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lifestream for 2008-10-14

Posted October 14th, 2008 at 11:59 pm. There are 0 comments.

Yesterday
	12:00am	Shared a link on Google Reader. MyThings Keeps Your Gear Organized [Gadget Management]
	12:26am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:13am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:13am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	1:14am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	2:29am	Posted a tweet on Twitter. @levjoy Congratulations on the cute little guy.
	3:00am	Posted a tweet on Twitter. in memorium of your muxtape – http://muxtape.com/remembers/seanaes
	3:25am	Posted a tweet on Twitter. New Macbook Pro looks like the Macbook Air Chubby version
	10:00am	Added an item to their wishlist on Amazon.
	10:00am	Added an item to their wishlist on Amazon.
	10:00am	Added an item to their wishlist on Amazon.
	1:57pm	Posted a tweet on Twitter. Where is my economy stimulator? I need to use it tomorrow.

lifestream for 2008-10-12

Posted October 12th, 2008 at 11:59 pm. There are 0 comments.

October 11th
	7:49pm	Posted a tweet on Twitter. Delicious dinner at Devyn & Bex’s new place. Yes all tweets are food related.
	9:49pm	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	10:50pm	Posted a photo on Flickr.

lifestream for 2008-10-11

Posted October 11th, 2008 at 11:59 pm. There are 0 comments.

Yesterday
	2:22am	Posted a tweet on Twitter. I am going to go ahead and say it. It is freakin beautiful outside today.
	3:14am	Posted a tweet on Twitter. Leek and mushroom fritstta http://twitpic.com/fow0
	5:16am	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	5:25am	Posted a tweet on Twitter. Playing mini golf. It’s awesome. Here- http://tinyurl.com/3rjyd6 http://twitpic.com/fq51
	12:49pm	Posted a tweet on Twitter. Delicious dinner at Devyn & Bex’s new place. Yes all tweets are food related.
	2:49pm	Posted a photo on Flickr.
	3:50pm	Posted a photo on Flickr.

lifestream for 2008-10-10

Posted October 10th, 2008 at 11:59 pm. There are 0 comments.

October 9th
	6:42pm	Posted a note on Tumblr. http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com ☃ ☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃
	6:42pm	Posted a note on Tumblr. McCain supporters make me physically ill. These people are frightening. Stay classy Bethleham PA….
	6:42pm	Posted a note on Tumblr. NOV. 5 2081 – “the populace now spends most of its time feeling nostalgic for things they…
	7:07pm	Posted a tweet on Twitter. Visiting Allison and getting a haircut. Finally. http://tinyurl.com/3f5nrs
Yesterday
	12:03pm	Posted a tweet on Twitter. http://youfellasleepwatchingadvd.com/
	2:47pm	Scrobbled a song on Last.fm. Cut Copy – Out There on the Ice
	3:04pm	Posted a tweet on Twitter. @arainert enjoy your trip. we’re holding down the fort over here

Junk Drawers

Posted October 10th, 2008 at 11:44 am. There are 0 comments.

Junk Drawer by Paho Mann

They are a necessary evil I feel both physically and digitally. Not everything is easily file-able or able to be fit into a easily defined category. Clay Shirky alludes to this when speaking of folksonomies allow for things to be tagged with different meanings and thus make them easy to find. Of course he speaks of the problem with physical items, say a library book, not being able to be shelved on 5 different shelves. So we can add tags to things and that will help us organize and find things in the future, and attach meaning to them. I set about the fearsome task of ‘organizing’ my Google Reader this morning and ran into some problems that I am still trying to figure out and get myself to the right mental model of what I want from the tools and options that Reader gives me.

You can add multiple tags to any particular RSS item
You can add an RSS feed to multiple folders
But, tags and folders are the same

Folders are tags, so they get put in the same pool of tags. What’s good about this? One can put an RSS feed into multiple folders, effectively having it shelved on multiple shelves in your library of feeds. But like in a library you only want to have a certain number of folders, so you try to distill down the list, group similar items and get it to a manageable number. And then there is stuff that doesn’t really fit into any of your broad-as-possible-while-still-being-useful folders. This stuff has sat unfiled, unorganized, adrift until today I was able to ignore the desire to put them into 1 (obviously not happening) or 8 (seemed not so great either) folders so I made a new one which I called Interesting, and this is my junk drawer, and I am very happy with it.

lifestream for 2008-10-09

Posted October 9th, 2008 at 11:59 pm. There are 0 comments.

October 8th
	11:28pm	Shared a link on Google Reader. CollabFinder
Yesterday
	1:04am	Posted a photo on Tumblr.
	1:10am	Shared a link on Google Reader. Shoeboxed Now Auto-Tags Your Submitted Receipts [Shopping]
	1:58am	Shared a link on Google Reader. First ever photos of Mercury
	2:27am	Shared a link on Google Reader. glow pills
	2:31am	Posted a tweet on Twitter. NOV. 5 2081 – “the populace now spends most of its time feeling nostalgic for things they did not actually do” http://bit.ly/3d3sZF
	5:06am	Posted a tweet on Twitter. McCain supporters make me physically ill. These people are frightening. Stay classy Bethleham PA. http://tinyurl.com/3hhwyv
	5:17am	Shared a link on Google Reader. Random Thoughts From IDEA 2008
	8:26am	Posted a tweet on Twitter. http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com ☃ ☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃
	10:00am	Added an item to their wishlist on Amazon.
	10:00am	Added an item to their wishlist on Amazon.
	11:42am	Posted a note on Tumblr. http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com ☃ ☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃
	11:42am	Posted a note on Tumblr. McCain supporters make me physically ill. These people are frightening. Stay classy Bethleham PA….
	11:42am	Posted a note on Tumblr. NOV. 5 2081 – “the populace now spends most of its time feeling nostalgic for things they…
	12:07pm	Posted a tweet on Twitter. Visiting Allison and getting a haircut. Finally. http://tinyurl.com/3f5nrs

The Box

Posted October 9th, 2008 at 4:35 pm. There are 0 comments.

Viewer submitted picture of the BBC Box

The BBC has a special 1 year long project called The Box where they are tracking a shipping container around the world to tell the story of globalization and international commerce and trading. The great book of the same name, The Box by Marc Levinson, gives the history of the humble shipping container and the story of how it changed the world. You can track the progress of The Box as it travels the world on a map.

The Box is loaded with Whiskey and on its way to China

Aerial Dinner Parties

Posted October 9th, 2008 at 3:15 pm. There are 0 comments.

While running on the treadmill at the gym yesterday I had the pleasure of watching much of the NOVA television program on Alberto Santos-Dumont called Wings of Madness. Santos-Dumont was a Brazillian expatriot living in Paris near the end of the 19th century and was a great pioneer of aviation, inventing the dirigible and arguably the aeroplane.

Briefly mentioned was his noteriety for giving Aerial Dinner Parties, where guests sat in tall chairs 2-3 meters tall around equally tall tables all which were reached by ladder. The reason given was to give his guests the feeling of being aloft in a flying machine. From the book Wings of Madness,

When Santos-Dumont’s butler ushered the guests into the dining room, they were amused to find that they had to climb a step ladder so that they could sit on high chairs positioned around a table taller than they were. But they were not surprised. Since the late 1890s Santos-Dumont had been giving “aerial dinner parties.” The first ones were held at an ordinary table and chairs suspended by wire from the ceiling. This worked when the hundred-pound Santos-Dumont dined alone, but when a group assembled, the ceiling gave way under their collective weight. Santos-Dumont was a skilled craftsman, who had learned wood-working from the men on his father’s coffee plantation, so he built the long-legged tables and chairs that had become a fixture of his apartment ever since. At the first elevated soirees, his guests, between sips of milky green absinthe, invariably asked what the point of the high table was. And their shy host, who preferred to let others do the talking, would run his bejeweled fingers through his jet-black hair, which was parted in the middle, in a style seen almost exclusively on women, and impishly explain that they were dining aloft so that they could imagine what life was like in a flying machine. The guests laughed. Flying machines did not exist in the 1890s, and received scientific wisdom said that they never would. Santos-Dumont ignored the snickering and insisted that they would soon be commonplace.