Flikr address

Like I said in an earlier post, I have no camera, so there are no photos in my Flickr account.
I'm one of those people who always mean to get an album or scrapbook together for my pictures, but can never seem to find the time or motivation to do it. I also always mean to buy a digital camera, and can never seem to get around to doing that, either. I just rely on my friends and family to do the recording of events stuff.

Rousillion-13

Rousillion-13
Originally uploaded by Scout Nibblet

Found this in the orange color field. I love orange!

LibraryThing (not to be confused with Swamp Thing or The Thing)

When I first started to use LibraryThing, I didn't really see the point of it all. I have all of my books at home, on their shelves, and can look at the covers and titles whenever I want, so why should I catalog and tag them online? Now that I've used it, I still don't really think the site is all that utilitarian for me. It is fun, however, to see who else has the same titles as me, and what else they own that I might be interested in reading.

I'm having a hard time getting into the whole concept of an online community. Even in the flesh and blood world, I'm pretty private and don't make new friends easily. Communicating with people I've never seen (and probably never will), and sharing things about my personal life (like my reading habits) is not easy for me. I like that I can anonymously peek into other people's libraries, though. Kind of voyeuristic in a way, don't you think?

If you want to check out my LibraryThing catalog, feel free.

glen alpine trail

glen alpine trail
Originally uploaded by dazzzmien

Lichen is such an interesting organism. The bright green color is so striking, and the relationship it has with the tree is so agreeable. Not only that, lichen makes a great scrubby pad for cleaning camp pots!

Now that I have a Flickr account, I guess I should get a camera...

de.licio.us!

I need to catch up here... a few days off and *POOF*! My motivation disappears like an elephant at a Sigfried and Roy engagement. So here I am, playing around with de.licio.us while the rest of you are knee deep in LibraryThing.

I like de.licio.us (check out my bookmarks here). It's fun, and I like that I can access my bookmarks from any computer, not just mine. There have been times when I'm at the library, or a friends house, and can't for the life of me remember how to navigate to where I want to go. Sure, you can always Google it. But it's so much more convenient to just access the bookmarks!

The first site I added was the home page for Black Hen Farms, a chicken/fowl sanctuary in Santa Cruz that sells eggs at various farmers' markets. To my surprise, only one other de.licio.us user had bookmarked this site! I clicked her user name and discovered that she has tons of sites about sustainable and organic foods tagged. I really like that aspect of de.licio.us: it is easy to find users with similar tastes and interests, and it allows you to discover all kinds of sites you may never have known existed otherwise!