Some geeky things

I have several sites that I visit periodically and today I discovered that one of them had a link to this site: http://crazeegeekchick.com/blog/25-must-have-thumb-drive-apps-for-geeks/ Who'd have thought that I'd ever find this interesting? Then I found this site mentioned at the above site: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/9771/ - a watch that doubles as a thumb drive! How James Bond is that?
The more I wander around the web the more amazed I become.

A Question of Death by Kerry Greenwood

I hope Kerry Greenwood just keeps writing and writing. I love both of her mystery series and when I've finished reading one of them, I want to listen to the cd. These are the best way to be calm on my drive to and from work. The readers are fantastic. Just the right voices for each character.
Phryne Fisher is a very hip, independent 1920s woman. She grew up poor, her father inherited a British title and money so that Phyrne attended good schools. She was an ambulance driver for the French forces during the Great War and traveled to Australia to investigate a young woman's husband for a friend of her father's, liked it there and stayed. She wrangled a very lovely Hispano-Suiza from the mechanic who had restored it - money does talk. She's adopted two daughters, has a cook and a butler, adopted a stray kitten and a stray dog.
This book is short stories which I generally don't care for but I loved these. They were just the right length for my time inhaling on my nebulizer.
More Kerry, please.

Thing 23

It's hard to believe that I've made it through this process and lived to tell about it! More than that - I enjoyed several of the exercises. The Generator was fun but I don't know that there is any serious application for this for me. Thanks to Jason Kaspar, I was already using Delicious but I've found more items to add to it. I think the Google Docs is a great, free tool and it could be very useful for the public. Wish I'd know about it when people wanted Word before we added Office to all of our computers.
I was pretty adament in my thinking that I did not want a blog because I didn't want that much about me floating out there in the ether. Silly me, I enjoy my blog. I can add my pictures - thanks to Flickr, add my book reviews and keep up with the world.
As to my lifelong learning - I really am interested in the podcasts and the Youtube videos. I've investigated nearly all of the fellow Geeks blogs and am amazed by what everyone has accomplished. Jason is so erudite, Mary takes fantastic pictures, Mikki is very computer knowledgeable, April - both of them - love their gardens and books, Lori's boys keep her going, Manya and Amy are old pros at this and I wish I could identify several of the others. I faced this assignment with dread and left very happy with what I've learned and accomplished.

Thing #22

I bought an MP3 player a couple of years ago because I thought it would be nice to have an audio book to listen to at home while I'm beading. I discovered that there is a difference in MP3 players - mine did not have bookmarking capabilities and unless I planned on listening to a long section or starting over everytime. The download time is a factor in the audio books. I can see the appeal for the Tumblebooks with the picture books available to view and read online. I miss seeing picture books, that was one of the perks of branch work.
The movie download didn't work. It's loaded at the desk but it kept saying that there was a newer version, ask about downloading that and it didn't matter if I said yes or no, I still got an error message on everything I tried to download. I'll try at home.

Thing #21

If I thought that thing #20 was dangerous, I was wrong - this one is very dangerous. I found podcasts on books, discovered that Lansing Public Library has one with reviews and also one just for teens and another for youth that looked really interesting. I found several interesting ones on food, including one just on smoothies, my new favorite way to start the day.
This is one reason I'd like the MP3 player. My sister uses her iPod to listen to a quilting podcast and one with Garrison Keiller. She says it helps when she has to type a lot of boring information.