[donspatch] 2010-02-01
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- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 00:05:05 -0600
#134 February 1, 2010 from http://www.don-guitar.com
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First word, from Don:
On the Our_Patch discussion list, over the last couple of
weeks or so, we've talked about Haiti, religion, social
networking, and a strange cat who invaded Sandi's house.
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Gee it got cold and rainy here over the last couple of days.
I'm ready for Spring. I don't much care for Winter. I've
always said 'I can work with sweat in my eyes but if my
feet get cold I'm going to the house' and that's pretty much
how I feel about it. I've been staying indoors as much as
possible and cleaning out my computer junk room. Now I'll
be the first to admit I'm not good at cleaning and, in all
honesty, it's never been a skill I was keen to acquire so
I sure hope it warms up out there soon. :)
See you next time,
Don
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Section One by Don.
An odd little dictionary tool. http://www.voycabulary.com/
Dictionary of the Scots language.
http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/
Scottish vernacular dictionary.
http://www.firstfoot.com/dictionary/full.html
On the origin of a popular phrase.
http://www.bertramchandler.com/liberty.aspx
...and more about A (Arthur) Bertram Chandler.
http://www.bertramchandler.com/
'The mission of Grassroots.org is to serve as a catalyst
for positive social change by leveraging modern
technologies and best business practices.'
http://www.grassroots.org/
What the heck is 'Social Bookmarking'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf
...and a few social bookmarking sites.
http://delicious.com/
http://www.socialmarker.com/
http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php
http://digg.com/
http://www.mister-wong.com/
http://www.whispurr.com/
http://www.savethislink.net/
http://www.addthis.com/
http://www.propeller.com/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
http://socialogs.com/
http://wirefan.com/
http://bibsonomy.org/
http://faves.com/home
http://simpy.com/
http://www.backflip.com/status.html
http://spurl.net/
http://www.newsvine.com/
http://netvouz.com/
(and there are many more)
How to take notes online.
http://www.ubernote.com/
http://jjot.com/
http://jumk.de/notepad/
http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/
http://www.ayenotes.com/
http://www.notefish.com/
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/listit/
http://www.threetags.com/
http://mojonote.com/
http://www.mystickies.com/
http://www.fruitnotes.com/
http://tinypaste.com/
http://www.yourdraft.com/
http://www.copytaste.com/
http://notepub.com/
http://cl1p.net/
http://freetexthost.com/
http://friendpaste.com/
http://textsnip.com/
https://privnote.com/
http://jottit.com/
http://springpadit.com/
http://www.evernote.com/
http://www.notely.net/index.php
http://www.webasyst.net/notes/
http://www.shorttext.com/
http://www.pastehere.com/Paste.aspx
http://www.tasktoy.com/
http://www.syncnotes.com/WebView/Default.aspx
http://www.mynoteit.com/
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Section Two by Lisa
For those of you already on Google
Wave, a couple of much-requested
features have now been implemented.
http://googlewave.blogspot.com/
A complete online OS.
http://www.glidedigital.com/
Stephan Hawking's physical restrictions
have never limited his creativity.
http://www.hawking.org.uk/
Run Windows programs on OS X.
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/
View, convert, embed, share, upload or
search for any document online.
http://member.thinkfree.com/
It can be useful to navigate one directory up
in a web site. You can go from a 'deep' page
in a site to the home page or any directories
in-between. Firefox and Chrome have handy
extensions for just this purpose.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/869
http://goo.gl/7wWK
Adam Beane, commercial sculptor.
http://adambeane.com/home.html
A site celebrating the art of manliness.
http://artofmanliness.com/
Find out how safe your water is.
http://www.ewg.org/tap-water/welcome
Another Open-Source encyclopedia.
http://open-site.org/
Paint your home without paint. This
commercial site will allow you to do some
virtual painting free with an account.
http://colorjive.com/home.action
Scads of bookmarklets.
http://www.marklets.com/bookmarklets/
A great blog/comics site (IMO).
http://www.shoeboxblog.com/
Are you Living or surviving?
http://www.livingorsurviving.com/
The Internet Archive. Proceed at your
own peril-headfirst!
http://www.archive.org/index.php
An amazing photographic collection.
http://thundafunda.com/
Online tools that rival desktop
applications at a great price-free!
http://aviary.com/
Conversation, community and democracy.
http://www.artofhosting.org/home/
http://www.publicconversations.org/
http://www.conversationcafe.org/
http://www.theworldcafe.com/index.htm
Caring for animals makes us better people.
http://www.humanesociety.org/
Another Internet encyclopedia.
http://open-site.org/
End of Section Two.
At the time this issue was posted,
the current subscriber count for
this publication was 380.
This issue's collection of online news, blogs,
magazines, videos and/or other informational
sites. These are chosen for maximum diversity
regardless of 'spin' and in some cases may
have offensive or questionable content.
Section Three by Don.
Spooks in the UK. http://www.haunted-britain.com/
Newspaper anyone?
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
http://www.thepaperboy.com/
Daily newspaper front pages (viewer discretion is
advised). http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/
Reuters.com Oddly Enough (weird news).
http://tinyurl.com/2e3988
Movie mistakes. http://www.moviemistakes.com/
Talking funny in the UK.
http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/
English tongue twisters (from a site in Austria!).
http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm
How can you tell a websites country of origin?
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/85tldn.htm
Editor's note: In the virtual world of the web you
can't really determine where the website is located
because the host computer could be anywhere. For
example, the fellow who created the English tongue
twisters site, above, may live in Austria or he may
have created the site for Austrian English students
while he himself lives somewhere else. All you can
accurately say is that the site was probably created
for the use of people who live in Austria.
When you're corresponding by email with people who live
in countries that use the metric system, it's nice too
convert distances and temperatures to values they'll
quickly understand. Online conversion sites are useful
for this. http://www.convert-me.com/en/
A few interesting videos.
http://vimeo.com/6712657
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV6aQbnHSRo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vss1VKN2rf8
Grant Robinson is a very interesting technically
inclined fellow. http://grant.robinson.name/blog/
Here are some 'toys' he built for the internet.
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google/
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/sudoku/
My mom used to say she could always spot my exhibit
on parents day in early grade school. It was the
one with all the clay snakes (I'm artistically
challenged). So this site would be a good way to
recapture a bit of my childhood except I could never
draw anything, not even snakes. :(
http://www.makeitshareit.com/
Snow humor. http://i.imgur.com/TkJHh.jpg
(in Firefox I had to click the + sign to enlarge it)
Blogs about traveling. http://www.tripcrazed.com/
So, would you ban this book?
http://tinyurl.com/kv4js3 [wikipedia dot org]
The payphone project. http://www.payphone-project.com/
Ok Americans, is your town on the list?
http://www.americantowns.com/
http://www.hometownlocator.com/
How about the rest of you?
http://www.fallingrain.com/world/
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Section Four by Lisa.
Online image editing-no cost, no registration.
http://www.picnik.com/
Tired of having to register to read
an article? Here's a workaround.
http://goo.gl/BQG3
Use the power of Gmail to upload
and store all your files online.
http://www.getgspace.com/index.html
Photoshop video tutorials. Remember,
with just a little patience, you can
duplicate almost anything in GIMP,
at a great price, free.
http://kelbytv.com/photoshopusertv/
Want a nice-looking website in record time?
http://www.dotemplate.com/
Turn your photos into digital art-fast.
http://www.befunky.com/
Online courses from leading universities.
http://academicearth.org/
Make, organize your lists to get things done.
http://www.gubb.net/
Beautiful cigar art, boxes and bands.
http://www.cigarsoftware.com/index.html
Turn your favorite websites into Mac desktop
applications. http://fluidapp.com/
Beautiful pallettes to help you with
your color dilemmas.
http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/rating?time=30
Test your website in dozens of different
browsers. http://browsershots.org/
The Setup is a bunch of nerdy interviews.
http://usesthis.com/
A philosophy and a cause, the Right To Read.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Mondegreens for pop songs of the last 50 years.
http://www.amiright.com/
Useful and costless call services.
http://telepixie.com/
The customer is not always right.
http://notalwaysright.com/
What is it about marionettes that
makes them so fascinating?
http://www.czechmarionettes.com/
http://www.ehow.com/videos-on_5118_marionettes.html
Intuitive, visual navigation for websites.
http://www.spicynodes.org/
Who are the most isolated people on earth?
Maybe the Sentinalese.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_people
http://goo.gl/Jpy3
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Section Five by Don.
Maybe it's because I raised three daughters but I've
always been an advocate of womens rights. Shortly
after I started writing an ezine (for the now
defunct Maxpatch.com) I discovered Cynthia Lanius...
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/cwac99.html
...and became an instant advocate of women in
Technology. At the time Cynthia was something of
a lone voice in the wilderness. That has changed.
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/cwac99.html
http://www.girlgeeks.org/
http://www.techbridgegirls.org/
http://www.girlsgotech.org/
http://www.girlsintechnology.com/
http://www.girlstart.org/index.asp
http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/
http://www.josietrue.com/
http://www.braincake.org/default.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/ydfroyw [choixdecarrieres dot org]
http://www.computergirl.us/
http://www.webgrrls.com/
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/pdf/cwomen.pdf
http://www.networkcomputing.com/1216/1216colwoodka.html
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dougproj/
http://www.engineergirl.org/
http://dww.ed.gov/topic/?T_ID=18
http://www.engineeryourlife.org/
http://www.expandingyourhorizons.org/
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~wit/exploring/index.htm
http://etf.terc.edu/index.html
http://www.chabotspace.org/visit/programs/first.asp
http://www.gemsclub.org/index.html
http://www2.edc.org/GDI/
http://www.josanders.com/educators.html
http://tinyurl.com/ycsjwps [teachertech dot rice dot edu]
http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/Girls_and_Computers
http://tinyurl.com/29sg2e [learningplace dot com dot au]
http://www.beloit.edu/gwsci/
http://www.caaws.ca/girlsatplay/
http://gc3.edc.org/
http://programservices.etr.org/gcgweb/
https://www.girlsinc-online.org/
http://www.girlstart.com/index.asp
http://www.girlswithwings.com/index.html
http://intl.girltech.com/
http://www.iwaswondering.org/index2.html
http://tinyurl.com/yfa3p2p [Pat McNees dot com]
http://www.pdksciart.com/index.htm
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/weac/
http://www.sallyridescience.com/
http://www.scwist.ca/
http://mathequity.terc.edu/gw/html/TERCTimespaper.html
http://www.binarygirl.com/
http://www.girltech.com/index.aspx
http://www.womenswork.org/girls/compsci/
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~karavan/afl/home.html
http://teachertech.rice.edu/index2.html
http://web.vtc.edu/WIT/
http://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/
http://tinyurl.com/yz29685 [meetingtomorrow dot com]
http://www.womeninscience.org/
http://www.womenintech.com/
http://quest.nasa.gov/women/intro.html
http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~wowem/
http://www.zoeysroom.com/
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/math/gender/
http://awm-math.org/
While I was looking for sites that encouraged women
and girls to get into technology (and being knocked
out by how many I found) I also found plenty of
sites which are intended to encourage girls in
general, without any special emphasis. Here are a few.
http://genderequalbooks.com/Brave_Girls_book_list.html
http://www.feminist.org/
http://www.fragdolls.com/index.php
http://www.agirlsworld.com/
http://www.girlzone.com/
http://www.gogirlsonly.org/gogirlsonly.asp
http://www.pinkstinks.co.uk/
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Section Six by Lisa.
A new social content site.
http://open.salon.com/cover
The Internet Bus is traveling through India.
http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/landing/internetbus/
Students for the Exploration of Space, SEDS.
http://www.seds.org/
A project by the Commonsense Computing Initiative
at the MIT Media Lab, the Open Mind Initiative
enables computers to learn general knowledge
from ordinary people over the Web.
http://www.openmind.org/
Mmmmm...5 minutes reading this site made me hungry.
http://www.thenourishinggourmet.com/
You might ask yourself 'What's that stuff?'.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/
I've managed not to pack on an extra 10 pounds
this winter, but it's been a struggle. Here
are some great tips if you live in a cold climate.
http://bit.ly/5XmJL5
Good legal advice at a good price-free!
http://www.thelaw.com/
An easy way to find quotations.
http://www.thinkexist.com/
What if it's all been a big fat lie?
http://bit.ly/K5kbM
From the day you go online, you
should be aware you're building
an online reputation.
http://bit.ly/d4j5Nl
I love Google Calendar, but there are
plenty of good alternatives.
http://www.keepandshare.com/
http://www.calendarhome.com/clink.html
http://www.30boxes.com/welcome.php
An amazing amount of info on the outdoors
in a beautifully designed website.
http://www.dto.com/
Make your own high-quality logo.
http://www.logoease.com/
Promoting Open Knowledge in a digital age.
http://www.okfn.org/
The Tinkernut will show you how to do stuff.
His 'Create A Free Website From Scratch' is
excellent and directs you to free hosting.
http://www.tinkernut.com/
Swap all sorts of things.
Smaller stuff. http://www.swaptree.com/
Random files. http://www.file-swap.com/
More stuff. http://www.swap-it-now.com/
Gift cards. http://www.swapagift.com/index.html
Car leases. http://www.swapalease.com/
Comics. http://www.sequentialswap.com/
Clothing. http://clothesswap.meetup.com/
Clothing and accessories. http://dignswap.com/
Surprise! http://www.coudal.com/swapmeat/swapped.php
Baby stuff. http://www.swapbabygoods.com/
Stuff and freebies. http://www.swapsavers.com/
Treasures. http://www.swaptreasures.com/
Seeds. http://www.garden.org/seedswap/
Books, CDs, DVDs, Games. http://www.titletrader.com/
Assorted. http://www.swap-online.com/
Portal site. http://www.swapace.com/index.php
~~~
Even More Things Google:
Google Sites
About 3 Years ago I built and have been maintaining
a site for Llano (county) Master Gardeners Association.
Life events conspired to make it difficult or impossible
to keep up with the organization and maintaining the
website, and the site fell behind the group's current
activities. It was decided to turn the site over to
someone else who had the time to maintain it. I was
very stressed out at the thought of turning over the
site to someone who would have to learn the site, HTML
and CSS and how to keep it up to date.
Google to the rescue!
For the last couple of months I've been geeking out,
discovering the cool, efficient free tools Google has
to offer and found the one that ties them all together
to help me with this dilemma.
The system begins with Gmail and its extensive
functionality. There are many features that help
you organize and structure your daily email. Getting
a Gmail account is a good first step because you can
share the address and password with the other Google
products that will make it a complete system.
Google Calendar is as simple or complex as you need
it to be. You can have one Calendar or many in one
account, making it easy to coordinate the events of
one or more people or entities.
Google Docs (documents) is a relatively
full-featured word processor that not only saves
all your documents online, but will download them
to your computer in any file format you choose, and/or
will publish them as a web page to which you can
link on your pages. All free of charge.
Google Sites is an easy, coordinated system for
building a personal or professional website at a great
price-free! Once you have chosen a template, you
can further customize your site by adapting the
HTML and embedded CSS. Here's the link;
http://sites.google.com/
Some of the functionality is fixed, although there
are compensations-you can't break the basic structure
by making changes that won't work. All of the changes
are done in realtime, so be aware that your viewers are
watching. You can be sure your site is
standards-compliant and I've found that so far the
templates all feature fluid design.
The most comprehensive tutorials I've found for
Google Sites are here;
http://www.steegle.com/
http://siteshelp.kccloudsolutions.com/
Picasa is another Google product that reportedly works
seamlessly with Google Sites. A couple of years ago I
installed it and it searched my computer for image files
and organized them for me. I resented that and promptly
uninstalled it. Now, I still haven't organized all
those images and dumped lots more in disorganized,
random folders. Perhaps it's time to give it another
whirl. Still, if you don't want to use Picasa, you
have the option of simply uploading images.
There are numerous YouTube tutorials on how to use
and customize Google sites. You can start here;
http://goo.gl/1UdP
As I said, Google has rescued me and in a short time
I'll be able to co-administer the Llano Master Gardener's
site with other members of the Association. The total
cost of the site will be the time invested learning
(which always yields its own dividends) and $10 a year
for a domain name.
End of Section Six.
The Linux Corner.
Bash Guide for Beginners.
http://tinyurl.com/f2qkl [tldp dot org]
Serious, heavy duty internet security.
http://coyotelinux.com/
Debian news, tips, tricks and more.
http://www.debiantoday.com/
Google Gadgets for Linux.
http://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for-linux/
Google's Open Source blog.
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/
Roll-your-own Linux.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
http://tuxradar.com/content/how-build-your-own-linux-distro
http://pcplus.techradar.com/node/3020
http://tinyurl.com/5o98p9 [informationweek dot com]
http://susestudio.com/ Note: If susestudio intimidates
you, there are a couple of helpful videos on youtube.
Just go to youtube and type 'susestudio' in the search bar.
A Little Humor.
http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=419079936
http://tinyurl.com/ykmgrp2
[climate protection campaign dot org]
http://www.aaaugh.com/jokes/computer_abc.html
[more where that came from]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhcA4Ry65FU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnPCMIUvT0g
Josh Blue is a wonderful, brave, funny man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMSrpZi_6WM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uAs2KidfDg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0kA6ZwIA9s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0pdmqdb5Uc
Tips for This Issue.
http://ririanproject.com/category/computers-tech/
http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/documents/safetytips.htm
http://www.itexpressions.com/computertips.shtml
http://www.networktutorials.info/
Contributions From Our Readers.
Links from readers are always
welcome and you can even write
your own link descriptions if you
like (just tell me when you send
them if that's what you intended).
Guidelines are available here:
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From our good friend Cyndi Dunn, a joke that may fall
a little short of truth but is nevertheless funny.
http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/thermometer.asp
From our web-sibling Jerry Fox.
The lost generation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA
Oops, another famous joke bites the dust
but is still good for a laugh.
http://www.snopes.com/military/reinwald.asp
From our web-sibling Norm Koedkritz, a moment in
American TV history that's been entitled 'Homeland
Security'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2C-2ul---4
From our web-sibling John Lepse.
( John's blog: http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/ )
The harmonica man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSpoMWQRCiU
Bill Gates and the Quiz Machine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_oII4FzZEg [part 1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH8EQPpqcnk [part 2]
Beethoven's 5th argument.
http://www.flixxy.com/beethoven-5th-symphony.htm
John found this thought provoking.
http://tinyurl.com/y89ungv [blog dot sojo dot net]
The inspirational story of Doug Smith.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA0LoIhjnkc
Lisa and I have discussed it. We agree, it's love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BB41MLgoWk
Way back in nineteen mumble, shortly after I first got
online via dial up, one of the first good friends I made,
in the 40something chat room at go.com (because the
50something room was always empty) was the charming
and delightful moonbeamrose. Through her I recently
discovered Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, an awesome American.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Kamakawiwo%27ole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltAGuuru7Q
From our friend Lee Parmeter who is also the mind-behind
our local Highland Lakes Linux Users Group.
( http://www.hllug.org/ )
The linux foundation will train you - for free.
http://tinyurl.com/yzw4m9r [linuxjournal dot com]
From our friend Steven Scott.
Some UK consumers have have cause to be angry.
http://tinyurl.com/yjvrwza [guardian dot co dot uk]
From our web-sibling Randi Simon-Serey.
( http://s182.photobucket.com/albums/x53/chowchowgrl/ )
A great site for nurses. http://allnurses.com/
From our web-sibling Bob Tegner.
( http://bobtegner.wordpress.com/ )
Astronomy apps.
http://freeware.intrastar.net/planetarium.htm
From our web-sibling Ted Whitford.
( http://twitter.com/tedleew )
Ted's Blip FM channel. http://beta.blip.fm/tedleew
An alternative to compulsory registration.
http://www.bugmenot.com/
Your version of the web. http://www.yourversion.com/
Convert a webpage to a PDF document. http://pdfmyurl.com/
A little scientific reading. http://www.sciencedaily.com/
An intriguing blog. http://circleboxblog.com/
Thank you Cyndi, Jerry, Norm, John, Rose,
Lee, Stevie, Randi, Bawb and Ted.
~~~
Amanda is perhaps our youngest web-friend. In fact, she's
a few years younger than my youngest daughter. Lisa and I
decided that we're her virtual grandparents. We think of
ourselves as her eMaw and ePaw. Lisa and I love her
writing so we asked for permission to share some of her
word-craft with our readers. She graciously consented.
Breathing After the Bullet
We all heard it break the air between us
and crack the yew leaves hanging by the porch.
So we looked at each other through the space
where our talk had reared up mid-phrase.
Our father measured his words in the rain-light,
holding onto them in case they were wrong.
In case we were all wrong, no one else spoke.
It couldn't have been. It couldn't have been anything else.
Our breath pawed the ground and shook its head
and the chair springs whinnied as we waited
for the bullet to circle the world and come back.
Saucepan
We had a little saucepan I loved,
blue, speckled white like an egg,
the kind everyone's grandmother had
and it disappeared the way
grandmothers do.
Maybe one day I will find it
and hold it, turn it over
looking for some epiphany
like waiting for water to boil.
The Night Fishermen of the Chester River
At 10:00, they turn up at the bridge
hair white around the ears,
skin pooling
around their eyes dark like water.
They cast out a line, wait,
reel back in, cast out.
Each gives the other's lines a wide berth
and none bothers to leave lamps lit at home.
Thank you Manda. Love you bunches.
Last word, from Lisa:
Still in a steep learning curve, I've been spending lots
of time playing with Google Wave and my new Facebook
account. Now I see the appeal of Facebook that I didn't
understand before. You can keep up with people that you
know and care about, but don't see nearly enough. You
can meet new friends with shared fun or intellectual
interests and much more. At first it's a little
addictive, but like most new things settles into its
rightful place in your life.
Don just accused me of being fond of taking on
challenging new projects. That's just a...a...base
allegation. Yeah, that's what it is.
Livin' La Vida Loca, Y'all.
Lisa
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Don Crowder and Lisa Miller
Monday, February 1, 2010
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