December 17, 2008
At work, my coworkers and I started a book exchange. So far I’ve been lending out more books than I’ve been borrowing, but that’s because I have an insatiable love for library books that keeps my shelf full. In lieu of reading books my coworkers recommend, here are some internet options:
- What Should I Read Next? is a website where you input a book’s title and author and it’ll come back with a list of recommended books that you may like as voted by their members.
- GoodReads lets you add all the books you can recall reading along with the books currently in your bookshelves. I’m slowly working on filling mine out. Unfortunately, I’ve forgotten the titles of many of the 1000+ books I’ve read since I was five.
November 28, 2008
I know that Chrome has been out for awhile now, but yesterday I finally got around to saving my Opera bookmarks as an html file so I could have them in Chrome. Then I had to import them into Internet Explorer. After that, I could finally fire up Chrome and import them from IE. I like the clarity of space that Chrome gives you as they get rid of the title bar at the top and on the bottom.
Things I did not like and why I’m back on Opera this morning:
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November 27, 2008
The design firm, Raw, is sponsoring this non-profit poster of what Christmas colors really mean to you. From the Christmas By Color website:
Help us to identify the real Christmas colour spectrum by suggesting your own colour and its personal meaning. Abstract, funny or literal - the choice is yours. We’ll be collating and uploading the best ideas as we go along with the aim of producing a Christmas by Colour poster as well as individual v-cards.
I choose:
Working in Photoshop was actually fun. I haven’t worked in it in probably a couple months since I have put everything on hold while trying to get this grad school stuff done. Tonight I realized that I might be able to get my sister to patron me to design her a website. That’d be interesting since I’m sure what she mostly wants is a place to upload photos to.
November 26, 2008
When Shiver was in her life drawing classes, she would have me model for her paintings. Below is a photo she took and a painting she did from a shot.
Also via The Post Family, I found a link to Christoper Doyle’s project Christopher Doyle Identity Guidelines 2008. I’m a little apphrensive about doing an uh..undressed shot, but then again, I did graduate from a liberal arts school.
November 19, 2008
37signals writes about the idea from Nadine Jarvis about having the ashes from cremented people carbonized inside pencils as the lead. It’s just a suggestion for now, but I could see someone being seriously into this. Go to the 37signal’s website for further information.
November 18, 2008
After having recently heard of Moleskin journals, I had a brief stirring of memory about having seen them at my workplace at some point in the past. Then with my latest decision to invest more time to improve my writing, I decided to buy myself a pocket-sized line ruled Moleskin after having taken the GRE. I did some research and ultimately bought one on Amazon for about $8.60 total.
I plan on using mine to work on my story writing. In a suitcase I have a bunch of old journals from as early as the 6th grade, but I only filled up a couple of them. I haven’t read them from fear of how embarassing my focuses in life were back then. However, I believe that this time, I will be proud of my creative endeavours. I hope that this journal will fit in my apron pocket with my sketchbook. If all goes well, my next pocket sketchbook will also be a Moleskin.
November 2, 2008
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I’m behind since I’ve gotten sick. Not sure if its a cold or the flu. I used MindTweak’s suggestion to use WriteItNow as the software program for writing my NaNo book. It’s working pretty well so far.
I’ve gotten a little bit lost on how to work on the beginning so I’ve skipped to another section. Thank goodness for not writing this in Word! I’d just get lost trying to keep up. I’m hoping to break even before I go to bed.
