If you’ve been around these parts long, you’ll know that I love lists. If you’ve known me long then you’ll know that I’m all about helping others reach their full potential. If you actually know me, then you’ll know that there is absolutely no evidence that points to the previous sentence being true… until now. [...]
I have, on numerous occasions, been known to say a line by which I strive to live. It comes as a result of a Good upbringing in which the line was modeled for me, though it was never spoken. The line goes like this: “I don’t say things I don’t mean.” I try to apply [...]
There has, since 2006, been an unspoken contest that takes place each November on my facebook dot com wall. The sixth of November is my birthday, and for as long as I can remember, facebook has notified its users of their friends’ birthdays. This reminder brings in an onslaught of wall postings that communicate in [...]
In August 2008, I posted a piece about the various ways Internet users arrive at my blog. A year later, most of the means by which people land here aren’t big surprises: rss feeds, friends’ blogs, the occasional stranger’s blog. (Stranger: I am so, so thankful that you decided to link me in your blog’s [...]
Several weeks ago I met my dear friend Stroupid for coffee and some much-needed catch up time. At one point our topic of conversation turned to a girl in his community who is allegedly very funny. In order to ensure that I fully understood how funny this girl was, Stroupid said, “In the words of [...]
I subscribe to 130 blogs. Most of those belong to people I know personally, the rest contain wonderful information on things like photography, graphic/web design, or things I deem funny.
Lately, since I don’t have Internet access at Sandia, I open up my Google Reader at local coffee shops to find an unattainable number of new [...]
[Google Reader folks, you'll have to actually visit the site for this one. Video's aren't embedding in the feed. Apologies.]
In recent years — with the rise of sites like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and everything else under the Web 2.0 umbrella — information is being spread faster, and over a larger geographic region (i.e. the entire [...]
In recent weeks facebook.com has become inundated with the “25 Random Things” Note phenomenon. I’ve had double digits worth of friends tag me in such notes, which I figure they’ve chosen to do because they know I spend uncanny amounts of time at my computer and that I’ll likely follow suit, since as the rule [...]
I have no problem taking some time to write an obligatory Thanksgiving post. While there are certainly instances in which I will do everything within my power to avoid conforming, this one I don’t mind. Perhaps it’s the countless references the Bible makes to giving thanks, or the fact that I’m so fond of listmaking. [...]
Being that I’m so shamelessly obsessed with my own blog, it should come as little surprise to anybody that I’m also on the up and up when it comes to how many (or few) people are visiting odfm, and where those people are coming from.
Most of the folks who come to these parts get here [...]