I love my internship!!! I get to do all sorts of awesome things and it’s everything I love to do! I am so excited about everything I get to do and I am sure at this point my family is tired of hearing about my awesome internship.
Category: A Little Bit Geeky
Apple Media Seminar for Education
Currently, I am attending the Apple Media Seminar for Education. The content is good. I’m ready for the budget to be created at my campus to do some cool things – basically, I would like a Macbook, a Snowflake and endless space on the server for some amazing content. It currently isn’t in my job description, but I think I’m ready to make the move back into nerdery. I love financial aid, but I feel I am gravitating toward technology. I left technology when I started school and took a financial aid position in 2004, then just never looked back. I wonder if I am just going through the motions and resisting what I really want to do. Maybe I’m not resisting. Maybe I haven’t found a job description to fit me just yet.
Google Analytics – My site’s GPS
I’ve been running Google Analytics on my site for about 2 months now. Not sure who considers themselves in my readership, but I’m not doing half bad for not being ‘searchable’. As mentioned before, I have scrapped my blog before, so I want to make sure this one is doing okay for me, and my small group of readers, before I open my blog up completely.
Seeing that most of my readers are unique and I only have about 4 repeat visitors on a regular basis, this isn’t giving me a good feeling. It is cool though that tools, like Google Analytics, exist to help guide site development. So, I’m listening – the reports are the only ones speaking.
All the Cool Chicks are Doing It.
I’m incubating my first set of chicks in my incubator. This is a pretty cool device as everything is preset. It even came with an automatic egg turner. All I have to do is monitor the humidity, which is very easy with the digital gauge – just add water.
In thinking about incubators, I thought about the incubator I saw on Thinkgeek about a year ago, pictured above. It was pretty awesome – again, just add water. I also found a helmet incubator, which just looked cool, much cooler than my ‘styrofoam box’. What interesting technology – farming may just be crossing into something a little bit geeky.
Walk this Way, Blog this Way!
This is my third blog. I have scrapped and rebuilt out of my own dissatisfaction. What is it to blog? Should one only focus on one facet or glimpse of life? This is my problem. I feel my blog is too broad. I don’t have a focus. I’m into a lot of things (the reason behind my blog’s name). I feel like this is a mistake not focusing on one thing, but I also feel it is a mistake to deny reality. I am a multi-faceted person with many ideas and too much, albeit random, knowledge to share!
An interesting read over at ProBlogger got me thinking: What is a perfect blog? Is there a certain dynamic to blog? Does it have a style similar to APA or MLA? Mistakes are made, but do the readers even notice?
I am going to start blogging and publishing my podcasts soon for my job, where I will be expected to stay on topic. Let’s hope, for the students’ sake, I don’t end up rambling to my own amusement and boring them just enough to block my blog and vocal styling from their fond college memories.
P.S. I’m blogging a ton this weekend because I’m sick and I think a lot when I’m captive on the couch.
Baseball in the Palm of your Hand
Yesterday Chris and I caught a game, which was good. He got to go again today – I’m jealous. Getting beyond jealously, we were talking about how different stadiums are offering different items to enhance the experience. In Seattle, Gameboys access game information from the seats. Others offer handheld computers or info over the web to your phone or other wireless enabled device. So, why not Busch Stadium? It’s a brand new ball park, so one would think they would have tapped into this market.
The Power of Touch
I love technology. I love blowing someone away with something – “look what this can do” and his or her mind just stops. Amazing. It’s great when one can touch someone with technology like it completely changes their world.
I have to admit, one guy has touched me. I got an 8GB iPod Touch for Valentine’s Day this year. I have been sick for the past week with the flu, and needed something to fill my couch time, so Chris gave it to me a little early.
I am terribly excited about this little device. Apple has just brought so much together into one sleek tool. Of course, one could argue that it is no different than any other ‘PDA’; however, I’ve used PDAs and I don’t see myself ditching this anytime soon for one of those clunky things in the attic. The interface is nice. I don’t read directions. I just dive in. I picked this up without even fumbling one bit. My everything can be with me: music, photos, traffic, weather, videos, Internet, calendar, contacts, and any other programs I toss on there to make my life more organized. Kudos on another consumer electronics development by Apple.
