Awesome 'stache
Just one of the many reasons mustaches are awesome!
randoMized thoughts
Yesterday I was indecisive. Today, I'm not so sure.
I sure do love box.net
Recently, in my marketing class, we were discussing what non-profits can learn from for-profit business, with these comments by Melinda Gates as a foundation for our conversation.
The same goes for higher education... and I have a suggestion. Here we are working on collaborative projects (often in an online forum) with no way to effectively collaborate efficiently, across the distance, and on varying schedules. We have a discussion forum, but it's pretty lacking when it comes to user-interface, collaboration tools, and overall usability. We need something better, after all business has got this figured out!
Enter box.net. I became sold on this service when I was looking for a more group-friendly alternative to dropbox (which I happen to love for personal use, but gets a little cumbersome for collaboration with a group).
The box.net service allows for an online file repository complete with folder hierarchies, "check-in" & "check-out" functionality and comments, discussions, tasks. It's like SharePoint but without the Microsoft and geared for the common person.
It seems natural that online learning communities would grasp technology like this, but I haven't seen it to the extent I would like. I'm personally paying $10.99/month for the box.net service, and for the price of a few lattes it's one of the best decisions I've made this term.
Check it out!
Mmm, Dinner...
Tonight at my house we enjoyed a wonderful seafood pasta in a white wine & tomato broth.
My culinary expertise made the recipe, which was essentially a variation of this one, seem pretty easy.
Little HDR action out the window
Taken at Mentor Graphics
You know those people...
...that write really long rambling emails with poor punctuation and lack of paragraphs of other forms of proper structure? They will start writing about one topic and blend in to others...it was raining like crazy all day today (I don't think it ever stopped)...like a droning stream on consciousness without realizing that maybe a new paragraph or a few bullet points or maybe even more than one email would be easier for their intended audience to digest, understand, and effectively respond to.
Yea, I don't like email writers like that either.
Yesterday we had hail, today we planted flowers
Who's Winning?
Here's today--and everyday's--main objective.
Sure Is a nice day
Welcome to Portlandia
I moved to Portland coming up on 5 years ago... and lots of people that I know wonder what it's like. Well it's pretty much like this:
If you want to see more, check out the HIL-arious tv show on IFC... I'm not sure if they'll put full episodes up online or not, but there are plenty of clips on IFC's website.
See ya later brain teasers
So Google Goggles now solves Sodoku puzzles... See ya later brain teasers!
