Category Archives: Thoughts
Why 13 is My Favorite Number
Written on January 13, 2012 at 11:41 pm, by cct
My Shoe Calendar on Friday the 13th
I figured I’d squeeze in this post before the end of the first Friday the 13th of 2012 (the first of three such days this year separated by 13 weeks). Perhaps it’s my empathetic spirit, but 13 is actually my favorite number. It is partly because it has such a bad rep that I thought to make it a favorite number a long time ago. But while this is how it started, adopting 13 as a favorite number has grown to shade my perspective beyond this numeric empathy.
A Moment for my Diamond Earrings
Written on December 1, 2011 at 11:31 pm, by cct
Today I felt like wearing my diamond earrings. If you look at the instagram photo to the right, by diamond earrings, I mean well not really much of diamonds. But that doesn’t matter.
I bought these earrings myself. $25. Church silent auction. They’re butterflies – something anyone who keeps up-to-date with on this blog realizes is a favorite symbol of mine.
But despite the lack of cost (and let’s face it, almost lack of diamond), there’s something about being able to tell myself that I bought my first diamond earrings all by myself. There’s something in that message that I’ve always found empowering.
The (In)Visible Women of Technology
Written on October 7, 2011 at 2:27 pm, by cct
This past week I’ve been confronted by the idea of the visibility of women in technology – or rather, the realization of a certain level of invisibility. Today is Ada Lovelace Day – she is attributed for conceptualizing the first computer program…in the mid-1800s. Fast forward to this past week, while watching the live streaming of AdobeMAX, I noted the following on Twitter:
I think this might be the first time I’ve seen a woman (Emmy Huang) as a featured presenter at a major tech event.
#AdobeMax – intellichick 10/4/2011
Social Media Pick-Up Lines
Written on August 15, 2011 at 12:41 pm, by cct
I had fun with this after reading “Tweet here often? Pick-up lines for the technorati" on CNN. Here’s my geeky pick-up line contributions:
"Give me your Google+ name and I’ll put you in your own circle."
"If you and I become twitter friends, we could have our own hashtag."
"I’ll follow you…wherever you want me to."
“If the world was Twitter, all my tweets would be about you.”
“Friend me on Facebook, I have an awesome newsfeed.”
Girl: “Wow, you have a lot of friends on Facebook” (or “…followers on Twitter.”)
Guy: “…that’s what she said.” <wink>
The Appeal of #FlightVSBike / #FlightVSMetro
Written on July 16, 2011 at 12:52 pm, by cct
As I sit here engrossed in the twitter feed of #FlightVSBike, following the LAStreetsBlog tracker, and completely ignoring most of what I planned to do this morning, I write this trying to understand for myself what the appeal of this adventure is centered in and on. I think it is partly because there’s something about it that is inherently new – that we’ve come to a time in our technological advancements that we have such a variety of transportation options across different terrains. So then, comparing them is something we can do. This is especially true in an odd moment, the transportation shift of “Carmageddon”, that creates the frame for a jet to only travel such a short distance (and JetBlue’s marketing prowess).