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Category: Blogging

  • It only seems like I’m burned out on blogging…

    But I’m really not. If I’m burning out on anything, it’s work and the daily routine of it. As a consequence, blogging takes a backseat and even though I have things I want to write about, when I’m finally at the computer at a point where I can, I just don’t have the energy or ambition to do it. Which is ironic, since what I’d really rather be doing is blogging/writing full time instead. But alas, I haven’t yet (figured out how to) (gotten to the point where I can) make enough money doing that…

  • Podcasting

    So I dunno, I’ve been thinking about this whole podcasting thing lately… and while it sounds like it might be fun to do (and people used to tell me all the time that I have a perfect voice for radio… but not so much anymore… I wonder why that is?), I really just don’t have the time or energy for it. Besides, what would I talk about? I already have my blog for incoherent rambling, there’s no reason to clutter up bandwidth with large audio file of that…

    That’s the other worry: bandwidth issues. Last thing I really want to deal with is hosting large media files and getting hammered.

    Any Oregonians podcasting? I know Jack Bogdanski was experimenting a bit with it. Anyone else?

  • Jake’s influencing the news

    …Jake of UtterlyBoring that is. He posted an item today about our local Wal-Mart being open 24 hours, mentioned it to Barney, and a story showed up on the Z21 news NewsChannel 21 this evening. Barney confirms it in the comments.

    That’s hot.

  • What’s your birthday mean?

    This is astrologically interesting, if you’re into that sort of thing: What Does Your Birth Date Mean? Here’s what came up when I plugged in mine:

    Your Birthdate: December 23
    With a birthday on the 23rd of the month (5 energy) you are inclined to work well with people and enjoy them.You are talented and versatile, very good at presenting ideas.

    You may have a tendency to get itchy feet at times and need change and travel.

    You tend to be very progressive, imaginative and adaptable.

    Your mind is quick, clever and analytical.

    A restlessness in your nature may make you a bit impatient and easily bored with routine.

    You may have a tendency to shirk responsibility.

    Very sociable, you make friends easily and you are an excellent traveling companion.

    Seems mostly accurate, except for the “very sociable” part—I can make friends easily enough but out of the gate I’m much more introverted and shy.

    Found via Doc Searls.

  • Happy birthday Jake

    He turns 27 today.

  • blogdrama

    There’s a new Bend blog in town: Bend Reality Check, but I don’t know how long it will last. I say this because the tagline is, “Mission: to maintain some sort of reality for those who think they are the most important people in Bend, Oregon” and it appears to have been launched primarily to get back at Shannon and Simone for blogging their bad experience at Kanpai. As such it’s full of snarky comments about the two of them.

    That’s too bad, because this sounds like it could be a good insider’s blog about the restaurants in Bend:

    I am an culinary hermit that lives in the shadows of Bend, Oregon. In a former life I was a culinary mercinary in this town, with 14 years of food slinging under my belt. Titles were bestowed upon me, such as: restaurant manager, production chef, lead saute chef, kitchen manger, etc, but I renouced my titles to walk the earth, like Caine in Kung Fu, only unsheathing my food mojo for special people and occasions.

  • Stranded on a desert isle…

    I guess this post spins out of watching the TV show “Lost” and a post by Isaac Laquedem a while back. The question is, what three books would you take with you if you were stranded on a desert isle? (Isaac’s post considers five books; do that if you can’t keep yourself to three.)

    My tentative picks would be:

    Of course, if I were practical, I’d choose an all-purpose survival guide, a book on identifying plants (edible and poisonous), that sort of thing.

    Or, better yet, go with this book:

    Stranded on a Desert Isle for Dummies

  • Things about Bend that I don’t like

    So, continuing in my “Things I X about Bend” series:

    I don’t like…

    • …the traffic; the disproportionate amount of congestion and the bad drivers.
    • …not having a mass transit system.
    • …how the north end of town is a stripmall/boxstore eyesore.
    • …skyrocketing real estate prices.
    • …the roundabouts. Actually, I’m kind of on the fence about them; they’re not inherently bad but do we really need so many of them?
    • …overpriced “public” art. Like the “gateway to Bend” thing on the parkway made from rusty scrap metal.

    What else?

    See also: Things about Bend that I miss, Things about Bend that I like.

  • INTJ

    My friend Kerry at work had a bunch of people take the Jung Typology Test to determine personality types and see how well they applied to the real world. I’m not really sure why, perhaps as a group-building exercise. Whatever the reason, they’ve been good for a laugh, but the best part is the analysis of each profile, with lists of famous people—real and fictional, amusingly enough—that match that personality.

    My own score came up INTJ, which is “Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging.” It’s more or less accurate, in broad strokes. You can read the full profile here, but here’s some of the fictional INTJ’s—characters I share personality types with:

    • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, from Hamlet.
    • Gandalf the Grey (every geek’s dream come true, I’m sure)
    • Professor Moriarty… Sherlock Holmes’ arch-nemesis. I can see that, I guess.
    • Hannibal Lecter… what the—?

    The best (worst?) part was that someone else, after finding out I shared a personality profile with Hannibal Lecter, looked at me with an appraising eye and said, “Yeah. I can see that.”

  • 05-05-05

    Not only is today Cinco de Mayo, but it’s also the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth year of the millenium. 05-05-05. I’m sure people are imagining correlations. I touched on this two years ago in 03/03/03.

    Isn’t numerology grand?