I think I lost perspective somewhere in the middle of the last development cycle. That would have been, uh… December. Yeah, that sounds right. Somewhere after Thanksgiving but before Christmas I definitely lost perspective. Or maybe I just set it down somewhere, intending to pick it up later. It hardly matters now, since I don’t remember where I put it. At this point, I’ll almost certainly have to get a new one.
Most recently this struck me last weekend when I was talking to my project manager. Via IM. At 11pm. Because they just sort of know I’ll be working that late most nights, you see. And I was telling her that maybe if I had time next week, I’d go through the Future Enhancements list and categorize them, make a task list and estimate some Level Of Efforts. “Just for fun,” I told her.
When you use the phrases “estimated Level Of Effort” and “just for fun” in the same sentence, it’s a cry for help. Write that on your wall, it’s the sort of thing they’ll never teach you in Nerd School.
1 month ago
Did I mention how far behind I am? I did? Okay, I won’t bring it up again. But this whole FollowOnTumblr meme started by joelaz (I caught it from Rod’s post originally) is so last month by now. I feel like a kid turning in his homework a few weeks late. Of course it doesn’t help that I decided I just had to organize and comment it before posting. That’s the big disadvantage of being OCD and ADD at the same time.
[Ed. Note: I posted this last night, then realized I’d written most of it a week or two ago and who knows what had changed, and maybe I oughtta go back and check links and make sure people were still alive and then… ah, screw it. It’s going up as is or not at all. I do not have a lawyer, so please don’t sue me for inaccuracies.]
Note: Asterisks denote inactive tumblelogs.
Favorites
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marco
Isn’t Marco everybody’s favorite? Without him there would be no FollowOnTumblr post.
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david
The same goes for David, except that his posts mostly seem to consist of inside jokes. I keep following for the hints about new features.
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dawnowar
The first time I saw her tumblelog, I thought “Dawn O’War, Heavy Metal Web Designer” sounded like a television show from 20 years in the future. I’ve been hooked ever since.
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toldorknown
I started following Rod for the scripts, but I kept following because I secretly suspect he’s smarter than me. He also turns me on to great ideas like this FollowOnTumblr thing, and it probably doesn’t hurt that he actual pays attention to my drivel.
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cubicle17
I follow Bill partly to check out the themes, partly to check out for the cools links and partly to see what other St. Louis area IT professionals do with their time at work. Turns out its not terribly dissimilar to what I do with my time at work… who knew?
RL Friends (People I arm-twisted into trying Tumblr. Note the prevalence of asterisks.)
Famous People (It’s sort of like Access Hollywood for the web.)
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paulscheer
I will somewhat grudgingly admit to being a Best Week Ever fan, largely due to Paul Scheer. It’s something of an embarrassment that I haven’t seen Human Giant yet.
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gina
Somehow Gina Trapani finds time to post here occasionally. I’m pretty sure if I had time to read Lifehacker more often I’d understand how she does it.
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leo*
Leo LaPorte of TWiT fame gave up on Tumblr for his own blog a while ago, but he did the same thing on Twitter and eventually returned, so I keep following him anyway. Quitter.
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merlin
I wonder if [Merlin Mann] wishes he’d waited to design 43folders so he could add a 44th for Tumblr.
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juliaallison Does being on television automatically make you famous? What if you’re half od Jakulia, the Tumblr Power-Couple of the Year.
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jakoblodwick
New York new media power-broker can get friends laid instantly, with partners that never even existed, merely by flexing his powerful Gawker-muscles. Used to be interesting before he became the boring half of a Power-Couple. Yeah, I’m just link-baiting now… so what?
Around The World (A tiny little UN of Tumblr, except without the veiled threats.)
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empiffle
Somewhere in the Far East - I wish I understood Unicode well enough to determine where.
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mocrlbmut
Somewhere in the Far East - Another collection of photos captioned in a character set with which I am not familiar.
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helloszabi
Budapest, Hungary - Hello Budapest!
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peteashton
Birmingham, UK - Nearly voted Brummie of the Year.
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poirpom
France - Hover over the link to see the coolest name for a blog ever? I couldn’t even type it, I had to cut and paste. Also started the Tumblrs channel, the only active Tumblr channel that I’m aware of.
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perelson
Port Elizabeth, South Africa - Creator of WinTumblr, which is a great little program that I hardly ever use.
Special Purpose (Not like Steve Martin’s special purpose in The Jerk.)
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wintumblr A nice browser-external Tumblr client for Windows (guess you probably got that from the name, huh?) that I hardly ever remember to use.
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humangiant
What does it say about me that I follow the production blog of a show I don’t watch? And why doesn’t television come via RSS feed? Hint: the answers are related.
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dearinternet*
A collection of people writing letters to the internet at large. A neat idea, but alas, it turns out very few people write letters to the internet at large.
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textsfromtheex*
My favorite dead tumblr. Somebody posting all the text messages they received from an ex-girlfriend. “One side of the conversation,” as the blog says. It sounded like a very, um, interesting, er, relationship. But the internet is a very small place, and the experiment ended when someone familiar with both parties stumbled across the URL.
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randomint*
Another great idea for a random tumblelog, since abandoned as most great ideas on the internet are.
Miscellaneous (Interesting links, cool images, vague envy or internet crush. I can’t give a reason for everything I do.)
5 months ago
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