Blog This!

You can easily blog interesting web content with Flock, in just a few clicks.

Well, ladies and dweebs, the above is not particularly interesting web content.  The cool part is that I was able to highlight and drag it in here - while perhaps no simpler than copy/paste, novelty is always amusing.  The cute thing about Flock (a browser under development based on Firefox) is that (among other features) it lets you blog through your browser rather than through a web page, so to speak.   An intriguing idea for a long afternoon at work.  I do seem to have a rather simple rtf interface with no html option.  So let’s see if html works in here.  <a href=”http://www.google.com”>Random link to Google.</a> 

Edit: 
A. Not really sure why I’m getting an extra planet icon next to “Blog This!”
B. Not really sure how I can make it want to be a title.
B. And html?….Yeah. Not so much.  Sad.

Categories: technologia
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First performance of The Content of Our Character was this evening, and I think we can call it an unqualified success!

An amusing take on an old joke: Comedity. I like the last line.

And given the title of this blog, I have to link to this PvP. He may say Betelgeuse, but we all know that’s not what he really means.

Categories: college, comics
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Ye olde English whale? Straight from the BBC, apparently this northern bottle-nosed whale wanted a night on the town. And by town I mean, those buildings in the picture are Parliament. You don’t get more middle-of-London than that – and London isn’t exactly coastal! Fascinating.

Categories: in the news, mmm, London!
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Jen (of “Quote of the Day” fame) had a fun haircut experience this weekend and came back a whole new person! Her stylist was a self-acknowledge perfectionist who felt the need to straighten her curly curly hair to make sure he’d cut it straight. Very cute.

Categories: college
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I had an amusing phone call this evening.

Actually, lets start with the brochure I recieved a week or two ago. It was a bit frustrating at the time because here was an ad for a grad program, just when I’d made my decisions, sent off my applications, and thought I knew where I was going, for the next few years, at least. And here’s this Mary Baldwin College thing, but it looked intriguing, so I browsed through the brochure. Basically, they try to combine the study of Renaissance lit and drama with the performance of the same. And me being the Shakespeare-dweeb that I am, that sounded like my kind of nerdiness. But it also sounded like a lot of money to play for a couple of years and then go be an actor (not likely), a director (less likely), or a teacher/professor. Now the last is perfectly possible: my dad has made the comment that he could see me as an academic someday and so could I, but it’s not where I think I want to go right now – I’m getting tired of academic research; the idea of a life of academic research is not so appealing just now. So I ditched the brochure. ‘Cause I know what I’m doing! I’m going to go be an editor. Right?

Anyway, a Mary Baldwin student working at the graduate admissions office gave me a friendly phone call this evening. At first, I was inclined to get rid of him, but he was polite and I wasn’t in the middle of anything, and the program had looked like my kind of nerdiness, so I let him talk.

There’s something about leading a phone conversation that you have no stake in and are in complete control over that is innately fun. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t mean or manipulative, I merely exercised some leading questions (”And how did YOU come to be at Mary Baldwin?” Sometimes people have interesting stories. He did – he tried to make it as an actor in NYC). And sure, if I’m not accepted to Emerson or Rosemont, maybe I would consider this thing. Or maybe not. He gave me the admission office’s phone number but I didn’t write it down. I could find it if I wanted it. ‘Cause right now, I still think I know what I’m doing. But maybe when I have my midlife crisis, I’ll go back and get my PhD and be an academic.

Categories: college
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Can anybody hear me?

Pug is helping me make the move from Movable Type to Word Press, a plot of his that has been brewing for some time. My initial vote was secured when I saw the design he set up for me – I ‘ve been meaning to re-vamp the old MT design for a while and haven’t gotten to it. I will take credit for most of the banner image, though. He found it (and several others) and the sepia gradient is his idea, but the work is mine.

Let’s test a photo!

We’ve recently gotten all new computers at work, and the new macs have iSight – which is to say that there is a camera built into the top of the monitor and the iSight program acts a bit like a photo booth. It’s fun. I get into trouble with it when I snap sneak pictures of people like Jen when they aren’t paying attention.

Okay! Let’s see what we’ve got!

Categories: technologia
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