Archive for March, 2007
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Mini Vacation, Mini Entry (100 Words)
Thanks to multiple projects I’ve had precious little blogging or personal time for the last two days. This afternoon, in a sanity-saving effort, I bought a ham and cheese on rye at Central Market, drove to the Starbucks parking lot, and had a private lunch while listening to old Bob Wills tunes, my favorite music [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Slice of Life by Rana
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Overheard: In Starbucks During a Driving Rain
Wife with Big Hair: We can’t go to the car in that! We don’t have our umbrellas and I don’t have a rain bonnet in my purse.
Husband with Vente Cup : Why can’t we go to the car? Just put your hand over your coffee cup.
Technorati Tags: humor, overheard
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Killing the Kilowatt: First Quarter Report
“Electricity Nazi.” That’s what MissMeliss called me the other day. My first Killing the Kilowatt post reported on my overall success in a more than two-year war with energy consumption here in our home. For the remainder of 2007 I’ll be posting each quarter, sharing my on-going effort to keep the numbers headed down. Here [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Opinion / Current Events by Rana
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Marine Tattoo Controversy
You train a soldier to be a proud part of a 232-year tradition (the United States Marine Corps dates to 1775). You send that soldier to fight in a war of dubious merit. That soldier goes without question and performs to the standards of duty and honor for which the uniform stands. But that soldier [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Opinion / Current Events by Rana
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Web 2.0: Open Mouth, Ideas Spill Out
Yesterday when I was privileged to visit with Omar Gallega (aka Digital Savant) of the Austin-American Statesman about Twitter and other aspects of microblogging, I heard myself saying that I rejected the whole notion of Web 2.0.
I don’t like to admit how many times ideas crystallize for me at the same time they’re coming out [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Opinion / Current Events by Rana
Monday, March 26th, 2007
Deadline Crunch
Hey gang, I’m on a deadline crunch so I won’t be doing any lengthy blog post today. However, there are plenty of new snippets and twitters on Infinite Notebook with more to come since I keep my eye on the RSS reader throughout the day and have discovered Twitter is rather nice for venting. It’s [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Site News by Rana
Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Microblogging: Better Tools, Better Bloggers
My recent forays with Twitter and Tumblr that led to the birth of Infinite Notebook have generated a lot of messages in ye olde mail bag. Some have been requests for more information about how the services work, others have resulted in the ever corrupting influence we so cherish here at Eclectic Mind. (As evidenced [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Opinion / Current Events by Rana
Saturday, March 24th, 2007
Memories of a Beer Joint
On a whim this past week I emailed some old friends at Southwest Texas State (now Texas State University, but I steadfastly refuse to call it that.) These are folks with whom I’ve lost touch over the seventeen years I’ve lived in the Big City. A couple of fairly lengthy email exchanges have ensued and [...]
No Comments » - Posted in College and Graduate School by Rana
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Reaction to InfiniteNotebook.com
Remember when Sally Field accepted her Academy Award by saying, “You like me! You really like me?” That’s how I feel about the warm and enthusiastic reception InfiniteNotebook.com has garnered from my readers. Apparently you’re as pleased to have an index to all the “rooms” of my online home as I am.
This morning I sat [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Site News by Rana
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
Introducing InfiniteNotebook.com
This post could have been entitled, “Rana Takes the Tumblr.” Yesterday I discovered Tumblr, an elegant solution in microblogging that has also had the aggregate effect of organizing my online life.
There’s no question that I am an unapologetic citizen of the web. I like my life online and enjoy my activities here, both for profit [...]
