Geekery

All I ask for is a frickin’ rotating chair.

Posted by that damn redhead on Feb 27, 2009 in Funny, Geekery, Social Media, Writing | 1 comment

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! As of the other night, yours truly is now a contributor* to a hilarious site for people who secretly (or-not-so-secretly) hate their jobs, Office Evil. My first contribution is currently the featured MadLib on the home page. It’s a memo from your boss. He/she saw what you were doing on those social networks on company time and NOT very happy about it. Fill in the blanks to find out exactly why you’re...

Little things like this make me love technology even more.

Posted by that damn redhead on Feb 26, 2009 in Geekery, Tech | 2 comments

Yesterday my pal Robin of InnerMedia Coaching & Consulting and I took a field trip to Ann Arbor for one of the LA2M Marketing Meetings, whose speaker that day just happened to be one of my favorite people in all of Metro Detroit, the lovely, smart, and talented Ms. Shauna Nicholson, marketing manager for Biznet Internet Solutions in Wixom. She was leading a discussion on viral marketing. Though I did RSVP on LA2M’s Facebook event page, I forgot to actually tell Shauna I was going to...

A nice alternative to Google Reader (for Mac users, anyway)

Posted by that damn redhead on Feb 23, 2009 in Blogging, Geekery, Reviews | 2 comments

I know that according to some of you, I may be committing blasphemy when I say this, but . . . I’m not a fan of Google Reader. Not that there’s anything wrong with it. I know it’s the most popular RSS reader, yada yada yada . . . but I prefer something else. It’s this awesome little freeware program called Shrook. Why do I like it so much? Well, for starters, you don’t need a browser to read your feeds. Sometimes, I have so many browsers and tabs open that I...

In the middle of a(nother) Zoe-induced geek crisis. Back later.

Posted by that damn redhead on Jan 18, 2009 in Geekery, Rants | 2 comments

I was preparing for a very productive weekend of catching up on my RSS feeds, writing a business plan, remodeling a website from the inside out, preparing a presentation, and putting together a video. That isn’t happening now. Thanks to my lovely, adorable, attention-demanding cat Zoe, all of the above and then some has been put on hold until I receive my replacement MacBook Pro keyboard anywhere between 3 to 6 business days. Last summer she was the main proponent in a traumatic orange...

Public Service Announcement: Don’t be a Stuart.

Posted by that damn redhead on Nov 13, 2008 in Geekery, Social Media | 0 comments

Amber over at Altitude Branding has a great post on Twitter etiquette in the same vein as Shannon Paul’s “Don’t Be That Guy” that I mentioned in my previous post, and I can’t express my sentiments enough when people send me DMs that say, “Thanks for following, now click on my junk.” I had to comment for the second time tonight just to share my recent revelation with everybody: I was watching MAD TV the other day and it dawned on me that these...

Geeks have more fun!

Posted by that damn redhead on Nov 10, 2008 in Geekery, Social Media | 1 comment

I have had one hell of an exhausting weekend. Friday night I finally made it to my first ever BIG tweetup, sponsored by Biznet, where I got to meet a large chunk of the people I regularly tweet to and follow over on Twitter. It so great to finally put faces and real people to the icons and @twitternames I see all the time online. To see a glimpse of how much fun you missed, the folllowing video is courtesy of the fabulous Ms. Shauna Nicholson, marketing manager over at Biznet (and quite...