Another Thing that I did the writeup for. :) I'm currently a podcast addict - I download them through iTunes, slap 'em on my iPod, and listen to them in the car, while I'm cleaning house, or when I'm doing art.
Some of my favorites are:
NPR: Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
NPR: This American Life
NPR Car Talk
WNYC's RadioLab
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe
There's a lot more that I listen to off and on, but I get these in every time they come out. Well, not so much Car Talk. I love it, but in small doses. XD And RadioLab makes six episodes a year, so it's not too hard to stay caught up on it.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Thing 20
View Larger Map
I was sort of hoping I could post a zoomed-in version, but I suppose not. the street view is a little more fun. I was using it to check out the area of various addresses of apartments and houses for rent on Craiglist and the TCU Announce thing a while back.
Thing 19
I've used Google Docs extensively in recent months. My writer (remember my LibraryThing post?) emails me scripts in Word and as I don't have Word on my laptop, I upload them to Google Docs to make notes on and send back to her. We've also just finished editing an anthology of fiction set in the world of one of the comics. We ran out of time to get the sequel to the comic drawn and printed before this year's A-Kon, so instead we put together a small illustrated chapbook containing five stories to tide over all the people who keep stopping by our A-Kon table and asking for a sequel. XD
Anyway, each of us who contributed a story shared it on GoogleDocs for editing by someone else. You can insert notes into a file with different colors and name/timestamps as you edit, and you can make new versions of the files as you rewrite. And when all the edits were done, my writer formatted them all to be consistent, and I grabbed them from Google Docs and created the book's layout. (Which took me all Sunday and Monday, and I had a migraine during the whole process, which is why I'm extra-cranky today. :P)
Anyway, each of us who contributed a story shared it on GoogleDocs for editing by someone else. You can insert notes into a file with different colors and name/timestamps as you edit, and you can make new versions of the files as you rewrite. And when all the edits were done, my writer formatted them all to be consistent, and I grabbed them from Google Docs and created the book's layout. (Which took me all Sunday and Monday, and I had a migraine during the whole process, which is why I'm extra-cranky today. :P)
Thing 17
I did Thing 16 some time ago. :)
Thing 17 - wikis! Well, let's see. I set up the Reference wiki. I'm an admin on the Cepheidopedia, which is a wiki meant to collect knowledge about the members and history of Cepheid Variable, the science fiction club at Texas A&M.
I also host a wiki about The Tale of Genji on my webspace, but it's incomplete and hasn't been updated in a year.
Thing 17 - wikis! Well, let's see. I set up the Reference wiki. I'm an admin on the Cepheidopedia, which is a wiki meant to collect knowledge about the members and history of Cepheid Variable, the science fiction club at Texas A&M.
I also host a wiki about The Tale of Genji on my webspace, but it's incomplete and hasn't been updated in a year.
Thing 15
I have a Technorati account*, but I only use it to see who links to my site of random generators and what they say about it. :)
I created my own blog meme last year from one of the random generators, which was wildly popular for a couple of weeks among bloggers who watch the anime Bleach. It won't actually mean a thing to you if you don't watch the anime or read the manga, though.
And then I created a silly version:
* Which I'm not linking to, because it would make finding the comics I challenged you to find in the LibraryThing post too easy as the website we sell the comics from is tracked by Technorati. XD
I created my own blog meme last year from one of the random generators, which was wildly popular for a couple of weeks among bloggers who watch the anime Bleach. It won't actually mean a thing to you if you don't watch the anime or read the manga, though.
Lightning Singer deflects all blows aimed at the wielder and resembles a heavy eku wrapped in colorful ribbons after it is unsealed. Telophase invokes shikai with the command "Unbind, Lightning Singer!" |
And then I created a silly version:
(Fourth Division Irregulars) At the command "Wind Me Up!" your zanpakuto Water-Resistant Bottle Brush, a hilarious, cheap sword-breaker, invades France. |
* Which I'm not linking to, because it would make finding the comics I challenged you to find in the LibraryThing post too easy as the website we sell the comics from is tracked by Technorati. XD
Thing 14
I've been using Del.icio.us for some time. If you look over to the right of the page, where my tag group "Library2.0Presentation" is, you can find some links on Web 2.0 stuff being used in or talked about in relation to libraries.
LibraryThing
I've had a LibraryThing account for a long time, but haven't done much with it due to the tedium of entering in all the books. I played around more with it today, and ran smack into a serious problem they have - there's no good way of indicating when a book has more than one author so that you can search on either author's name and get the book. There's an Other Authors section hidden in the Details link for the book, but those names don't get indexed with the Author name, and thus don't get searched in an Author or Works search.
And why this really torques me off is that the comics my writer and I self-published are in Library Thing, thanks to people who bought copies entering them, but you can't find them by searching on my name. You have to know her name or the title to get them.*
The LT database has been bootstrapped and jury-rigged from its beginnings, and it's rather obvious that the originators didn't think about books with more than one author (what about anthologies, too? wouldn't you like to search for stories by an author that have been anthologized?). And as I created a minimal library catalog in a programming class that had the capability for more than one author in it, I have NO SYMPATHY.
ETA: Thing 16
* I'm not telling you which ones they are. You'll have to exercise your Library Ingenuity to find them. If you really desperately want them I'll give a free copy to any of my co-workers who find them on LT, but keep in mind that you probably don't want to read them. :) One's rated R and one's rated PG-13 and they are BOTH very much NOT FOR KIDS.
A slight hint that probably won't really help you is that my writer is an Actual Professional Published Writer Person whose memoirs are also in LibraryThing.
And why this really torques me off is that the comics my writer and I self-published are in Library Thing, thanks to people who bought copies entering them, but you can't find them by searching on my name. You have to know her name or the title to get them.*
The LT database has been bootstrapped and jury-rigged from its beginnings, and it's rather obvious that the originators didn't think about books with more than one author (what about anthologies, too? wouldn't you like to search for stories by an author that have been anthologized?). And as I created a minimal library catalog in a programming class that had the capability for more than one author in it, I have NO SYMPATHY.
ETA: Thing 16
* I'm not telling you which ones they are. You'll have to exercise your Library Ingenuity to find them. If you really desperately want them I'll give a free copy to any of my co-workers who find them on LT, but keep in mind that you probably don't want to read them. :) One's rated R and one's rated PG-13 and they are BOTH very much NOT FOR KIDS.
A slight hint that probably won't really help you is that my writer is an Actual Professional Published Writer Person whose memoirs are also in LibraryThing.
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