Don's Patch Issue #2005-08-15 from http://www.don-guitar.com Lisa and I finally got pushed too far by our convenience store job when all our hard work was rewarded with urgent rejoinders to do still more work. Lisa was asked to do some cleaning chores that the other two shifts had flatly refused to do and I was given a list of reasonable-sounding requests which could only be complied with by completely retraining myself. Granted, I was able to rise to the occasion but when we hired on we were assured that we'd be trained to do our jobs, given which, being forced to retrain myself seemed an unfair requirement. At any rate, we gave notice, did our two weeks, and are now happily unemployed. We'd already applied for employment in a number of places,seeking another job. It's unfortunate that circumstances elected to shred those careful plans but I'm sure we'll find something soon. Where possible, having learned that we're a formidable team, we prefer to work together. This complicates the process of finding jobs but we'll try to fill that requirement for as long as we can. If it doesn't work we'll have little or no trouble finding individual jobs. We don't need "positions" after all. We simply need jobs and we don't "live to work". We work to live. As simple a concept as that seems to be, we were surprised to find a great number of articles on the web which relate to the notion. http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/features/work_stress_003832.htm http://journals.aol.com/vicl04/VictorLana/entries/1229 http://www.whazsup.com/blair_chronicles/working.shtml http://snipurl.com/gvsz http://www.stretcher.com/stories/00/000214h.cfm http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2002/11/18/smallb1.html http://www.trans4mind.com/counterpoint/burton1.shtml http://www.allanschwartz.com/mesmo/mes_0101.htm How about you, do you work to live, or live to work? Remember, your input is always welcome. I value your suggestions and comments, and I'm always willing to help you find answers to your computer and Internet questions. My feedback form: http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª A mini-feature on the Chicago World's Fair Of 1893. http://fly.hiwaay.net/~shancock/fair/1893.html http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1238.htm http://washingtonmo.com/1893/index2.htm http://www.chicagohs.org/history/expo.html http://users.vnet.net/schulman/Columbian/columbian.html http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/wce.html http://www.lib.umd.edu/ARCH/honr219f/1893chic.html http://columbus.gl.iit.edu/ http://www.chicagohs.org/AOTM/May98/may98fact3.html The World's Fair in general. http://www.expomuseum.com/ A Digital archive of American architecture. http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/contents.html The Academy of American Poets. http://www.poets.org/ The Anti-Saloon League from 1893 to 1933 was a major force in American politics. http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon/ This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively. http://www.aplusmath.com/ Art Cars in Cyberspace. http://www.artcars.com/ Historical Atlas of Europe. http://www.euratlas.com/summary.htm Numerous resources, hints and tips related to online banking. http://www.bankbranchonline.com/ Fun for grown-ups and children. http://www.meddybemps.com/ Today in History. http://www.brainyhistory.com/ The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. http://www.morsemuseum.org/ History files from the Chicago Historical Society. http://www.chicagohs.org/history/ The Chicago Imagebase. http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase/ Children's Literature Web Guide. http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html Citizen's Advice, a UK resource. http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/ The Clearinghouse on Reading, English & Communication. http://reading.indiana.edu/ An interesting little car. http://www.seat600.com/frames3.html Facilitating global commerce. http://www.xe.com/ Desmond's mom was my kind of people *grin*. http://www.sirc.org/articles/desmond.html More interesting things to read, from Desmond Morris. http://www.desmond-morris.com/index.php More from the Social Issues Research Centre. http://www.sirc.org/index.html Web Sites Classified by the Dewey Decimal Classification System for Grades K-12 by Gail Shea Grainger. http://www.deweybrowse.org/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª This publication is only mailed to verified double opt-in subscribers, and is brought to you by me, Don Crowder, my wife, Lisa Miller, and http://www.freelists.org ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª Digital Camera magazine from the UK. http://www.dcmag.co.uk/ Not necessarily family-friendly short stories. http://www.short-stories.co.uk/ A site for higher education students, councilors, financial aid coordinators or lenders. http://www.edfund.org/ A few flash games (slow loading on a dial-up connection) http://www.candlelightstories.com/GamesMemberPage.asp and some children's ebooks from the same site. http://www.candlelightstories.com/eBooksMem100.asp A food reference site. http://www.foodreference.com/index.html A site for foreign-born individuals entering or living in the United States. http://www.foreignborn.com/ Stories for kids of all ages. http://www.magickeys.com/books/ The GEO 600 project aims at the direct detection of gravitational waves by means of a laser interferometer of 600 m armlength. http://www.geo600.uni-hannover.de/ An informative piece on the hairy ball theorem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem The Handbook of Texas Online is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/index.html The National Education Association. http://www.nea.org/index.html The NEA's Higher Education pages. http://www2.nea.org/he/index.html Family friendly printable craft projects from HP. http://snipurl.com/gx8a HP offers online classes on a variety of computer related subjects without cost. This is very cool. http://h30240.www3.hp.com/ SnipURL http://snipurl.com/ is the online service I use to shorten long URL's. I noticed that they have an "editor's choice" list of shortened URL's which their editors found to be interesting. http://snipurl.com/interesting The Internet Christian Library. http://iclnet.org/ The Internet Public Library has a new look. http://www.ipl.org/ Jazz Age Chicago, urban leisure from 1893 to 1934. http://www.jazzagechicago.com/ Julian Dibbell sells imaginary suits of armor and makes a nice living at it. http://www.juliandibbell.com/ Advice on a number of topics. http://freeadvice.com/ Teach and learn basic money skills, personal finance, business, careers, and life skills. http://www.moneyinstructor.com/ The International Museum of the Horse. http://www.imh.org/imh/imhmain.html Native American stories. http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/ A very nice educational portal from the King Middle School of Kankakee, Illinois. http://www.k111.k12.il.us/king/new_way.htm I haven't mentioned the Interactive Museum of News so far this year. It's worth a visit. http://www.newseum.org/ Office guns (toys for the work place). http://officeguns.com/ Print, cut, fold or glue; paper toys. http://www.papertoys.com/ Science toys you can make with your kids. http://scitoys.com/ Money In Politics Databases. http://www.tray.com/ Special Astrophysical Observatory from the Russian Academy of Sciences. http://www.sao.ru/ratan/ A family recipe archive from Elise Bauer http://www.elise.com/recipes/ and there are other fun things to explore on her site. http://www.elise.com/ Advice for teens. http://www.teenadviceonline.org/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª At the time this issue was posted, the current subscriber count for this publication was 290. ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª This issue's collection of news/magazine/informational sites (these are chosen for maximum diversity regardless of "spin" ). http://www.alternet.org/ http://www.canada.com/national/index.html http://www.csmonitor.com/ http://money.cnn.com/ http://www.earthtimes.org/ http://news.ft.com/home/us http://www.greenmoneyjournal.com/ http://www.lifestyle.org/ http://www.lifestylesmagazine.com/ http://www.lipmagazine.org/ http://www.locusmag.com/ http://www.macintouch.com/ http://www.sana.org/english/mainenglish.htm http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm http://www.mondotimes.com/ http://www.nationalreview.com/ http://www.neurology.org/ http://www.newlifestyles.com/ http://www.mlive.com/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª Have you seen the email about actor Lee Marvin having been in the Marine Corp with Captain Kangaroo? http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/kangaroo.html http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/lmarvin.htm http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-marvin-keeshan.htm http://www.snopes.com/military/marvin.asp http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/k/keeshan.htm What's in a handshake? http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-704.html http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20000611025925data_trunc_sys.shtml Every now and then we all want to buy stuff. http://www.bestwebbuys.com/ http://shopper.cnet.com/ http://www.mysimon.com/ http://www.nextag.com/ http://www.pricewatch.com/ http://www.streetprices.com/ Mary Ellen's recipes. http://www.thatsmyhome.com/ U.S. Marines, Toys For Tots.http://www.toysfortots.org/home/ A mini-feature on Theosophy. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&oi=defmore&q=define:Theosophy http://www.theosociety.org/ http://www.wisdomworld.org/index.html http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Theosophy/id/191353 http://www.onet.net/~cathy/theosophy101.htm http://www.theosophical.org/ http://theosophy.org/ http://www.blavatsky.net/ http://www.theosophy.com/ http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/homepage.htm http://skepdic.com/theosoph.html http://www.theos-world.com/ MetaReligion claims to offer a multidisciplinary view of the spiritual. http://www.meta-religion.com/ A peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the transdisciplinary study of Western esoteric traditions including alchemy, astrology, Gnosticism, gnosis, magic, mysticism, Rosicrucianism, and secret societies, and their ramifications in art history, history, literature, and politics. http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/ The Texas State Historical Association. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/index.html The Kansas State Historical Society http://www.kshs.org/ The Utah State Historical Society. http://history.utah.gov/ The State Historical Society of Iowa. http://www.iowahistory.org/ The Historical Society of Haddonfield, New Jersey. http://www.historicalsocietyofhaddonfield.org/ The Historical Society of Kent County, Maryland. http://www.hskcmd.com/ U-S-History.com. http://www.u-s-history.com/ An Australian food product called "Vegemite". http://www.theepicentre.com/Australia/aufood3.html http://www.ozbird.com/oz/OzCulture/oz_culture/vegemite/default.htm http://www.vegemite.com.au/index.cfm?fuseaction=ourHeritage.welcome This exhibition explores the art and culture of the Turks from Inner Asia to the Bosphorus over a thousand year period between 600 and 1600 AD. http://www.turks.org.uk/index.php?pid=8 Students for the Exploration and Development of Space. http://www.seds.org/ A computer tech site for mega-geeks (highly technical). http://techreport.com/ The Charles M. Schulz Museum. http://www.schulzmuseum.org/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª If you'd like to help promote this non-commercial publication, please forward this ezine to anyone you know who might appreciate it. To spare them the forwarding carets (>>>>these things) I suggest you copy/paste the ezine to a new email window, or save the ezine as a text file to be inserted, or copy/pasted to a new email. If you've received this publication as a forward and wish to subscribe you may easily do so from online forms in these two locations: http://www.don-guitar.com/subsmanager.html http://www.freelists.org/list/donspatch ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª Richard M. 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Bellovin of Columbia University). http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/securemail.html A commercial site with reviews of notebooks and laptops. http://www.notebookreview.com/ An online reference source for information about airworthy, privately-owned, ex-military aircraft. http://www.warbirdalley.com/ An anagram is a word made by using letters of another word in a different order. http://www.manythings.org/anagrams/ Wacky Web Tales for grades 3 and above. http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ Anime graphics, icons, wallpaper, and layouts. http://wallflower.wishing-blue.net/ Stephen Mefford's personal photo diary. (navigation is on a nearly invisible bar along the top of the image). http://www.waytoblue.org/?EntryID=95 Windows Secrets. http://www.windowssecrets.com/ Women who illustrate children's books. http://www.ortakales.com/illustrators/ Denise Ortakales' sculpted paper illustration. http://www.ortakales.com/gallery/index.html Words and language in a humorous vein. http://www.word-detective.com/index.html ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª My feedback form: http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html I welcome all comments, suggestions, or criticism. The form doesn't access your email client (it's a CGI form), so your privacy is assured. 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These aren't sponsors, they're the best of Internet publications and I highly recommend them all. http://askTCL.com http://www.langa.com http://www.tourbus.com http://www.lockergnome.com http://www.neatnettricks.com http://www.scotsnewsletter.com http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html ======== Reader Contributions ========= Here's one from reader and friend Irving Stein. http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman7/index.html Irving's site is worth exploring as well http://www.irvings-info-page.cityslide.com Reader and friend John Lepse sent this one. Thomas is a six-year-old artist. This is his blog. http://artlad.blogspot.com/ Thanks Irv and John. ================================= Here's an informative sites which was recently mentioned on the Highland Lakes Computer Club list. http://www.geeks.com/pix/techtip-viewall.htm Thanks HLCC. ================================= Since I've just become unemployed one might expect me to have plenty of time to work on this issue but that hasn't been the case. Since we quit our jobs Lisa and I have been on the run. Today we went swimming in the lake with the grandkids (this is very important stuff you know) and tomorrow we're baby sitting them. Much of our time has been spent filling out applications. Employment applications are a necessary evil. Aside from the time it takes to fill them out, there's the sheer weight of information one is forced to dredge up from memory. I know there are people who can recall every detail about past events but I'm not one of them. I have a terrible memory for dates, in particular, and that makes job applications a form of torture for me. Ah, well, such is life. Soon I'll have another job and be able to move on. See you next time. Don Crowder - Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:45 PM CST - Tow, TX, USA ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª Privacy: I will never share, sell, or otherwise compromise your email address. Privacy Policy on my website. http://www.don-guitar.com/privacy.html Freelists.org Privacy Policy. http://www.freelists.org/privacy.html ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª The most important people on the Internet, for you and I as computer users, are software developers. The world's coolest computer, without software, is like a car without fuel. It might look great, but what can it do? It doesn't matter who produces the software you love and use regularly, the developers of that software need your support. A bit of advice from Internet veteran Bayard J. 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