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When you have a three hour drive alone, you get plenty of time to think. So, I dreamed up some song charts for some favorite tunes. I have a small pool on Flickr if you want to see them bigger.
My favorites are probably these two but I really like them all!
Okay..I’m challenging my three readers!!! Have a song chart you want to share??
I saw something about this in an RSS feed last week but didn’t take the time to follow through. Today, I found the Flickr pool and now I am completely in awe and hooked.
My little frustrated inner wannabe graphic artist mixed with my little inner information scientist and inner DJ just found the mother lode. Songs in outline/graph form.
Too fun!!! I’m going to work on my own as well. Here’s one that amused me to no end!!
I wonder if assembling the delicately balanced H14 analog capacitors is among the obsolete skills?
I was amused and intrigued by this wiki that has been developing in response to a post by Robert Scoble regarding the techy stuff we used to know how to do but are no longer needed. Things like:
So, I have been mulling it a bit to see if I have some of those kinds of “old school” skills. I know my dad does: reading an oscilloscope, building a television set, using a timing gun on your car, splicing together broken cassette and VHS tapes.
My obsolete skill set seems to be much smaller and still, arguably, relevant in many situations:
Does this “changing of the guard” make you sad or long for the good old days? I get nostalgic but not really morose over the changes. I mean without constant technology changes, I would be out of my current job. Of course, I still use my turntable so I don’t let go of things too easily! I guess you have to find the happy place for yourself and your techno skills.
I’m sure I will think of more obsolete skills I have. Head over to the wiki and add your own set o’ skills!!
Obsolete Skils: Main/Home Page
Image: ‘AM radio‘
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While I don’t have a cell phone that will even read this page…I do understand that the world is moving in that direction. To that end, here is a mobile version of this blog via MoFuse. Just to see if I could do it. Off to find someone with a phone that can read it!
This blog is tucked away on my Fun tab in Netvibes so I only get to it once in a while (don’t worry, I have fun more often than that but not always fun of the RSS variety). I just LOVED this entry for some reason. It made nod and laugh all at the same time.
indexed: An Alanis kind of irony.
This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
I don’t think my geek cred is enough to understand all of this…but, it still just seems magical enough to be cool to me!
Google uses its ubiquitous search of all things – Flickr, Twitter, blogs, etc..and you can find out what is connected..either how you connect to yourself in other social sites and also how you are connected to friends. I need to spend more time with it but was fascinated with my quick test. I entered the three blogs I write and then, presto – up popped my Flickr and my Pownce sites. (and I had totally forgotten I had a Pownce site).
I got all Spock-like…”fascinating”.
I am in the middle of moving my office at work. That coupled with two days of out of town meetings last week means that I have been all but silent on the blogosphere. When I checked in today, I was a bit sad to see the last 5 postings were from my del.icio.us posting “thingy” (their word – not mine..I would use doodad or some other technically savvy term).
That struck me as blog-lazy. So, I deleted that. My plan was to use that feed as a way to make a very easy backup of the sites that I link in del.icio.us. And, it is that. But, it also seems to be the only fresh content and I don’t really like that so much.
So, off to find something else for capturing the deliciousness of social bookmarking but without acting like it is the main author of the blog.
Image: ‘I suppose I’d better start then!‘
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