[donspatch] 2010-09-01
- From: "Don (& Lisa)" <dondashguitar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Donspatch <Donspatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 01:15:26 -0500
#148 September 1, 2010 from http://www.don-guitar.com
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First word, from Don:
Busy, busy, busy. What's up with that? Is it just us or
is everybody's life running in the fast lane right now?
Lisa and I have spent the last couple of years looking for
a new place to live. This is supposed to be a great
time to buy real estate (and, reciprocally, a terrible time
to sell) so how come we can't find a place that suits us?
We're not really picky, there just aren't a lot of choices
in our area at the moment. We'll keep trying but it's
becoming quite a hassle. On the other hand we don't know
anybody who's living a hassle-free life and most of our
friends seem to be trying to cope with issues that
substantially overshadow ours.
When I try to count my blessings I never need to count
past Lisa. She's one special blessing.
Wishing everyone love, luck, health and happiness,
See you next time,
Don
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Section One by Don.
The history of war.
http://www.historyofwaronline.com/index.html
All about Russia, in English.
http://englishrussia.com/
When I was a teenager I thought my friend Sam's dad was a
nutcase because he spent scores of hours trying to figure
out a way to make a car engine run on compressed air.
After seeing this I emailed Sam and asked him to
extend my apologies to his dad.
http://www.flixxy.com/zero-pollution-automobile.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVIwropRMME
A fairly radical approach to mobility on snow. From
1924! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVzj3_MUBjE
Automobiles, speed and other, similar stuff.
http://www.vodcars.com/fastlanedaily/
A small North Korean girl who plays a mean guitar.
http://tinyurl.com/2dxmf77
I don't know what got me started searching out bass solos
but wow, was I ever impressed with what I found.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIJhBxu9wTA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piAOXND2vKw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBLitODczzs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmYHY3xGfaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6vO96emArQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWg6iB0Evj0
As a guitarist I'm debating the advisability
of simply adopting some Korean kids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG_dQC-cnk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtjvVgNMPtI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaHaRUPfKok
Paul Lutus, like a lot of other extremely talented and
intelligent people, is an eccentric sort of genius.
Check out his Java careware if nothing else.
http://www.arachnoid.com/index.html
Costless Windows goodies. http://sxsoftware.com/
Need help getting organized? http://hiveminder.com/
Flo's spiffy Scintilla based editor.
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
More Windows goodies.
http://www.gena01.com/software.shtml
What happens if you jam blogging and scrapbooking
together? http://www.scrapblog.com/
DIY comics anyone? http://www.comeeko.com/
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Section Two by Lisa.
I need coffee.
http://www.ineedcoffee.com/
http://bit.ly/11b4Vf
http://www.coffeereview.com/
The more you know....
http://bit.ly/8c5BJe
http://bit.ly/cqyUa2
The billion dollar ladies.
http://bit.ly/aMQC2I
A better BMI.
http://bit.ly/RyIN7
A blog about canning. The photos
alone are worth looking a visit.
http://www.foodinjars.com/
Do you know about the Shadow People?
http://www.shadowpeople.org/
A nice site about plants.
http://www.theplantexpert.com/
My favorite African Violet site.
http://www.robsviolet.com/
Equal time for Pastafarians.
http://www.venganza.org/
Repotting my African violets today.
Such a Zen-like pastime.
http://bit.ly/9iLSpE
What do people with food sensitivities
do for a good birthday cake? Oh, ho...
http://bit.ly/bjLDbt
My new fave blogger, Suburban Matron.
http://www.suburbanmatron.com/
Gary Arndt is going to see it all.
http://everything-everywhere.com/
The maintenance and repair of mobile
homes differs significantly from that
of conventional housing. Here's help.
http://www.mobilehomedoctor.com/
http://mobilehomerepair.com/
http://www.mobilehome.com/repair.php
End of Section Two.
At the time this issue was posted,
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this publication was 376.
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.
http://sodelightful.wordpress.com/
http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/
http://surewhynotnow.blogspot.com/
http://www.symphonious.net/
http://www.tampabay.com/
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/
http://www.thegrumpyprogrammer.com/
http://www.independent.org/
http://www.queendom.com/articles/articles.htm?a=19
http://txmomof3.wordpress.com/
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Home
http://washingtonindependent.com/
http://thinkprogress.org/
http://www.useit.com/
http://www.tommykane.blogspot.com/
http://twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com/
http://tinyurl.com/3qfyzm [npr dot org]
http://twi-ny.com/
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
http://thingsweforget.blogspot.com/
http://www.velveteenmind.com/
http://discussions.virtualdr.com/home.php
http://www.websavymom.com/
Section Three by Don.
Create your own surveys. http://questionform.com/
Some Windows goodies. http://www.zeraha.org/dlcat.1.html
Play a while on this colorful site.
http://www.colr.org/
A few interesting videos.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Pacificmusic
http://www.youtube.com/user/OkGo#p/a/u/2/12zJw9varYE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDvVKJtLocQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MR2G1tVcLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C__2eeX2dU0
Spelling errors can lead to big bargains on the web.
http://www.typobuddy.com/
http://www.typobay.com/
http://typohound.com/
A cultural mosaic on the art of music.
http://underyourskin.net/
End your confusion over 'i.e.' and 'e.g.' with a smile.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/ie
Keeping track of senior citizen discounts.
http://seniordiscounts.com/
A firefox plugin for paranoid, highly advanced users.
http://tinyurl.com/3ytkxtk [zscaler dot com]
News and information about sunspots, solar flares and
meteor showers. http://www.spaceweatherradio.com/
To me, Seinfeld is a sleeping dog best left alone
but if you can't get enough, this is for you.
http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/index.html
After reading the text on the home page I'm convinced
that the programmer's first language isn't English but
that doesn't mean his software wouldn't help you organize
your media files. http://users.otenet.gr/~dtou20/
I don't have separate IM clients for AIM, Yahoo, MSN or
Google talk. Instead, I have one client, Pidgin, which
handles them all. http://www.pidgin.im/
Lisa might enjoy freelensing but we're going to have to
purchase a much fancier camera than we have for her to try.
http://lukeroberts.us/2009/12/freelensing/
Every wonder what Calvin and Hobbes have to say on a given
topic? no prob, try the Calvin and Hobbes search engine.
http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/
Whether you're planning to immigrate or just vacationing in
New Zealand, it could help you to know some of their slang.
http://www.nz-immigration.co.nz/lifestyle/slang-words.html
DeepSurplus is a good place to learn about network cabling.
http://www.deepsurplus.com/HOME/Free-Training
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Section Four by Lisa.
Practical advice for creative people.
http://lateralaction.com/pathfinder/
We need lots more of this.
http://bit.ly/8TI02U
Remember the Elian Gonzales
story? Here's an update.
http://bit.ly/9mOgED
What a cool idea!
http://bit.ly/aYLqk1
The best way to clean windows.
http://bit.ly/d494Tn
http://bit.ly/cpIxvs
How to cut a mango.
http://bit.ly/vRN8E
There's actually a Doodle Day.
http://www.nationaldoodleday.org.uk/
A great laundry idea.
http://bit.ly/bLbMgF
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
provide grants to improve life.
http://www.hewlett.org/
A couple of good (and free) ebooks.
http://liveboldandbloom.com/resources/ebooks
http://bit.ly/crD4CX
Gabriel Schaffer, artist.
http://www.outsiderart.info/shaffer.htm
A magazine of Polish culture.
http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/
Maxfield Parrish, artist.
http://parrish.artpassions.net/
Just in case you were wondering...
http://www.whatdoestheinternetthink.net/
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Section Five by Don.
Sometimes I foolishly assume I've had enough
problems to know something about problems.
http://www.polarisproject.org/
Sometimes I foolishly assume I know something about
courage. http://violenceunsilenced.com/
A Windows utility which some folks enjoy using.
http://www.autohotkey.com/
If you find youself typing the same things over
and over this tool might be useful to you.
http://www.phraseexpress.com/
Eye candy for Windows. http://www.desktopbeautifier.com/
Some websites are about information; some are about the
packaging and processing of information. Yippy seems to
belong in the latter group. http://yippy.com/
Normally if I'm going to link to a blog I put it in the
media section and I list the whole blog rather than a
specific post but this is a specific post, in one man's
blog, which captures a moment of his never-ending rite of
passage as a parent.
http://www.billycoffey.com/2010/08/ever-forward-2/
More where that came from. http://www.billycoffey.com/
Windows goodies from I/Obit.
http://www.iobit.com/download.html
Another Windows toy. http://www.xneat.com/
If you're one of those folks whose computer is always
turned on, always connected to the web and you enjoy
being involved in mankind's quest for knowledge, there
are numerous projects which can make good use of your
spare CPU time. Learn about them here:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download
I'd love to have one of these things but I keep thinking
'they don't have heat or air conditioning and what if it
rains?'. http://www.youtube.com/user/HumanCar
DIY goodies for your cellphone.
http://www.tonethis.com/
Whether you want to install Linux on your Lenova laptop
or just learn more about using Windows on your Lenova
machine, here's a helpful site.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
iPod to computer transfer tool. http://www.copytoy.com/
Contact friends and family when you are trekking,
travelling or have been in a disaster.
http://www.shoutsafe.com/
Somewhere between twitter and email.
http://three.sentenc.es/
A bachelor friend of ours was looking for a small place to
live and, while helping him, we discovered 'Park' model
mobile homes. They're way overpriced but very cool.
http://www.parkmodelsdirect.com/
http://www.pinnacleparkhomes.com/
I heard about this on NPR; 100 people, 100 dollars, 100
days. http://www.whatisproject100.com/
Is life getting you down? Pick up the phone.
http://www.pickupthephone.org/
Marc Gold is a pretty cool guy. http://100friends.org/
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Section Six by Lisa.
Hitler in color.
http://bit.ly/4n0TVJ
The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef. Srsly.
http://crochetcoralreef.org/
Ronald Mallett believes in time travel.
Me, too. http://bit.ly/mJLol
Sociable. Guerrilla. Bagging.
http://www.morsbags.com/
Ray Ceasar's work is quite different.
http://www.raycaesar.com/
What to do with that old aluminum
folding chair. http://bit.ly/9aAx2u
Things NOT to DIY.
http://bit.ly/cSE3RA
Online time-tracking and invoicing.
http://makesometime.com/
Advice on going green.
http://www.greenlivingtips.com/
What does your fridge
say about you?
http://bit.ly/w1B5n
Interesting things.
http://www.crookedbrains.net/
Free home inventory software.
http://www.stuffsafe.com/index.php
http://www.whatyouown.org/index.html
http://www.allmythings.com/
How to make a difference,
in the time you have.
http://www.charityguide.org/
Need some help making dinner?
What a nice puppy!
http://www.recipepuppy.com/
I've had a blast gathering all
our CDs in one place, making paper
sleeves for them and getting rid
of all those space-hogging jewel
cases-which went into the plastic
recycling. You can use the reverse
side of printer 'overruns' to make
the sleeves, too. Every commercial
CD (or copy) I searched so far has
been listed and gave me a track
list. Very cool.
http://www.papercdcase.com/
(Thanks for the link Patrick)
End of Section Six.
The Linux Corner.
How to learn to use Linux.
http://www.wikihow.com/Learn-to-Use-Linux
Unix, Linux, and variants from ComputerHope.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix.htm
Learn About Linux. http://www.linux.com/learn
Eleven SSH tricks (geeky stuff from Linux Journal.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6602
The Linux learning zone.
http://www.linuxlearningzone.com/
Linux tips and tricks. http://www.patoche.org/LTT/
Linux tips, tricks, tools, news and howtos.
http://www.linuxhaxor.net/
A Little Humor.
How many dogs does it take to change a light bulb?
http://tinyurl.com/6lux9k [animalsneedhelp dot com]
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
for Etch-A-Sketch technical support.
Q: My Etch-A-Sketch has all of these funny
little lines all over the screen.
A: Pick it up and shake it.
Q: How do I turn my Etch-A-Sketch off?
A: Pick it up and shake it.
Q: What's the shortcut for Undo?
A: Pick it up and shake it.
Q: How do I create a New Document window?
A: Pick it up and shake it.
Q: How do I set the background and
foreground to the same color?
A: Pick it up and shake it.
Q: What is the proper procedure for
rebooting my Etch-A-Sketch?
A: Pick it up and shake it.
Q: How do I delete a document on my Etch-A-Sketch?
A: Pick it up and shake it.
Q: How do I save my Etch-A-Sketch document?
A: Don't shake it.
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Some of life's little ponderings
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is
where a train stops. On my desk I have a work station...
Can atheists get insurance for acts of God?
If they arrested the Energizer Bunny,
would they charge it with battery?
I believe five out of four
people have trouble with fractions.
How come you never hear about gruntled employees?
How much faith does it take to be an atheist?
I don't have a solution, but I admire your problem.
A tin whistle is made of tin.
What, exactly, is a fog horn made of?
If atheists say there is no God, who do they
think pops up the next Kleenex in the box?
Okay, who stopped the payment on my reality check?
I believe the only time the world beats a path
to my door is when I'm in the bathroom.
Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
What hair color do they put on
the driver's licenses of bald men?
Tips for This Issue.
The low-down on fast connections.
http://www.dslreports.com/
Windows 7 forums. http://www.sevenforums.com/
Information assembled for and by actual users of Microsoft
Windows. http://www.annoyances.org/
Mac tips, fixes and reviews. http://www.macyourself.com/
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From our web-sibling Patrick Barden.
( http://romanroadwalker.posterous.com/ )
A nifty paper CD case that works great once
you overcome the challenge of folding it.
http://www.papercdcase.com/
From our web-sibling Jo-Ann (Jo) Burton:
( Jo's site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ )
The original inspiration for the LOLcats.
http://apelad.blogspot.com/
Accidental income.
http://www.accidentalincome.com/
Medievil stained glass windows.
http://home.bawue.de/~wmwerner/essling/english/glas01.html
A bit more where that came from.
http://home.bawue.de/~wmwerner/essling/english/index.html
The history of things that never were.
http://www.mts.net/~arphaxad/history.html
An online ladies magazine. http://blisstree.com/
A gallery of xrays, in color.
http://colorxrays.com/gallerymedical.htm
Interesting blog/blog-like sites.
http://www.fionacarswell.com/
http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/
http://drboli.wordpress.com/
http://www.futilitycloset.com/
From web-sibling and old friend Kenneth Hale.
Jim the Wonder Dog.
http://jimthewonderdog.com/index.html
A theme park on the web. http://www.yesterland.com/
Cemetary public records. http://www.findagrave.com/
The Skeptic's Dictionary. http://www.skepdic.com/
Spy stuff. http://www.spystuff.com/
Trendy magic. http://www.trendy.org/magic/
UFO folklore. http://qtm.net/~geibdan/framemst.html
Guide to lock picking.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/mit-guide/mit-guide.html
Looks to me like a mashup of a web portal and a search
engine. http://www.hotsheet.com/
From our web-sibling John Lepse.
( John's blog: http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/ )
An idle brain may be the self's workshop (and interesting
article from the Los Angeles Times)
http://tinyurl.com/2859jk7 [latimes dot com]
Thank you Patrick, Jo, Kenneth and John.
Last word, from Lisa:
Seems we're constantly ascending learning
curves. This evening we played at a local
watering hole in a new(ish) adventure. For
the past few weeks we have started a musical
group we now call 'DNR'-for 'Don-n-Ron' or
'Do Not Resuscitate'. Don plays his
electronic piano with its preset
accompaniments and sings while Ron Burfiend
also sings lead and Beth Heter and I sing
harmony and a few leads.
Don doesn't understand stage fright so
I've 'gotten over it' pretty quickly.
Interesting how that happens when the
drama is removed. It's a laid-back,
friendly bunch and we have several
bookings already, much better than we
expected at this stage.
Life is good, love is wonderful,
Lisa
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