Category: Status

seriously… why would anyone put tile directly on top of hardwood. unbelievable.

scraping tile and concrete off of the hardwoods in our hall… previous homeowners were idiots

eating mellow mushroom pizza… food of the gods

weird… having a hard time uploading video to youtube in firefox, but works fine in IE7. darn vista

mistakingly took a nap for 2 hours… amazing how your body shuts down after a few sleepless nights of work. stupid biology.

        

I write a lot of documents.  Let me clarifity that…  I write a TON of documents, spreadsheets and even presentations.  However, I’ve always hated Microsoft Office, so I’ve constantly sought out ways to get around using that clumsy and inefficient piece of software.

Originally, I came across Writely and loved it.  I even had Anna using Writely for a few months.  Then, Writely was acquired by Google and turned into Google Docs and Spreadsheets.

I’ve mostly had a warm interaction with Goog Docs and Spreadsheets, but there have been a few times when the application just hasn’t been up to snuff or has fit my needs.

So, I’ve been testing out Zoho.

I’m still not sure which I will go with.  I have literally hundreds of documents stored at Google Docs and Spreadsheets (from my old Writely account) but Zoho has been quite impressive.

Thoughts?

I think I’m going Tumblr crazy.

After finding a compromise between my beloved blog here and my tumblelog, I’ve set one up to focus exclusively on affiliate markeitng…

Affiliate Fortune Cookies

Should be interesting to see if people use it.  But honestly… just like my blogs, this site is more for me.  I love the idea of a running and easy to use compilation that functions as more than a link blog.  Plus, I don’t want to foul up this space or CostPerNews with tons of posts that just point somewhere else.  Stupid aesthetics.

Anyways, get a Tumblr site of your own!  All the kool kids are doing it.  And then get a Twitter account because all the kool kids are doing that too.

Head over (and bookmark or grab the feed if you’d like) to:

tumble.samharrelson.com

Everything I twitter, digg, send to Flickr or bookmark on del.icio.us will be added there right away.  So, I’ll be using this space for extended ramblings, thoughts and paper publishing.  I’ll be using that page as an extension of this one to keep track of curious, interesting and relevant things I come across during my hours and hours of internet browsing every day.

So, don’t think of them as two different sites, but as one big meta-site.

If you’d like to see more example of tumblelogs like mine, check out:

Merlin’s Tumbamalog Merlin Mann‘s tumblelog

Tumbleo Leo Laporte‘s tumblelog

Ralph’s Blurbs Ralph Dagza‘s tumblelog

Go set one up to record your daily web browsing (and let me know if you do) at http://www.tumblr.com.  Let me know if you have any recommendations for how to improve mine!

So I think I’ve struck a happy medium between my blog that you’re reading now and my Tumblr page (http://tumble.samharrelson.com).

I’m going to use the Tumblr page for all of my social bookmarks at places like Digg, Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia and (hopefully one day) BUMPzee. I’m also going to direct all of my Flickr images to show up there and anything that I find interesting or amusing on YouTube, etc.

In other words, my Tumblr page will be sort of like a running scrapbook where I can quickly bookmark things as I run across them. If you’re looking for my pictures or my latest bookmarks, just click the link in the sidebar.

That will keep this page much cleaner and allow me to go link nuts in a dedicated space.

What do you think?

tumble.samharrelson.com

On tonight’s to-do list: total lunar eclipse. Totality occurs at… (kottke.org)

On tonight’s to-do list: total lunar eclipse. Totality occurs at 5:44pm ET and will last about an hour. On the east coast of the US, the moon will already be eclipsed when it rises. Best bet for seeing it is Africa, Europe, and the Middle East (see map).

I love the idea of Tumblr.  I’ve even considered moving “samharrelson.com” to my Tumblr site (sam.tumblr.com).  Maybe I will one day.

Now you can integrate feeds from del.icio.us, flickr, Twitter, or any site with an RSS feed.

The convergence is upon us!  Check out my site for an idea of what you can do…

sam harrelson

Fibonacci number – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It’s starting to get sad.

What are we going to do on March 18 when there is no show?

Probably cry.  And make finger fruits.  I’m starting to realize that each one of these shows have taken on a certain permanence in my mind because I can remember where I was for most of these.

“Ah yeah, I watched that one after a tough day of teaching 8th graders last April.”

“That was an awesome episode… remember that one after a day of selling my soul at that conference in Orlando.”

“I watched that one with three others that I had missed because work had been really involved that week.  The release of watching The Show at 3am in a dark room made everyting right again.”

Only 2 “Ride the Fire Eagle Danger Days” left.

The best things are those with self imposed time limits because we really begin to realize how special and important they are.  Without loss, an experience is not complete.  Things that go on forever get stale for a reason.

Thank you, Ze.

the show with zefrank

Schaefer is applying to the program to help people clean out their pantry’s and food cabinets…

Neatorama » Blog Archive » Im at Ur ATM Helpin U Bank.

The transformer on the powerline outside our house just exploded (second time in a week).  I didn’t do it.  I swear.

Anyway, at least it’s in the 50’s with bright sunshine today.  Not a bad day to be forced outside to get some work done in the books.

I have about 25 books piled up beside my desk that I <strike>want</strike> need to read.  I also have a quiz from last week that I need to grade.  And I have about 1200 feed items that I need to pour through in my feed reader (Linux’s Liferea… thank God I keep an offline feed reader).  And, I have a major paper that I’m trying to write to claim that the Deuteronomistic History was written very late (close to the Maccabean period) by an pro-prophetic agency (not pro-monarchical or pro-priestly).  Fun stuff.

How am I blogging this you ask?  Linux’s cleverly titled “Drivel” blogging program.  I do most of my blogging here because it’s a clean and clear interface.  If you run Ubuntu (or any Gnome distro), I highly recommend.

Gosh, I want to check my email.  Oh wait… I have a smart phone!

UPDATE:  Lights are back on.  A squirrel was fried on top of the transformer, however.  Poor squirrel.

According to my Twittering contacts and friends in California, there was an earthquake about 11:30 EST on Thursday night:

thomashawk earthquake.

A lengthy discussion of responses, accounts and experiences followed.

Amazing time to be a human being.  Simply amazing.  I urge you to join the fun and set up a Twitter account.  Let me know if you (or already have) do so that we can connect!

If you have a WordPress blog, do yourself a favor and check out this site:

http://www.plaintxt.org/

There are three themes there that I absolutely love for their simplicity.  This one is my favorite (for the time being) but the theme of that site itself is appealing as well.

Themes are so important… especially for post-modern deconstructionists!

Apologies to all, but with the move to a hosted WordPress blog, I’m also consolidating and changing my feeds.

So, the feed address you need to use is:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/samharrelson/GZMU

For those of you who don’t read feeds, for shame!  Try Google Reader, Newsgator, FeedDemon, Bloglines or any of the dozens of readers out there.  You can even subscribe to feeds on your personalized Google homepage, your Netvibes page or your My Yahoo page.  There’s no reason why you shouldn’t be using RSS!  It will change your life – trust me.

Thanks for your cooperation in switching over!

I love Vincent.

Best animal character ever.

Good stuff from Lifehacker…

Ubuntu/Linux Roundup – Lifehacker