Yezbick.com: If It's Weird, Flip It Over and Check, It Might Be a Yezbick

A really wonderful thing happened to me tonight. The cork in my wine bottle busted as it was retracting. BUT WAIT. THAT’S NOT ALL. I finally found myself applying knowledge gained from Lifehacker in REAL life – not just my techno life. I recalled a post about opening a bottle of wine with your shoe and immediately set to it. Being timid it took me about 10 knocks against the wooden door frame – but that little bitch of a cork popped – and I was extremely happy.

I also had two valid reference questions today that I totally rocked out. The one I’ll mention was from an education student at a local university who was looking for information on Resource Rooms in Special Education.

I have no idea what Resource Rooms in Special Education means – so I did a quick google search and fell onto the about.com web page that gave me a little bit of background. I knew pretty much off the bat that we weren’t going to have much in the public library on the topic, especially in our print materials. The student related that she had already been through WilsonSelect and ERIC without much success. She said she had found one article that she Interloaned from 2000, but it wasn’t enough, and that she wasn’t finding much at her University Library.

I did a quick keyword search for “resource room special education” in ERIC and came up with something from 2008. But she was right, this was gonna be a little bit narrow on the results. I’m not familiar enough with educational terms to do the whole synonym thing – so my next step was to head to Google Scholar with the author’s name as a search.

We found the original article and I pointed out how Google Scholar shows you who has cited the article – and how you can use that to kinda expand your search. (Forgive me, but I’ve forgotten the official citation search database I was using at WSU — somebody refresh my memory please.) Then – once she grabbed the journal names that the articles were in – she could likely use her University’s resources more wisely. Her professor had enlightened her to ERIC and WilsonSelect – but something was nagging at me that she had failed to mention the specific journals as opposed to the conglomerate databases.

The end result was that she walked out with what I’m going to take as a swing in her step – a little confidence – ready to do the business herself. It really saved MY day today – almost as much as my sole.

*edit* Oh. I almost forgot to mention Google Reader Play. There. I mentioned it.

I just have nothing to say anymore. It’s really frustrating that I can’t get the lifestream to update on its own – and that frustration really prevents me from even wanting to come around here and type up a few words.

I’ve put in a few support tickets to the hosts of the site — but they haven’t ever really followed through – and likely won’t be getting a renewal in the coming year. I haven’t tinkered with it in a while though, either, so maybe I’ll try to scratch together some time.

The design is a little overwhelming too.

So many excuses

So with the help of pops, we finally managed to finish the floor.I can still feel it in my lower back and in one funky spot on my ribs.

I’ve checked out a few books from the brary on kitchens — currently getting quite a few ideas from the aptly titled 1001 Ideas for Kitchen Organization.

I imagine this will be more of a process than a back breaking endeavor. A few areas I’ve marked for improvement: herb window garden, knife rack, hooks for hanging mugs, wine rack, stemware hanger – each turn of the page seems to offer something new to think about. One thing I’m definitely going to need is a kitchen cart:

I’ll keep ya posted.

Banana Creature, originally uploaded by Kevin Yezbick.

So, I’ve been back from Britain for a while – had what can only be described as an awesome vacation while over there – and now I’m slowly getting back into the rhythm of things. It’s a rhythm that has been somewhat complicated by falling ill over the past week – but thanks to well wishes from my Gramma and a scategory of other people – I’m back in the saddle again.

Being back in the saddle means being back to work – which is what happens when your vacation ends – which is just something I’ll have to deal with. Don’t get me wrong — I’m damn lucky to have a job right now — it’s just…meh.

I also have been waiting patiently for a plugin to finally kick back into gear — the plugin that generates that lifestream that you can see on the right side of this page…It’s called lifestream…and it’s not streaming. I tinkered with the site for a while — took it down, put it up, unplugged, replugged, changed permissions – and now I’m just waiting for something to pop up and say YAY – WE FIXED IT…

But I thought I should go ahead and set something down here. Keep this fresh. Like that banana.

If you haven’t already — the other pictures are up on my flickr page.

Take Luck.

Ladies and gentlemen – after you have removed the cellophane from your toilets, been doused with dixie cups atop doors or whatever other April Fool’s day shenanigans you’ve had to contend with – be sure to check out Bunny's Bum

It’s part of the bums and gin calendar for 2009 that you may not have been aware of – but that can be yours by clicking on the link at the top of your screen.


@wonderdogmoses buryin his face on 12seconds.tv

The skies opened up and sent heaven’s dandruff to the earth today – and Moses enjoyed himself thoroughly. This is just the beginning of what will likely be a long, dark, and cold winter. Michigan is apparently low on salt supply – so it’ll be interesting to see what happens as the days and months go on – and the snow continues to fall. The tires will likely be slipping all over the road at a much greater degree than in years past. Oh well — it’s always fun to enjoy the first snow…

Last night I went to a shindig with a bunch of people I didn’t know. This is how I dealt:


Zombified Beer Run Disco Bash from kevinyezbick on Vimeo.

As you can hear – Will Ferrel was there. I still have red paint on my face.


October Hail Storm from kevinyezbick on Vimeo.

The skies just finished dumping quarter-sized hail on the 48334. What was bizarre was the relative calm, sudden storm surge, and then immediate calm – captured here:

Suddenly stops?! on 12seconds.tv

Afterwards – shot a coupla pics with Moses in tow:

Bizarre

I’m rather looking forward to the eclipse tonight…so I need to kill some time…