Small Update

I haven’t posted in a while because I am working on redoing this site. Once I am done with the backend I will start updating regularly.

June 19, 2012 · 1 min · Ame the Squirrel

My Contribution to Calibre

Backstory When I bought my NOOK Simple Touch™ in January of this year I rediscovered calibre E-book management. While software always felt clunky in Mac OS X you could never deny it’s power and sheer amazing once you got past the UI. Being a big fan of ReadItLater I immediately tried to have the program pump my massive reading list into my Nook. To my dismay I discovered that the plugin was hardly complete. It piped my entire ~500 article1 reading list into a several megabytes large ebook and ordered articles from newest to oldest. Running the plugin a second time… produced the same results. It hadn’t even the courtesy to mark articles as read. ...

April 30, 2012 · 3 min · Ame the Squirrel

The search for the perfect wallet

Through my whole life I have always struggled to find the perfect tool for the job. No matter what I am doing I from the big to the little I question methods and tools I am using. Sometimes I find it, sometimes I struggle on and on. This is a story about how I think I found perfection. I have always had a fascination with wallets. They are where we keep the summary of our life and our valuables. Your wallet is like a woman’s purse, the thing that curious people want to pick through to find out more about you and the thing more introspective people think about how it reflects on them. Any time you pay for something the seller glances down and takes a quick look not just at your payment but at what it is coming out of. Your wallet is a statement of you in one of those subtle ways. ...

March 21, 2012 · 5 min · Ame the Squirrel

Nothing happens for a reason

“Everything happens for a reason.” I read this normally innocuous phrase on a friend’s blog recently and wanted to toss my coffee mug. The notion of the phrase makes me want to jump out of my chair and flip my keyboard. I’m not going to rag on them for saying or even feeling it, it’s simply not my place to tell people how to live their lives, however it bothers me that people who I care about in the world think like that. ...

March 14, 2012 · 3 min · Ame the Squirrel

Things that are not happening for 100, Alex

A: Importing this content into the new site was attempted only for a few moments before a review of it’s nature and amount had it canceled. Q: What is, BunnyMan’s old LJ? Correct! Wow. No, not happening. I still have it all backed up but I think all that old content will stay back there. I am currently trying to set this up so I can post my mostly private journal here as well as posting public news and information. LJ will not be getting 100% of the content I post, but it still will get some updates. The dawn of handpicked RSS content and feeds has consumed community and “friend based” feeds and for the most part I think we are better for it. I’m getting on the ship.

March 8, 2012 · 1 min · Ame the Squirrel

Wow!

Another new site, another clean slate ready to be filled with so much information! I will try to make this site as little about the drivel, porn, rage, and trolls that the rest of the internet seems to amuse itself about. This site is going to be all about the things that really interest me. Currently those things are Fiction, Writing, Technology, writing fiction, and Productivity… There also may be stuff about glitchy painful music and podcasts. ...

March 8, 2012 · 1 min · Ame the Squirrel