Tag Archives: me

Daily Bookmarks

Links bookmarked on 2007-02-15

How Many of Me - Census Search for "Hans Gerwitz"
Finally, proof that I do not exist.
LOC St. Louis maps
Great stuff from the Library of Congress, including Pictorial St. Louis 1875

The Meaning of Life

For me, the meaning of life is to leave the world a better place than you found it. Many of us will come and go, leaving ripples that fade over time into the noise of history. A select few, though, will play the role of chaos theory’s butterfly. Through actions that perhaps even appear insignificant, […]

Relevance

Jim captures the essence of why I stopped following local news: it favors the trivial. During college I ended up relying on NPR to keep abreast of things.
But when I stopped commuting, I lost that radio-listening time. Since I’d already taken to RSS feeds for most information streams, I eventually tried adding the […]

Being erased

Inspired by a mention of Eternal September, I spent some time today trying to place my memory of it on the ol’ mental timeline.
Last time I researched myself, Google found many of my Usenet posts from 1993. Today, though, it finds only a handful, with the earliest discoverable message from November 1993 and a […]

Downsizing the Monkeysphere

It was recently pointed out to me that my LinkedIn profile has grown to 118 connections. If you asked me to name people I know, I doubt I’d be able to produce a list that long, so I determined it was time to go through and trim those one-time professional contacts that I don’t […]

Still worth it

Some workweeks are more draining than others.

Hyperfamiliarity

I must have slept funny on the lateral temporo-occipital junction of my left hemisphere last night, because all day I’ve suffered from the inverse of prosopagnosia. Almost a dozen times I’ve turned to a glance of a former coworker, family member, or someone else I recognize but don’t see regularly, only to find a […]

Managing money, 2006 edition

I’ve reviewed the performance of my investments over 2006, to see what I can learn for this year. Aside from the loft, whose value is hard to measure until it’s actually sold (but indications are rosy), the results are encouraging.
My IRA (40% of my investments) was up almost 15%, thanks largely to FSIIX and […]

Empathy

You would think that when a close friend has it confirmed that her father has inoperable cancer in a rare (read: poorly researched and effectively untreatable) form, that I’d have some sage “here’s how I coped” advice.

I really don’t.

Click Here

In a shameful exhibition of capitalism, infūz traded Ze Frank some candy in exchange for a a bling duckie on the holiday show. The “Click Here” copy is a continuing theme; as an interactive agency we don’t know how to cope with static media like duckies.
Or video. The first of our video shorts […]