| Google, LinkedIn, Facebook and Flickr all have something in common (and it isn't their fancy Californian offices). No, it's the vanity URL.
Earlier this year Google announced they'd allow Google profile users to specify the URL for their profile, just as Facebook released their vanity URLs around one month ago.( More... ) | comments: Leave a comment   |
| | Subject: | The Quote of the Day....., | | Time: | 08:17 pm |
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| From a personal e-mail.....
"If it's a made for TV movie, starring Judith Light, you know your brain is being fried by Lifetime."
...the sender was male of course. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| First off, for those of you looking me up, here're my slides:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/saizai-public/toor_tcpa.pdf
http://s3.amazonaws.com/saizai-public/toor_meditation.pdf
http://conlang.org/toorcamp.pdf
In sum:
* awesomeness was had
* dust devil almost maimed me
* talks went well
* lots of cool people (if you're one of said people, please IM/email me so we can continue our conversation)
* excellent atmosphere
* way too hot and dry for my taste
* nuclear silos are 'holy fuck' cool
* should've brought sandals
* very ad-hoc planning &c
* Levitate pissing off a whole bunch of hackers and hacker friends is probably going to cause some problems for them
Currently on the road on the way out - another 12h or so to go before getting home, writing this off laptop on a tethered G1. And I'm tired and hungry, so the details will have to wait for later. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Because of the hot weather we've been having here in the Puget Sound latetly, I thought I'd post an image from Mount Rainier that I made at Reflection Lakes last autumn when clear cold nights allowed for some ice to start forming on the lake. No bugs, very few people, and beautiful autumn color with frost each morning.
Mount Rainier reflected in Reflection Lake with hoarfrost on the shore
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"Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author"
-Thomas Jefferson | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Recently, Toby, one of the MOO Crew's developers, had the pleasure of meeting Jack Hooker. In usual fashion, Jack gave Toby one of his business cards . All of us back at MOO Studios were very impressed with Jack's cards and excited to find out that Jack had made his cards with MOO. So, we asked San Sharma* to find out a bit more about Jack and the story behind his cards for our business ideas section.( More... ) | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| - measured self-control. but also: the ability to release that control.
- long-term planning & discipline. the capacity to delay instant gratification, even suffer, in the short-term, to reap richer & deeper rewards in the future. but also: the capacity to experience & immerse oneself within the living breathing moment.
- a sense of self that extends beyond the self. we may all be 'selfish', but for some, the boundaries of what is the 'self' has a broader circumference. i want to blur the lines between me & you & him & her & us & them & the dirt & the stars & the sea, and yet still retain my own sense of identity.
and they said:
the center is everywhere and circumference nowhere
the center is everywhere and circumference nowhere
your center is everywhere and circumference nowhere | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| ...who would think a boy and bear would be well accepted anywhere...
well, the bear was wild and I didn't see it dance, but I did see and photograph it eating huckleberries and mountain ash berries, walking down the trail, startling Sally which amused Bronka, and then stopping about ten feet from the trail to curl up under a bush to take a nap.
Sally's website with lots of information about Mount Rainier
This was one of a few cubs I photographed in the Paradise meadows last autumn. I spent about an hour with this guy including waiting twenty minutes while it snoozed.
The cub acted as if there were no people present as it never seemed to look at or acknowledge their presence.
A little later, a coyote came down the trail and it also ignored me except that it did step off the trail when it passed. It was in a hunting mode with a vole or mouse on it's mind. Luckily for these animals, they had evidently not been habituated to people feeding them which is really bad for wildlife because they then depend on humans for food and lose their ability to forage.
Peace
ps ...it's just amazing how fair people can be... (do you know this song?) | | comments: 12 comments or Leave a comment |
| And the Winner Is . . .
The votes have been tallied, the results are in, and we have a winner (two, actually). Congratulations to the newly elected user representatives to the LJ Advisory Board: from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) lj_election_en, it's ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kylecassidy, and from lj_election_ru, it's nekbke! You can see the full breakdown of results for lj_election_en here and for lj_election_ru here. Thanks to everyone for your participation. | | comments: 170 comments or Leave a comment |
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