For the first 24 or so years of my life, my literary drug of choice was the novel. I liked stories, you see, making them up, having them read to me, hearing old ones of my grandfather’s over and over again. (Maybe that’s the secret behind the strength of the bonds that can happen between [...]
Tools of Goodness
Whether from laziness, lack of inspiration or the youthful conditioning that made me the cheapskate I am today, it’s rare that I will mark up a book. Unless the book is choreographer Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit and you are me over the past two weeks. If my first pass was any indication, I’m going [...]
If you’re like me, you type the same stuff over and over again, without even knowing it. Your name. Your address(es). Your (too many, and growing list of) phone numbers. Etcetera. I’ve written before of my awesome and abiding love for TextExpander, the text expansion program for the Mac. After mere hours of use, I [...]
Referral Friday is part of an ongoing series inspired by John Jantsch’s Make-a-Referral Week. For more about that, and loads more referrals for everything from cobblers to coaches to gee-tar teachers, start here. Pass it on, baby! You know that gigantic box/drawer/garage-full of loose snapshots you have socked away? Don’t worry about them. As my [...]
Referral Friday is part of an ongoing series inspired by John Jantsch’s Make-a-Referral Week. For more about that, and loads more referrals for everything from cobblers to coaches to gee-tar teachers, start here. Pass it on, baby! Those of you who follow me there know that I use Twitter in a way that has become [...]
TinyURL is great for making big-ass emails shorter, no question. I’ve used it regularly for a couple of years now, and it’s reliable and great. But while it takes care of overly long URLs, it doesn’t do it very gracefully. Those of us who don’t understand the numerous hideous things that can happen upon clicking [...]
While I love this beautiful template (headspace, by fernando_graphicos, if you’re reading this in shouting distance of 2/20/07), its super-minimalist search feature has long been the gimpy-legged straggler of the site, something that became more and more obvious as the information grew broader and deeper. With my new Lijit widjit, however, I have leapfrogged over [...]
I’ve alluded before to Best Year Yet on this here bloggy, but for those of you who missed class and/or are too f**king lazy to click the links or Google it, Best Year Yet is a values-based goal-setting system which I discovered via Heidi Miller’s podcast long ago, and which could just as rightly be [...]
Step One: Make desk out of file cabinets and door. Step Two: Apply magnets to back of everything. Step Three: Party on, nerd! xxx c
