Dec 31st, 2009
by Mary P Jones.
Image credit: Photo by
Great Beyond on Flickr
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Earlier this year, I read an article about technology that would allow us to record and store every moment of our lives. Imagine: our whole lives stored in a single searchable archive. We could settle those arguments with the boss by replaying what was [...]
Mar 23rd, 2009
by Mary P Jones.
I am getting better at saying no, when I mean no, but it's still an area where I have a lot of work to do. Saying "yes" to requests is like a reflex to me. Tap my knee and my foot bounces up, ask me for help and I say, "Yes." Oops. [...]
Feb 11th, 2009
by Mary P Jones.
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maher berro on Flickr
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My blogroll was long overdue for a makeover. As you all know, the rules are: comment regularly and ye shall be put on the blogroll. But oh, what a headache to keep track of all that myself! Enter a neat little piece of [...]
Jan 28th, 2009
by Mary P Jones.
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Shannon K on Flickr
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The message inside reads: “God is the answer.”
A few months ago, I moved from Blogger hosting to independent hosting using Wordpress, but I still had lots of folks visiting my old Blogspot address. I wanted to set up something that would kick them over here [...]
Jan 11th, 2009
by Mary P Jones.
The Maven (and believe me, if you don't know the Maven, you should) was playing the interview game on her blog. I know I've done some variation of this like 5000 times in the past year, but it's always fun, and in this case, it got the Maven to e-mail me some words she [...]
Jan 6th, 2009
by Mary P Jones.
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Jez D on Flickr
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Many years ago, I had an argument with my ex-boyfriend about grammar.
"You know, between you and I..." he said.
"You and me," I corrected.
He refused to believe me. So, we bandied about words like "preposition," "subject," and "object" before consulting Strunk and White. In the [...]
Nov 10th, 2008
by Mary P Jones.
Image credit: Photo byJim Linwood on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons
As you may have gathered based on my last post, I am playing with some techie type stuff behind the scenes. I'm going to continue futzing with things over the course of the next few days. If anything weird pops up or the site [...]
Oct 27th, 2008
by Mary P Jones.
Before I had kids, I loved playing. At age 30, I owned a wide array of board games as well as a vast nerdly display of toys -- an X-Files Scully Barbie and Mulder Ken, Star Wars action figures, a poseable Godzilla and several favorite stuffed animals. I played regularly with my friends, [...]
Oct 14th, 2008
by Mary P Jones.
Mim over at Mim's Muddle took a "Which Fantasy/Sci Fi Character Are You?" quiz and came out as Jean-Luc Picard. Envious of how cool she is, I took the quiz too.
And (based on this highly accurate and scientific measure) I am Galadriel. Yep, this quiz (and who am I to dispute the wisdom [...]
Sep 26th, 2008
by Mary P Jones.
J-Online asks forsix unspectacular quirks.It's a meme* haiku!
1.I rarely wear socks.The seams are uncomfortable,my feet get too hot.
2.Fluorescent lights hurt.Sometimes you'll see me wearingsunglasses indoors.
3.I'll eat the same thingevery day for days on endfor breakfast and lunch.
4.Sometimes I worrymy laptop video camlets people see me.
5.It doesn't help thatI take my laptop with meinto the bathroom.
6.Sometimes [...]