Interesting way to pitch fat free.
Absolution of guilt included
in our every day low price of $2.28.
Or do I just steal it?

... does that fact that I haven't posted mean that my life is empty?
Goodness freaking gracious, no.

Job is getting more hectic, but I am making strides to make it.

Concentrating mainly on process to learn the role of product manager (ProdM):
Who to deliver to at what time, what to deliver, dependencies, risks
Project Management tools like Omni Plan are going to be very useful.
I am not yet a ProdM myself.
I *want* to be more than anything.
I have it in me to be a Project Manager as well.
My brain flips out if that stuff isn't in place, so I will make Omni Plan my best friend.

Tomorrow my current ProdM (fave mentor) & I are going to do a process flow of the tasks that I take over briefly, in this transitory phase,
which is disgustingly anal but ridiculously useful
and it will really help me concentrate,
and enable me to be creative and to take liberties in the right places,
to know when I can take some time to rest,
and to know when I'm in big trouble, or that it's someone else's fault!

Maybe an MBA would be useful about now, but I don't have one do I?
Can't get bogged down in the things you don't have.

This is going to be amazing... :)
Now, I'm tired from doing hours and hours of QA testing tonight, I should sleep.
I really need the weekend, holy crap...

(Via David Henderson's Blog.)

Web 2.0 has 2 very different audiences, only 1 is scalable: "

Here’s what I’ve learned over the past 60 days living on the F8 wave. There are 2 distinctive 2.0 audiences - Gen Y social networkers and the older mostly male geeky TechCrunch reading 2.0 audience. One is scalable and foreshadows future behavior while the other will try anything 2.0 for 2 weeks and maxes out at somewhere around 300K users. The Facebook crowd is the former.

They don’t read techcrunch

They don’t blog

They don’t use most of the 2.0 apps out there

They’re mostly female

They’re mostly 18 - 24 and 25 - 34

They live on Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, etc…

They don’t hang out on Linkedin

Here’s the mistake most media veterans make when looking at the F8 social media phenomena. They overlay their media values over the new social medium. The truth is Facebook usage has nothing to do with their media values. It’s ALL about the very social Gen Y-ers, who spend huge chunks of their time engaged in this new medium.

50 years ago, baby boomers spent huge chunks of their time watching shows like ‘All in the Family’ for entertainment. You could argue a huge waste of time. Today the Facebookers spend their entertainment time throwing food at their friends on Food Fight or sending virtual drinks on Happy Hour or drawing pretty pictures in Graffiti or playing poker in Texas Hold ‘Em.

Facebook is the new TV! Only this medium is social and engaging not passive and linear. Time with media has already dramatically shifted for this generation which foreshadows what is coming - a massive behavioral shift. It happened 12 years ago. It’s happening again!

Source: Datapoints

Technorati Tags: Baby Boomers, F8, Facebook, Gen Y

"

(Via David Henderson's Blog.)

She's the best kind of trouble...

Some of us are cuter than others.

I have some uncommon thoughts
about online relationships
and the degree of intimacy you can reach
in the limited format that the internet offers.
Enjoy/argue.
Let's do this.

Now, this is undeniable:
when we socialize online
we do it almost entirely by writing to one another.
Videos, occasionally,
but web cams aren't something everyone has.
Though, text is something everyone can produce.

For me, words are comfortable.
I am generally good with writing as a means to express myself.
It makes sense to me and it's fulfilling to interact with people in this way.
(That was the chief way of communicating between separated lovers
during a lot of our history, remember?)
I've created my share of intense intimacy with people I've never met.
If you think that's impossible then we simply disagree.

I also take emails and instant messages seriously.
I treat them carefully
(I edit emails for too long)
they are the textual extensions of people, after all.
For example, unless someone is bleeding to death,
I never walk away from one without courteously excusing myself
just as you wouldn't hang up the phone without a goodbye!
(If I do, I apologize)
See, to me, it's not cursory because it's convenient.
It's not totally impersonal because I can't see someone or hear their voice.
If you feel otherwise, perhaps you are missing out.

My comfort with writing and the commitment to others I feel
regardless of the medium used
is probably why I've had more online relationships
than anyone I know.

People like myself,
who use the internet often as an outlet for matters of the heart
are often accused of social crimes.
Internet relationships are often frowned upon
and mocked
even by those close to me!
I will now address the following falsehoods.

Caveat:
There are great disadvantages
to not seeing the person you care for
face-to-face. Duh.
I am operating on the assumption that
one would not choose the internet over reality,
and that it's usually the fault of the circumstances.

On a personal note, the most recent relationships I've had
have been very long-distance.
I keep trying to date people who live on the East Coast.
That's not close to Boulder at aaaaaaalll!
DIfficult! Expensive! Tiring!
Probably foolish! Decidedly unconventional!
Though, I do love flying and traveling by myself, generally.
Anyway!

Why do I think this is? A few factors:

1. I don't like bars.
You mean there are other places to go?

2. I don't live in same-demographic Boulder.
Longmont singles raise your hands... aaaand cue the crickets.

3. I was too busy paying attention in college to meet many people.
I didn't have fun, I just did my work. I just graduated in May
and I just started to work there, so I'm doing the best I can!

4. I haven't lived here for very long.
I felt lost at first, because I transferred so late, as a second-semester junior.
People didn't seem to want new friends, and were generally uninterested
in the 399th person in their lecture hall.
So I spent a lot of time online with the friends
that were still so close to my heart.

5. Perhaps dating people from back east makes me feel
like they are a piece of the place that grew me up.
They feel familiar. After all, one of them was the brother
of someone I went to high school with.
How much closer to home can you get without living there?

6. I've been reluctant to feel settled here.
"Settling" scares the CRAP out of me!

7. All of my good friends are couples. ALL OF THEM!

And furthest of all, there is likely a part of me
that is more comfortable getting
to know others behind a computer screen.
BUT it's not like I refuse to meet people!
So, now that I've admitted lots of personal crap to everyone,
on to the falsehoods:

1. Heavy internet users lack social skills.
I have friends! They actually like me. They call me.
And, I only have *two* cats.

2. Relationships conducted chiefly on the internet
are somehow not as [blank] as relationships in person.
Alright, this is actually true. But sometimes you can't help it
because of whatever conditions that life has kicked in your faces.
It's better than not knowing the person at all, especially
when you feel like you can't walk away, a feeling I know all too well.

3. Conversing online is inherently impersonal.
I blame this on you if that's the case. I care plenty for the people I talk to,
and I give them the same care and attention
as I would if they were sitting in front of me.
This is why it pains me when people leave me mid-conversation
because I'm not messing around, people!

4. Everyone is a gross pervert / pedobear pedophile.
I'm online. Lots of my decent friends are online. End of discussion.

So you see, this is how I think.
We'll see how all of this goes for me.
/Post.

this is!

But feel free to stay here, I'm going to update this one, too!

this is how excited i am

so i'm online dating
(bounce rate 100% ha!
Google anal-ytics joke)

and i'm wondering
about the ethics of said practice.
it's going alright so far
by alright i mean i'm going to cancel
any payments i've made to any sites.

but i want to ask everyone
what do you think
about how i should be handling responses?

most sites have a preliminary
minimal commitment form of contacting members
often a way of contacting another for free
if you cheapskates want to contact people without subscribing
emails are a different story and you have to pay money
in order to get more harshly rejected
er, i mean
get to know another more deeply.

so this is what i've come up with:
i am morally allowed to ignore the preliminary,
minimal commitment overtures
but i try to reply to the DECENT emails
those that aren't gross or just so cursory as to merit an ignore.

hmmm
whatchu guys/girls think?
and do you have anyone you'd like to set me up with?

i'm pretty cool...

but i really have
HERE.
And also read
THESE.
or this will happen to your soul:

photo property of icanhazcheezburger.com

this is tricky.  he says "sigur ros?  mow mow?"

so,
my girl,
rhythmforcedmelody
wrote this great post
about sigur ros
and i was so inspired by it
i put them on
and my cats started to swivel their ears
questionmark helicopter style
my littlest one meowed eerily
in the same key as the song playing
so sigur ros: awesome
and freaking out cats since 1994

go read.
it won't freak you out.
you'll like it!

 

 you just can't say no to her:

firstly,
Overheard in New York,
(blog compilation of conversations
you guessed it,
overheard in NY, NY!)
makes me laugh
because of things like this:

No More Montessori School for You, Young Lady

Mom, about man on train with flowers:
Awww, he has flowers. They're probably for his girlfriend.
Eight-year-old daughter:
Mom, you never know! They could be for a boy.
--LIRR

and this:

You Have Measured Out Your Life in Baby-Food Spoons
Five-year-old girl: Mommy, come on. This is not your time.
Mommy: When is my time?
Five-year-old girl: Never!

--Barnes & Noble, Chelsea


the ones from kids are the best.

second of all, i "installed" Leopard.
it's in quotes because
it gave me an error message
and a heart attack
that it couldn't complete the install
before it restarted my computer
but then proceeded to work anyway
yeah i have no idea what that was about

besides having issues with iTunes libraries
which is an endless battle that i seem to lose endlessly
and the Backup program for Tiger being full of suck
and that finally working only after about two hours of futzing with it
everything is operational!

YAY.

my iTunes are back to normal
so now my soul is back to normal
(music is really that important to my inner life)
and iChat has TABBED CHATS
that's right
TABBED CHATS
so now my eight hundred IM windows
are in ONE window
glorious.

however,
the iPhoto backgrounds SUCK
as in
they don't work at all
because i do have a whole hand
and a whole head

but maybe i don't
and apple is actually right about everything.

what do you guys think??
not about that photo of me
(terrible hahaha)
but about Le Leopard?!

you know what's annoying?
that there really isn't a great music hosting service
for blogs
so i can't just embed this track i want you to listen to
into this post
you have to go find it on the internet
or go to an external link
which, face it
you're unlikely to do
because we're lazy internet users
i'm totally guilty, too.

but if you feel like it
go listen to
cave in's 'new moon (piano version)'
it's spare and beautiful
like the moon
on a really cold night
where you're looking up at the sky
and all you see is the ghostly vapor of your breath
against a black starless sky
like i said

quite nice.

i am busy converting this blog
to this new one
hosted by iggli
consequently,
my arm is twitching
and there is pain
in muscles i didn't know existed
this posting is going to be all short
and non-existent.

lol
sorry.
i bought a rad desk
and chair
for my home office though.
yay?

go listen to charlotte martin!
gosh darnit!

http://www.iggli.com:8080/roller/
that's the new address of the home page for the new iggli blog
mine is
http://www.iggli.com:8080/roller/highfiredanger/
bookmarkles!!

new Saul Williams album
november 1st
produced by Trent Reznor
sold on his website
the title is niggy tardust
hmmm david bowie
ziggy stardust
worldplaymuch?
should be REALLY interesting
to see what's on that album.
Saul Williams is one of the most profound artists out there
whether you agree with him or not.
SO EXCITED!

so, iggli
the rad company this blog was set up for
ugh horrible sentence structure
is setting up their own blog platform
so someday soon
this blog will be found at another address
i know, scary, scary changes!

for now i will keep posting to this one
and for awhile after that
i'll post to both of them at the same time
so as to make the transition all friendly-like.
because i love my readers.
and wouldn't want them to get lost

xoxo
happy thursday, lovers!

ENOUGH!

goodness gracious, flixster.
and all other facebook apps that i don't have.

thing is,
if you don't have a certain app
and a friend in your cadre does
then, whenever they do something
with that app
facebook feels like they have to tell you about it
because you're not complete
if you don't have that app.

it's gettin' real annoying.
can't we turn off that feature, globally?
the stalking slash advertising feature?
what's that, satan facebook?
no?
i hate you and love myspace better
i love you anyway!

usually i'm so-so
when it comes to cover albums.
but lovers, let me tell you
charlotte martin's
reproductions
is a stellar achievement.

i cannot get over the tone of her voice.
it's sick!
i saw her in concert two weeks ago
(review pending, obvs)
and she's spectacular live.

songs i love from reproductions
in particular:
pearl jam's
elderly woman behind the counter in a small town
sinead o'connor's
i am stretched out on your grave.
i get chills during that second one.

i am so sure
that my neighbors
can hear me belting them through the walls.
all i have to say about that
is GET USED TO IT PEOPLE!
IT'S THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY.
I AM SO ALLOWED.

reproductions
comes out november 6 on iTunes
i got it early because it was available on her tour.
http://www.myspace.com/charlottemartin
go listen!

in the mean time
buy stromata
i love that album!
the instrumentation is really different
from what a lot of female singers are doing right now.
this ain't no brit brit, kiddies.
in content nor in form.

you won't be disappointed.

okay, so i like boys.
irrelevant to this blog?
hardly.

many, many times they are not in my life.
mostly this is fine.
i am a fairly independent lady
and i like me to myself
after all,
i can listen to my own music in the car
i do hate compromising on the important things!

so what is are some good soundtracks and songs for the gaps between beating hearts?

grace - jeff buckley
twentysomething - jamie cullum
homogenic - bjork
white ladder - david gray
transatlanticism - death cab for cutie
kid a - radiohead
selected sad songs, really.
charlotte martin songs...
i love her, generally.

hmmm, i'll surely put up a list
of songs
for A Samantha in Love
when my luck changes!
wish me good things.
xoxo.

it's 23 degrees Fahrenheit outside!!
(a clarification for those of you who are Celsius people)
whaaa!?!
no wait wait
BRRRR!!