My ass can be seen from space
Stephanie and I were talking and she pointed out that Google had added the "street view" feature for the city of Indianapolis; this lets you look at city streets as though you're standing on them, and you can do a panoramic view of the houses rather than just and aerial view. That's a pretty big deal; they haven't done more...
About Me
Sure, you want to know all about me. I can see it in your eyes. [15 entries.]
The name "Stephanie" on Babynamer.com
One of the blogs I read regularly pointed out the site babynamer.com in a blog post, because it's a nicely-designed and interesting site on baby names. They include a long definition and origin of each name, a section on famous people with that name, a long list of related alternate names, and then a funny feature - "drawbacks" for any...
A Partial List of My Pet Peeves
Posted today for your amusement/irritation, to be updated as necessary on future occasions. People who walk up escalators... ...especially when they ask you to move out of the way. Seriously - go take the fracking stairs, Sporty. I'm using the escalator for a reason. I don't come over to your treadmill at the gym and hit the stop button. Don't...
Now With More Answers
After the last round of "Getting to know me" emails, I added some new questions to my Ultimate Survey. Proceed at your own risk. (I also ran the whole thing through the spell-checker. Boy, did that need it.)...
I Am Not An "Activist"
I hate the word activist. Mainly because it's one of those right-wing propaganda, tar-and-feather, hot button words that Frank Luntz cultivated to brand liberals as crazy folks who are out to burn down your house and roast your kids on the bar-be-que. (Read more about Frank Luntz and his language campaign - it's important to know if you're at all...
Big List of Things I Like
Posted for no apparent reason, except that I needed a pick-me-up because it's been a crappy week. Feel free to add your own list in the comments. My Girlfriend The Spikel Monster Monkeys, especially: - Curious George - Hanuman - King Kong Board Games, especially: - Clue Dave, the Computer Table - from Ikea, this laptop table is awesome. Big...
10 Weird Things/Habits/Little Known Facts About Yourself
Picked up from Lisa. This is a hard meme, because, what haven't I shared at one time of another? This site is 12 years old, I never shut up (ever), and I've answered all you questions, officer. But I'll give it a shot. 1. I ate the tequila worm once at a party on a dare. I talked another girl...
Hey, that's my name!
I was perusing a37 signals blog post from last week on some changes they made to backpack, and noticed in some of the screenshots, the designer Ryan Singer used my name in the mock-up of his new sharing information object. Hee! Apparently, I'm sharing some documents with some folks....
My Lexicon
A handy guide to my personal idioms and their origins, because I notice that a lot of times people look at me funny when I'm talking. I've had this page around for awhile but forgot to transfer it into my new content management system. There seem to be some terms missing, too....
Where was I?
I can play this meme pretty easily. Where was I ten years ago? This was a post I wrote about ten years ago. I had moved into the attic apartment at Mary Byrne's house the summer of the year before, so I was just starting my first decade in downtown Indianapolis. I was hired to work in the web design...
The Ultimate Survey
Every so often, someone sends around one of those massive "getting to know you" questionnaires and everyone answers. I've done it so many times that I finally just created a web page for mine, added questions that hadn't already been included, and sent the URL to them. So if you want to know more about me than my own mother (or any living person actually should know) here's the big, fat list.
The Steph Mineart Morning Gazette
Here are all the fine sites I read regularly.
Brushes With Fame
We've been having an e-mail discussion of brushes with fame this morning, so here's mine: 1. I interviewed Chastity Bono for a newsletter. 2. I know Dick Wolfsie, the local news channel 8 morning guy who did a report on my "Big Things" photo gallery. Dick is friends with tons of famous people, including Al Roker. 3. I've been on...
Anagrams
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Steph Mineart
Stephanie Ann Mineart commonplacebook.com Indianapolis , Indiana USA AIM YIM This hCard created with the hCard creator. If you need to contact me, that information is here. I'm a Web designer/developer at a media/publishing company in Indianapolis, Indiana where I've worked since 1994. We publish textbooks and computers science and business books, and I mainly work on the online...
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