What’s your favorite Beatles song?
This morning I posted to Twitter
Good morning, tweeties! playing a little Beatles to get moving- Good Day Sunshine.
and then I asked
So, what’s your favorite Beatles song?
Then I went into Seesmic and posted the same question.
Which lead to a long, fun conversation there (click view thread if you only see one video.)
People have been posting YouTube vids of their favorite Beatles songs, and some have even sung and played.
What’s your favorite Beatles song? Let me know in the comments- text or video!
(this one’s for you, PB!)
Setting off Fireworks
Warning, heavy geekery to follow:
I’m devoting the next few weeks to learning as much as I possibly can of Adobe CS3. I dropped way too much money on it, for work you know. In fact I have needed PhotoShop & Illustrator, but the rest of it, even Dreamweaver which I once lived by, I manage to ignore. Expensive ignorance, I know. I’ve become especially enthralled with Fireworks. I used to own Fireworks MX for Windows before Macromedia sold it to Adobe along with Dreamweaver, but this version has little in common with that one outside of the name.
So I’m dropping even more money and signing up for lynda.com so I can learn what the heck all this software can do. It’s all so overwhelming- I’ve never been exactly patient, and I want to get it without having to learn it. But learn it I must.
If I had it all to do over again I’d major in graphic design. I know how to take someone else’s design and turn it into html & css, but my lack of formal knowledge about design itself leaves me sometimes stranded and feeling like a poseur. Sure, I could take classes now, and I probably will- but I figure I can get a head start by at least learning more about how the common design software works. At that point I can learn more about design theory and technique.
So if I’m scarce over the next few weeks this is why. I was going to wait until a complete lull in my work schedule but (thankfully) that doesn’t appear to be happening anytime soon. So between work, whipping the yard into shape for summer, painting and doing some minor home redecoration, I’m going to bury myself in Fireworks lessons.
See you when I’m ready to set off what I’ve learned!
I’m going to Twisney World!
Some of you may know I’m a big Walt Disney World geek. I’ve been distracted by other thing lately but WDW remains one of my favorite places on earth, and it’s the connection I have with a number of you reading this.
Today I discovered a site that mashes together my love of WDW with my love of geeky toys like Twitter. It’s called Twisney, and it allows you to post real-time updates & photos from the parks and resorts to a map, to Twitter, and to a Flickr stream.
You simply send an email or SMS message to twisney@twisney.com, or begin a tweet on Twitter with @twisney. If you attach a photo to the SMS or email it will post automatically, and if you include your location at the start of your message it will place you on the map of WDW on the website. The location names are intuitive- if you’re having a mango margarita at San Angel Inn restaurant in the Mexican Pavilion at EPCOT you can start your message with mexico restaurant, san angel, or San Angel Inn and it will place your update appropriately. Even if it’s just a fantasy post.
All the more reason to plan another trip!
Early signs of summer
The middle and high schools are updating their calendars to adjust for less snow days- meaning the youngest finishes a day earlier than scheduled and the middle one gets a two day Memorial Day break.
The lawn is more of a weed garden. Most of our neighbors hire landscapers so they look just fab, even have annuals planted already in some cases. We have teenagers. Need to crack the whip on that I think.
Son number one finished up his finals yesterday, and later this afternoon Pat is heading up with my Vue to help him bring all his stuff home. I gave his bedroom a major cleaning, last time I’ll touch it till September :).
Tonight is the last night for my bowling league. It was a love/hate thing for me this year, I have to admit. I love that I get to spend time with friends I rarely see otherwise, but I just wasn’t into the bowling thing itself. It would help if the lanes would upgrade a bit- the scoring computers and screens are probably 15 years old.
The calendar is filling with weekend celebrations, vacations and mini-trips.
And I’m wearing flipflops.
