A bit of this and that to wrap up the work week:
- Project #1 for today: dealing with my Delicious bookmarks, including my carefully curated Maru archive. On Lifehacker’s recommendation, I’ve signed up for Pinboard. I’ve gone back and forth on bookmarking for a while – I used Xmarks pretty heavily for a few years, but found the web interface a bit clunky and slow-loading. Delicious has been great for my purposes for years, and I’m sad to see it go.
- Project #2: change passwords around the internet in the wake of the Gawker hack.
- Catalog Living may have saved my day on Wednesday. Seriously, I don’t remember the last time I laughed that hard. Thank you to everyone who sent me your favorite internets, by the way. So many funny things!
- For 30 seconds of hilarity and birds, watch some of these product videos of squirrel-proof bird feeders, especially the Yankee Flipper
- Also: Comments overheard at a brainstorming meeting between Ted Nugent and the editors of Gourmet Magazine where they were discussing the upcoming book Gourmet Magazine’s Vegan Cooking with Ted Nugent – I love you, McSweeney’s.
- In the spirit of being thankful, Thxthxthx is lovely – handwritten thank you notes to people and things, including Outdated Globes or Lengthy Conversations about Fruits and Vegetables.
- The Sandra Lee Kwanzaa cake debacle is like watching a train wreck – an event so horrifying that it frightened Anthony Bourdain.
- So many funny tweets this week, the highlights of which were these folks, who you should definitely follow:
@mjanssen: My tombstone might read: “He Still Cared About the Difference Between ‘Like’ and ‘Such As'”
@mjanssen: I’m glad my cell phone knows “Wiseau.” Related note: I might be at the point where I never need to see the The Room again
@alwysabridesmd: I meant to be productive today but all I did so far was fall asleep watching Hoarders on Netflix and eat. LIKE A HIBERNATING BEAR.
@alwysabridesmd: OH BOY free cookies in the breakroom. WHY DID I CHOOSE AN OUTFIT WITH NO POCKETS TODAY
@j00j: I like how as soon as I’d had enough of that party, the dog decided I was its new BFF. Yes, tiny dog, I will protect you from the crowds
@exlibris: Playing some Xbox, or as Isobel refers to it, “Button.”
latterdaybohemian 
Aw, it’s nice to get some recognition for the hard work I put into my tweeting.
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I am seriously messed up over Delicious. I use it all day, everyday–it’s part of my organizational creative process. I’m not sure if I want to make the leap to pinboard, since I feel like it’s yet another thing I have to suscribe to. I’m trying both Diing and Evernote first, but if they don’t work the way I need them to, I’ll consider switching.
I have 4,567 bookmarks. I’m pretty sure I lost the tags and notes to all of them. I don’t see why we didn’t have any warning. No email? No notice? Fuck you, Yahoo.
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I’d love to hear how you like the delicious alternatives. I’m an ex-furler who’s never loved delicious.
I think the Sandra Lee haters are lame. I find them equivalent to the library world whiners who are like, “why don’t people know how awesome our highbrow library is?! why do people just go watch reality tv?” Why? Because you’re irrelevant and haven’t made it easy for them. As much as I love Ruhlmann & Tony, no one who has 3 kids and works full time is going to make a french fucking rib roast with marrow butter for dinner. I am sure that the rib roast is more awesome than whatever I’d make but it’s just unreasonable. If those awesome chefs actually made accomplishable shit then they could complain, IMO.
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