Welcome
Last Yesterday is my own rambling tumblelog where I post links to everything I like. Its primary purpose is to help me easily refer my friends and family to great things I’ve found. I hope to avoid making many of those long winded posts that, if you know me well, you are probably quite sick of. Instead, I’ll be treating this like a personal bookmarking site, and for most of my posts, I’ll try to keep to a few sentences per topic.
I took the title, Last Yesterday, from a child’s poem, which you can read here if you are interested.
Garage Sale Locator
Here is a handy map-based garage sale, estate sale and yard sale locator:
Three Great Home Search Tools
Are you thinking of moving? These are three sites that I found very helpful when I last searched for a new place.
First is HotPads:
It provides a handy map based interface alongside a detailed search engine so you can adjust your search parameters and instantly see how your changes affect the homes and apartments listed on the map. The site defaults to showing only rentals, so if you are looking to buy, make sure you begin by clicking the “For Sale” tab.
Next is Neighborhood Scout:
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/
This site provides statistics based maps that can be used to find the best places to live based on several different types of statistics. The only problem with this site is that some of the the geographical divisions are too large, making the statistics provided not as useful.
Finally, ZIPskinny:
which provides another set of statistics based on zip code. For some very large zip codes, this suffers from the same problem as the above. The biggest problem with this site, though, is that it’s interface isn’t map based, so you kindof need a zip code map of your area handy to really use it effectively.
Animation by Cyriak
Cyriak is an amazing freelance animator from the UK. Here are a few of my favorite videos:
and an older one which is a mix of a bunch of little animations:
and a link to his YouTube channel:
SummitPost and Trimble Outdoors
I love this site for getting information about nearby trails:
http://www.summitpost.org/superstition-ridgeline-in-winter/378813
It generally has a lot of useful information such as photographs of the route, difficulty, park rules, and other hints and tips from people who have previously hiked it.
I also like the Trimble Outdoors site to find similar information but with associated GPS maps.
http://www.trimbleoutdoors.com/ViewTrip/979257
I just wish they had an app for my phone, so I could post my own maps.
The Median Isn’t the Message
If a little learning could ever be a dangerous thing, I had encountered a classic example. Attitude clearly matters in fighting cancer. We don’t know why (from my old-style materialistic perspective, I suspect that mental states feed back upon the immune system). But match people with the same cancer for age, class, health, socioeconomic status, and, in general, those with positive attitudes, with a strong will and purpose for living, with commitment to struggle, with an active response to aiding their own treatment and not just a passive acceptance of anything doctors say, tend to live longer.
Hence the dilemma for humane doctors: since attitude matters so critically, should such a sombre conclusion be advertised, especially since few people have sufficient understanding of statistics to evaluate what the statements really mean?
From The Median Isn’t the Message, by Stephen Jay Gould:
StillTasty Shelf Life Guide
As I am always trying to save money on food, this site is very handy:
I have a bad habit of buying veggies and then not eating them before they go bad. StillTasty helps me select a good balance between foods that I have to eat ASAP and foods that can safely last for a week or more.
Brooks Trail Runner
I have to recommend this because it is one of the best purchases I have ever made.
It is the Brooks Adrenaline. First off, it feels like a slipper. I’ve never found a shoe that was 1/10th as comfortable. Also, it gets tons of accolades from Runner’s World magazine. If you are a trail runner or even just hike a lot, try a pair of these on.
Last Yesterday
I took the title of this site from a childs poem (or as it is referred to in the book below, oral discourse). I’m not sure where I initially read it, but I did find it again in James Paul Gee’s “An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory & Method”.
Last yesterday
when my father
in the morning an’ he
there was a hook on the top o’ the stairway
an’ my father was pickin’ me up
an’ I got stuck on the hook up there
an’ I hadn’t had breakfast
an’ he wouldn’t take me down until I finished all my breakfast
cause I didn’t like oatmeal either
an’ when my puppy came he was asleep
an’ he was–he was–he tried to get up
an’ he ripped my pants
an’ he dropped the oatmeal all over him an’
an’ my father came an he said
“did you eat all the oatmeal”
He said, “where’s the bowl”
He said, “I think the do-
I said, “I think the dog took it”
“Well, I think I’ll have to make another can”
an’ so I didn’t leave till seven
an’ I took the bus
an’ my puppy-he always be following me
He said. . . uh my father said . . . . um
“he-you can’t go
an’ he followed me all the way to the bus stop
an’ I hadda go all the way back
by that time it was seven thirty
an’ he kept followin’ me back and forth
an I hadda keep comin’ back
an’ he always be followin me
when I go anywhere
he wants to go to the store
an’ only he could not go t’ places where we could go
like to-like to-t’ the stores
he could go, but he have t’ be chained up
an’ we took him to the emergency
an’ see what was wrong with him
an’ he got a shot
an’ he was cryin’
an’ last yesterday
an’ now they put him to asleep
an’ he’s still in ‘e hospital
an’ the doctor said that he hasta
he got a shot because he-he was
he was nervous about my home that I had
an’ he- an’ he could still stay but
he thought he wasn’t gonna be a
he thought wasn’t gonna be able
t’ let him go.
TouchGraph Facebook Browser
This is just an amazing little toy. You have to try it. It graphs your friends based on commonality, e.g. friends of friends.
