I keep my inbox and sent items ruthlessly clean. I archive the important stuff and delete the rest, as I get way too many emails to keep them all. Usually I'll delete stuff that's more than a year or two old unless it's somethinge very important.

As military people, I was always making huge lists of numbers I couldn't lose - the DMV in Tacoma, the Records office in MN where I was born, my former addresses, and so on. Google totally got rid of all that.

I remember when there was this new search engine called Google that would actually find what you wanted instead of giving you lists of crap before you got to the actual website. World-changing

That cartoon is perfect.

My system is basically:
1) immediately delete non-essentials: lunch plans, messages that are merely attachments (once downloaded), meeting announcements (automatic calendar), fun links, etc.

2) at least once a day go through my Inbox and either a) address it and delete; b) address it and file away (with each project having a "for eventual follow-up" folder for long-term outstanding things); c) leave in inbox as reminder for a short-term outstanding thing that I need to do.

3) at least once a day go through my Sent box and either delete, file away as proof I addressed something, or leave as a reminder of an outstanding thing that I'm waiting for someone else to address.

Life before Google: [link]

Heh. When I was doing the Bubblegum Book I spent all of my lunches going to bookstores, copying down little tidbits of research. I finally tracked down Andy Kim's whole story when I found an Encyclopedia of Canadian Rock Stars at Virgin, which is when I discovered that Andy was Lebanese by way of Montreal.

Also, pre-Google I spent as much as four hours on a Saturday parked in front of a magazine stand reading reviews and articles. Thank god for Bucketful of Brains, Option and the rest.

Fed Shaft this morning. He's still staying about four feet away and chowing down as soon as my car is leaving the driveway.

I think he needs a bit of bedding, but I'm unsure how to lure him into the carport where it's shady and cool in the summer.

Trail of catnip?

Lady Gaga Cookies

Fffireburns and Matt baked cookies and decorated them to match Lady Gaga’s costumes! Each is shown in close up side-by-side with a photo of the singer wearing the outfit depicted. This took a lot of work.

Are you trying to adopt Shaft?

Because he's one bad mutha...

Top 10 Cases of Animals Saving Humans

Davide Ceci was 14 years old and couldn’t swim when he fell out of his Fathers boat in south-east Italy; he was within minutes of death when dolphin Filippo came to his rescue. Filippo had been a popular tourist attraction off Manfredonia in south-east Italy for two years. While Emanuele Ceci was still unaware his son had fallen into the waves, Filippo was pushing him up out of the water to safety. The dolphin bore down on the boat and got close enough for Davide’s father to grab him.

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Brenda Owen had gone out for a quick walk with her dog when she spotted a wheelchair on the riverbank; she saw a woman floating in the river. She called out to her but there was no reply so she told her dog, Penny, to “Fetch! Fetch!” without hesitation the dog ran into the river, swam to the woman and pulled her to the shore. Brenda said that Penny has always been a very obedient dog and despite being 10 years old she was still very fit.

Hush your mouth!

edit: in response to Hec's post, not tommy's.