jennimi

It was one year ago tomorrow (365 days ago today) that Scott and I and a couple dear friends and fellow fans of Mike Birbiglia (that’s pronounced “bir-big-lee-ah”), headed on down to the Town Ballroom to see the young (yet somehow seasoned) comedian do his magic and get us all laughing and feeling his pain and yet even still laughing our arses off some more. Told my fave sleepwalking story that night (hotel and big lawn)… but I digress. The evening started nicely with wings and conversation, and a short drive to the venue. I don’t think the four of us were ready for the openers. You may have noticed I’ve placed a “demand Mike” embed on my site (go! demand!).

But….. let’s keep 103.3 The Edge out of things this next time, if there ever IS to be a next time. The radio station had obviously done no research on the Birbigs following, and with members of his FAMILY in the audience I am surprised he carried on with the show. Gross sexist humor? Uhm… not my (or most of the audience’s) thang. But of course he was a total professional and forged ahead, later showing his improv chops by calling the openers out, in that nice way he has mastered. If I recall there was one opener who was great, just to be fair. Oops, maybe I shouldn’t have said that thing about 103.3, maybe I should have said nothing. Well at least I wrote it down. Now, on to more positive things. Keep reading →

well darn golly gee if someone didn’t accuse me of possibly cracking a smile here. to the dear requester of the hair down… we’ll just have to see about this here stylie. upcoming: more “meaningful” things (are there?). stay tuned.

related:

Almost cut my hair
It happened just the other day
It’s gettin kinda long
I coulda said it was in my way
But I didn’t and I wonder why
I feel like letting my freak flag fly
Cause I feel like I owe it to someone

Must be because I had the flu’ for Christmas
And I’m not feeling up to par
It increases my paranoia
Like looking at my mirror and seeing a police car
But I’m not giving in an inch to fear
Cause I missed myself this year
I feel like I owe it to someone

When I finally get myself together
I’m going to get down in that sunny southern weather
And I find a place inside to laugh
Separate the wheat from the chaff
I feel like I owe it to someone
- “Almost Cut My Hair” - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Déjà Vu

No, Lee, you don’t have to stop your messing around, or think of your future, unless you want to. I just wanted to say out loud and personal that this deep orange book of graph paper with the inscription and front cover word art brought me to tears yesterday when I opened up the package. It was the “J. Liberrian” I think, that did it. But the Doors quotation rawks, too. It was a boost of confidence needed and needed and needed. Orange, graph paper, a good weight and a strong binding. And perfect for pencils. A jennimi must. Keep reading →

Dear Flickr,

We’ve been together for awhile now. From the 2005 days when I awkwardly learned your (at times) complicated help and settings navigation, while maintaining a free account, to purchasing server space (my way of saying I pay for a professional account), uploading, to date, 2676 items and being blessed with 40, 354 views. I’ve spent many an hour learning your cool organization options like sets, collections, tags and favorites. Ironically, the first photo I posted was of my Dad and his wife Fran at my brother’s wedding rehearsal dinner (for new readers, my father is gone now). Being able to share photos and comments with family, friends, and in many cases strangers has been a huge catalyst not only in getting other folks on board with your cool site, but in building and maintaining a (now) hugenormous group of “contacts” now posting and sharing and so on. Let’s face it, just as for some of us paging through a print album can be a special experience, so is watching folks’ experiences through their photography, even online. Especially, for me, because so many of my friends and family live far and wide.

Some of my best referencey moments as a librarian have involved teaching others how to make the best of your site to meet their needs and maybe even learn something new and cool they might consider. Flickr, I could go on and on, but I am sure you get that I am saying I am a fan.

I hint above that I have many people in my Flickr contacts list. I don’t have enough time to keep up with all of their work. But when I have some time to catch up, I usually have 700+ photos in my contacts’ stream, and sometimes miss family photos, or photos by friends - many of whom are librarians and do cool things and travel to awesome places. Flickr, I want to be able to rank “recent photos from your contacts.” Perhaps a screen divided in three, or three (really four) links to recent folks. Family, Friends, Contacts, and Private would suffice for my needs. But in the future I may wish to have even more of my own categories for contacts. It’s not that the art from a “contact” is any less interesting than that of “family;” still, I would like to have the option of choosing. I don’t want to miss any more family photos because I had to scroll through 5 or more pages to see them.

Flickr, back when you were a little guy I could write you a letter and you’d respond. Now, I am directed to discussion fora and FAQs. That’s why I am writing, for the record, on my web site. The other reason is perhaps to hear what other users are feeling about this issue?

Maybe I am being picky and overly critical of such a great site, but seriously, let me separate out or rank my contacts so I don’t find family photos 2 weeks late.

Sincerely, jennimycontactslistisblissfullylargeandi’dliketomakesureidon’tmissanyone.

a.k.a jennimi