#ramday is a twitter meme started by new twitter friend @thespottedduck. It means Random About Me Day and it is when people tweet (a message to Twitter) a random piece of information about themselves that would not normally come up in conversation.
It has been an interesting way to learn new things about people (and meet new people in general).
Some favorites so far:
tgwilson: My brother-in-law is married to his stepsister (which she wasn’t when they got married). Figure it out. #ramday
jstorerj: i once drove from Denver to Boston solo, only stopping to fill the car with gas. Just about 2000 miles in 35 hours. #ramday
RickWolff: When I take eggs from a box, I make sure the remaining eggs balance in the box. Drives my wife nuts; she goes in & messes them up. #ramday
nwjerseyliz: #ramday I’ve been blonde twice in my life. It didn’t suit me at all but both times I got asked out more than any other time in my life. MEN!
People always talk about the power of twitter, it’s ability to effect change (through grassroots fund raising) and mass distribution of info (see California Firefighters) among them. But when I sent out a tweet minutes after my daughter Ella was born I received some quick congratulations from people I have never met face-to-face (but hope to some day).
So Thank You to all who have given congrats and well wishes on what is by far the most exciting time in our lives. And for a quick update, mom and Ella are doing great. We have a pretty good system down so far and have been able to get our sleep in when we can. This is all subject to change from what I have heard
My daughter Ella was born Thursday morning at 5:17 am. She is 6lbs 13oz and 19″ long. She has ten fingers, ten toes and is as cute as can be. I have never been so proud nor held anything so precious in my arms before. It truly is a remarkable feeling. Also, I can’t say it enough how proud I am of my wife.
We are on day 3 at the hospital (Mass General in Boston) and the staff has been incredibly helpful, knowledgeable and kind. We go home this afternoon and that will be an entirely different experience.
It has been way too quiet at GeoffManning.com lately. My wife and I are getting ready for our first child (any day now) and there are some big changes coming up career wise. So both of those have consumed most of my time lately.
What Else I am Working On:
I am working with a friend at Partner Alliances on a site redesign for a Boston based Nonprofit Legal Assistance organization. The site is in Wordpress using a custom theme designed by my friend Jeff Baker (of Partner Alliances) and themed by David Bissett at Dimension Media.
I am helping out a friend launch her photography website. The site is Wordpress using the Sharpfolio theme created by WebRevolutionary.
How much are you willing to spend to save time? When my wife and I had dinner Friday night we realized we were extremely short on…well, just about everything. So we fired up the old laptop and logged into our Peapod account to pick out some items.
Fruit
Veggies
Cereal
Snacks
Bottled water
Cat food
Cat litter
All coming to a grand total of $85 plus a delivery charge of $10. We selected Sunday 9am delivery and the driver was here right on schedule for essentially an 8.5% convenience surcharge (plus a little tip). Well worth the money as opposed to going to the store and selecting the items aisle-by-aisle.
Peapod is a service provided by Stop and Shop but I am sure there are similar services elsewhere and hopefully in your neck of the woods. What do you think? Is a $10 delivery charge for groceries worth it to you? Especially with the added convenience of a categorized and search based online shopping experience.
Last week we spent a few days down in Orlando. My wife had a business meeting Thursday to Saturday so we decided to make a long weekend of it and i tagged along. We only made it into Disney one day even though our hotel was only a stone’s throw from Epcot Center.
Highlights
I rode a Segway which was pretty cool, I didn’t want to wait in the long line, but my wife convinced me, and I’m glad she did!
Saw a very cool acrobatic act outside China in Epcot Center. One girl was flipping metal bowls (several at a time) onto her head. Oh yeah, while riding on a 7′ Uni-cycle! See the pictures below.
For the past 2 weeks I have been getting calls from 866-463-3021. When I pick-up there is no one on the other end; if I let it go to voice mail, no message. I put the number into Google and the first result was from 800notes.com.
Apparently 800notes.com allows users to enter in phone numbers to see who is using that number. It derives it’s information from user contributions so the results may not always be accurate. For the number above, there are actually 18 pages (as of this writing) of comments from people who have had this show up in their call log.
So the next time you get a call from an unknown number, look it up in 800notes.com to see where it is coming from. For me, I’ll be wading through all those pages to see who the hell is calling me!
Geoff on July 25th, 2008
