Behind Blue Eyes

My hot shoe slave arrived yesterday. Now, in theory, I can flash from up to 150' away. But I prefer to do most of my flashing closer up.

Found a cool marine biology / diving / etc. site:

http://therightblue.com/

Cool pictures, well written.

Anyone know of a good, preferably plug-in (firefox, safari, opera, lynx, whatever, I'm browser poly), bookmark manager? I'd settle for a website, but it isn't my first choice.

What I'd like would be the ability to add tags (humor, science, politics) and preferably have some sort of web-of-tags so I could find the one e.g. science->oceanography->humor (or humor->oceanography, etc) site. What I'm looking for is navigation sort of like what the old Yahoo used to look like, just populated with my own metadata.

No, del.icio.us ain't it. Don't care so much about the collaborative aspect.

10 co-workers got riffed at my site today. A couple of them excellent, a couple of them good, almost all of them at least really nice folks.

For example, go here and explore the list of available titles.

Hat tip to shadowsmark

I leave the house this morning
- I leave the phone at home

I come back at lunch to retrieve the phone
- I discover I left the front door unlocked

I put some lunch in the microwave
- I retrieve my phone
- When I leave, I make sure I lock the front door

I arrive at work
- When I get to my desk, I realize I left the phone in the car

I go to retrieve the phone from the car
- I realize I did not take the house keys with me when I left home

I arrive back home nowish (Fortunately, I have a spare key stashed)
- I find lunch has been sitting in the microwave waiting for me for nearly 14 hours

You know, I *was* feeling a bit peckish this evening.

This is a very cool animation of immigration to the US from 1820-2007.

So, one of my beard hairs got ingrown....

Not a big deal. It happens frequently. The major reason I don't shave down to the skin.

What was interesting is that it happened to land right on top of one of those facial nerves the dentist has to block with Novocaine and had the same effect. So a good chunk of my jaw and cheek were numb yesterday and I kept expecting a bright light and drilling sound.

I drove the northwestern and western periphery of Oregon (from Portland to Astoria to Brookings) yesterday.

Some of the waypoints included:
Scappoose
Clatskanie
Manzanita
Nehalem
Tillamook
Neskowin
Yachats

Names that, aside from the place of good dairy, might cause a non-native some pause.

The familiarity was nice. It reminded me I came from somewhere once.

This a plea for some collective action.

Some bozos are posting a slew of housing listings on the Bay Area Craigslist over and over and over with a bazillion keywords set as hidden text. I'm asking, if you have a few spare seconds, to periodically go and flag these fuckwads as spam/overpost.

The easiest keyword to look for is 'sunn'. There's currently only one legitimate ad with 'sunn' (they meant sunny). You'll see the pattern very quickly.

The entire block of hidden keywords is:

Search keywords: Belmont, San Carlos, Atherton, 
Hillsborough, Los Altos, Milrae, Hills, San Mateo, San
Bruno, Woodside, Redwoodcity, Redwood City, Menlo Park,
Mt. View, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Mid Peninsula, mid
pen, Pennisula, RWC, SF, Bay Area, Bay, north, west, east,
south, Hillsdale, silicon valley, city, n, s, e w, city,
private, rent, lease, santa clara, Sunnyvale, san jose,
sj, los gatos, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, #, one, two,
three, four, single, family, dishwasher, hardwood, hard,
wood, flooring, full, size, patio, balcony, bbq, pool, rec
room, realtor, property, real estate, duplex, apartments,
condo, unit, investment, sale, first, second, units,
home, house, townhome, thownhouse, town home, town house,
condo, duplex, pagemill, view, vies, university, manager,
managers, management, 24 hours, gated, community, Stanford,
university, Menlo, college, Menlo, Park, secured, cisco,
hp, Hewlett Packard, hp, va, hospital, bright, light,
lights, el camino, real, pets, friendly, dog, cat, student,
professional, school, sec 8, section 8, google, systems,
east bay, security, Hewlett-packard, sfo, sjc, airport,
downtown, dt, down, town, corporate housing, student, cal
train, muni, apts, freeway, highway, 101, 280, hwy, rwc,
internet, food, shopping, restaurants, entertainment,
amenities, freeway, utilities, gas, electric, water,
parking, carport, whole foods, public transportation,
midpenisula, mid peninsula, RWC, SSF, SF, UCSF, CSM, SJSU,
de anza, jr., jr, collge, foothill, san mateo college,
pagemill, long-term, long, term, short, short-term, 92,
380, house, apartments, five, sun, patio, bayckyard, back,
yard, carpet, paint, Luxury, Penthouse, flat, Sunn, ebay,
beds, baths, bathroom, onsite, on site, Ikea, university
circle, four seasons, hotel, short-term, short, term,
long, long-term, end of month, immediate movein, move
in, rent ready, week, month, 30 days, property, units,
foreclose, credit, check, flexable, cisco, cisco systems,
corporate housing, furnished, parking, restaurants, public
transportation, school, schools, ravenswood, sequoia,
district, union, month, week, end of month, yahoo, move,
graduate, graduated, teacher, specials, special, movein,
move in, bike, walk, palo alto, updates, modern, updated,
landscaping, landscape, deposit, flexible, dates, drive,
short, long, promotion, discount, affordable, reasonable,
holding, hold, reserve

23andMe put up a couple quotes I made at their shindig a couple weeks back:

https://www.23andme.com/overview
https://www.23andme.com/research

Look at the "Our customers are saying..." section down in the bottom right.

Neither one would win me much praise at a Toastmasters event, but it's still really cool that someone there thought that what I said had enough merit to transcribe.

That you can add &fmt=18 to the end of a youtube url and get much higher quality video?