haven't had a chance to test it out yet, as I've shamefully not uploaded any pictures to Flickr this year, but it should shave off a few clicks in my workflow if it works well enough.
Ken Rockwell on How To Afford Anything. The great thing about this article is that Ken isn't a personal finance guru, he's a photographer. This article isn't coming from a "I want to be rich" perspective but more from a "I want cool cameras" perspective, which appeals to me greater than the usual run-of-the-mill personal finance article.
Fraser Speirs on his photo editing workflow. Fraser uses Aperture, so his workflow is a bit more flexible than what is allowed (or rather suggested) by Lightroom. Still, some of his ideas carry across between any such application. I particularly enjoyed his rating process, something I currently do without much thought.
I'm working on listening to all of Fred Wilson's Top 10 Albums of the Year. Music recommendations from a VC, who would have thought? Fred's musical tastes are a bit off from mine and listening to his picks is an interesting experience. I haven't gotten through the entire list, but I did grab a copy of the Kings of Leon's Because of the Times, his number one pick. There are some songs I can't stand to listen to, and although the album as a whole isn't memorable, it is very catchy. That is, I can remember parts of songs but I can't identify which song it is or if it's the same part of another song. My biggest disappointment has to be the lyrical work. There's just not a whole lot going on there unfortunately.
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How do you forget your car at a gas station?
Posted in: linksWell, not all shopping. The husband and I have one of those abnormal couples that actually enjoy shopping together. No, the shopping I’m referring to is of the jeans variety. Or pants in general. I, along with every other female on the planet, cannot find pants that fit me. Ever. I’m too tall to be petite and too short to be average, and the waist is always completely wrong. However, one can’t live on two pairs of jeans and three pairs of work pants, so I had to bite the bullet and deal with crowds of people at the mall this morning. It took trips to three stores and entirely too many trips to fitting rooms, but I did finally find something worth buying. I so wish jeans would regenerate themselves - favorite pairs should last forever, regardless of how one’s body shape changes.
I also hate to admit that the whole Christmas atmosphere at the mall seemed almost appealing to me. I love Christmas and all, but it’s only the first weekend of November for crying out loud. Tomorrow we’re going to the Trans Siberian Orchestra concert, so I’ll be in even more of a Christmas spirit. I think part of me is looking forward to the holidays so much this year because we didn’t do anything last year, plus it’ll be our first Christmas in this house.
Oh, and for those of you who asked about the cake… it tasted like year old cake :P
PS: This scares me.
Posted in: links , rantsIt’s November. That means, among other things, that it’s the start of NaBloPoMo - National Blog Posting Month. The main idea is to post every single day during the month of November. I’ve been more than lax when it comes to blog posting, and I don’t know that I’ll seriously commit to NaBloPoMo, but I can at least attempt to be a little more consistent :P
Posted in: links , siteKent has asked me to contribute five feeds to his swivel feeds experiment (I'm honored, by the way). I was going to include Engadget, Scoble, TechCrunch and Dave Winer as jokes, but I didn't want to pass up the opportunity so here's my contribution:
curiousgirl's playground - I discovered Jing's blog after the Penn link love that went around a few months ago. She writes about tech, business, web 2.0 and the like and her posts never cease to impress me.
Daring Fireball - I was hoping to include less known blogs in my list, but I couldn't pass up a link to DF. John Gruber is the ultimate Apple fanboy, except with an added touch of class and objectiveness, that make him the go-to guy for big-picture Apple commentary.
Information Arbitrage - Roger writes about finance and technology, two of my biggest interests, and that's what keeps me coming back. I really can't name any other blog that tackles these two areas in a way that strikes me as well as IA.
Marginal Revolution - Marginal Revolution is like Freakonomics taken to the next level. Alex and Tyler have their share of fun and quirky econ stories, but they're balanced well by more serious and/or theoretical pieces. Favorite recurring themes include "Markets in everything" and "Claims my Russian wife laughs at".
Signal vs Noise - Another popular one, but I love the simplicity that surrounds everything 37 Signals does. I can't say I'm a big user of their products, but I love their design and (by extension) their software development philosophies.
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In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve entered summer here in the good ol’ northern hemisphere. That means it’s hot. Around here, that also means it’s humid. Combine those elements with the fact that my hair is both incredibly dark brown and exceedingly long, and you get, well, a very hot head. Come summertime, I always entertain the thought of cutting my hair. I haven’t had it chopped for a while now, so I’ve made the decision to not only majorly cut my hair, but to donate it to Locks of Love. Their minimum donation length is 10″, although anything they receive between 6″ to 10″ will be sold to help offset costs. A coworker measured my hair this morning, and with 10″ gone, it’ll still be below my shoulders.
Something to know about me - I haven’t had hair shorter than my shoulders in over 15 years. I also refuse to have hair that short again… at least for the time being. This is the shortest I’ve had it in those 15 years, and that picture was taken almost two years ago. I’m not dragging my feet at the thought of losing so much hair - it’s the thought of having short(er) hair. And no, those aren’t the same thing in my head :P But like the title says… it’ll grow back. Plus it’ll be nice to not have my ponytail sticking to the back of my neck in the summer.
In other news, I’ve been shuffling links around over there in the sidebar. Some new ones to note:
edited to add: Apparently I’ve confused some people with this entry. I’ve NOT cut my hair yet, but don’t worry, I’ll be sure to post when I do. :D
Posted in: links , meThis definitely ranks up there in terms of the weird, yet oddly cute and fascinating blogs I’ve ever come across.
Posted in: linksI was studying (read: Twittering) at Huntsman tonight when I overheard some guys talking about their up-and-coming social network (here's some advice: don't do it in public). After some quick searching, I discovered two blogs run by fellow Whartonites. Here's some link love (by the way, thanks to Kent Newsome for his!):
curiousgirl's playground
3000 Miles of Virtual Insanity
(and another one) Cool New Web
If you've been wondering what's been going on with this blog in the past few weeks, Hugh Macleod made a comic about it (it wasn't for me, but it may as well have been):
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