Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

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We inherited these three kittens from our neighbors who are moving. They were nothing but skin and bones and when we brought out the tuna, Shadrach did a belly flop on the plate and spread his paws out so the others couldn’t take it all from him

They have moved into the barn and are now happily chasing our bajillion mice. Maybe they’ll even get to the homing pigeons that keep breeding in our rafters out there. The guy that built the house raised homing pigeons and they keep coming back.

Ginger Bear

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This is Ginger.. our English Pointer puppy. She is sleeping here, but is usually romping around, challenging the dominance structure of our other mutts. We got her a snuggie cape since her coat is thin and Jolee (our terrier) beat the bejebees out of her for wearing it… Jolee likes to be the only one who wears a princess cape.

Trying out the WordPress iPhone app. Nice. Publishing is a bit clunky and its a bummer that I can’t see stats but otherwise pretty slick. Maybe I’ll start becomming a regular blogger again.

Phil Wolff of Skype Journal recently asked the Emerging Communications founder Lee S Dryburgh, what he thought would come after Skype.

Dryburgh believes that consumer intent will become king of telephony, aka google bots reading your email to target ads related to your intent. Semantic phones, here we come.  Dryburgh sees Skype as phase one… in Phase 2, our antiquated painful phone system will lose out to new technologies that can more readily interpret the intent behind calls. 

Attention metadata, I suppose. Who are you calling? Do you call for pizza every day at 4:00 pm?  You may want pizza coupons. Do you call an assisted living facility where you mother lives on Fridays? You may be interested in a new treatment for alzheimers. A bit scary if you ask the privacy advocates… but certainly convenient for those of us who sell our private souls for ease and great deals at the grocery store.

Skype Journal: Dryburgh: What’s after Skype? Intent.

Life magazine pulled together shots of weird animals and of course I feel compelled to share them with you. I’ve been a fan of Mike the Headless Chicken for a while, but was glad to meet a few more wonky characters.

Mike the Headless Chicken. It's harder to get a headless chicken to live than you might think. I know. I've tried.

I really want an Aye-Aye. It would fit right in with my menagarie, n’est pas?

The Aye-Aye is from Madagascar. This one reminds me of an ex-boyfriend...as I see him now.

Twine… a new social bookmarking system that takes social bookmarking and recommendations to the next level… well, the same level where were with the Folksemantic Project, really…two years ago.  I can’t tell you how many white papers and articles I’ve written on the concepts that are now employed in Twine. I’m thrilled to see these principles in play. And bugged that the twine guy will become a multi millionaire while I work on online hazardous materials courses for a big box store so I can pay my mortgage. Semantic Web here we come… or really, here they come. I’ll be along once I figure out how to make the definition of hazardous waste engaging for the average 4th grade reader.

I’m good enough, I’m strong enough, and gosh darn it, people like me. This week’s British Psychological Society’s (BPS) research digest is packed with goodness…You can actually learn to become more emotionally intelligent, caring for your partner can extend your life, if you are likable in the flesh, you’ll be likable online, and if you’ve lived abroad, you’re more likely to be creative.

Live long and prosper.

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/

Here’s what I’m listening to these days…http://www.last.fm/listen/user/shelleylyn/recommended

So I’m currently on a project that keeps me in Salt Lake City during the week- away from our home in lovely Cache Valley.  I love the work, but miss my animals (and my husband of course).  Fortunately, I can talk to Rob on the phone… it’s harder to have a conversation with my goat Wilson on the phone.   And Izzy our black lab just ends up licking the phone.  So last weekend I decided to do a photo shoot with all of the animals.  I plan to splatter my gray cubicle with goats, bunnies, dogs and pictures of Rob and me so I’m not so homesick.  I’ve uploaded them to Flickr…

So I’m just started a project in Salt Lake and for the first time in a long time… I don’t have access to my iTunes.  Last.fm has been filling in the blanks.  And I’d like to say- it’s been too long since I pulled my head out of my own music library.  New favorite artists…

• Cary Brothers
• Ray LaMontagne
• Joshua James
• and counting

This message is for you Jack (Johnson).  I love you man, really I do.  But it’s time for me to open my eyes and do a little shopping around.  But no worries, you’ll always be in my heart.  Same for you Nora.