My Favorite Thing About Christmas
I spend between $200 and $300 dollars on Christmas cards every year, between printing and postage. To put things in perspective, most years I spend more on cards than I do on my kids…I take Christmas cards that seriously. (Dear Kids: I’m sorry. It’s because I enjoy graphic arts. If I could play with fonts on your Christmas gifts? I might spend more money on you.... Read More
The Definition Of A Nerdgasm
I wrote this entry yesterday morning to publish today. Then…THEN…the biggest worldwide nerdgasm occurred when CERN announced the discovery of a particle that could be the Higgs boson. If you don’t know what the Higgs boson is, here’s a great non-physicist explanation that a layperson could understand. Either way? IT’S A PARTICLE PHYSICS PAR-TAY! Which... Read More
On Blogging
When I logged in to my blog this morning I saw I had surpassed the 4000 mark for Number of Entries and am around 4040 now. It just came and went…4000 entries. That’s a lot of blogging. Blogging has changed so much in the 6 years I’ve been at this blog. I had tried to blog several times since 1999, before they were even called blogs, but this particular blog... Read More
Google Whore. Revisited.
It’s not secret that I love Google and all of it’s by-products. (Except Picasa. I’m still too much of a flickr whore to use Picasa.) Well today? There were all sorts of new things waiting for me in my Google Reader. I can now “LIKE” things I read. It is evidently not the same as “SHARING” – which puts them on my sidebar you see to... Read More
Why I Love Google Reader Part #9,677,841,002
What you are seeing is my Google Reader window as it looked a few minutes ago. Now, the feeds you see in this image indicate the feeds that have updated since I last logged in to my Reader. Once I’ve read the feed, it disappears from the list. (Something you can change, of course.) What the red arrow is pointing at is one of my favorite features of the feed reader. My Friends... Read More
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