My eye doctor has this spaceage device called an Optomap that takes a picture of the back of your eye – the retina. I was getting my eyes checked a few weeks ago and had my eyes photographed using this system. The images were amazing. I asked my doctor if I could get a copy sent to my email address. (Yes, I am a total geek!) Here are Optomap images of both my right and left eyes. My eyelashes appear at the bottom of each image.
Left eye:
Right eye:
Recently, the head space that I am devoting to various Web 2.0 sites and applications has begun to feel quite cumbersome. I decided to create a post on my “Web 2.0 footprint.” My usage of each of these sites ebbs and flows. This list represents Web 2.0 services that I use at least once per month. Without further ado, here is a list in no particular order (with links to my personal profiles) of the Web 2.0 sites and services that I currently engage with on the interwebs:
WordPress.org: It runs my blog. I’ve tried Blogger and heard a lot about Movable Type, but WordPress has my blogging heart in its php basket.
Twitter: I’m still not sure what it’s good for ;-). My virtual journal consists of my blog, my live journal account and my twitter account. Sometimes I just need a few words in the Twitterspace to get something out of my head.
LiveJournal: Everything that does not get posted on my blog or on Twitter is posted on my LiveJournal account. Private groups get treated to spectacular rants and it serves as a space for me and my local friends to share all sorts of thoughts and feelings.
Flickr: Only a few of the gigabytes of photographs that I have taken are on my Flickr account. I really need to upload more when I get some spare time.
Facebook: I use Facebook on a daily basis. It’s a great place to connect with friends. It enables me to stay connected with a lot more people than I probably would be able to in the “real” world. Facebook isn’t perfect, but in my opinion, it is the only show in town for my social networking needs.
Many of you have heard me reference the fact that I grew up on an acreage in Iowa. Here are a few relevant stats:
More pictures after the jump…
A friend posted a listing of jobs that they have worked at on their LJ. I decided to place the “Jobs that I have had” meme into the blogosphere:
Feel free to list your jobs in the comments…
My brain feels like the egg in that frying pan…it’s a bit cooked. I will have had over 60 appointments this week. Faces and names have blurred together into something that looks like a Jackson Pollock painting.
Frequent topics of discussion this week include: “fun” classes, study abroad, dual-enrollment, graduation, financial aid, class standing, course overrides, changing majors, the location of the Registrar’s Office, Spring term classes, bacc core, studying, transfer credit articulation, closed classes, waitlisting, Phase 1 and Phase 2 registration, the sauna-like temperature of my office, recitations, the OSU Luau, caffeinated beverages, social justice, the benefits of being a Mac user, the aesthetic limits of Poling Hall, course petitions, long term planning, transcripts, practicum/internship applications, and the height differential of my chair versus my guest chair.
I visited and/or lived in the following cities in 2007*:
Cannon Beach, OR
Ashland, OR
Portland, OR
Corvallis, OR (Home)
Newport, OR
Orlando, FL
Warwick, RI
Columbus Junction, IA
Washington, DC
*one or more nights were spent in each place
MediaTemple is my web host. Recently, they have had a lot of technical difficulties with their Grid-Service that resulted in unscheduled downtime and blogosphere frustration. The problem was caused by a hardware malfunction. MediaTemple, a company that is highly aware of the competitive nature of the web hosting world, decided to give their Grid-Service customers 2 months free credit on their accounts. I truly hope that this is the last of the downtime gremlins for MediaTemple. There are a lot of hosting options and I picked (several years ago) MT because they host one of my favorite web authors, Jeffrey Zeldman.
My addiction to web site statistics continues unabated…although is has been quite a while since I posted about my site’s web analytics.
My blogging has been a bit lax as of late. I’ve been very busy with “brickosphere” commitments. Who knew that an academic advising position could be so enjoyably exhausting :-). Plus, I’ve been going to the gym 3 times a week. I’m in a contest with my metabolism…I think I’m winning!
The blogosphere has kept my bloglines (rss feeds) inundated with tons of terrific things to read. There are currently about 50 tabs in firefox (and hundreds of bookmarked blog posts) that could lead to potential blog posts. I might just rock out to Ben Harper and see how many posts pour out… Cheers.
I have a pet spider. Bob the Spider has been outside my front door for at least a month! I even uploaded a video of Bob the Spider working on a web. It’s after the cut.
Check out the hi-res version of Bob the Spider now on my Flickr account…
