Thursday, February 23, 2006
Things I have been saving up, and plus also minutia
Darn! I started spare ribs for dinner in the crock pot, and NOW I see we have no barbecue sauce! So I have made some from catsup. Time will tell if this was a Good idea or Not.
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If you use Firefox, there are some good options you can get to enhance it. One is called Session Saver, and it keeps you from losing your tabs if you have a power outage or something. The other one that has come in handy for me is IE tab options. In case you run into a site that won't load right on Firefox, you just click the little button and it turns your window/tab into a fake IE, which will often do the trick!
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Fake crime and suicide scenes with Legos. Sick but creative! (Now all we need are some CSI Lego people to solve the crimes!)
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My mom didn't know Road to El Dorado was a movie, and went to the Chocolate Deities site to see if she could buy me Miguel and Tulio. (I wish! Although if I was going to have a cartoon minion around, I'd prefer Kronk from Emperor's New Groove.)
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I volunteered to make a web page for our 35th high school reunion. This is it. Fight, Hornets, down the field.
http://www.neonnurse.net/PCHS71.htm
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If you are a word lover, like me, you would enjoy subscribing to the Word A Day list, which is a mere $12 a year, if memory serves. You get amusing descriptions, quotes, links to a pronunciation .wav and more!
Sample: "The word sextet has nothing to do with sex, unless of course, the six people in question engage in some questionable calisthenics. That's what the English language does -- often leading us on, only to make things limpid in the end. There we go again.
Take the word friable, for instance. All the evidence leads us to suggest
this word could be used to refer to raw potato chips. But in truth,
something friable is that which could be easily crumbled. Well, it could
be used to refer to potato chips, after all.
This week we visit these red-herring words, words with meanings that are
not the first things that come to mind. (limpid = clear)"
http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html
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If you use Firefox, there are some good options you can get to enhance it. One is called Session Saver, and it keeps you from losing your tabs if you have a power outage or something. The other one that has come in handy for me is IE tab options. In case you run into a site that won't load right on Firefox, you just click the little button and it turns your window/tab into a fake IE, which will often do the trick!
***
Fake crime and suicide scenes with Legos. Sick but creative! (Now all we need are some CSI Lego people to solve the crimes!)
***
My mom didn't know Road to El Dorado was a movie, and went to the Chocolate Deities site to see if she could buy me Miguel and Tulio. (I wish! Although if I was going to have a cartoon minion around, I'd prefer Kronk from Emperor's New Groove.)
***
I volunteered to make a web page for our 35th high school reunion. This is it. Fight, Hornets, down the field.
http://www.neonnurse.net/PCHS71.htm
***
If you are a word lover, like me, you would enjoy subscribing to the Word A Day list, which is a mere $12 a year, if memory serves. You get amusing descriptions, quotes, links to a pronunciation .wav and more!
Sample: "The word sextet has nothing to do with sex, unless of course, the six people in question engage in some questionable calisthenics. That's what the English language does -- often leading us on, only to make things limpid in the end. There we go again.
Take the word friable, for instance. All the evidence leads us to suggest
this word could be used to refer to raw potato chips. But in truth,
something friable is that which could be easily crumbled. Well, it could
be used to refer to potato chips, after all.
This week we visit these red-herring words, words with meanings that are
not the first things that come to mind. (limpid = clear)"
http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html
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