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Life of Colleen: August 2005
Hmmm...
posted by Colleen Shirazi
2005-08-28
at 7:52 PM (Pacific)
I've been working on some advertisements for the site, with the Blogger dashboard open in case I could think of anything to blog today.
Today was such a fabulously...nothing day. The kind of day that comes along...never. No crises. No drama. Only New Orleans, wondering about that sister city of the hurricanes. We had hurricanes back in Virginia. We were lucky, as New Orleans was always lucky, but we always knew the luck would run out eventually, as I would suppose they did too.
"When I was a kid, I wanted to be John Lennon."
Yes, the eternal rerun of The Breakfast Club. Thank god I saw it in its entirety when it was new. Otherwise I'd be doomed to catch bits of it here and there on Bravo.
It's that line that is telling about the film. The last vestiges of 1960's, 1970's idealism, painted on celluloid. Can people really just get along? Can they overlook the trappings that are supposed to keep them apart.
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Hmmm...
posted by Colleen Shirazi
2005-08-27
at 11:00 AM (Pacific)
It's amazing what a garbage dump the Internet has already become.
I put comments on our blogs...now, comments of course are not new. I've had comments on this blog pretty much since the beginning.
But putting comments on topical blogs, is a colossal waste of time. As soon as they were up--within a day or two--they got spammed. I looked into Blogger help and they said there was now a setting for character recognition on blogger comments. Meaning, I would have to go in and manually change the setting for each blog and republish each blog, because Blogger does not put character recognition as the default setting for comments.
Okay, I'll bite. As soon as the character recognition was up--again within a day or two--we started getting people manually putting spam on the blogger comments. Following a spam link, I saw that the person had charmingly neglected to link back to our blog. He/she/it had simply found our topical blog and used it as free advertising for their (selling) blog.
Hm. Do you think that there should be a way to print a link on your blog, to the blog you're using as free advertising? Otherwise, isn't the point of Blogger comments simply to provide yet another vehicle for spam?
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Joe Strummer's birthday!
posted by Colleen Shirazi
2005-08-21
at 8:36 PM (Pacific)
Dang it, I almost forgot. When I was publishing the previous post, my eye caught the date.
Happy Birthday! :)
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The usual suspects
posted by Colleen Shirazi
at 8:23 PM (Pacific)
So I was thinking...and this occurs to me every time I have to clean the house. I can't help it. Whatever else I am, I am a programmer, and programmers are, well, programmed to think of better ways of doing things.
What occurs to me is how, when I was a kid, we used electric typewriters (or manual; those were still around). When you wanted a typewritten document, you sat down and typed it on a piece of paper. If you dorked something up, you brought out your White-Out or your correction tape (recommended). If you were typing on a carbon, you were SOL if you dorked something up. You had to start all over again.
Those were the days of literal cut and paste. You cut out the little section of text you wanted moved, and you stuck it where you wanted it.
The point is this. Everything has changed since then...thirty years ago...the cars have changed. The food has changed. The clothes have changed. The jobs have changed.
The one thing that has not changed, whatsoever, is how we clean the house and do laundry. The "women's work" has not changed since I sat on the floor with my Royal manual typewriter in my lap.
I almost have to laugh when I do the laundry, really I do. The procedure is exactly the same. The machine is the same. The sorting is the same. The dryer could easily be the same dryer we had, oh, in the 1970's.
There is Swiffer, granted. I like Swiffer, don't know how I lived without it. But then it is like developing prettier and easier-to-use typewriters. It's still an insult.
I'm still waiting for that...crap-simple development of robots to do this endless time-sucking menial labor. There is no reason on earth not to have the same technology that exists for everything, and everyone, else.
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posted by Colleen Shirazi
2005-08-06
at 1:52 AM (Pacific)
Even when you get old, there are still days when you manage to see something you've never seen before.
Today...get this. I was standing, literally next to the Golden Gate Bridge. And I couldn't see the bridge at all. It was completely...this gargantuan, gi-normous, vivid red-orange bridge...concealed by fog. All of it.
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