That’s It
Season’s over. No more xmas posts. Next stop: NYE.
AWESOME TUMBLR MOSAIC IS AWESOME.
This is kind of mindblowing, actually. It appears to go all the way back to the beginning. There are some things (like this and this and this and this)that I thought I’d lost forever when I had hardware trouble in July. And I apparently repeat myself. The photo I posted earlier today is also one of the first things I ever posted, way back in April. (What’s the opposite of shocked?)
I was sliding towards maudlin there but this fixed my face right up.
<3
Agreed. It is awesome. And revealing?
OMG! It is!
Well, yeah, you guys pretty much nailed it. Way cool. Makes me want to go back and tag all my old pics or something.
Only 365 Shopping Days Until Xmas
Typically enough, I spent all month collecting xmas-related images and now only have hours to post them. It doesn’t particularly help that I keep seeing stuff I want to reblog… I’m looking at you, lindsayhuffman. Give me a chance to catch up over here, I’m still sipping coffee.
Local Elections…
…are just glorified Tumblarity contests.
Sometime yesterday I apparently broke 100 tumblarity. I didn’t actually notice until I started seeing an unprecedented number of likes and reblogs this afternoon. I don’t know how that particular metric is computed, and I think I’m happier that way. I recommend the Greasemonkey userscript that replaces Tumblarity with a follower count.
Anyway, thanx for the attention. Don’t let my disdain for the numbers fool you, it’s just a defense mechanism; everyone close to me knows I’m an attention whore.
Tending And Feeding
Checked out the blogs of a few of my followers last night, ended up following another ten. A few of those were re-upped from the twenty I dropped. What can I say? I’m mercurial. Now I need to go subscribe to some new RSS feeds, so I can keep feeding the Tumblr-verse.
I guess it goes without saying that I have too much time on my hands.
bengold :: reblog (tumbled from soxiam) I’m so far behind in reading Tumblr posts that Google Reader now just tells me *1000+. I’m consciously trying to avoid reblogs, both to get through stuff faster and because I figure that once something is 10 days old it’s worthless on the internet. It’s difficult though… habits die hard, and I fear my loyal reader(s?) may miss some important picture of legos or a fascinating quote about software development or something. So if you’re bored, go check out some of the links you’re unfamiliar with from my “follow on Tumblr” post. We will return you to your regularly scheduled information overload as soon as possible.*
FollowOnTumblr
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
- marco
Isn’t Marco everybody’s favorite? Without him there would be no FollowOnTumblr post. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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.)
- 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. - 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. - 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. - merlin
I wonder if [Merlin Mann] wishes he’d waited to design 43folders so he could add a 44th for Tumblr. - juliaallison Does being on television automatically make you famous? What if you’re half od Jakulia, the Tumblr Power-Couple of the Year.
- 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.)
- empiffle
Somewhere in the Far East - I wish I understood Unicode well enough to determine where. - mocrlbmut
Somewhere in the Far East - Another collection of photos captioned in a character set with which I am not familiar. - helloszabi
Budapest, Hungary - Hello Budapest! - peteashton
Birmingham, UK - Nearly voted Brummie of the Year. - 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. - 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.)
- 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.
- 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. - 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. - 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. - 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.)
- sharelle
- inky
- whami
- melaniecolburn
- rickr
- featureorbug
- andreaallen
- alicia
- sunluvr
- atherdiscretion
- dalasverdugo
- setuplikeadeckofcards
- montoya
- bluechameleon
- aeioux
- karimmarucchi
- sayama
- yourmonkeycalled
- allen
- travors
- soxiam
- tubbies
- lindsey
- likeaduck
- tiffany
- squashed
- yum9me
- delee928
- migzboi*
- embereye
- shawnblog
- ghostvirus
- mfg
- adora
- gschueler
Markdown Testup
Thanks to Rod Knowlton I’m using the spare processor cycles in my brain to learn Markdown instead of working, reading my Tumblr backlog, or playing Rock Band. It does seem like a much quicker method of writing blog entries though.
Hmm… I wonder if I can enter Markdown from my BlackBerry. Have to check that out later.
Tumblr Feature Suggestion
from Told Or Known:
It’s not exactly what you asked for, but Tumblr v3 Customize Reblog now supports translation of Tumblr usernames into user defined strings (as seen above).Okay Rod, you officially rock. And you are going to force me to get off my lazy ass, abandon the rich text editor and learn Markdown this week. Oh well, sounds more fun than work. I guess whatever reblogs I find in the five or six days worth or backlog I’m running will be good exercises.
Browser Clean-Up
For the last week, my installation of Portable Firefox has been slowly growing in size and memory footprint. I’ve been keeping tabs, and eventually entire windows full of tabs, open in hopes that I’d soon have a chance to pay a proper amount of attention to the contents. When I’ve needed to close the browser for whatever reason, I’ve either been killing the process or shutting down the system to take advantage of Firefox’s session restore. When I woke up this morning, I was up to four browser windows, with an average of eight tabs each. When I started flipping through a few articles in Google Reader, opening yet more tabs, I realized things had gotten out of control.
A person with a better work ethic would probably have just closed the browser, killed the session and all those pages at once, and moved on with their day. I guess that’s just not me. On and off all day, every time I sat down at the computer I made my way through them all, followed the links I wanted to follow, tumbled the things I wanted to tumble, and generally just blew off work. I even went and played through six songs on Rock Band after I posted all those quotes.
Somewhere in the back of my mind is an itchy feeling of guilt, and I’ll probably regret this on Monday, but I actually feel like I accomplished something today. After three weeks of working 10-20 hour days, even through the holiday weekend, I think I deserved the time off even if I couldn’t afford it. And maybe now I’ll be able to face this intractable, impenetrable codebase we laughingly call a product with a little more hope.
Or at least I can start opening some more of the 600 tumblelog posts that I haven’t read from the last week without worrying so much about memory consumption.
