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Experiment 2: Strengths Finder 2.0
Care to Search Through?
Thursday, April 03, 2008
I’ve finally done it! I’ve added a Search feature to kathykhoo.com!
I don’t know why it took me so long to add a search on this site. I mean, doesn’t *everyone* want to be able to search my personal history?
...Actually I do know why I didn’t add it. I had no idea how to do it, even through really, in retrospect, it was right in front of my face.
But THERE! to your right, BEHOLD the new search function! Go ahead, try it! The Google one works well enough but the search results are somewhat inconsistent. The Advanced Search is a sure fire way of finding what you want. It’s strange really having enough content on a personal blog to warrant a search.
It’s funny because I really do use this blog as a sort of diary. Sometimes I don’t remember things until I read them again on my blog! So I suppose the search function is really only for me. Oh well. I’m sure you’ll find a use for it some way or another.
NOW when will get to updating MORE of kathykhoo.com?
I loves the funny funny transvestite
Friday, March 28, 2008
I know Eddie Izzard is a well known comedian, but I just found him recently. And he’s HILARIOUS!
My friend Sean passed me this link to Eddie Izzard’s “Dress to Kill” on audio so you can listen to it from your cubicle at work. Ah, bless you people who work for the entertainment of us who work in Cube City. This has definitely helped pass the time as I wilf about at work. I mean, while I work REALLY REALLY hard at work.
I just thought I’d share this link with all of you because I enjoy it so much. There are more movies available for a listen, but I think stand-up comedy really works best for this kind of mind-occupation during work. Random “bang! bang!”, dialog that centers around action, and random sound-effects don’t really make for that enjoyable of a listen. Then again, if you’re REALLY bored, that just might do the trick…
"She shoots...She SCORES!"
Thursday, March 27, 2008
I played basketball last night. NO, not just shooting around, I mean I PLAYED!
You have no idea how exhilarating it was to actually be playing a pick up game in a park near my place! I think it’s been about 2 years since I played at all. I wasn’t good, but I was good enough to be happy about how the game turned out. 
So I’m a little clumsier than I wish, but at least I stayed on my feet AND I scored a couple points.
The people we were playing with were very cool - 3 random groups coming together. Jay came out to visit, Susan is on Spring break, and so we wandered from park to park until we found a free court. 3 other guys were also there, and then a couple showed up and we had a little 4 on 4 action!
AND, thanks to Jay, I have my shot back! What a great night! And then we topped it off by walking to a Thai fusion restaurant. I love my pedestrian neighborhood!
Just thought I’d share my joy with you, world wide web!
Questions and the Conversation
Friday, March 14, 2008
It’s all about asking the right questions.
Recently I have had several conversations that made me wish that someone would ask me the questions that would allow me to tell them what I’m really all about. Maybe it’s because I’m a woman, and I need to talk, but there is something very special about being able to express who you are, not just what you think or what you did. I want to believe that someone takes interest in who I am, and is curious enough to probe and find out.
As I was pondering this wish to be drawn out by insightful questions, someone point out, “You keep wishing that people would ask you the right kinds of questions to draw you out. Don’t you think God feels that way sometimes about us?”
It was an odd concept. I had never thought of it that way before. God wants ME to draw HIM out? I thought of our past conversations: true enough, I don’t think I ever asked anything beyond, “What do you want from me?” Not exactly the warm cuddly question that makes someone want to expose their true heart to you. I had never asked God, “what makes you happy? What do you think about this particular issue? Is this something you might like?” It’s even more than what kind of questions but the *intent* behind them. I don’t think I was that interested in knowing what God thought before. I just wanted to know so I could do it, do the “right thing,” and get on with my life. “Yeah yeah, just tell me the rules so i can follow them begrudgingly.”
I’ve decided I don’t want that kind of relationship with God anymore. Maybe I’m making God too human, but I will try to talk with God as I would a human - trying to find out what makes Him laugh, what makes Him happy, sad, angry. It’s a new approach for me. And if I don’t know the right questions to ask, I think I’ll ask Him, “what questions should I ask so I can draw you out and get to know you better?”
It’s definitely a question worth asking.
Project Runways Season 4 Finale
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
I’m so excited! Tomorrow is the Finale night for Project Runway Season 4!!
I’m not entirely sure why I love this show so much. Maybe because, even though it’s a reality show, it’s not about the fights and cattiness that happens in the house where they all reside. It really IS about design and creativity. I don’t think any other show really captures that as well.
There’s also something very familiar about the critiques. Something about working and being in design definitely gears you towards that breakdown of what makes things work and what doesn’t.
So tomorrow night at 10 pm is the final showdown on the runway at Fashion Week. Be there or be out of fashion! lol
Go watch it! It’s on Bravo and it’s totally FIERCE (to quote Christian, one of the finalists).
Gogogogogogogogogogogogogo!
A Question for You of the Web World
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Do you know anything about online groups and emailing lists?
I’m trying to find an online group application that keeps track of several emailing lists.
I want one main list, and then several sub-lists that the user can sign up for.
Here’s a hypothetical example:
There is a group of people who really like basketball. They start a group online (like Yahoo! groups or Google groups) as a way of sharing their passion for the sport. The admin of that group wants to email the whole group about an upcoming tournament.
The admin then wants to email all the Point Guards *only* and tell them information about a Point Guard practice happening next week. The admin also wants to email all the Centers to tell them about their own practice that will happen this week.
When a new basketball player joins the group, she wants to sign up for the main emailing list as well as the Point Guard list. She adds herself to both groups.
Is there a web app out there that does this? I’m not even sure where to look. So I’m asking YOU! (yeah, YOU!)