- Returned from hockey banquet. #
- i have got to get me one of these! http://www.pedalpub.com #
- Buy your FPM, WI! and SoSF stuff here. Excellent quality, for those who haven’t seen the Rookie stuff. Gary does a great job. #
- A URL would help. I’m an idiot. http://snipurl.com/FPMStuff #
- @vern I highly recommend turning off SMS notifications if you add me as a Twitter friend.
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- Looks like I was wrong. THIS GUY is the idiot: http://snipurl.com/peanutbutterlife #
- Early morning Saturday. #
- @drmoldawer The irony is perfect for a MitM story: http://snipurl.com/1enim #
- Can Flickr set a WP category when using the “Blog This” feature? #
- OK, then can I change Twitter Tools to not send a Tweet when uncategorized posts are made? #
- How is it CC gets a Sunspot pint glass and I don’t? I’ll pour better brew in it than Guinness. http://snipurl.com/1enmb #
- @codeshaman Travel safe. No one else can unravel your spaghetti code. #
- @codeshaman & @mightymur - It couldn’t hold my attention. Bring backup. #
- Off to shower with the Lovely Wife. BRB #
- At the studio. Already piles of folks here. Oh. #
- Recording WI VM. I’ll watch the Tweets as much as I can. #
- The last Wingin’ It! for a while starts in 2 min. Listen live: http://snipurl.com/listenlive #
- Anyone have a clip of Joe saying “Brilliant”? Email it to Mike. #
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I see Twitter as about 75% micro-blog and 25% IM, all of it with an obvious social aspect. To that end, I think (as I’ve said before) that it seems an excellent place to create and share reviews of newly released books, movies… anything that isn’t “instant” yet has a significant “first day” draw.
The trouble is coming up with an agreed upon convention for posting these. Twitter has few rules, which is a good thing. It’s up to the community to create the convention, as we have done in the case of typing ‘@ username’ to send a personal — yet public — message.
What’s the right convention for posting quick rating/reviews on Twitter? Here are a few ideas. Vote for the best by using one, or feel free to suggest another:
Twittereview - first one I used. Hard to spell. Too long.
Twitterwrap - nifty sounding, but could be too esoteric.
Tweecap - oh, I like that one. Sounds like “recap”. Though there isn’t enough room in Twitters 140 char to allow for a true recap.
Twitterize - as in ‘criticize’, but it sounds more like ‘to make into Twitter form”.
Tweigh - hated that as I wrote it.
Tweeview - seems simple enough.
I may start with the latter. Comments (or Tweets) are appreciated.
- Enjoying Berry Blast herbal tea. http://tinyurl.com/28fx56 #
- @RapidEye Not much to report. Joe’s hanging in there. I speak with his Dad daily and he’s relatively unchanged. #
- MEME: What’s on my desktop: http://tinyurl.com/ywt3ob #
- @PodCulture You scare me. #
- @podcast411 Languages naturally change over time. Or they did. With so many grammarians hyperconnected, will it now be locked for all time? #
- Any authors out there twittering that you know of? Let me know and I’ll add them. #
- @cc_chapman How could anyone have NIGHTMARES about Ms. Kitka’s tongue? Do you mean ‘nocturnal emissions”? #
- @cc_chapman We looking at the same picture? Cuz that’s even hotter than I possibly imagined! #
- Uploading some new “where’s Wingin’ It!” photos to Flickr. Live on http://michaelandevo.com soon. #
- @Geistbear Was wondering who would get the “… has no Evo in him” treatment. Love it. For the curious: http://tinyurl.com/2yxrt9 #
- Following on the last post: Evo has left the building. Or at least the Twitter for this evening. Night, kids! #
- Good morning. #
- @PodCulture From now on. Lots to do. Gotta find time to do it. #
- It’s amazing how much quicker one can go through inboxes and RSS feeds when one stays on top of the friggin things… #
- Crips. Twitter Tools posts all my Tweets in a day back to http://funanymore.com and proves I have issues. #
- Someone make TwitterHopeful - a list of the most prolific posters with the least number of followers. #
- Correlating click-thru rates with quote conversion rates. #
- @bpende I don’t do homeopathy. #
- Funny headline from Al Jazeera - “Hicks in Guantanamo plea deal”. My family is in Cuba? #
- Advanced cremation options: http://tinyurl.com/38rsoa I’m torn between Rest In Pieces and the pencils. #
- @WebGenii I’m amazed that meme has any legs. #
- @PodcastPickle http:/eff.org #
- Getting lots of folks adding me who haven’t updated themselves in days. All are being nudged. #
- Rewriting a contract.This will take some time. #
- @CntrySigns Can’t. Guess we can’t nudge folks until they have made an initial post. And Mangan, the king of Laze, hasn’t made an inital post #
- is jamming to “Superman’s Dead” by Our Lady Peace. #
- @sambearpoet She’s not contacted me as of yet. Unsure when she was supposed to land. I hope she’s not waiting on me at SkyHarbor. 130+ miles #
- @tsdiva You just lost major geek points and are in serious jeopardy of being kicked out of the club all together. #
- Need the name of the Richard Pryor movie where he was a Pharao. “So let it be written, so let it be done!” was the phrase I recall. #
- Added Wholly Moses and Code 46 to Netflix queue #
- Why am I hungier at lunch time when I eat breakfast than when I skip? WTF is up with that? #
- Is it strange that I abhor canned tuna but actually kinda like canned salmon? #
- @bpende Crybaby. But Episode 30 nailed me, too. Thought the lappy was going to short out. #
- @technomom No, I can’t go that far. I remove the spine before devouring my prey. Call me… civilized. #
- Twittervision added a way (Dislike this post?) to stop those from appearing. Must be session based? Or community voting? #
- Considering taking the discs with me tomorrow for a round of disc golf in Phoenix. #
- Mur has arrived. #
- Mur has arrived in Arizona. She’s still 100+ miles from me. Sam asked earlier if she’s arrived safely. And now she has. #
- @TimothyPilgrim Yep. Heard his rundown of a game or two. Wish he’d take the iriver with him on the course rather than giving a wrap up. #
- Oh I’m liking SnipURL. Like TinyURL, but with tracking and custom naming conventions. Try this: http://snipurl.com/flickrtags #
- @podcast411 It was bound to happen sooner or later. Wash dies. #
- @anna_creech I would imagine so. #
- @codeshaman Don’t you mean
http://snipurl.com/JoeMurphyFund ? #
- @codeshaman Surely you can modify the code, Shaman. #
- @codeshaman Deal with him first. #
- Off to an end-of-year hockey banquet for my son. Back tonight. #
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No time for a long post and yes, this is coming early. NJ and I are off to grab the wife and head to his hockey banquet in Flagstaff.
While I’m gone, check out Snip URL. I know that many of you are familiar with TinyURL. SinpURL solves the same problem but has a pile of better features.
That’s it for now. Play nice while I’m gone. And look for another super long Twitter recap at midnight. It’s amazing how much I put up there.
- Ass kicked from kick boxing. #
- @KJToo Sounds good. I have some, too. Kettle on. #
- So far behind. How can I use my Twitter friends to help me catch up on my email and RSS feed backlog? #
- The awakening comes early today #
- Contemplating another CultCast. And you thought I had podfaded… #
- offers to by Froosh a ‘z’. People who live on the lower half of the world spell funny. #
- I haven’t been on Second Life in over two months. Am I missing anything important? #
- RSS feeds digested. Next time I get 800 deep, slap me. #
- The Twitter folks are considering changing ‘@ username’ to private direct messages. Sounds like a good thing? #
- @ReallyBigThings It’s an agreed upon convention. ‘d username’ has a specific use (direct message), but there is talk of changing that. #
- I get to play Bad Cop on a conference call. #
- Back to PowerPoint hell. #
- Using an ‘@ evo’ command during the day may not reach me, as I use Twitter as an “immediate” view. Not looking at archives. #
- Updates installed. Rebooting sucks. #
- Twitterific 2.0b6 installed. http://tinyurl.com/yvgxz2 #
- And I’ve never seen a single episode of Rocketboom. First time. Know of it, sure. #
- Rocketboom episode. Crying right now. #
- @davewiner Do you need to make a blog post? If it takes multiple tweets to get the message across, probably. #
- @codeshaman Rocket Propelled Grenade? #
- Kilroy 2.0 is on Twitter. Kilroy 2.0 is everywhere. http://twitter.com/Kilroy2_0 #
- But then again, http://twitter.com/johnalpha is trying to kill Kilroy 2.0. #
- Legal counsel for Podiobooks.com secured. Now everyone go donate or click AdText links so I can afford this! #
- How about a website monitoring service that sent you a direct message via Twitter? Or used the @username for all to see? #
- Didn’t the Twitter site have a search box at one time? Or am I just not seeing it on my page cuz I tweet too much? #
- is listening to “Beds Hurt My Booty” by Jonathan Coulton. #
- My twitter effectively claimed on Technorati. Info how in twitter wiki. #
- Ah, I love it when clients get too many cooks in the kitchen. “Let’s redo everything.” #
- Off to din-din with the Lovely Wife. Entertain yourselves whilst I’m away. #
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So it’s 7:50 PM. Work with me here, people…
Time for me to express my undying love for another man. Yep, I’m comfy enough in my own sexuality to do that. The object of my love is Chris Miller. Why? The reasons are legion. But the impetus for this post and global affirmation comes from his post on Unquiet Desperations today, where he said:
Most days, I’m fairly sure that many of my non-podcasting friends have no idea why I helped build Podiobooks.com. It’s just free amateur audiobooks, right? What’s the big deal?
The big deal is this: we’re living in a time where the more traditional modes of content distribution are being shaken up from the bottom floor. Independent artists are able, with a relatively low barrier to entry, to create and release their content to a waiting, global audience. No major publishing houses. No record companies. It’s between you and your audience. This is so powerful and so moving, it’s hard to describe.
And that is why I love the man. How can I not?
- Tweetbar doesn’t work for me. I need some sort of notification — like the Twitterific chime — when something new comes in. #
- Seeing if there is any change to Skype as I post this in Twitter. #
- I’ll be damned. It workd! #
- Twitterific 2.0. When you post something here, it updates your Skype mood message. #
- @PodCulture You mean there are still some? #
- TwitThis installed at http://funanymore.com Someone wanna test it for me? #
- Reading: “Evo Terra - Podcaster | Author| Cult Leader” (http://tinyurl.com/2llxae) #
- Or I guess I could just test it myself. Works fairly nifty, thought it should DL to the post, not the whole site. #
- Thanks everyone for the test. All y’all rock. #
- @springnet It shows up on the twitter feed. #
- @madpoet That can be taken two way. Did I take one for the team or trade up? #
- And I’ve just installed Twitter Tools to http://funanymore.com as well. #
- Now what the… why are those old posts coming up? Must have a Twitter Tool configuration goof. #
- @caseymckinnon I’m a machine, what can I say? #
- On with Travelocity as the airline is trying to cancel part of my flight to Balticon. #
- @caseymckinnon By your command… #
- Flight secure. I’ll be at http://balticon.org as planned, just a little later than before. #
- (Just turned off Tweets when I post a blog. Sorry about that… ) #
- @typicalmacuser I can hear, and I’m on Skype but you can’t hear me? #
- Talkshoe, huh? Well that was interesting… #
- @CntrySigns MIke would flip his gourd. #
- @typicalmacuser Hold your horses… #
- @CntrySigns Need podcast ID #
- Evo, the tech tard, has made TalkShow work. Not with out pain. #
- Listen to me live right now: http://tinyurl.com/3bocc6 #
- @treocast Hell if I know. Victor Cajiao is the man. #
- @bpende That’s like telling the librarian the book is bad. What site? #
- Wow. All of them down? #
- Too bad Mike and Summer aren’t on Twitter. Easier to raise with immediate things, huh? #
- @madpoet Cell phones are SOOOO last week. #
- Email has been sent to Summer as she admins all the boxes. I’m leaving for client meetings today and shant return for a while. Cross ‘em. #
- Wow. Free wifi at the Spirit gas station in Cottowood. How strange is that? #
- At a clients and pretty much unavailable all day. So your tweet volume should be reduced! #
- Lunch at In-n-Out. Didja miss me? #
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- And by “wasy” I of course mean “wash”. #
- @bpende Whoa-oo-whoa-oo-whoa-oo-whoa! #
- Also trying Tweetbar: http://tinyurl.com/33f6qf But it doesn’t seem to like it when I post from there. I’m using the BonEcho browser… #
- @CntrySigns View > Toolbars > Tweetbar #
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Just posted a few pics from our trip last winter to Belize on Flickr.
My wife is a major shutter bug, and we came back with about a gig of images just of howler monkeys. From about 125 yards off. Up in the sky. Did I mention they were black? Yeah. Great images.
So I spared you all of those. Instead, I posted just a select few. Hope you enjoy them. Hope I go back.
Holy CRAP what a day. Sorry folks, but this 5O’CS comes about 3.5 hours late. And this is one you can skip. Seriously.
It started at 6:05 this morning, just as I was about to get in the shower with my Lovely Wife. Immediate water pressure loss. Thought it was the sprinklers. Uh, no. How about a broken main? Yeah. The *&%$@ that did the landscaping some dozen years ago decided not to spend the $0.75 to buy a 3/4″ end cap and instead went with some flimsy plastic cap you’d expect on the end of a garden hose. What a great way to spend the morning.
Anyhow… went downhill from there. More connectivity issues, though the Mayberry ISP finally listened to me and decided it was a major problem in the neighborhood and not my wireless router. So I had to work from the coffee shop for half the day, but I’m at about twice the speed now. I’ll take it.
Various other unpleasant crap during the day (thought I did give an interview with the Italian Public Radio. That was cool. More on that when I know it.) topped off by the airline trying to cancel one of the legs of my trip to Balticon. That ended… OK. No plane change now, but it’ does get me in an hour and twenty minutes later.
So I’m beat. And I have a pile of work to do.
Let’s talk about the amazing power of new media to do some truly, in a personal sense, earth shattering work. Allow me to explain.
If you know me then you probably know that a very close friend of mine and many, Joe Murphy, was recently diagnosed with a particularly nasty form of cancer — leiomyosarcoma. His prognosis went from bad to worse, and we’re literally facing the final stages. As in days. Or even hours. Yeah, it’s that bad and no, there’s nothing to be done at this point.
A few days ago, I was contacted by a powerhouse of a podcaster, Leann Mabry from Tag in the Seam (a great podcast which I highly recommend), looking to do something special for Joe. She had heard our comment about getting Joe to see Penn and Teller, or getting Penn and Teller to come see Joe before he passed — sort of a Make A Wish™ for a grown up.
Leann then reach out to a friend who lives in Vegas and has access to the aforementioned Penn and Teller. He indicated that he could attend one of their shows and pass along a note to the duo and was looking for some guidance on what to include in said note. That’s when Leann wrote to me (and to Mike). My reply was something like “it’s a great idea, but I think we’re too close to the end to make it happen.”
Heh. I must have forgotten who I was speaking to.
Tonight, Leann did it. Or should I say her friend did it? Dunno, but I love them both. Tonight at around 8:00 MST, Teller (yeah, the one that you’ve probably never heard speak) called Joe (currently in hospice) on his cell phone. The two chatted for 5 - 10 minutes, about favorite science fiction works and some serious fan-boy geeking as I understand it. Not to be outdone, Penn Jillette called and left an amazing voice mail on the Wingin’ It! show line.
So yeah, I’m pretty jazzed about the power of new media to… make shit happen! It put a positive spin to a pretty crappy day. And thought the outcome of this will not be as anyone would like, I’m a little warmer on the inside knowing that Joe finally got a chance to speak with one of his personal heroes.
Much thanks, Leann. You rock!
Part of my responsibilities while I’m here in OK is to share photos from the wedding in Jamaica with my sister. We transfered a bunch to her and received her shots as well. Since she took a lot less than my Lovely Wife, I went ahead and posted those on Flickr. More will be posted as I get them done — and weed out the ones that make me look like a total fat ass.
But the kids look good. A damned sight better than my old ass…
I’m starting to see some pretty cool applications for Twitter. Days ago I posted my first “twittereview” of a movie, but that meme doesn’t seem to be catching. I’ll keep trying it.
Today, I discovered that Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader both have quite active Twitter accounts and routinely show up on the big Twitterholic list. (I graced this esteemed list one day but have been posting slower while I’m on vacation. I’m back next week, so we’ll see if a repeat is in order.)
Macworld has a group Twitter account and I’ve heard tale of someone using Twitter to post live comments and notes from a conference.
While it’s true that many folks use Twitter to post the inane moments of their lives (guilty as charged), I think that’s part of the process. You start by posting everything and then start slimming down to things seem to fit the parameters you assign to Twitter. Of course, mileage will vary from person to person — which is one of the things I find most appealing about Twitter.
Enough singing of praises. Time to put down some things I’d like to see implemented to make Twitter even more useful to me:
A “six degrees of separation” widget or recombination that shows the common connections between my Friends and Follow list. Sorta like how it’s done on LinkedIn.
A way for the poster to set “priority” levels of posts and for the “friends” to determine what priority levels they receive. For example, Charles Cadenhead just posted that he’s returned from IHOP. He could set that as “mundane”. I know that Charles posts pretty damned frequently and can opt to not get his “mundane” updates, but that I do want to get his “important” updates.
Individual assignment of SMS updates. I’d never put Charles on that list (not unless I could control SMS by priority — add that, too), but I may want to get a text message when Wil Wheaton posts something, for example.
Direct message notification goes to Twitterific. Right now, it doesn’t. Pain in the ass. I want all Direct Messages to hit Twitterific and to send me an SMS.
A better filter across all Twitter updates than the Yahoo! Pipes thing I threw together. If someone is mentioning me in their Twitters, I want to know about it!
Twitter is quite the cool tool. For me. These additions (and probably more) will make it even cooler.
I love my grandparents. 61 years of marriage, each pushing 80. Grandma is about as much a teetotaler as you can get, and grandpa’s crazy as a loon. But I love ‘em.
I don’t get to see them very often, as they live in eastern OK and aren’t big fans of airplanes. Right before this recent trip to OK, one of my grandmother’s sisters passed away and we made the long haul to up by the panhandle (look at a map) to pay respects.
During the five hours in the car, Gramps regaled all of us with stories. — and he’s the king of stories, let me assure you. Though he has a penchant for incorporating recent news bits into his work and war tales, his memory of his childhood is quite amazing; and what stories he has to tell. This picture was taken during the “herding turkeys” story (totally true). Ask me to tell it to you some day.
From a beer/burger place in Moore OK, awaiting some old (and I mean old) friends (of my wife, but close enough) to arrive.
I’m constantly amazed at our need, as a species, to reminisce about the past. And I mean the short past, not the long. Long past is called History, and most of us claim we hate the topic. Yet the short past, that past which we can still touch with our own memories, is different.
Or is it? Maybe we don’t hate History as much as we think?
Today’s is a whimsical post for a few reasons:
I’m off to see Joe in the hospital. Must have a good sense of humor. Plus he likes this shirt.
Podiobooks.com was nailed by a DDoS on Friday. We struggled through the weekend and managed to get linked by Digg and Lifehacker this morning. I love live stress-testing the server
Headed to see the family this week and just learned that another of my great aunts passed away. Second one in as many months. Ill health as of late, so it was only a matter of time. She was a hoot and would have liked this shirt.
That’s it for now. Internet connectivity in Bumpkin Land will be spotty at best, so you may have to live with Twitter updates from me until I return. I may back post.
Update: Just realized that Photo Booth was flipping images. Whoops. No, it’s not printed backwards. Too lazy to fix. And it’s kinda fitting.
Background: I’ve been having serious connectivity issues for the past two weeks. No less than six technicians have been to the house — none of them could find a problem. Part of the challenge is that the outage is sporadic, with the highest concentration of outages happening around 8:00 and 5:00. Yes, I too see the pattern. So this last call was to arrange to get some out here as early as possible next week when I’ve returned from a trip.
ISP Knuckledragger: It looks like the earliest we can get someone out to you on the 26th would be 1:00.
Me: What does the schedule for the next day look like?
ISP Knuckledragger:You mean the 27th?
Me: Yes. On most calendars, the 26th is in fact followed by the 27th.
And before you start firing up your email clients or readying the comment bots: relax. Yes, I realize that the majority of tech support calls are the fault of the STK interface making the call. But this exception to the rule was too great not to share.
It strikes me that Twitter would be a wonderful way to instantly get out your thoughts and opinions on timely yet recurring events — particularly movie reviews.
I’m always curious what other people think about a new release, as I rarely get to them on opening night. Such is the life when you live in the boonies. But many folks who I know and who’s opinions I trust a lot more than the “legit” reviewers see movies as soon as they open. As soon as you get out of the flick, 40404 your brief (and spoiler free) opinion on the movie. Since Twitter only lets you put out 140 character updates, it’d be tough to spoil too much. But just to know whether your thought it was worthy or not would mean a lot to folks like me who are deciding what to see in the next few days.
Some enterprising young Twitterer with way more chops than I should set up some sort of collection spot for these and archive them for a couple of days.
E.
Link to my Twitter profile (and much more) in the sidebar. Or right here for those too lazy to hit the site.
Oh, and outside shot. Yep. Beautiful day in Sedona as I prep for the wedding. Was 97 in Phoenix. Hello Arizona. Hope you enjoyed spring — last week.
I’ve had a great day so far and look forward to an even better evening. This will be the [counts in head] fifth [?] wedding I’ve performed since my “ordination”. Quotes quite appropriate. All of them have been for close friends of for close friends of close friends, and none of them were done for any “fee”. Well, I guess that’s not totally true, as I got an overnight hotel room stay out of two of them due to distance. Seems fair.
For those curious, I’m ordained through the Universal Life Church. While this may sound heretical to many, I perform non-religious wedding ceremonies. A wedding is, in my opinion, first a social contract between two people, then a governmental organization, and then anybody else. Insert your deity of choice for that last one. The two pepole take care of the first and the latter, but need someone recognized by that governmental organization for the middle. That’s the part I play. Maybe I should post a sample of the basic ceremony? Each is customized for the individuals… maybe I’ll ask my sister?
At any rate, this is what I’m doing today. There’s no internet access here in the canyon, so this won’t go up until Sunday. I may change the date in WordPress.
Yep. Smiling. Why? Work week is over. Hooray. My internet connection has been spotty as hell. And while that may sound like no big deal, consider that I work from home and rely on internet connectivity to stay in touch with my team.
A few folks I know have decided to get “serious” about their music collection. Not in a rip-all-CDs-in-my-collection-to-the-computer way, but in a do-I-really-want-or-need-all-this-crap way. I fully embrace the idea of “new media”, support the efforts of DIY artists, have some pretty strange tastes in music, and am about as “anti-clutter” as you can possibly get. So yeah, this idea appeals to me.
To that end, I’m now listening to my music with intent as my playlist rolls through the day. I’m not being quite as dogmatic as some, as I really like my Primus, Presidents of the United States of America, Cake and others. But I am playing clean up — to RIAA songs and even those podsafe tunes I’ve collected. If I don’t love it, it’s going away.
My way will take some time, but I think I’l like the outcome. Happy Friday.
