Whenever A Girlfriend Moves Out There's Aleays Some Annoying Ikea Item You Never Wanted To Own In The Fisrt Place She Leaves Behind For Yoy To Deal With

October 26,2010 from my bathroom sink.

55. Preservationist

Jul5,10|Laguardia Airport

Committed to a period of time so as to become a human representative of the era. Monterey Pop Festival; Bob Dylan going electric and racial equality are current events. Fortunately writer preservationists, baby boomer primacy cultural curratorial staff (unpaid) and NYT columnists pump out volumes of current news from the 1960s for Preservationists to catch up on the latest breaking events from those years. This Preservationist is currently catching the latest Grateful Dead news in the cleverly titled tome, A Long Strange Trip.

For a Preservationist of the first degree the 'Trip' is never over. Death is a new beginning and perhaps a chance to get the latest afterlife news.

53. Writers

Sunday, March 14, 2010

52. The Digital Decade

March 4, 2010

Writers and pundits can't figure out what to call the first decade of the 21st Century. The New Yorker did a bit by Rebecca Mead on the failure to find a hook for this time - the Oughts never took off. The Millenials are people. It's a decade without a name...until now

I propose we refer to this period as the first totally Digital Decade.

It is the first decade of widespread internet use. It is the first complete decade in which I utilized digital photography from start to end. It is the decade that saw the end of analog TV broadcasts. It is the first complete decade of cell phones, email and social networks.

In a nutshell, it is The Digital Decade: 2000-2010. That's my vote. I challenge you to come up with something better.

51. Photoshop

Saturing photos? Adding black and white effects? Extra shine on the surface of some glossy advertising copy? All that stuff we could do before Photoshop.

This leaves us the question: What is Photoshop really for?

"I'm pretty certain Selleck Waterfall Sandwich is the real reason Photoshop was created."

Shout out to Amanda Eisen. Thanks girlfriend

50. The Paradox of Choice

James from the Hurt Locker paralyzed by cereal boxes

49. iPhone

great computer :-)
mediocre phone :-(
but love the computer
more than my own ;-)

48. Uberganizairz

etymology -Play on the words 'uber' and 'organizer'

def. - n. an elite type of political organizer trained with a broad array of skills and also a special, superpower type of skill, which can be deployed in extreme situations. Frequently dwells in GreenCorps or, on the flipside, at elite Christian Universities in western Virginia and rural Michigan.

Uberganizairs can:

• Plan press conferences from a mountaintop which has been removed and get people there
• Find strategic flaws in management systems and implement a broad variety of fixes
• Lead national TV and media crews up the sides of very tall damns to 'get the shot' of the political action
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This is a brief video introduction before we learn about three Uberganizairz' special skills:

47. eViolated

In usage,

Whoa be the day Google gets eViolated (you peeped eViolated here first BOYZ!) by cybercriminals...it will happen and I am crossing my fingers, praying to Jeebus, my Gmail and Google Docs, and now Google Calendar and Sync don't fall flaming out of the sky with it.

Complete article, "Upload Anything? Google Docs just keeps blowing me away."

46. Digital Ruler

Ever need to know exactly how many pixels something on your screen is, but you don't want to open the tool to measure it - or don't know what that tool is? Viola. Listen to this:

In this image, I took a screen shot of the spot the image needs to fit on my site, seen in the
upper left side and looked at it's size 579 pixels wide, then resized Dirty Bird's portrait to fit
exactly in the space I saw on my site: 579px wide by whatever height is proportional.

In Mac (I would search Tucows for an equivalent screen shot program). Use the screen shot function with the crosshair at COMMAND>SHIFT 4.

Go to the area you want to measure, click, hold down and drag across your selection to complete a screen shot of the area.

Go to the file, which lands on my desktop and look at Get Info or Right Click for Properties in PC to get the exact pixel size -

Viola, your area is measured exactly how you see it on screen.

45. Basic Body Check (on demand)

Every time you bend over, crouch down instead.
Habits lead to habits, you are on your way.

Aging the office dweller
the simplest things
become kryptonite

43. Bad Penny - Big Black and Trad. definition

Sometimes there's a penny around you - on the ground, on your desk, on your dashboard, on the floor of the bus - and this penny is showing 'tails.'

This is what's known as a 'bad penny.' As Big Black says, "It's just a bad penny; it'll always come back to you."

From what I've learned, the best thing to do with a bad penny is

1. Throw it out if it's in your space and there is no hope of converting it.
2. Pick it up and immediately toss it away in hopes it will become a good penny for someone else.

I recommend against ignoring and doing nothing about it.