Its been over a year since I wrote Metrics As A Side Effect, explaining how my perfect time tracking system would be something based on a Twitter like application. Imagine my surprise when I found that Harvest Time Tracking Software enables Twitter updates. Its not exactly how I described it, but its a step in the right direction. Totally cool.
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Who IS Next?
Photo by rbieber
The next four pictures are the kids shot at trying to do a "who’s next" album cover.
This was taken in August of 2007 on the “Grandma Tour”. The kids decided they would try their take at a random pose “Who’s Next” album cover like picture.
We took a number of them. This was my favorite.
The Great American Novel
Photo by rbieber
Just received my Amazon shipment of The Great American Novel by Keith Malley (host of Keith and the Girl). I’ve been looking forward to reading this for a while.
Update:
It looks like the book was released prematurely by Malleys publisher and is no longer available. Apparently the version on sale was not completely edited and the cover was not approved. Full explanation of what happened is available on KATG Episode #711 at around 37:40.
Chalk Outline
Photo by rbieber
The final result. Notice – there’s no neck.
I guess it is always going to be surprising what is actually popular. This one picture out of more than 3,500 of them is the one that seems to get all the attention, according to Flickr stats as of April 18, 2008.
Smokeblogging: Smoking Update for March
I’ve been having a really rough time over the last week keeping myself from smoking. I still haven’t, but it has been a real struggle.
What is worse though, is that when I mention this to people I get a response a lot like this tweet from Chris Jones via Twitter:
@rbieber ugggh dude i relapsed after 3 years 😦 (of no smoking)
I hear this a lot. People relapse after a really long time of not smoking. I’ve heard from 3 to 9 to even 20 years.
So Chris is not alone. So obviously I start to question.
Isn’t life too short to worry about things you “shouldn’t” be doing? Do I really want to spend the rest of my life obsessing about something like this, only to know that its inevitable that I go back? If the ultimate result is failure, than what is the point?
Its really tough for non-smokers to get this – but every smoker (or ex-smoker) understands these questions.
This is definitely a hard habit to break and there is a lot of evidence of failure all around you.
Picasso On Learning
Found this quote from Picasso on Twiiter from @LeMec (the_mindstorm) and really liked it:
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
– Picasso
Sounds a lot like a quote that I have in my library, but more brilliant. I think I’ll add this one.
Camera Experimentation: Long Shutter Speeds
Photo by rbieber
Halfway through exposure I put a candle in front of it.
Just playing around with the camera this evening, since it is raining and nothing is really on TV. There are more photos on the flickr site.
Link Structure Changed
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I’ve changed the link structure of the blog to get rid of the /wordpress/ in the URL. If you see anything screwy or not redirecting properly, please let me know by emailing me at ron_at_bieberlabs.com.
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