Today I was given the assignment of measuring twitter influence. Here is what I did. All in all, it seemed to work well: I pulled the entire TwapperKeeper archive for the username (both @ mentions and mentions without the @) I went to The Archivist and looked at the analytics …
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I was at my local fitness Mecca trying out their wares on a seven day pass that I tend to take advantage of once a year. I saw this sitting on the table and I noticed that it was a new way of checking in. If you can’t tell from …
I have played angry birds for at least 15 hours of my life. I know this because the game alerted me when it happened. I have received other equally preposterous rewards, like breaking 5000 digital wooden boxes or shooting a few hundred birds out of a sling shot. I am …
I got this for Christmas and I can’t wait to start drawing up ideas on it. I have made it specifically clear that even though this paint will create an entire wall of dry erase area, it is not for our children to monopolize. I’m thinking of painting only the …
My year hasn’t been about numbers. It has been about ideas. And thoughts. And change. The curving mark that punctuated each day and made it memorable and archived was both the simplest and most incredibly difficult thing I have ever done. I would caress that mark and try and find …
Quite often we do not know when we are about to experience the last of something. The last day on the job comes as a surprise sometimes. The last moments before a child wakes up in the morning are a complete mystery. Even the last time that we see a …
We used to fold our clothes on the dining room table. Once about four loads of clean laundry sat in their baskets for four days or more, I would finally make it a point to start putting the underwear on the table. I would clear spaces for the towels. I …
I have never understood card catalog systems. Every time that I look at the series of numbers and letters in front of me on the cute little slip of paper that a kind librarian has given me, it is as if I am seeing it for the first time. I …
I have never know where the fork and knife are supposed to go. I have been told this information many times but I have never known it. I have never owned that bit of information because it never seemed to me to be essential. Sure, the manners required for eating …