Cooper and Evan.
Originally uploaded by ravenswift.
Are you as tired as this dog? Just checking.
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This one’s for Karen
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restful weekend
For a good summary of the start of my weekend see: Friday Night, Saturday Morning, and Saturday Evening. Thanks for making that oh so easy, Erik.
Sunday was a relaxing one…chilled all morning, which included a deep cleaning of my room. It’s kinda spotless now, but I should be able to fix that in the next few days. I feel a lot better when I’m in cleaner conditions, but I find it really difficult to keep my surroundings clean. Whadda mess.
Yesterday afternoon I met up with Apurva to work on Capstone stuff. I’m really excited about what we’re doing. For me, the most important part of the experience is the simple act of collaboration. Apurva & I are studying very very different topics, yet we have found a way to work together to gather data. That helps the projects move along with a lot less effort, and probably better results. It’s also nice to work with a brilliant designer, that’ll definitely have positive effects on my project. Anyway, if you’re in the area come on by the Informatics building and check out our “exhibit.” I’m interested to see what we learn.
Anyway, I’m well-rested and ready to call it a new week. Happy Monday!
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Interesting search result
I just decided to put in a random search on El Goog and it returned an interesting result. The query was “carne asada fries,” one of my favorite SD Mexican dishes (can’t be classified as an actual Mexican dish, because I don’t think it’s authentic).
Anyway, the result is interesing because the first 5 sites are the normal “top 5 hits,” but then I see a hard rule on the page followed by a suggested query, “carne asada fries recipe,” then shows results for that suggested query. I think that’s pretty cool, though a bit invasive. It also works for the word “hamburger.” Looks like Google is trying to guess when you want to cook…
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Testing flock
I’m playing with Flock…a new browser based on Firefox. It does a bunch of cool stuff…maybe i’ll tell you more about it later…if this blog post works from it 😉
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Blog as Life Assurance
So I haven’t posted anything here in a while…I’m not sure why. I guess I just haven’t been compelled to write anything lately. I know some have wondered if I’m still alive and kicking, so I want to assure you all that, in fact, I am.
Life has been ebbing and flowing much lately, to the tune of “Wow! I can’t believe I’m so busy!” and “Ladeedah, I’ve nothing to do…“. It’s in the moments of high stress that I find myself wasting away, seemingly millions of things to do all at once. Then the next day I’ll be free as a pancake(?), waiting for the next project to pop up. I guess it’s alright though…better to be sporadically busy than busy all the time, right?
I’ll leave you with a happy story. I’ve been thinking about going to this Academic/Professional Conference, Designing the User Experience or DUX2005. It’s in San Francisco in the first week of November. I talked to the sister, who goes to the Berk about staying with her. She happily agreed, yay! So then last Thursday I decided to book my flight for the conference because I found a great deal on Southwest. Ok, so 2 steps out of the way:
Take care of lodging (free!)Book flight (~$200)- Register for conference ($400)
All that was left was registration. I went to the website Monday morning to notice…
HOLY SHIT!
The conference is sold out! (For lack of better words:)Craaaap! Quickly, I shot an email to the Student Volunteer Coordinator (I had applied to be an SV a few months back, but they were out of spots) to see if she could point me out to someone who would be able to help me be able to register. Miraculously, she found an SV spot for me, acknowledging that she enjoyed something I had written in my Student Volunteer application. So I’m going to DUX! I’m super psyched!
I’ll do like Erik…if you would like me to send a postcard from SF, email me your address and you’ll get one. jevnin AT gmail DOT com 🙂
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Yahoo News Adds Blogs
This is really, really cool…something I’ve been waiting for for months. I remember back in the last presidential election when I was looking for a definitive source for finding news related blogs. Despite my mediocre efforts, I was unable to find such a source that I could trust.
Now Yahoo! has included Blog search in its News search. This is a great idea because it does not simply make Yet Another Place to Search, as in Google Blog Search. Instead, they added the search somewhere that counts. Great idea, Yahoo, well done.
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My Resume
resume
Originally uploaded by josh.ev9.I’ve been working on my resume this afternoon…I like it much better now. For years I had just been using Word to build my resume, which I now know was a mistake. Today I used Adobe Illustrator, which allows you to arbitrarily place text, graphics, etc whereever you want. Turns out I needed that kind of freedom to really do what I wanted.
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jMinder 1.2
New version of jMinder today! Woohoo!
No feature enhancements…I just think it looks a whole lot nicer. jMinder is a little tool that you can use to send emails or text messages at some point in the future. Simply enter your note and where and when you want it to be sent and it will show up on that date.
Let me know if there’s anything that could make this better. Also, tell me how you use jMinder, if you will. 🙂