Upon discovering that LinkedIn has a job search mechanism (and subsequently finding a job or two for which I applied), I decided yesterday to create a new Firefox folder called Social Networks so I can keep track of, let's see where I've signed up so far... well, Buzznet of course, back when I couldn't yet upload to Flickr or YouTube as I do now; P.O.W.E.R. in Comics, ComicSpace and MySpace; Facebook (probably the one that intrigues me the most, although I don't play the "apps" games there) and LinkedIn; Digg, Ning, StumbleUpon and Twitter. Have I missed anything? Speaking of which, Budgie found this really cool application for anyone with Twitter called the TweetWheel. Here's a screen capture:
If you go to the actual page you can run your cursor over all of the Twitter friends I follow to see how many friends they have in common with me, but I just think it looks pretty.
It's been a good catch-up day so far. Did all my job searching before 9 AM, touched base with doctors about routine checkups, and am trying to get through blog reading without too much arm-tingling. It's abated somewhat, which leads me to believe it's finally starting to heal, so I'll see how much keyboard time I can deal with before I have to get horizontal again. My latest ComicMix column is up; not a lot of comments so far but it's kind of an odd subject on which to comment. Hey, did y'all see this really cool NY Times slide show about food carving? Some really magnificent stuff. I'm in awe; it's all I can do to cook with the stuff!
I have a few nice pictures from Mother's Day that I need to upload; maybe tomorrow my hand will stop tingling so much and I can get on with that. What a lovely day to be in Manhattan! And I got a delicious unagi bento at Masa in the Grand Central Station food court. Surprisingly good value for money! This afternoon I munched on some herbage, as my AeroGarden was in dire need of pruning somehow. Time to get cooking again! Speaking of which, how well did you do in this Spice ID quiz from Slashfood? I think I got almost all of them.
Still trying to limit my keyboard time to job searching, and am mostly leaning back when I read and such as that doesn't set my left hand to tingling. Shoulder feels fine but the neck still feels pinched, which I think is what's affecting the hand. Nothing insurmountable, just annoying as usual. Comes with the territory of getting on in life, I suppose. But I'll take it, considering the alternative! My teeth now have a clean bill of health as the remaining cavities were filled today; next up, the eye exam! I'm striving to be 100% healthy when I get that new job. And I've been keeping up my skills as well; how did you do on the Rather Difficult Font Game (via Teresa)?
Typing from Mom's today, where we gave her the Mother's Day present of her very own version of Chuzzle which she can play offline. Her system was so antiquated she needed a version of ActiveX that's like three versions less than the current one, which we couldn't even download from Microsoft's website which froze her dial-up and we had to reboot and in the meantime Robin got the ActiveX installer in about five seconds on the laptop, stuck Mom's USB thumb drive in there, copied the installer onto her computer, and voila! I love that there's always a workaround, even for somewhat older machines... Anyway, speaking of cool computer stuff, Jason Bergman found this very cool video:
As Jason says, it's superior to the actual corporate-produced video...
Heading out shortly to a family bar-mitzvah, and then to Mom's for Mother's Day weekend. We're taking the laptop but, in case we can't get a wifi connection there, I may as well give you a Silly Site now. What if the real world worked like Facebook?:
As it's Friday (see above), how about checking out the Cat Diaries? Very charming stuff, via Meg at Cute Overload who needs the hits like I need several holes in my cranium.
Stupid left arm still affected. It may be a neck pinch, I'm just not sure. I'll probably ring the doctor again tomorrow and ask if she has any other advice, I don't really know if the anti-inflammatory med's working. Can't sit at my computer for more than an hour without a lot of pain. Driving this weekend will be loads of fun, but I'm spending Mother's Day with my Mom and I wouldn't have it any other way. Via Mike at Left is Right, here are some very wrong cards you can send your mom for Mother's Day.
The animation, by Rusty of Rusty's Rocking Jamboree (which is, near as I can tell, a modern Minnesotan version of Uncle Floyd only maybe not), is based on a Rick Geary drawing. As I recall, Vin's almost done with his third Norbert volume and about to start on a fourth in time for MoCCA...
Absolutely horrid night, very little sleep, but couldn't take a night-time acetaminophen nor an allergy pill because I had an early morning interview. Home for barely an hour before going to the dentist to get a cavity filled, then I crashed heavily this afternoon waiting for the novocaine to wear off. Still can't type easily without feeling it in the shoulder, but I think it's getting incrementally better. Hey, today's International No Diet Day; here are some fun slogans you can use from the INDD headquarters...
from Elayne @ Pen-Elayne on the Web 15 May 2008 3:00 pm
