Perpetual projects and daily obsessions.
I'll be in my survival bunker.
Recently, Karapaia, a Japanese news site focusing on the strange and weird, posted a video of what seems to be a giant monster being dug out of the ground in Vietnam. In the video, the long, fat, gray slug-like creature is surrounded by a crowd of curious onlookers watching with rapt attention as the horrifying beh …
Yes, bees get a pretty bad rap, but the scary, stingy things you’re afraid of? Most likely wasps/yellow jackets, especially in Colorado. Bees, particularly honeybees and bumblebees, are fluffy little cuddle balls that fly around and pollinate stuff.
They won’t sting you unless you’re a direct threat to them, because if they sting you, they die.
Don’t be scared of bees. Be scared for bees.
A chilling must-read.
A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no one had ever spoken of. I reg…
Repair estimate for extremely minor fender bender is more than cost of my first car. I miss that car.
I think you need this as a hand-knitted sweater.
In honor of Joe Biden’s birthday, all fan club shirts are $12 until they run out!
"I always wondered what it would have been like to be on Alderaan while hot, green beams coalesced overhead, and I suspect that in Redmond they know."
The Playstation 4 is an act of such contrition, such respect, that I hardly know what to say about it. There was much to find insulting about the PS3, which I have made it my task to catalogue, because for some reason people don’t do that. I will never understand why the smug entitlement that …
Making some notes on this – sounds pretty useful.
Originally shared by +Sean P Kelley
Circles, Circles and Less? Circles
So I saw a post that had an example of how to better manage circles on G+ and thought I'd give it a try. Here's what I have setup, but still have some work to do.
Right now it's really centered around my stream and not so much about the sharing to a specific group or audience.
1. Notifications – notifies me when anyone in this circle posts something. Put a couple big hitters and very personal friends and family. Others that don't post much at all, but I want to know when. Otherwise I'm going to get a ton of emails.
2. Flow 1 – People that engage, or that I know personally that I want to see many of their updates. Set to 'more'.
3. Flow 2 – People that post on occasion, share some common interest, some news, communities and pages. Set to 'standard'.
4. Flow 3 – Don't know you. Not sure about your interest and you don't do a lot of engagement? Set to 'fewer'
5. Gamers – the whole lot of you. ;-) set to 'standard'. May play with this one as my stream takes shape.
6. Bookmarks – empty, used to share posts for later reference
I'm trying to keep people to 1-2 circles. My next step is to do an overall shot at grouping folks based on some kind of common interest. This way if I don't share something public I can share it to a specific circle since the above setup really doesn't address anything but public posts. I had deleted more than 5 circles, but again, will probably add more.
The stream seems to have changed quite a bit. Not sure if it's 'better' per se, but definitely a change. I think the thing I notice the most is the lack of duplicate posts or reshares. This probably has to do with having someone that gets their posts reshared a lot in the flow 1 circle and then the others a bit lower in priority. I'll be bopping people up and down as things progress.
<3 Calvin.
Calvin and Hobbes
PHOTO: This Is Your Supermarket Without Bees