Gray bunny
I'm Kelly and I'm not in LA anymore, which is exciting. But probably only for me and the husband, because now I don't really have much craziness to talk about. I'm still checking up on you all from time to time though.
The Day Facebook Changed: Messages to Become Public by Default
This is what Facebook has to say about it. They will prompt you to change or accept your new privacy settings— while the recommended setting will be to share a few things more publicly, you will have the option then and there to keep it all private. I personally have crazy privacy settings on FB: different information available to different groups of people, and I still say next to nothing publicly on there because it’s almost more a professional networking spot for me now than anything else. I’ll be interested to see if I can keep my complicated privacy settings while FB is trying to simplify all of it….
Some more Facebook bullshit that proves once again Facebook is their own worst enemy. Now by default status messages, photos and videos, etc… are visible to the public by default unless you change your privacy settings. So lame Facebook, so very lame…
Twitter is what you make it
“For me, the conversation about Twitter closely resembles the tale of the blind men and the elephant. People are so determined to pin down what Twitter is and is not that they are missing the overall point: that Twitter is everything that people describe it to be. Want to share what you had for breakfast? Go for it. Want to keep tabs on a couple of friends? You got it. Professional networking? It’s there, just do it. Build up an online presence cult of personality? Tweet away, oh future internet trend despot. It is the Web 2.0 Mirror of Erised, a magical looking glass upon which a person can gaze at what they wish to see and input their say in their Twitter feed. How can it possibly be any simpler? While it might not be for everyone, with the proper external tools and some internet elbow grease, it can satisfy the most picky user’s expectations.”
(I’m a personal subscriber to keeping tabs on friends and letting them know what’s going on with me, especially now that I’m across the country from most of my twitter people rather than in the same room with them. Throw in some Brits who make me smile, and voila, that’s my twitter- simple as that)
She reads!
I actually finished a book! Cormac McCarthy’s The Road was excellent. I even knew what was going on most of the time. (Kidding) (Okay, not kidding, there were a couple times I totally didn’t know what was going on) (I promise I’m not illiterate)
Anyway, I watched the trailer for the movie and am quite worried about how conventional blah blah it looks, so read the book instead. Which you all have probably already done because you do useful and enriching things with your time like reading, while I lie on the couch watching TCM continuously.
Hey, it’s almost work-related for me.Sort of.
Yeah, not really, since now I just catalog TV shows all the time. But someday someone will ask me if Freddie Bartholomew was in the 40s version of The Secret Garden and I’ll say “No, goddamnit, that was Dean Stockwell! Come on!” See how useful I am?
On a related note, my co-workers and I mused at lunch today about what drinks named after child stars other than Shirley Temple would be made of. Hence, my random spouting above about Freddie vs. Dean. We all got weirded out when contemplating the “Rusty Tamblyn”. I’m stopping.
Yeah, I was with you for about 5 minutes, until I read the list of things I would have to do in order to read this book properly. Aren’t summers for
laziness and cold movie theaters? Come back to
me when I’m arriving and leaving work in the dark this winter, then I might be more
open to homework-like personal enrichment projects.
Let’s do this!
How to Tell if a Recipe is Cheap and Healthy Just By Looking at it
Now that my Kris is a house-husband and endeavoring to make affordable, tasty dinners for us, we have a renewed interest in cooking and just spent the last 45 minutes looking at this site. Now I just have to talk him into the healthy part! Thanks for the link Jess!
Kris at ‘Cheap, Healthy, Good’ has you covered. Tips include things like:
- DO choose your source wisely
- DO check the number of servings
- DON’T dismiss a long list of ingredients outright
- DON’T rule out all fatty ingredients
Just discovered this resource and I can already tell it’s going to be one of my daily must-reads!
THR - NBC renews 'Chuck'!
Hooray hooray! Fedak just had a baby, so he could definitely use another season of paychecks!
” In the battle of Chuck vs. the Network Suits, the Buy More geek has prevailed. NBC has decided to give Josh Schwartz’s well-liked action-comedy another shot next fall.
The network picked up 13 episodes of the series from Warner Bros., which, in a business-side trend this year, made some budget concessions to secure the show a third season.Fans pushed NBC very hard for a pickup, launching a “Save Chuck” campaign that included buying sandwiches at series sponsor Subway.” (via:thr)
I bought my $5 Footlong from Subway to support ‘Chuck’ and it looks like it worked. NBC made the right decision this time.
In the saddest, scariest moments of this cross-country move, like right now, there’s one thought that calms me down and makes me smile: I’m married to my best friend, and he’s coming with me. Not only that, but he’s excited. I couldn’t ask for more.
Well.
It’d be nice if he’d get out of bed at some point this morning.
Good audiobooks?
I’m sorry that I now only ask questions of Tumblr; moving across the country in less than a couple weeks has made our lives a bit hectic but not very interesting to anyone but us.
But we will be driving cross-country beginning on Memorial Day, and I’m looking for some audio book recommendations. The last few I’ve tried have been failures- either books too free-form to listen to (like THE ROAD, which I’m now reading) or those with terrible readers (reader of BLOOD MERIDIAN had ridiculous mouth noise). And those just both happen to be Cormac McCarthy.
So you know what’s good- quality readers reading something that’s easily followed while still being complicated or interesting enough to be engaging. I, personally, would probably listen to Stephen Fry reading me every Harry Potter book again, but Kris doesn’t have that kind of tolerance for repetition. Thoughts are appreciated!
I'm almost finally allowed to say it
I haven’t been posting partially because I had crazy big news that I wasn’t allowed to share, but I got the official word and am just declaring it sharing time.
I’m leaving the beautiful, silly place I work and Los Angeles and the west coast altogether to take a job at another beautiful, though maybe slightly-less-silly place: the National Audiovisual Conservation Center, home to the Library of Congress’s motion picture department. Kris and I are overjoyed to be headed back to the east coast, more homey-feeling territory closer to our family and with a more reasonable cost of living.
But I’ve been in LA six years, and I admit that I will miss it. The tacos. The not having to look at the weather because it’s always the same. But mostly I’m going to miss my job and all the crazy people I work with, to the point that I can’t type this sentence without crying. It’s pretty much the only real job I’ve ever had, and I know more than anyone how lucky I’ve been to have had this experience.
God, I can’t believe we’re going to have to pay for movies from now on.
I start a month from tomorrow. If you find yourself near Culpeper, VA and want to check out the awesomest place ever built for a film collection, let me know.
Oh, You Have 70 Thousand Twitter Followers? Congratulations, Shitbag. (via jessicalindsey)
Yes, the guy referenced is of course a total douche. Ugh, “People have called me…” But, can’t you just replace the word Twitter in this quote with Tumblr, or blogging, or Facebook status updates? Except that in some other venues, you’re asking people for more of their time to read your crap that doesn’t matter? We all do it in all sorts of places- singling out Twitter as being inherently douchey doesn’t really make any sense. Because I kind of just like to know what my favorite British people and favorite people in real life are up to. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t follow them. And I certainly don’t expect anyone to follow me- it’s just an easy way for me to keep tabs on what I’ve been doing because I have the memory of a goldfish these days. Plus, now my officemate and I don’t have to have the “How was your weekend?” conversation on Monday mornings because we already know. Sometimes we don’t even talk to each other at all on Mondays. Okay, that’s not really healthy, but it makes me laugh.
