• Blogs Wot I Read - Connections

    Midwestern Change-The-Subject Discomfort, or Southern In-Your-Face Comfort

    The following may or may not be helpful if you know someone who’s struggling to stay positive or to stay on an even keel emotionally. I’m totally stealing it as a tactic, because the Midwestern Change-The-Subject Discomfort doesn’t really offer viable options for talking to someone about problems they may have, where Southern In-Your-Face Comfort does. Not that we’re talking anything about anything specific here, just taking note of a useful tactic. I don’t want to embarrass anyone, so I’m not going into specifics, but I also want to write about this, because I’m totally stealing it as a tactic.…

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2011-01-02

    Sorry, East Coast. Sorry you're getting slammed. We're going to get jammed at work with all the cancelled flights. # Dear East Coast Travelers: See those black dots over JFK, LGA, EWR, and TEB? NY airports closed, Teterboro too. http://moby.to/8huk87 # RT @ECCSonline "Major props to @NightMinistry for their response to… condition of 10,000 Chicago homeless youth http://ow.ly/3uIc0" # RT @NewsHour "This Denver programs goal is to end homelessness in the city in 10 years and is halfway through that time: http://ow.ly/3ue3r" # RT @ColonelTribune "No more revealing than you'd see in church? http://trib.in/dOxjAd" Fleece might work at @StNickEpiscopal in…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: December 28th – January 1st

    The Northwest Coastal People – Religion / Ceremonies / Art / Clothing 2011: Are You a Writer or Creator? | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez Cedar Plank Longhouses Awesome educational page with useable images CHINESE JADE AND SILVER OPIUM PIPE CIRCA 1924 | Proxibid® 500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error The blender primer (post) « Supposed to be productive within a day…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Only in Utah...

    City Weekly Headline Re-Written To Remove Gender Term, URL Changed Later

    Originally, the headline in Google Reader was: “News Blog: Tranny in lock-up complains of abuse.” It still shows that way in Reader and on Topix.net. Now it reads “Transsexual in Salt Lake County jail complains of abuse.” Apparently it was re-written at least twice to correct the headline and typos, but there’s still a few left – it’s a news blog, after all, not a front-page story. There’s another story at City Weekly that extensively quotes a very proud performer named Princess Kennedy, who apparently went to my high school. She matter-of-factly self-refers as “tranny.” Maybe in the Utah GLBT…

  • Clan: McTiVo - Religion - SciFi/Fantasy - The Life of Riley

    Resolutions Not Meant To Be Broken If I Can Help It And Not Force-Fed Chocolate

    Isn’t this a boring blog? Isn’t it? My life’s not really this boring, it’s just that I rarely take the time to write a full-bore flat-spin blog post anymore. I fall back on my old standbys, Google Reader (shared news) and my various Twitter accounts. I can’t catch up on blogging during the work week for going on 3 years, so every now and then I do a big “here’s what’s been going on” catchall. Yeah, boring. And I haven’t even really done a big London mixed-grill slap-up bang-up, either. The pictures are still on my hard drives – the…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: December 28th

    Exhibit 8: Limitations of Second Life’s modeling routines Lewis & Clark 2 Best quality image of PDX Expo totem poles 07-3-skidegate-b.jpg 911×523 pixels sitka_0200.jpg 450×600 pixels TED Blog | A call to men: Tony Porter on TED.com McKenzie River Drift Boats, wooden boat kits and supplies

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: December 25th – December 27th

    Google Image Result for http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1278/4610538959_27c9f9deac.jpg Google Image Result for http://www.scottspeck.com/pictures/seattle_2005/tacoma/DSCN2413a.jpg Google Image Result for http://www.earthseaimagery.com/images/pacific_ave_union_station_tacoma_4-74.jpg Kuriositas: Fly Geyser – Not Quite of this World Useful Scripts for Second Life® – brought to you by SL4Nowt Tutorial: Make your own Landmarks HUD : SL for Nowt Building in Second Life, By Example | Bob Sutor

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2010-12-26

    There are various ways to find and cleanup cat upchuck in the dark; barefoot Braille method is not recommended. #awake # RT @HeathrowAirport: there are no arrivals and only a handful of departures at Heathrow today as we work to make the airfield safe." # Guess that means my stranded UK guy won't make it home again today, poor man. # .@ebertchicago ::sings along:: Walla Walla Wash., and Kalamazoo! Nora's freezing on the trolley… # .@ebertchicago ::singing:: "Swaller dollar cauliflower alley ga-ROO!" That was my dad's favorite Christmas carol. Thanks. #pogo # RT @SaveSGR: Can i get 185 retweets! #Save…