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Scrapbooking

Have I written about this before? I keep lots of journals. A journal for what I read, for what I bake, for what inspires me. Heck, I even started a web bookmark journal once. How prehistoric is that? I suppose I could’ve been the mastermind behind http://www.delicious.com/ or evernote. In fact, I could still probably come up with an app if I wanted to. But that is not why I’m writing.

I’m writing because now that I’ve lowered my standards and acquired a twitter account, should I also make the leap and join evernote and zootool and take my scrapbooking to the digital level? Do i sign up for a tumblr account, too? I bookmark and save web clips of all sorts of things and it shows in the number of “design ideas” directories I have all over my computer and the design ideas directory in my firefox bookmarks. Speaking of keeping track of one’s bookmarks and inspiration, I also use firefox sync so I can keep track of my bookmarks on every device where i might surf the web. Syncing my safari bookmarks to my various iDevices is probably easier but I use firefox because they had better web developer apps in the beginning and when I only used a PC (gasp!). In fact, Chris Pederick’s web developer toolbar still isn’t available for safari. Why is that? I digress…

Anyway, I have a blog so I can keep everything here. And I don’t want to integrate my web apps with my social networking apps – I don’t want to share or like or be friended or followed. I think facebook and twitter and foursquare and all of the aforementioned companies are probably getting together every month for drinks and golf and to discuss how they can take over the world. In the meantime, maybe I’ll think of and develop an app that makes digital scrapbooking on my blog easier. Or maybe not…

CSS gem

I designed a web site a while back that is no longer in use. It had a curved horizontal navigation menu. The rollover was achieved using CSS and moving the image on hover. There was one issue that concerned me, but I couldn’t find or, rather, didn’t look very hard for the solution: in the focus and active states, the image outline would show. It was distracting. I just discovered that if I had put the rule “outline:none;” on the focus and active states, the dotted lines would disappear. Perhaps I should reread my CSS book.

First friday

We finally made it to the monthly food truck fest in Venice. We swwooped into LAX to pick up NM and then consumed copious quantities of mobile food: takoyaki truck for octopus balls (shape, not anatomy), phamish (for banh mi), frysmith truck (for some crazy beef and and chili concoction over french fries), grilled cheese truck (the signature: cheesy mac and rib) and coolhaus (mint between a chocolate chip and a chocolate cookie and pear sorbet between snickerdoodles). First fridays is more than just a cluster of food trucks along abbott kinney, but who needs any more than that?

You didn’t…

I did. I just signed up for a twitter account because my honey wants to follow some LA food trucks. so i guess the real question now is: do i use the iphone’s location function to tweet where i’m at or use facebook’s location services to share my “places” with my friends (all 8 of them)? eee gad, this social networking business is both tedious and redundant. which is why i enjoy my blog where only 2 people can comment and less than 3 people know it exists.

Underwhelming. Disappointing. Just plain sad.

Oops…I wasn’t supposed to steal M’s thunder.

Wobbly

I can put 30 pounds of pressure on my left leg. I’m not exactly sure how much that is but I’ve been putting some weight on it and I’m a little wobbly. Like I have a new prosthetic leg. And the nerves in the bottom of my foot are having quite a party. Lots of new sensations…

Still here

You may have been wondering to yourselves: “where has she gone?” I’m still here. I didn’t dig myself into a hole or throw myself at my government’s steps in protest of the California marriage debacle. I went to Huntington Gardens to activate our membership and walked so hard that I hurt all over. I ate din tai fung. I yanked off the rest of my steri-strips. I’ve been eating a lot of hamburgers and drinking cokes. I’m probably getting a little pudgy. Oh and I used my new meat thermometer to take my temperature but nearly skewered myself in the tongue. Maybe I should stick to taking the bread’s temperature instead.