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Cartoon of Neil Gaiman quote by zenpencils.com. This is really hitting home for me right now.
Cartoon of Neil Gaiman quote by zenpencils.com. This is really hitting home for me right now.
Samba had a good day at Concord, getting her first rally leg, and going Reserve Winners Bitch. Reggie said she would have won if he hadn’t stepped on her foot. :) (We didn’t see that happen, not sure if he was kidding or not.) I am thrilled with how well she did with all the chaos of Concord– 1500 dogs, hundreds of people, being groomed and handled by folks she only met briefly a couple of weeks ago. She is exhausted, and so am I. All 3 of us took a 2 hour nap, woke up to eat, and probably won’t be awake much longer. She is such a good natured dog, just rolling with the punches, wanting to please. I was a bit more out of sorts than I would have liked for rally– hopefully that will be better tomorrow.
Holy crap, this really resonates: The Slow Web by Jack Cheng. Having recently about had a breakdown caused by the fast web and our fast culture, I am glad to see that I am not the only once thinking about this. I love the graphic of the hummingbird vs. the snail. I need to be a lot more snail-like these days to get a grasp on the thread of my life.
For some really want to have an archive of all my online data. Maybe because I don’t have kids or something. But I think just like how we like to go through old letters to learn more about our ancestors, someday someone will want to go through this stuff to learn more about me or the crazy time I live in. I just feel like I need to have a personal history. I like the idea of this file-based, no database CMS. The simplicity appeals to me. I think I have been overwhelmed with all the noise in the past few years, and I really need a way to find the signal again. Maybe this could help do that. What I’m not sure about is how to get all my other data in here, and if I should really worry about it or not. Twitter is going all nuts with it’s restrictions, and after March 2013 won’t support RSS anymore. So I will not be able to use that to pull in and archive my tweets like I am doing now with Wordpress. I think the WP solution has already stopped working (thanks, Twitter). So my options are:
Seriously. Twitter, you are the newest culprit. The main reason I am thinking about not going forward with the whole franchise idea is that I will have to spend lots of time marketing my business to people. I just don’t know how to exist in this society sometimes.