We are, in fact, just cool enough for this place. 2009

We're in our oh-so-cool room at the Ace Hotel in NYC listening to records - yes, vinyl! - on the in-room turntable, Joe reading Good magazine as I putter on the free internet. Hard not to want to stay at an Ace whenever one is available. So pleasing!

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Correction: Joe is reading Paper, not Good. At least so far.

2009

My demographic: over 35, taken, located in the west, graduate school, recent shift from Chuck Taylors to cowboy boots, outgoing.

2009

And now I can post to my blog and Twitter at the same time. TypePad, @sixapart, & @twitter, I kiss you!

Step by slow step, pulling it all together 2009

*phew* Even for web geeks sometimes this stuff can be such a long slow haul.

What I want is for my blog at MetaGrrrl.com to reflect all my online publishing as MetaGrrrl. That means, currently, that I want to have my tweets from Twitter and my photos from Flickr to appear inline along with longer blog posts.

It would also be swell if when I post to my blog, that would also be reflected in Twitter with a tweet.

All of this is made much more complex by the fact that I use advanced templates. Yes, I'm greedy; I want the maintenance ease of TypePad and the control of Movable Type. Fortunately, Six Apart usually gets me at least 80% of the way to where I want to go and frequently does so with more ease and elegance than I expected.

In theory, I've now linked my Twitter account to my TypePad account, but so far I haven't seen it actually work. Perhaps that's because the new little mini Compose function doesn't actually share out to Twitter, which seems bizarre since it's intended for short content, but might be true.

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Aha. Finally found a Share This Post help page with some screen shots and I wasn't getting the options in the interface. I deleted the Twitter account and re-added it and now it seems to be tickety-boo.

2009

Okay, so I don't need a TypePad Micro blog because my main blog has all the features & my goal is a single publishing stream. One point of confusion eliminated...

2009

Catching up on website to-do's tonight... Still questing after that single lifestream of glorious integration.

2009

As if the allure of all the good cocktail culture happening there and the proximity to excellent people like Matt Haughey weren't enough, now I find out that the guys behind the Neutra Face video are Portland-based.



Thank you, Portland!

2009

It is utterly ridiculous that my first instinct upon seeing it is to tweet "Gosh, I haven't seen the Twitter fail whale for ages!"



I think maybe that funny little application has fully integrated itself into my life.. :)

2009

Oo, this new quick composition box in the TypePad home page has exciting possibilities... Thanks, gang!

Significant repeated themes & motifs in my life 2009

I'm reading Sarah Susanka's The Not So Big Life and while some of it gets a little woo-woo new agey for me, I'm generally enjoying it. The pieces which are more tightly connected to her brilliant work as an architect and thinker on how we can occupy spaces that keep us happier are better than the generic spiritualism, I find.

Along the way there are various self-exploration exercises. Here's the list I brainstormed up about what are the significant and/or recurring themes/motifs/objects in my life.

• books
• checkerboard spheres
• little whimsical things (but non-obviously so)
• approximately Edwardian things and art
• wood
• unexpected angles (thinking here of the ceilings of my room as a kid, of a little table I have from the club I used to work at)
• walking
• libraries
• public transit (and I was writing this brainstormed list on the MTA originally)
• fresh produce
• spices
• alphabetization
• simple, practical, sturdy, beautiful objects (e.g. a wool blanket I bought in Scotland the summer after high school and still use regularly)
• Japanese art and design
• writing
• sleeping enough (or more than enough)
• dark bedrooms
• practical shoes
• The Web
• Macs and iPhones
• music usually playing
• sounds of the world
• lists
• showers
• reading
• kindness
• San Francisco
• London
• places where redwoods grow
• sourdough French bread
• British humor
• wit
• wordplay
• dictionaries and encyclopedias
• curiousity
• spring green
• all natural greens, really
• guitar music
• The Beatles
• Vince Guaraldi
• smiling
• fresh-cooked meals
• uncomplicated starts to the day
• naturalness (e.g. no makeup, honesty)
• dark chocolate
• cheese
• the feel of clean sheets
• being warm enough
• noticing details
• old houses and new houses with a sense of time and detail
• Victorian houses
• Craftsman furniture
• Craftsman aesthetics
• trying out new foods
• perpetual upgrade