Things keep thinging

[roadrunnertwice]

I seem to be low on words these days, but things are going more or less well.

• My replacement MacBook has arrived, and being as the sum of my impressions is basically "Woo!" I will spare you the detailed version.
• Jess Ann is visiting WA, so she and Robert and I went on a hike yesterday (rated "Most Difficult") and contemplated the nature of propane shrimp.
• Whoa, did you notice the Lacey library switched to a self-serve hold shelf? Wild. They're using the first four letters of my last name this time. (Oh well.)
• As I feared, Twitter is eating my Livejournal. It's more fun than I thought it would be, which is almost entirely attributable to Twitterific. So, props to them. (Maybe someday I'll pony up for the app fee, although truth be told I kind of actually like the Deck ads. Dear Deck, feel free to quote that.)
• I'm going to try and schedule a posture exam with my sometime massage therapist, which should hopefully bring me some enlightenment w/r/t what to do about my snakey back-bones. (Long boring saga.)
• New shoes!

And last but not least:

• I'll be going to Northfield, Massachusetts between the 26th of this month and the third of next month to get my farm on. Is there anyone over there that I don't know about? (unrendered, aren't you more or less in that area? Wanna get coffee?)

Comments

[b-zedan.livejournal.com]

Tumblr (http://bzedan.tumblr.com/) is eating my Livejournal. I want to find a way to make my Tumblr posts appear on my LJ. So, eventually, my Livejournal will just be a repository of other things, with a Wordpress and a Twitter and a Tumblr all dumping there.

Yay to new shoes! And thank you for posting on Chase's blog, I think everything he does is magic so it's nice when other people notice it too.

[roadrunnertwice]

Chase's blog grows on a guy.

I think having all your sites talk to each other might be Web 2.1. I certainly love that I can have a lively Facebook presence without having to visit Facebook.

[b-zedan.livejournal.com]

Web 2.1 would allow a magic and logical organisation of how and where all these neat new mini sites are displayed. Then each can be used to their advantage, while ending up in the same places, if one wishes.

I do not go to Facebook. If I have to have an account to see anything at all, I do not want to deal with it. Also—memorable name and a wish to avoid anyone I grew up with.

[roadrunnertwice]

Yeah, that sounds nice. Maybe they delayed that feature until Web 2.4.

Facebook. So, when I joined Facebook, it was basically an intra-Macalester phone directory that occasionally invited me to parties, which was pretty sweet. But I think it grew features faster than it could grow its argument for using those features. (And boy, do I ever not want to play that guy's pirate game. Nor would I like to be "super poked.")

But lately, I've been liking the way it kinda-sorta-mostly interoperates with everything under the sun. A whole bunch of my college friends sporadically blog and tumblog on it, it reminds me of peoples' birthdays, everyone who doesn't know what Twitter is twitters via its "Status" function—and I can get it all via RSS and iCal, as well as have it re-publish my Twitter and anything in my LJ that I've deemed safe for the web-at-large. Oh, and it hooked me up with about a dozen friends who I had no idea were on Goodreads, so that was pretty cool.

That said, I still lack any desire to visit the site proper more often than once a month.