Stray Hawkeye

About a year ago, I finally got around to creating a Facebook page for Stray Hawkeye, and proceeded to do absolutely nothing with it.

Now, a year later, I’m trying to make it useful.  Basically, I’m putting links to each new post on the wall.  This is not so much a desperate attempt to be liked (or so I’m telling myself) as it is that several of my friends and family who read the blog have noted that it’s sort of a pain to check the site for updates, especially when they can be a bit sporadic (like lately).

So, hopefully this will make it easier to keep up to date on when there are new posts here.  I think if you “like” the site on its Facebook page, new posts will show up in your news feed on Facebook.  Granted that may depend on your settings – and I’d try to tell you how to set up the proper settings, but it seems like all of the Facebook setting pages change about every month, so I’m not even going to try.  Good luck with that.

The Facebook page is located here if you’d care to like the site.

I also just made a Twitter page, which I plan to use for basically the same thing, for those of you who prefer Twitter to Facebook.  That one has the fairly predictable handle of @StrayHawkeye.  I’m completely new to this whole tweetmail thing, so Twitter pro’s please be gentle.  In my mind @ still denotes an array variable in perl, and # starts a single line comment in korn shell scripts.

Noise to Signal Cartoon Via Swiss Miss (sort of, but I’ll get to that in another post soon).

Oh yeah, just to round out the needy-ness – look, I made you a qr code:

For some reason, now my blog feels like the back of a bag of potato chips

Booksthatmakeyoudumb by Virgil Griffith is a nice info-graphic that uses the books that people list as their favorites on Facebook, tied to the school they go to, tied to the school’s average SAT score to determine what books are the leading cause of stupidity/genius.  Amusement ensues.  Apparently smart people like solitude, at least when they’re not sleeping with underage girls, while dumb people prefer to ponder a purpose driven life and Oprah movies while reading the Bible.  My favorite on the list is a book I’ve yet to come across- “I Don’t Read”.

In an effort to keep this blog one step cooler than your grandmother, I made a Facebook account for Stray Hawkeye, located here (let me know if the link doesn’t work, it should be visible to everyone).  Okay, so it’s possible your grandmother is still cooler, but I’m trying here.

There’s not much on the Facebook page yet.  Like basically nothing.  However, I do have a couple ideas for it when I get some time, and I’ll point it out here when I get those set up.  More organizing a couple of events and that sort of thing than moving any actual content over there.

On the off chance you were one of the people who came across the page I had set up on Facebook for the site before, I deleted that one because a few things weren’t set up the way I wanted and it wouldn’t let me change it.  Sorry about that.  You can fan the new one now though.  And I think (not sure) that you can share photos and links and stuff on it too.  Again, let me know if you have trouble.

Also, as you may have been able to tell from my last post, I set up a YouTube channel for Stray Hawkeye as well, located here.  I know the video quality isn’t particularly great – they were all taken with the video mode on my seven or eight year old digital camera, which is old enough that having video on a camera was a pretty cool new feature.  Plus, I don’t have a lot of experience with shooting video, so basically what I’m saying is that they’re about what you’d expect on YouTube, minus the really horrible comments sections full of hatred and typos, at least so far.  I have a few ideas for some more videos, but admittedly they’re near the bottom of the priority list and will be pretty time consuming, so they might be quite a while.

Do you spend entirely too much time online?  Feel like some of the major websites are your friends?  Wonder what it would be like to go to a party with them?  Wonder no more!

And the sequel: