Twitter and Celebrities

I came across this the other day:
http://www.happyplace.com/4173/the-best-responses-to-celebrities-on-twitter

Hilarious. :-) Fun to spout off at some of the empty headed celebrity tweets.

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Dead Teen Songs

Yes, Dead Teen Songs. Like "Leader of the Pack" (Watch out!) and Last Kiss (last done by Pearl Jam.) I had no idea there were so many of these songs, but here they are; even conveniently split into "modes of death." Evidently they've been popular, since there are still some written recently.
I suppose some of them are a stretch - Old Shep (Elvis) is here. Old Shep is about a dog, but he could be an old dog...The commentary is hilarious....

"The girlfriend is begging him to give up drag racing. No doubt a song or two later he will end up going around Dead Man's Curve or no longer be the Leader of the Pack."

"Drinking lots and then driving around Dead Man's Curve. That's not going to end well."

Plus, as a bonus, he lists a bunch of possibilities at the bottom that he hasn't gotten to yet.

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Lovely Listings

Funny website - who could think that some of these pictures could possibly sell a house??

http://lovelylisting.com/

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Evaluation

Again, I enjoyed the "things on a stick." I found out about some new things, and got to play around with things I hadn't used much. This is a nice incentive to experiment with various applications to see how well they fit in with what I need.

I was resistant to Twitter in the first round, but I decided to play around with it this time, thinking that I'd probably drop it after a few weeks. Ha - I should have known better. Twitter is a lot of fun - even when self appointed "Library Theorists" (aka DLK) don't approve of what you say. Of course, if he worked in a real library, he'd perhaps find a semblance of a clue. I had never really heard of this guy before the reading for thing 34, and have seen nothing from him that's worth the time it takes to read it. Self promoting, ignorant blowhard. Other than this, I'm really enjoying Twitter.

That being said, the rest of the things were fun. It's great to have an excuse to do scrapbooking at work, and to see Lutefisk working on one too. (He is an artsy guy, after all.) I've decided I prefer last.fm to Pandora, since I've discovered new artists there. And, of course, I'm always up for LOL cats.


Even if I don't use all the "things" on a daily basis, I like knowing they're out there; you never know when something will come in handy.

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46 Web Junction

I've looked at this before, but didn't really use it. For this thing, I looked at it again, found a few friends...but really don't see much else to do. For example, some of the discussions that looked interesting didn't have any activity for a year or so. I found the main page most useful for news and updates. I think it does have potential - especially in a time when budgets are being tightened, the training modules could be used instead of a system having to reinvent the wheel.
I'll keep this in the back of my mind for future reference.

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45 I really don't know clouds...at all...

Well, actually, I do - I just thought that was a catchy title. Most of us who use the internet use cloud computing, whether we know it or not. I haven't used online "OS" and probably won't in the near future, but it is useful for those who need it. I use flickr, google docs occasionally, library thing occasionally, I've saved pictures on facebook, I listen to music and various programs online, email, delicious, etc. etc.

I save important things like pictures to flashdrives, as a backup to online storage and the card in the camera. I hate it when I lose pictures, so I stash them in more than one place. But it's so convenient to be able to log onto one of my accounts to show someone pictures., or to use a document when I'm not at "my" computer. One of our fellow "thingers" commented that some schools are encouraging the use of Google docs so the "my printer stopped working" excuse will be obsolete. The student could just log onto google docs and print the document - but of course, the "printer broke" excuse usually meant the student hadn't done the work. :-)

There can be problems - security can be an issue, and there are always trolls. Even when something is set to private, there are ways around it. I wouldn't be comfortable having private data stored in the cloud - it's too easy to get to if someone is determined. I'm also a bit concerned about ownership issues - (in fact, facebook just started using creative commons.) Some sites claim any content stored becomes their property rather than yours, so user beware. :-) What if the "cloud" you're using starts charging - will you be able to retrieve your data?

But for some things, the convenience of using cloud computing is unbeatable.

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44 It's the Economy....

I've been doing online banking for a long time for many of our bills. I tend to go in as soon as I get the bill and set the time for it to be paid, so I can just forget about it. The trick is, of course, to have the money in the account at that time. :-) Fortunately I manage to time that correctly.


I did check fuel economy when I bought my last car, but the predictions aren't necessarily all that accurate. One site I like to use to check gas prices is http://www.twincitiesgasprices.com/. It's pretty surprising that there would be that much difference in price in the same metro area. I usually put gas in near my work - it can be as much as 15 cents a gallon cheaper than the stations by my house.


Along with Craigslist and Freecycle, another source that's available is http://www.twincitiesfreemarket.org/. It's an open list that one can read/post to without having to subscribe. That's something I didn't like aboutFreecycle -I had subscribed some time ago, but there wasn't much activity so I stopped following it. I love Craigslist, and have gotten several things this way. Plus I reunited someone with their dog the a while ago because I noticed a Lost ad, and a found ad a few days apart, and wrote to one of them. It was their dog! Woof!


I follow a few Deals/freebie sites on Twitter, but haven't done much with those. I did like looking through Wise Bread. Frugal Dad was ok, but nothing really new. I'll probably browse through some of the other frugal bloggers on occasion. I do shop at thrift stores sometimes- it's fun to just browse because you'll never know what you'll find. I even found some of our Noritake stoneware at Valu Village and it was certainly much cheaper than we got married!



The lifehacker article was good - I'm going to check some of these out. One site I've used for years is http://www.pricegrabber.com/ . It's pretty interesting to see how much prices can vary for the same item.

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