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
Tag Archives: me
Daily Bookmarks
February 15, 2007 – 11:45 pm
The Meaning of Life
February 11, 2007 – 9:04 pm
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
February 6, 2007 – 10:08 pm
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
January 28, 2007 – 9:17 pm
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
January 15, 2007 – 10:33 pm
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 […]
Hyperfamiliarity
January 9, 2007 – 11:12 pm
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
January 6, 2007 – 4:41 pm
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
January 3, 2007 – 9:33 pm
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
December 21, 2006 – 11:20 pm
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 […]
