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Jul 2 / 10:42am

Current Apps

As always, I'm trying new things, refining what I use and revisiting apps I signed up for but never really used.  Here's my list of recent useage:

  • Posterous - using it very heavily.  I just wish they had a "-" symbol you could add to the email to NOT post to a certain thing.  For example -blog@posterous would post everywhere BUT to my blog.  Still - love the service.
  • Twitter - cleaned up my followers, added new ones and now find myself checking it a couple of times a day.  Love how easy it is to post from Posterous.
  • Facebook - my main social networking app.  I check in several times a day.
  • Slinkset - trying it out as a way of collecting art links for my blog. 
  • Zemanta - Firefox plugin that makes it easy to add links and photos to your blog posts and email.  Using this a lot.
  • Evernote - contantly open on my desktop - I use it to capture everything.
  • Google Reader - though I need a better way to save stuff for later I find interesting.
  • Feedly - works with Google Reader to give a better interface.  Not sure I like it just because it is different from how I'm used to processing my feeds.
Zemanta helped me add links & pictures to this email. It can do it for you too.
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Jul 1 / 12:05pm

Severe anxiety today, heart racing, cold sweat, feeling of dread.

(Don't Fear) The reaper

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Jul 1 / 11:01am

My dog absolutely refuses to go outside today.

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Jun 30 / 1:41pm

The Circle of My Life

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I'm cleaning up the kitchen so that I can turn around and get it dirty again when I bring in the beets, peas and carrots that need to be processed.  Lately a good deal of my life is spent in circular projects: washing clothes so I can get them dirty in the garden or camping, vacuuming the carpet so the dog can come in with muddy feet and get it dirty again.

I understand about the circle of life and our place in it, but right now I just don't feel like I'm getting ahead.  My circles need to be more linear, if you get my meaning.  And if you do, I'm worried about you too.
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Jun 30 / 11:14am

"Simple abstraction for loading dependencies" - I should know what that means, but my brain has gone on strike.

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Jun 29 / 7:59pm

Excited about CoverItLive.com. Will try it on my blog soon. www.coveritlive.com

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Jun 29 / 4:07pm

Not sure how useful apps like Outside.in & Brightkite are. Seem kinda creepy to me.

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Jun 29 / 3:30pm

Listening to Abney Park always makes me feel like I'm in the middle of a vampire movie...

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Jun 29 / 8:56am

Billy Mays - I'll miss his OxyClean commercials. No really... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_billy_mays

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Jun 29 / 8:30am

Great Fishing at Dog Lake

We had a great time camping this weekend, even though Clear Lake campground was packed.  The one spot we found was nice, but the neighbors informed us they were having a bachelor party that weekend...which I'm sure the rest of the campground "enjoyed" as well.  So we headed down to Indian Creek campground, which was pleasant.  Rimrock Lake was full - right up into the trees - so you couldn't get down to the lake without going thigh deep in mud, but you could glimpse the water through the trees.  Most campgrounds were packed by 4pm on Friday night, a great indicator of the economy.  I remember as a kid having to stake a claim to a site early Friday morning and then going back up Friday night after Dad got off work. 

Most of Saturday was spent with our float tubes on Dog Lake, just east of White Pass summit.  Great fishing - I caught something like 7 and Rick a whole bunch more (we catch and release).  Except for one eastern brook trout they were all gorgeous rainbows, and not a triploid among them - all wild.

We wanted to fish Leech Lake, but it was packed - not much parking, all the campsites full, and float tubers lined up in a checkerboard fashion across the lake.  If you hosted a Japanese game show there you could have people leap from float tube to float tube across the lake!

The lake is cupped up against a rockfall and gets lots of visitors, but is big enough to handle it.  There's a small campground which is very mosquito-y.  The lake itself is very deep, cold and spring fed.  It was lovely just paddling along, catching fish and watching the osprey circle overhead.

On Sunday we went over White Pass and took Cayuse Pass (finally open after 2 (?) years of road repair from a washout) across to Chinook Pass.  We stopped at the summit for lunch. Rainier was clear as a bell and we could see Adams from the highway.  There was lots of snow still (Chinook and Cayuse are much higher than White Pass) and some people were trying to tube in the very rotten, grainy snow.  Down Chinook and sidetripped to Bumping Lake which is much different than I remember it - about 17 years ago.  I think they had to repair the dam or something at that time and the water was kept really low.  It was gorgeous and the campgrounds nice as well, though I think they'd be crowded on the weekends. 
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