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We Love You, Derek
Posted: to People, Personal
Thinking about this, this and this, lately.
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One of the earliest memories that I have of attending conferences and local developer meetups, between 2007-10, is meeting Derek K. Miller and others involved with the Drupal, Web Developers, Responsive Web Design and Flickr community in Vancouver.
I’m grateful for everyone who shared their vision with a lost and wandering twenty-something me, and continue to do so whenever I pop my head out from the proverbial White Rabbit’s hole of academia. Derek was one of the few people in these many communities that I implicitly trusted and looked up to, in a sea of strangers-acquaintances making their way in this world. Continue reading →
The Art of Commencement Speech
Posted: to Basics, Inspiration
The commencement ceremony affirms each student’s search for knowledge.
It often includes a graduation speech which seeks to put their recent hard (or not so hard) work into the context of their future. Many of us hear one or two commencement addresses as graduates or listen to a handful as spectators. Yet — as we graduate from one year to another, one relationship to another, one experience to another — we always are learning.
Though these myriad departures and arrivals of everyday existence are seldom met with ceremony, words traditionally reserved for momentous occasions may ring true and inspirational at any hour.
via The Art of Commencement Speech
Ellen at Tulane Commencement 2009
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
Conan O’Brien’s 2011 Dartmouth College Commencement Address
Friendly vs. Flirting
Posted: to Basics, Lifestyle
What constitutes flirting can vary among different people. The main difference is the “intent” of the flirting.
Flirting with the intent to develop a relationship is usually progressive and escalates, where flirting to just be friendly really doesn’t- it stays consistent.
When someone is interested in you and wants to take things further, they use flirting to “test the waters”. They look to see if you respond positively to each thing they do. So, if they touch your hand while talking to you and you don’t pull away, they might next time see if you reciprocate by touching their hand. Then it escalates to the next thing, like hugging you or touching you a little longer. The flirting and body language becomes more deliberate.
When someone flirts just to flirt or feed their ego, this doesn’t really happen.
They keep it at the same level or find variations of flirting that don’t escalate. They look for positive responses to continue flirting in the same way because your responses make them feel good but they don’t get more deliberate or exploratory about it.” (src: unknown)
| Posted by Eliz on Thursday, April 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment?
Fab Sugar’s via How to Clean Your Summer Sandals 2012
Posted: to Basics, Fashion
I’ve been reading up lately on how to maintain my growing shoes collections, sometimes running between campuses and the downtown city wears out everything so quickly! Especially if when the same shoes are worn for 6-8 hours per every day.. Fab Sugar had a really great article on how to prep your shoes for the summertime wear, and I’ve re-shared the information here so that it’ll be easier to find for future reference 
- Sole Salvation: Method Leather Love Wipes ($5)
How to Use: These leather-cleaning wipes are nontoxic, compostable, and gentle on both your leather and the environment around you. Just use these handy disposable towels to refresh your leather sandals (we’re loving these Zara Lined Wedges, $50) and leather handbag while you’re at it. Bonus? It leaves a light almond scent that we can’t resist.
| Posted by Eliz on Thursday, April 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment?
Manifest
Posted: to Publishing
Sometimes the secret to happiness is contentment, and a clean streamlined theme that focuses on the content, and not the distractions.
Theme based on this and modified by Eliz.
| Posted by Eliz on Thursday, April 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment?
Peeking into Glitch’s Enchanted Forests
Posted: to Hyperreality, Pop Culture
The fine folks at the PlayGlitch community have been rolling out exciting updates to their beta virtual-reality game, and their latest latest feature is a hidden section of the world contained within massive tree trunks!
Referred to as “Enchanted Forests, (these) locations accessible through doors on enchanted trees in Ur. Inside, multiple Wood Trees grow, which magically regrow when they’re harvested and cleared.” (x) Wandering inside of these ‘unexplored’ dimensions reminds me of the Treehouse from the classic The Swiss Family Robinson’s by Johann David Wyss.
| Posted by Eliz on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment?
Amidst the Everyday Impressions
Posted: to Basics, Habit, Writings
There are few stranger sensations, than meeting someone unexpectedly whom, upon introductions, reveals that they have been shadowing your events and activities in the interwebs. Such as that may be, and is, the standard protocol of socio-behaviour during first impressions between two people at conferences, local meetups, photowalks and the ilk.
However, there is still a vast difference between these two social introductions: one that occurs between those who inhabits, communicate and socializes to a greater extent, via the interwebs.. versus a situation of one person where communicates largely online, and the other who, doesn’t. Continue reading →