The Bacon Veneer company totally pwns the search results for the term "bacon veneer." Well done, sirs.
I'm not sure how much longer I'll be using Vox -- maybe this will remain a convenient place to use as a public scratch pad, or it could be that I'll want my new online home at extraface.com to have all of that. There's a lot I like about Vox, but when the character of the QoTD's didn't really appeal to me anymore and my own neighborhood started to quiet down (with the notable exception of navelgazer, who keeps the fires burning in the trash cans) there was less and less motivation to come around. It never really bothered me that much that I couldn't take my data with me, but now that I'm starting to situate myself over at Extraface.com, maybe I'd like be able to take some piece of my Vox experiences with me over to there. I guess one way to do it woudl be to surface a feed of this there. I certainly don't want to lose track of or touch with my Vox-specific friends, but I figure I can just follow them via RSS either way, and don't necessarily need my own presence here for that.
On the other hand, I like how deliberately informal Vox feels. It's diaryish without being excessively so. There's no expectation here that I need to stick to some kind of deliberate formula or focus.
One thing I can credit Vox with is making Saturday blogging enjoyable. One of my favorite ways to use it has been sitting down like I am today with a cup of coffee on a Saturday morning, and publicly laying out what my plans are for the weekend. It helps me clear it out of my head, and my track record has been pretty good at doing most of what I say I will, or at least thinking it through. It's a more involved process than just going through a task review on a GTD list, and involves some degree of public commitment, consideration of presentation, and vanity. I end up thinking more about the aesthetics of how I'm saying what I'm saying as I write it up, more so than if I'm just reviewing tasks and picking what I can get to today. It's more constructed, in a good way. It helps me see what conflicts with what, too. That's a habit I hope to keep up whether I keep a presence here or not.
For an update from the other side of the house, there's this.
And here's my list of events, tasks, and things I hope to get to this weekend:
- Today there's the East Atlanta Strut, which involves a parade, a 5k, local businesses, food vendors, drink specials, and lots of friends and neighbors. Heh, I mistyped "neighbro". Maybe I'll start to socialize that as slang.
- More work to be done on the aforementioned extraface -- I've done a couple of sets of revisions on the site part, and then took a little time off. It's time to do another major push, including using some of the feedback that you good people gave me, and styling a WordPress blog for it.
- I'm developing a prototype to hopefully present at BarCampAtlanta. Need to spend some significant time with that this weekend.
- My BlogOrlando presentation/discussion focus plan needs some attention too.
- Raiders are playing the Broncos Sunday at 4pm.
- LSU, my adopted college football team, takes on Middle Tennessee tonight. I may have to skip the rest of college football today in order to get anything done. But I'll catch some College Gameday this morning maybe.
- There's a party tonight at friends' house. Hope to get to some of that.
- Emails aplenty to get to. Now that I'm maintaining inbox zero I don't like to do much emailing on weekends -- rather let everything rest for a while unless it's super-urgent. But this weekend there are lots of balls I need to keep in the air.
- Sunday dog park of course.
- Straighten, tidy, and clean, all of which mean the same thing.
I keep saying I'll just come in to the main page and answer the QoTD to kickstart the voxing again. But none of the QoTD's have been doing it for me. I'm developing another blog elsewhere and it's tbd whether I'll keep this one up or not.
"How does that feel, Karen?"
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could never fail?
Submitted by BeckyPink.
Buy winning lottery tickets.
According to a sobering article I saw a link to while checking my e-mail, "even a T-rex could have outrun most athletes, scientist have found." This is how I get to begin my day? Finding out that one of my two strategies for escaping a T-rex (the other is standing perfectly still) has been slapped to the ground by science? If David Beckham, the example used by the scientists, couldn't escape the clutches of a T-rex, what chance do I have?
I suppose if David Beckham were with his wife, Posh Spice, who probably can't run for more that a few seconds, then maybe he could escape since she would get eaten first. I don't think there has been any studies yet about whether dinosaurs got cramps when they exercised too soon after eating, but I think they wouldn't want to risk it.
So, new strategy, if I am with someone that can't run as fast as me (children, the elderly), then I'll book it best I can. If not, I'll need to stand perfectly still. I can also feel comforted by the fact that the T-rex can't run faster than a car, and that we don't really have any T-rexes in Georgia.
What was the last wedding you went to? Were you in the wedding?
It was in June, my sister's wedding. I was the Matron of Honor. I had to wear a bridesmaid dress and I literally could not remember the last time I had worn a dress or skirt before then. I think it had been about 2 years. So, needless to say, weddings and dressing up are not my thing. I am usually wearing jeans and smell like dogs.
Please enjoy this presentation developed by Creevus on the comparative merits of Shirts vs. Snakes. It's hosted and shared via SlideShare.net.
What was your favorite road-trip of all time?
Submitted by bodhibound.
A tie - as recently related in this space but probably missed by everyone due to Vox's weird habit of listing everything on the date they're started instead of the date they're actually posted:
http://doctorzon.vox.com/library/post/the-tripof-it.html
What was your favorite road-trip of all time?
Submitted by bodhibound.
The most spontaneous and rewarding road trip I ever went on was when Tom and I drove to Florida to rescue our foster dog that had gotten loose from his new adopter. Ed doesn't just come when called, he only approaches people (people he knows) if he feels like it. His adopter couldn't get him so we had to drive down hoping the novelty of seeing us would be enough for him to approach us. We drove for 10 hours and it took us 10 seconds to get him (he had settled under a palm tree at the house his adopter was staying).
Then, we stayed in a hotel that night, and when he was acting like he pulled something off without a hitch, we realized we had totally been snookered.
