Archive for 2012

SRL Upcoming Show


If you ever get the chance to see an SRL show, you see it. A little more on the subject.

Enter:

SRL at the Extreme Futurist Festival 2012

SRL will be performing at this year’s  Extreme Futurist Festival  in LA December 22 2012. XFF is a 2 day arts and technology festival focusing on cutting edge science and technology along with transgressive performance art and music. Tickets are $35 for the SRL show only or $70 for the show and the festival.Purchase tickets through XFF here.

(A great new article about SRL)

I’m going to try to be there. Join me?

WordPress Plugins

Here’s a boring geeky list of what makes Lee.org run.

Currently disabled…
* Login Lock. Works but Google Authentication works better (I think)

* Social
* Twitter Tools
* WPBook Lite. I replaced these 3 with Twitterfeed this week.

* Spam Free WordPress – By  Todd Lahman, LLC  It helped decrease comment spams but my current solution is working better

* No Adverts for Friends    By  Donncha O Caoimh – it looks like it broke a while back :-(

* Maintenance Mode  By  Michael Wöhrer. Hangs in the wings in case of spam hack attack or something.

No New Mail!

I haven’t seen this phrase in months. It brings me a great sense of calm.

Accepted into CCSF DMI Program!

 

Now the big question:

Do I go for it or try to get accepted into an Occupational Therapy Master’s program at Samuel Merritt University / San Jose State University? I won’t know if I’m accepted into either of those programs til February or March.

What do I want? What can I get? What is achievable? What will bring me the most happiness?

My SF Todo List

Where do you think I should go in San Francisco? What do you think I should do? What restaurant to dine at? What mountain to climb? Please add to this list!

When I tell friends where I am, they wax poetic and start telling me where I -have- to go! It’s far less fun to go to such places alone so I look forward to friends buzzing me up and asking to go out [hint hint!]

Welcome Back Twitter Readers

Apparently my Twitter feed broke in late September. Well, I just fixed it. So all you twitts will now see my blog posts in my Twitter feed, @LeeSonko

I switched from using the TwitterTools WordPress plugin to using TwitterFeed.

Tried to Catch Up on Twitter…

I tried to catch up with my friends on Twitter today. All I have to say is:

If the internet is like a library with all the books strewn about, then Twitter is like doing whip-its with all your friends at once… in a giant blender set to “Purée”. Ouchy.

Workshop Weekend in Oakland!

I may be going as a participant instead of instructor this time.

Workshop Weekend Oakland registration is filling up quickly!

Join us on November 10 & 11 to solder, craft, program, build, make and explore. At Workshop Weekend, a flat $40 admission gets you as many workshops as you can handle!

A number of workshops have already filled, but we still have seats available in quite a few great workshops. Register online at  http://workshopweekend.net/oakland/catalog  – there’s just one week left to sign up!

For families coming to Workshop Weekend together, we’re keeping our $10 discount for all parent admissions with the purchase of two or more admissions for children (under 18). Sign up on the same account, and the discount will be automatically applied.

Workshops with seats still available include:

Register and select workshops online at  http://workshopweekend.net/oakland/catalog

I hope we’ll see you in just 8 days!

Howareya?

A friend asked “Howareya?” My response:

Grad school (Samuel Merritt OT Master’s program) application was crazy.

3 classes:
* Stats is harder than I remember
* My Abnormal Psych Professor has some weird issue with me
* Interpersonal Communications is actually kinda fun

volunteering at Occupational Therapy clinic in Sausalito… the ferry ride is great, the profession is very interesting and worthwhile

Had trouble with Unemployment AGAIN… they faulted me for trying to save them money so I had to see a judge… the judge said, “WTF is EDD trying to do here? You’re good.”

Girlfriend situation is going very well.

Now…
gotta study for the GRE for my next grad school application (San Jose State OT Master’s program). San Jose State costs $20k, Samuel Merritt costs $80k. San Jose is my first choice school ;-)

Boomerang for Gmail Continues to Rock

I wrote about Boomerang for Gmail in May. This tool continues to rock and be useful every single day. Gmail introduced a new Compose screen and I panicked, worrying this Gmail add-on would be left in the dust. But read from their post…

As soon as we saw the announcement, our engineers strapped on their capes, grabbed their wizard hats, and set to work. Less than 48 hours after the Gmail team announced the new experience, the new Compose view and Boomerang were working together in harmony.

 

Get Boomerang for Gmail here.  (that is a referral link, if you use it, we both get some tiny free prizes like  these.