Oh yeah, I almost forgot I had this blog!
MiscellaneousTwitter + general laziness has effectively killed my creative blogging juices. It is just way to easy to post a link and blurb in a tweet. Now, I don't think I am ready to abandond Twitter altogether, since it seems to be the way many people are sharing relevant tech info (among other things), but I have decided to stop "tweeting" as much and focus my energies to creating blog content.
That said, I need to update any readers that happen along that I am going to be repurposing this particular blog to be include more of my "life-stuff" in addition to any tech-related content I feel the need to share.
In closing, here is a bunny with a pancake on its head:
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Under Construction
MiscellaneousJust in case anybody stumbles across my blog here in the next couple days please be aware I am re-skinning as I go. (yeah, that includes battling IE!)
Thanks for reading!
AJL
Reading is fundamental: AJ's Summer Reading List
MiscellaneousHere is a list of the next 10 books coming up from my list:
| Title | Author |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Slaughter-house Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 1984 | George Orwell |
| The Republic of Plato: Second Edition | Plato |
| The Brotherrs Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| The Wealth Of Nations | Adam Smith |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
My uncle's first shirt.woot.com sale
Internet, MiscellaneousHow cool?! My uncle, Jim, has been creating pieces of art in various forms for as long as I can remember. Lately he has been creating t-shirt designs. Tonight at midnight, his first approved shirt.woot.com design goes on sale.
He has titled this piece Feed The Whale.
Jim describes it as "a kind of Haida and Tlingit
Indian influenced thing"
From what I hear, the shirt will be a creme american apparel shirt.
Very cool, and way to go Jim!
Check out more of Jim's art at his flickr page here.
Today I found a reason to actually have a webcam
MiscellaneousSandy, a co-worker of mine (you'll see her pic later) just got a Mac Book and today she brought it to work to let me play with it. As luck would have it I opened an application called Photo Booth. Well, if you haven't had time to play around with that app, you should because it is hilarious.
Here are the the pics we ended up with...ok, back to work!
Me
Dave
Conrad
Sandy
What is the @ sign called?
MiscellaneousI was looking at some text today that contained the oh-so familiar "@" sign and I tried to say it out loud and realized I didn't know what to call the character, except to just call it "at sign".
Other characters have their own cool names:
#is called (among other things) "pound sign", "number sign", "hash / hash mark / hash sign".
& is called "ampersand" or "and sign" and has the special privilege of taking on a few different shapes.
So, it seems that our good friend @ should sport some cool alter egos right?
@ As far as I can tell @ is simply referred to as "at sign".
There goes 15 minutes of my life I will never get back.
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