Fun Friday Resources, fossils edition 3
/::BOILERPLATE:: I’m going through decades of bookmarks in my browser to see what’s still alive and still useful::
Today we start looking through the bookmarks menu labeled Lichtenbergian. It’s a mixed bag, for sure, a dumping ground for anything I thought was useful or interesting for members of the Lichtenbergian Society, which existed for nearly ten years before I even thought about writing the book.
There are some sub-folders of links that pertain to specific projects; we’ll get to those later.
I have links to the original Lichtenbergian website and to the Lacuna Group website, both of which were WordPress blogs and both of which are having issues that I haven’t addressed, mainly because neither has any real purpose at the moment.
BibMe is an APA citation engine which I found useful when compiling the bibliography for Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy. For example:
Lyles, D. (2017). Lichtenbergianism: Procrastination as a creative strategy. The Lichtenbergian Press.
The article on BOOK DESIGN at Wikipedia was most helpful to me in making sure Lichtenbergianism was a real book. (You might think I would have learned that in librarian school.) Another source, The Book Designer. Since I am often called on to design other writers’ books for Boll Weevil Press, I keep these bookmarks around.
I don’t remember why I would have added a link to a timer, but it was probably something to do with keeping myself on task, the Pomodoro method or summat. Come to think of it, it might have been for the first Ultimate Shakespeare Death Smackdown: we’d project the timer on the wall behind the performers.
Suspicions confirmed: The very next links are to the sign-up forms and rules for the Smackdown.
I’m not sure why I would have saved a link to an image of the four personality groups as defined by True Colors, but it’s a useful tool for those who have to work with other humans. (Really, it helped me — a Green — survive being a media specialist in an elementary school, where most of the teachers are definitely Blues.)
What is today? Now you know. I think it’s a hoot that serendipitously today is National Be Late for Something Day.
Mix.com is an aggregator that honestly I haven’t looked at in a while. It still works, and it still looks like a field full of rabbit holes, like this 25-second video of a cell dividing.
This one is odd. (Remember that I was collecting these long before the intertubes metastasized into instant gratification.) It’s simply a link to the writing paper I used for writing letters. It still links!
I’m not going to provide the link for this one, but it’s a Google folder full of the videos that Gary Gute’s class on creativity did explaining how they used the Nine Precepts of Lichtenbergianism in their lives — and the students range from an art major to a computer science major to a CPA student. I was impressed and flattered. Also, grateful for the royalties.
NEXT: The subfolders in Lichtenbergianism.
RIP: Tripcake, originally a site to plan trips with friends, now up for grabs; Not Depressing News is now a virgin WordPress blog waiting for its first post; Useful Interweb does not respond; this link originally was to the scene in The Producers in which Roger Debris declaims, ‘Two, three, kick, turn, turn, turn, KICK, turn — YES, IT WILL WORK!”, which is one of my favorite catchphrases. The entire website is still there, but my clip is not there and none of the clips seem to play;
