Best Vanity Ever.
This should be published. I honestly kept thinking: “I must have read the author wrong, because this can’t possibly be a vanity. It must be from Wired, or WSJ, or NYT Magazine, or The New Yorker.”
But I couldn’t pull myself away from it to double check until I finished reading every word.
Some of the comments on this thread are going to be the “worst thing for my vanity ever”! Thank you for that praise-I’ll never get my head through the door comfortably again at FR...:)
I have been writing little snippets for several years now that contain personal experiences, anecdotes and opinions.
I tried doing this many years ago keeping a MS Word document I put them in, but...it simply wasn’t the same. It was forced, or seemed to be.
Then, when I joined FR back in 2004, I found that I often wanted to save things I had written, to either re-use or to refer to.
(Note: Going down a little side road here: One of the unsung powerful capabilities of the MacOS (OS X) is its wonderful and powerful drag and drop capability. Windows has nothing like it. They tried to implement it to a degree, but the implementation is not uniform, and results can be frustratingly spotty, to the point that I don’t even use it on my PC at work. But on the Mac, it is enormously powerful. The reason is “Text Clippings”. If you select a large swath of text from a web page, then use your mouse to grab it and drop it on your desktop, you get a dinky little text clipping. But enclosed it it is nearly all the information, text, graphics, formatting,etc. If you take that text clipping and drop it into MS Word or TextEdit...voila! The stuff you copied is pretty faithfully recreated! If you drop it in a FR post...you only see the text, not the html. I have a folder simply called text clippings, and I save stuff in there, renaming it with keywords so I can find it later. It has changed the way I use my computer. I have not spent much time with Windows 7, so they may have caught up there. Interesting that not many people use text clippings, I guess it is kind of obscure...Note: leaving the side road!)
Anyway, I now have a large collection of anecdotes, opinions and information that is important to me and easily accessible...:) So, it frees me up to be able to write when I am in the right mood, and am able to connect better with what I want to say. It is a lot of fun.