a creative kickstart. participation encouraged.

Quote of the Day, from one of my colleagues to another:

I would describe you as illuminating. Definitely not inept. If I was stuck out at sea, I’d want you on my raft.

• This is it!
• Just that Gay
• Balls to My Asshole, An Update
• Licking Gummys
• Converts

I had a lovely exchange with an ex-girlfriend recently through one of the plethora of social networking sites of which I am a member.

Social networking sites have allowed me to do a whole bunch of things.  Notably, thanks to Friendster, I went back to summer camp a couple of years ago and lived like I was 14 again for 2 days.

But it’s also allowed me to keep up with folks with whom I don’t have a strong enough bond to have dinner with or chat on the phone, but whose goings-on and such are interesting to me.  People who I think of sometimes, and want to send a hello or a link to something I think they will enjoy, or a “holy crap can you believe Sarah is actually pimping her virginity through Jane Magazine???” (There are just so many links to this, even with the demise of Jane Magazine online; I can’t pick what’s the best.  Try this, this and my personal favorite.)

If you actually clicked one of those links, and are confused, I went to high school (and middle and lower school) with this chick.

Back to the point.

Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, MySpace… they have all allowed me to have virtual relationships with folks with whom I do now, or one day long ago did, have a real-life relationship.  People I went to summer camp with.  People I went to middle school with.  People I used to work with.  Randoms I’ve met on the street.

And my ex-girlfriends.

It’s a nice low-threshold way to stay in touch, without all the touching.

• I Love Brittish Accents
• High School Friends
• Glued to the Tube
• Going to See About a Girl
• Bullshitters All Around

Quote of the Day, again on quitting smoking and gummy bears:

You can, however, blog on how I am spending my time licking gummys.

• Gummy Bears
• Gummy Friends
• Converts
• Some people should blog more.
• No bad for a 6 year old

Jenn and I found some new ones in the past couple of days.  Not sure what some of them are.

• Bullshitters All Around
• Semi-Daily Walks, the Bottle Cap Series
• T-Shirts I Want
• Google Chat Status, Volume 19
• Need a Pacifier?

This summer (last summer too), we had a lovely intern at work.

Friday was his last day, sadly.

He used something that looked like a GTD hack with Post-Its to organize his work.  Always in rainbow order.  Very gay.  Very entertaining (to me.)

I was in an out-of-office meeting Friday afternoon, so I had to say goodbye to him on my way out at 12:30.

This morning, I arrived to this:

It totally made my Monday.

• Going to See About a Girl
• Google Chat Status, Volume 14
• Bits and Pieces
• Semi-Daily Walks
• Peter Hocking is not the only one doing it.

1. very proud
2. bring on the ice cream.
3. Printing, binding, mailing…
4. thanks for bringing the crab back. i don’t like change, you know.
5. uh oh.
6. very proud. stupid, but proud.
7. makes shark fin costumes by night; organizes by day
8. thanks gEek squaD
9. love the gEek squaD
10. good think i think stupid is cute.
11. 16,416,000; 273,600; 4560; 190; 27; 6.25
12. so much for reading in the pool
13. just call me the bus driver
14. and i didn’t even need to quit smoking for that one!
15. Syllabus, syllabi, syllable.
16. molasses
17. zooOOOOM!
18. i heart bam bam.
19. conflicted about VJ day
20. 5 whales. FIVE WHALES!
21. dun dun dun dun dun (thriller)
22. who’s up for a trip to crazy town?
23. so not ok. SO NOT OK.
24. is heading off to a meeting while the photocopier spews lit

• Google Chat Status, Volume 14
• Google Chat Status, Volume 5
• Google Chat Status
• Google Chat Status, Volume 4
• Google Chat Status, Volume 6

Quote of the Day, on gummy bears as a quitting-smoking methodology:

I don’t like orange gummys.

Perhaps I will take all of the orange and green ones and lick them together and make them have some sort of party.

• Gummy Friends
• Licking Gummys
• Naked Olympics
• Taste My Nuts!
• Do You Netty?

Quote of the Day, from FitnessFixation:

Now, I sort of doubt the triple jump is the kindest sport to perform naked, and certainly not one you’d want caught on film, with the what-what business flapping in the breeze.

Really, you should read the whole thing.  It is funny.

• Most funny women are gay.
• Writing is Scary
• Olympic Tech and Other Sundries
• Efficiency Rules
• Where Did I Come From?

It has come to my attention that some people don’t know about the ShamWow!

I saw a real-life demo at the electronics thingamajig at the Convention Center last year.

It really is wow-tastic.

• Lesbian Speed Dating
• Twittered Out
• Project Management Bootcamp, Days 1 and 2
• Work vs. Real Life
• Cranston Style

Thursday night’s walk was unusually fruitful.

I almost got hit by a car so that you, all 5 readers, could revel in our finds.

• Semi-Daily Walks
• Little Boots, Fake Teeth, a Tiny Doll, and a Land Rover Medallion
• Bits and Pieces
• Need a Pacifier?
• No bad for a 6 year old

Quote of the Day:

He can’t help talking like that; he’s just that gay.

• Stuck at Sea
• Licking Gummys
• Converts
• Most funny women are gay.
• Better than Magic

Pig racing at the Washington County Fair.

If you smacked me with that cane, I might not go where you want me to either.

Watch the video.

• Olympic Tech and Other Sundries
• Dead Whale Viewing
• OUCH
• Saltine Challenge, The Rules and Prizes
• No bad for a 6 year old

Really? It looks a little Hannibal to me.

GoateeSaver ::: Real Men Wear Goatees.

• Bullshitters All Around
• Work vs. Real Life
• Lesbian Speed Dating
• bad grammar makes me [sic]
• ShamWow!

Google is WICKED smart.

They have released a little widget that will sync your Outlook and Google Calendars.  You can sync one way or both, which I find particularly fantastic.  That is, I can push my Outlook information up to my Google Calendar, but I don’t have it sync the other way too.

Direct from Google, here is the how-to:

To set up Google Calendar Sync:

1. Make sure you’re using a supported operating system and Outlook version.
2. Download Google Calendar Sync (version 0.9.3.3) at http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.exe
3. Once a dialog box appears, click Save File. The downloaded file should open automatically. If it doesn’t, manually open it from your browser’s download window.
4. Click OK to confirm that you’re aware this is an executable file.
5. Read through the Google Calendar Sync Terms of Service, and click I Agree.
6. Follow through the Installation Options and click Install to finish the set-up process.

Once Google Calendar Sync is installed on your computer, the Google Calendar Sync Settings window will appear:

In the Settings window, enter your email address and password and select the Sync Option you prefer. Read about each Sync Option.

You’ll also be able to set the time interval for syncing to occur. Please keep in mind that 10 minutes is the minimum time interval allowed.

After the initial set-up, you can access the Google Calendar Sync Settings window again by double-clicking the calendar icon in your Windows System Tray.

Icon Status

To access the Google Calendar Sync Settings window, just right-click the calendar icon in your Windows System Tray and select Options.

When your events are actively syncing between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar, you’ll see arrows in the Google Calendar Sync icon:

When events aren’t actively syncing, your calendar icon will look like this:

Why did I copy and paste the whole thing in there instead of writing my own how-to or just linking?

1. Google wrote good, clear instructions.  No need to re-invent the wheel here.
2. The people who call me up and say their computer is broken (but it’s not plugged in), the internet is broken (but their cable is unplugged), their computer “ate” a recent file (they don’t know where they saved it): these people will not click the link.  They like things nice and spoon-fed.  (Or me, coming to their house to fix it for them.)

• Do You Read Blogs?
• Ok.
• Google Tips and Tricks
• Tech Support
• Illegal Characters

Quote of the Day, on the heels of the Jesus whistle purchase:

He’s better than magic, he’s Jesus.

• A Jesus Slide Whistle
• It’s Jesus
• Jesus Whistle
• Just that Gay
• Stuck at Sea