Twitter Week In Review
March 24th, 2008 -- by Augie De Blieck Jr.
Some thoughts from the last week, as originally seen on Twitter. These posts are roughly presented in chronological order from a week ago:
- Statistically, I should hit ONE lottery number a week. Why is that so impossible lately? Do I look too desperate when I buy one?
- @ihnatko - don’t confound me with your logic in light of my Instant Gratification-fueled need to never HAVE to work a day again in my life.
- Canon has a very easy form to fill out with solid directions on how to ship a lens back to them for repair. Tomorrow - ship it back!
- And, pray Canon can duplicate the problem I’m having. That’s usually how these things work. They claim nothing’s wrong blah blah blah
- Now I really want to buy that new Canon 55-250mm IS lens
- Or the 70-200mm f4 L lens. Mmm…. Maybe I could sell the fixed 28-135 to fund the 70-200? Ack, more decision.
- Doing laundry. Again. Third time in a week. Ugh.
- No Beatles on iTunes in IDOL this week, but Seacrest did hold up an iPhone.
- Watching Isaav Asimov videos on YouTube.
- Another reason to love my blog’s readers: One of them just ordered the Perfect Strangers DVD through my Amazon link. Good taste!
- “Reader” is back as a top line option in Google Mail for me again this week. I hope it stays there this time.
- @ronxo - Watching IDOL last night, I wanted half those songs for Guitar Hero IV. . .
- Last week I had a day with no new podcasts to listen to. Tonight, I just downloaded 3.5 hours’ worth to listen to. I’m done for the week! (And I’m still listening to them on Monday morning, five days later.)
- Optimism is a lie we tell ourselves.
- I wonder how many cavities I’ve missed in life due to my two pack a day Trident habit?
- Taking first steps towards long-term productivity & second career growth. Sounds mushy, I know, but it means a lot to me. 2008 is REFOCUS. (Yes, this includes this very blog.)
- As a Victor Borge fan, I prefer “Inflationary Language” over “Phonetic Punctuation.” But they both make me laugh out loud many times over.
- There’s nothing happier than hearing that your Amazon delivery was just packaged up and sent out today from a warehouse 30 minutes away.
- Looks like the Canon 55-250mm IS lens will be the compromise between lens power and budget. I really wanted to justify the 70-200 f4, tho. (Now someone has pointed out the 70-300mm IS Canon lens. Very tempting.)
- Heard on TWIP today that Adobe is planning an announcement next week. My guess: Lightroom 2 Open Beta (Nope, got that one wrong. Photoshop Elements 6 for the Mac was announced today. See above.)
- Attached the remote trigger thingy to my Canon’s neck strap and the tripod to the camera bag. Now if only I had a mountain to climb . . .
- @duncan - I’m having a similar problem with a lens I just sent back to Canon for fixing. It arrived Thursday. No word. Friday holiday?