I’ve been on eBay for over 10 years, so forgive me if I rant like an old man here… I received an email today from the seller of an item I recently won on eBay. It read… Hey I saw the stylus was delivered today so I thought I’d see if you wanted to exchange …
Category Archive: Other Things
Jan 09
A Victory for Paper
Just as I change bags often (i.e. the bag I just posted on last month is now on break for another bag), I also alternate between note taking methods ranging from full paper (Moleskine notebooks that I then scan into Evernote – and these are pre-Evernote-version Moleskines, although I have one of the new Evernote …
Mar 31
Centenary College Talk Resources
I’ll be giving a talk later this week at Centenary College. This post has resources relevant to the talk (i.e. links, handouts, etc…)
Mar 09
New Blogroll Entries
I’ve just added two new blogs to my Blogroll, both former students of mine at Columbia. David Zhu shares insightful thoughts on “finance/economics, careers, education, US-China relations” as well as his own thoughts and musings. Elle Christine blogs about her life as a junior at Columbia, her travels, and her future as it shapes up. …
Nov 24
Thanksgiving Thank-Yous 2011
This past month many people I know have taken the time each day on Facebook to post a status update listing something they were thankful for. In the same spirit, I figured I’d write one very long post in which I thank specific people who have made my life the enjoyable experience I have to …
Nov 28
Still Here!
Wow, this place gets really empty when I don’t pipe in my daily activities! About 2 months ago I turned jonwestfall.com back into full blog posts, without any republishing of my content from Thoughts Media. My pings.jonwestfall.com site is broken and I haven’t fixed that yet, and I’ve been bogged down with a writing project …
Sep 28
Scan Directly From Your Office to Evernote
Many of us work in offices that have multifunction printers / scanners / copiers / faxes / latte machines (OK, maybe not the last part), and these machines typically support sending scans via e-mail as PDF attachments. This is great for those of us (like me) who are making a real effort to go paperless …
Sep 16
Congress – Don’t Waste My Money Recognizing Me!
So apparently there is a drive to make this week “National Postdoc Appreciation Week”. When I heard of this initially, I figured it was just some fanciful idea, something fairly harmless. That was until I got an email today (Full text below) asking me to write to my congressional representative asking to sponsor a bill …
Jul 10
Satanic Possession via Justin Bieber
Ye Li, an incredibly talented co-worker of mine who is well versed in pop culture and Internet Meme-ery sent me a link the other day to the “How Many Justin Biebers Could You Take In A Fight” Quiz (It was hot in NYC that day, and apparently that caused a Justin Bieber song to revolve …
Feb 14
Adjectives & Nouns
Last week, for about 3 days, my GTalk status (As well as my AIM status) read the following: “If you’re reading this, open up a new e-mail and put my address in the To line, a noun in the body, and an adjective in the subject. I’ll write a story about them and send it …
Caching!
