Chimera, has a beautiful sound . . .

I do prefer the adjective form to the root:

chi·mer·i·cal
/kɪˈmɛrɪkəl, -ˈmɪər-, kaɪ-/

–adjective 1. unreal; imaginary; visionary: a chimerical terrestrial
paradise.
2. wildly fanciful; highly unrealistic: a chimerical plan.

THE REAL DEAL:

chimera
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2008/04/21.html

Word of the Day Archive
Monday April 21, 2008

chimera \ky-MIR-uh\, noun:

1. (Capitalized) A fire-breathing she-monster represented as having a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
2. Any imaginary monster made up of grotesquely incongruous parts.
3. An illusion or mental fabrication; a grotesque product of the imagination.
4. An individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.

Asa Whitney, with no previous experience and having nothing but his faith and self-assurance to tell him he was not pursuing a chimera, began to outline how he would get a railroad across the vast, uninhabited middle of the American continent to the Pacific shores, where the lure of Asia beckoned, within reach.
-- David Haward Bain, Empire Express

She seems to spend most of the book sobbing, throwing up and generally marinating in a stew of self-absorption while searching fruitlessly for that chimera, her true self, inexpertly aided by astrologers and new-age therapists.
-- "Cutting through fantasies to crazy life", USA Today, December 2, 1999

These "chimeras" can be created because of our power--derived from the recombinant DNA technology developed in the early 1970s--to move DNA from one species to another.
-- Bryan Appleyard, Brave New Worlds

Chimera comes from Latin chimaera, from Greek chimaira "she-goat, chimera."

Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for chimera
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the Baptists of Barberton Ohio: What makes a Red State Red? GLOBAL WARMING as VOODOO SCIENCE

when I grew up Barberton was the Big City!

An atavistic post compared to the one under it; Barberton is world famous for its holy men: a previous minister (HOGAN) at this very church had a son who was arrested for bank robbery in 2005 to support his online gambling addiction (after having seen the corrupting movie NARNIA none the less see: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/magazine/11poker.html?_r=1&oref=slogin )

are they as good at meteorology as they are experts at family values:

"Humanity is not responsible for the variations in weather temperatures."

"It's time to abandon the global - warming hoax before the lights go off for good."

A letter to the editor in the AKRON BEACON JOURNAL,

Akron Beacon Journal (OH) - April 16, 2008

GOING DARK ON VOODOO SCIENCE

In response to the March 30 article headlined, ''Cities around the world go dark for global warming '': The article spoke of a ''worldwide campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.'' Homeowners and businesses around the globe were urged ''to turn back to candle power for at least 60 minutes.''

Reading this, I came to acknowledge once more the real threat in climate change is not the climate. It's the religious boondoggling and voodoo science behind it. ''Going dark'' is indeed the direction we are headed if we ignore the God-provided resources he has supplied, such as the abundance of oil we have within our own borders. Humanity is not responsible for the variations in weather temperatures.

Our climate today is no measurement of what should be the ideal. There is no certainty as to the size of glaciers, and they change continually. Data from all four major temperature tracking outlets show that global temperatures have dropped significantly in the last 12 months.

More snow and ice cover the Northern Hemisphere than at any time since 1962. There are record levels of Arctic sea ice, record levels of cold and snow in many U.S. states and European nations. God has given us a cultural mandate (Genesis 1) to care for and use the resources he has created for us. We need to do this. It is morally inexcusable to neglect the benefit to all mankind. It's time to abandon the global - warming hoax before the lights go off for good.

Brian Prong

Pastor, First Baptist Church Barberton

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and the world is flat, monsters wander the edges of the oceans; the sun orbits the earth, and the moon is made of cheese!

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SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)

CHOOSE A NEW MISSION!!! boldy lay back and let it do the work for your (slacker mission approved)

SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose
goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio
SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from
space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would
provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/index.php

OK, I used to do this, but a software issue made it a problem, now they write, after over a year. So I tried the new program, and it works.

ever see CONTACT? remember the line:

S.R. Hadden: They still want an American to go, Doctor. Wanna take a ride?

I wont get that chance, but, every little bit helps. SO JOIN UP!!!

APril 16, 2008
Dear jbeckhamlat:

We'd like to invite you to reconnect with SETI@home. Our records show that you've been with SETI@home since 28 August 1999, but it's been 386 days since you last returned a work unit. We want you back, and here's why:

These are exciting times for SETI@home. Last year we implemented a new SETI@home data recorder at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. This recorder is attached to a state-of-the-art multibeam receiver, so we can now measure signals from 7 positions on the sky at once, with greater sensitivity to weak signals compared to the data from the flat feed antenna we've used since 1999. We've greatly increased the sensitivity of our data analysis, and the likelihood that we'll find the first signs of extraterrestrial life. We're also close to releasing a second application, Astropulse, which will look for extremely short pulses of astronomical (and possibly intelligent) origin.

With these new developments comes an increase in required computing power, for which we depend on people like you. We hope you will consider signing back on with SETI@home, and help in this wonderful scientific venture.

If you experienced problems running SETI@home, please try any of the resources listed at: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_help.php including the new BOINC Online Help System which lets you talk live, over the Internet, with a help volunteer: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/help.php

We thank you for your involvement in SETI@home, and hope that you rejoin us in our search for signals from other worlds.

-- The SETI@home team
To not get any more email from SETI@home, please click here.
SETI@home - http://setiathome.berkeley.eduSpace Sciences Laboratory / 7 Gauss WayUniversity of California, Berkeley, CA 92740-7450

a thing to contemplate, click play.....

Full Earth-rise!
Full-Earth-rise has been captured by Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter.The just-issued movie was



taken on November 5, 2007. Credit: JAXA


r u thinking yet?

clinging to my remote, paranoid in a small town....

JEANNIE C RILEY - HARPER VALLEY PTA



relates to this clip:

Peyton Place: movie trailer



where is Jeannie???

the new acrobats in the yard: legs or springs?

They jump, the grab; they dangle, they shake; then they dine - can you name the beastie?

if i hang the bird feeder higher they can reach it from the branch, this had worked. At least when there was snow on the ground.

READ ON, perhaps I can send them back (or forward?) in time??

safer than American Airlines: Time travellers invited back from the future

more incredible than time travel; check the origin of the video below: 2007 IdeaFestival in Louisville, Kentucky -- some type of nonsequiter oxymoron mixup?

FOUND IN AN OLD EMAIL:
from the Guardian (LONDON)

Concerned that people will have forgotten his convention by then, Mr Dorai is urging volunteers to publicise the event to future generations by carving the details into clay tablets and burying notices in time capsules. He has slipped invitations on long-lasting paper inside dozens of obscure books in the MIT and Harvard University libraries.

****
-I was in the stacks at the University of AKRON's library looking at random books, praying to the Gods of Serendipity, when I noticed one book on literature has last been check out in the mid 1990s!

that got me to weed my hotmail.... AND while
i was weeding my hotmail, I found the above 'party announcement' (above) was in one of the older (the oldest are some from 2003) . . . that is still interesting.

am I saving too much?
one of 2400 emails in my inbox (key emails stay there, there are about 30 folders by topic)


From: jbeckhamlat@hotmail.com
CC: John.Beckham@latimes.com; jbeckhamlat@hotmail.com
Subject: inviting people from the future to the event
Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 10:02:46 -0500

read:

The organiser, Amal Dorai - a masters student in electrical engineering and
computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - aims to test the
theory of time travel by inviting people from the future to the event.

The invitations ask visitors to turn up on the MIT campus at 8pm on
Saturday . .

from:

Time travellers invited back from the future

David Adam, science correspondent
Thursday May 5, 2005
The Guardian

One of the strongest arguments against time travel is that we are not overrun with curious tourists from the future. A university student in Boston plans to change that, by inviting budding Doctor Whos to the world's first time traveller convention this weekend.

The organiser, Amal Dorai - a masters student in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - aims to test the theory of time travel by inviting people from the future to the event.

"We are doing this as a very low-risk, low-cost way to investigate the possibility of time travel," he said. "I think the probability they will come is very low, but if it does happen it will one of the biggest events in human history.

"Of course, no time travellers doesn't rule out the possibility of time travel, they could have just decided not to come to our convention."

Physicists believe some kind of time travel is theoretically possible, but it will take hundreds or even thousands of years to work out the technical details.

Concerned that people will have forgotten his convention by then, Mr Dorai is urging volunteers to publicise the event to future generations by carving the details into clay tablets and burying notices in time capsules. He has slipped invitations on long-lasting paper inside dozens of obscure books in the MIT and Harvard University libraries.

"If we put them inside books that are only touched every 50 years or so then they'll stay there and people in the future might learn of the convention. The big danger is that it's forgotten. Once that happens then it doesn't matter if someone invents time travel, we won't be able to see it."

The invitations ask visitors to turn up on the MIT campus at 8pm on Saturday and include precise latitude and longitude coordinates. "Time travel is a hard problem and may not be invented until long after MIT has faded into oblivion," they note.

Visitors from the future are advised to bring proof of advanced technology, such as a cure for cancer or a working nuclear fusion reactor. Sonic screwdrivers are optional.

"Because of the small chance of time travel I think people will be sceptical," Mr Dorai admits. "But I hope time travellers won't take that as an insult. If what they bring as proof doesn't satisfy us then they could always go back into their future and grab something else."

Professor Neil Johnson, a physicist at the University of Oxford, said Mr Dorai may not be wasting his time. The weird world of quantum mechanics suggests time travel could one day be possible through tiny holes, loops and channels in the fabric of spacetime.

"We're talking a long, long time in the future to be able to do this but it's not impossible," Prof Johnson said. "It would be very hard to send through something that weighed anything, like machines and people, but you could conceivably send messages through light and radiowaves. The chances of somebody from the future turning up on Saturday night are pretty remote, but they could get a phone call."
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a __________________________ video of hope:

from youtube
Added: February 19, 2008
Michio Kaku, leading theoretical physicist and author, on "Parallel Worlds and Time Travel." Captured at the September, 2007 IdeaFestival in Louisville, Kentucky



that song, IN THE YEAR 2525 comes to mind . . . the late 60s . . . the era of dreams and rebellion. DO YOU YOU remember this song??

!

Before you listen to Congression Testimony

or sweeping statements from the ruling class, watch and listen!! and maybe read along (its ok to mouth the words to yourself). enjoy the garrison state.....
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raise a little hell, wear colors, smile knowingly

V:
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.
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Richard Wagner Die Walküre --Berliner Philharmoniker

motiviated? god, I think I am rising out of my chair..... grab my feet!

WALK SCORING, how fun is that walk you plan?

www.walkscore.com

my address gets a low score, as you cannot walk a garden path to a Starbucks; they don't seem to count a speed limit of 25, quiet neighborhood, and dogs ON LEACHES (yes, on LEASHES!)

fun to watch your walk map itself out, simple to try... so try it!

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tidbits from an Akron evening

The relocation is increasingly complete.

Some big city things have appeared in new forms . . . innocent, no; homey, no; QUAINT, in a quaint way. Contributing to my metamorphisis from city dweller to small town observer….. where is Franz?

Last night we were watching tv, and during a scene about a kid being hit by a truck there was an odd circus music -that didn’t match the scene. So we Paused the show (the joy of digital); the circus music continued.

AN ICE CREAM TRUCK had stopped at the corner, with tiny kids cutting through the yard (“we have to get a fence” Paul declared). We live on the corner….. an ice cream truck. I used to see them in Chicago, but they were not musical. Little Kids without parental supervision did not run through the streets, adult tourists stopped mostly.

Like the Pied Piper with Good Humor bars . . . . (I did not run out, next time maybe).

Dogs barking in a highrise are not a good thing. Here one neighbor has a hound that is so cute. (I petted it once). A basset hound or a fat aged beagle. Its owners walk it and it howls skyward with a deep low voice (like the train whistle in the distance at night). It tries to run, imagine a dwarf cow gallopping…. Not the intrusion of a dog barking all day home alone in a downtown condo…. A plaintive whine its not, kind of a happy howl…..

Then we took the trash to the curb. Then, for the first time in 20 plus years, I could see the Big Dipper and North star, and Orion was out there sinking, with a crescent moon near …….

The squirrels cannot reach the bird feeder anymore. Well, now they jump STRAIGHT up, grab on, hang on, and its a bird seed buffet. They jump, about 4 feet. HOW?! Paul told me about it, I cannot wait to see it. Persistant beasts. No longer tree pigs, but some kind of acrobatic land hog?

What next?? Icecream trucks playing music; stars, trash pickup, the flying Wallendas of rodent-dom? Oh, no doubt my humming bird feeder will be next, to watch as the happy howler bays skyward.

David Guetta v. the Egg

Luis Miguel - Por Debajo De La Mesa

So fine . . .

Por Debajo De La Mesa Lyrics

Artist: Luis Miguel

Album: Romances

Por debajo de la mesa

acaricio tu rodilla y bebo

sorbo a sorbo tu mirada

angelical y respiro de tu

boca esa flor de maravilla

las alondras del deseo

cantan, vuelan, vienen, van.

Ever thought of Film School?

[after this you will send me back to Roth so fast......]

why not give film appreciation a try on your desktop?

http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=europecinema

now, in the best of Bertolucci's DREAMERS' cinematheque junies , get some fresh fruit that's seen its day, wine, and cigarettes, and kick back......

http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=europecinema
LESSONS INCLUDE:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=europecinema

europecinema's Playlists

Brideshead Revisited - Documentary [eng] 6 Videos
[Documentary, 2005]

Dirk Bogarde - Documentary 5 Videos
[Documentary 2000]

Federico Fellini - Documentary 8 Videos
Review of Fellini's most popular films (Le Notti di Cabiria, Amarcord, Casanova, Dolce Vita, I Vitelloni, Giulietta degli Spiriti, Otto e Mezzo)

Ingmar Bergman - Documentary [eng] 4 Videos
Review of the most outstanding films of Ingmar Bergman.

Ingmar Bergman - Interview [Swedish+Eng sub] 6 Videos
One of the latest interviews granted by maestro Ingmar Bergman

Irene Papas in Electra (1962) 12 Videos
Directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis
Original Music by Mikis Theodorakis

Laurence Olivier - A Life - Documentary [eng] 16 Videos

Luchino Visconti - Documentary [eng] 12 Videos
[Documentary 2002]

Maria Callas Assoluta (Documentaire) [fr] 12 Videos
[Documentary 2007, in French]

Maria Callas in Pasolini's Medea [ita+eng sub] 12 Videos
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1969)

Pier Paolo Pasolini - A Filmmaker's Life [eng] 3 Videos
[Documentary, 1971]

Pier Paolo Pasolini poeta [ita] 5 Videos
In this rare documentary Pasolini recalls his childhood and youth in Friuli. He also explains his feelings as a poet about the Italian language and literature.

Pride and Prejudice - Documentary on the series 3 Videos
Documentary on the famous TV adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice" from 1995 and its impact on Jane Austen's work reception by a wider audience.

Siamo Donne (1953) 5 Videos
- Segment "Alida Valli" directed by Gianni Franciolini
- Segment "Anna Magnani" directed by Luchino Visconti

Thomas Mann - Documentary [German] 5 Videos
Documentary on Thomas Mann and his family. The programme offers original footage of the great German writer.

Vivien Leigh - Documentary [eng] 6 Videos
Biography of Vivien Leigh. The documentary contains interviews by John Mills, Trader Faulkner, Olivia De Havilland, Rosemary Geddes, Maureen O'Sullivan, Alexander Walker and Hugo Vickers. Footage from her most important movies (Gone with the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire, Ceasar and Cleopatra and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone)

countdown to armageddon

SIX for the WASHINGTON POST; while other's ..... suffer pangs and arrows of outrageous management....

{{ newly played ZELL IN DC recordings at npr.org, click to listen and read more:
click 'listen' to and hear his ..... loud tones:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89446846

Recording Shows Tribune Owner Zell's Fiery Side by David Folkenflik

}}}}}}}}}
now, back to the show

http://www.pulitzer.org/

PULITZER PRIZES
2 0 0 8


PUBLIC SERVICE
The Washington Post

BREAKING NEWS REPORTING
The Washington Post Staff

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
The Chicago Tribune Staff

EXPLANATORY REPORTING
Amy Harmon of The New York Times

LOCAL REPORTING
David Umhoefer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

NATIONAL REPORTING
Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
Steve Fainaru of The Washington Post

FEATURE WRITING
Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post

COMMENTARY
Steve Pearlstein of The Washington Post

CRITICISM
Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe

EDITORIAL WRITING
No Award

EDITORIAL CARTOONING
Michael Ramirez of Investor's Business Daily

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
Adrees Latif of Reuters

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Preston Gannaway of the Concord Monitor


FICTION
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

DRAMA
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts

HISTORY
What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)

BIOGRAPHY
Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)

POETRY
Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)

POETRY
Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)

GENERAL NONFICTION
The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins)

MUSIC
The Little Match Girl Passion by David Lang (G. Schirmer)


SPECIAL CITATION
Bob Dylan

an AMERICAN GOLDFINCH, the yellow bird

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Goldfinch.html

you can hear its bird call sound on this page!

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Goldfinch.html#sound


remember the long, painfully long dark nights of winter? well now! now every week the length of daylight grows by almost 20 minutes!:

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=44313

April 8, 2008 Rise: Set:

Actual Time 6:57 AM EDT 7:59 PM EDT

Civil Twilight 6:29 AM EDT 8:27 PM EDT

Nautical Twilight 5:55 AM EDT 9:01 PM EDT
Astronomical Twilight 5:20 AM EDT 9:36 PM EDT
Moon 8:02 AM EDT 11:45 PM EDT

Length Of Visible Light: 13h 58m
Length of Day 13h 01m

Tomorrow will be 2m 41s longer

the days are growing by almost 3 minutes a day!

what is this yellow and black bird?

CLICK twice for large PICTURE!

My brother Joe came and put in screens on Saturday, now we have fresh air—spring is in the air. I was his helper (or anti-helper). Fresh air . . .; the ORKIN man came at the same time, there were ants and spiders (nothing can be done- they walk on their fingernails….) and Lady Bugs (or some other beetle) . . . then on Sunday we picked up sticks, a task Sisyphus could relate to. Things look better, soon greener.

And new birds! What are these birds? A canaries? But the black feathers, canaries are all yellow, I thought …. Yellow oriole maybe? A northern oriole? Then there are similar birds in red, not Cardinals, small red birds.

I cannot wait for fireflies!!!

a few early words from Philip Roth (enjoy the video)

"He was better off, I thought. No sense carrying dreams of Tahiti in your head, if you can't afford the fare."
--
page 120, GOODBYE COLUMBUS, by Philip Roth, Modern Libraries Edition.

Finished it moments ago. Some brilliantly accented dialog rich in sentiment. Intra-family relations forshadow Portnoy.

oy, time for library (as Neil Klugman the main character must have thought a million times no? )

and Columbus refers to the Capital of Ohio -- GOODBYE COLUMBUS is a nostalgia filled song honoring the school town . . . libraries and OHIO, what more could one want?

and a comment from the eggheads,

But back in the Patimkin house there is no relief for Neil. The wedding of Ron and Harriet offers an array of middle-aged couples that can only serve to confirm Neil's worst expectations of what the Jewish bourgeois lifestyle amounts to. Many of these people are affluent, but they have paid dearly for their success with emotional frustration, physical decay and spiritual emptiness. They are locked into their tradition of hard work, materialism and puritanism couple with a narrow-minded outlook on everything outside their own circles, and they also suffer from rigid sex rolrs where the male is the provider and the female the excessively proper housewife. There is no room in their lives for joy, passion, or any individualism except mere eccentricity.

(Page 84 of LOVE AND IDENTITY: NEIL KLUGMAN'S QUEST IN 'GOODBYE, COLUMBUS' By: Nilsen, Helge Normann. English Studies, Feb87, Vol. 68 Issue 1, p79, 10p; (AN 7087468)

hum, now an amusement:

slacktivism ENHANCE YOUR VOCABULARY (and mind)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slacktivism&defid=304835

slacktivism

1
The act of participating in obviously pointless activities as an expedient alternative to actually expending effort to fix a problem.

Signing an email petition to stop rampant crime is slacktivism. Want to
really make your community safer? Get off your ass and start a neighborhood
watch!

2

The search for the ultimate feel-good that derives from having come to society's rescue without having had to actually gets one's hands dirty or open one's wallet.

It's slacktivism that prompts us to want a join a boycott of designated gas
companies or eschew buying gasoline on a particular day rather than reduce our
personal consumption of fossil fuels by driving less.

a note from Dr. McCain

now all i need is the 'no fighting in here, this is the war room!' clip.

Cake Update

OH, I did not make the cake.

A purchase: West Side Bakery 2303 W Market St Akron, OH 44313 (330) 836-4101

it was Lemon with butter cream icing and rasberry filling.

and its near gone! and very good. Lemon is a spring flavor . . . .

cakes and celebrity

Tomorrow is Paul's birthday, I am prepared in advance - from one of akron's best bakeries:

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Over the weekend I went to the book fair, in AKRON -- there are books in Akron. My brother drove (he looked for post cards).


It was written up in the BEACON JOURNAL -- and I regret not seeing this, the copy of a "$600 limited edition of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. . . . The cover is made of alumnimum instead of cardboard." The most expensive book I saw was a readers advance of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD for about $20,000. A lot of Civil War books (some of Akron still thinks its going on, like the Japanese soldier lost on Islands still fighting WW II).

I did get a book, well 3 in fact (Goodbye Columbus by Roth; Silas Marner - in a BOX, very old, and a paperback:


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MICROCELEBRITY

today's best read:
An article in Wired [ ironic it still comes out in hard copy] calls people with blogs, facebook pages, myspace users, not vain, -but microcelebritities (talk about annoiting inflated self image). I may rename the page from LIFE IN THE SKINNGER BOX to the Amazing Adventures of an AKRON Anderoid)


http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-12/st_thompson

in part:

Microcelebrity is the phenomenon of being extremely well known not to millions
but to a small group — a thousand people, or maybe only a few dozen. As DIY
media reach ever deeper into our lives, it's happening to more and more of us.
Got a Facebook account? A whackload of pictures on Flickr? Odds are there are
complete strangers who know about you — and maybe even talk about you.

from WIRED in DECEMBER (I am behind in my reading, is the Iraq war over?)
hum, and CLIVE did not coin it, its in the urban word dictionary, and over a year prior:


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=microcelebrity
microcelebrity

One who gains a cult or mainstream following due to viral internet
distribution. Does not refer to those who have gained limited or cult followings
through traditional media. Does not refer to has-beens or "B-list"
celebrities.

submitted: by LI in Los Angeles, CA Sep 14, 2006

if i had that following my google ad money would let me near retire to a fine homeless shelter, time to prepare a few birthday things....


NITE NITE

Watering holes and the Decline of Newspapers

taken from wsj.com without the benefit of clergy.

Bars across the world face the cutbacks in the news industry - clearly a profession dominated by a few drinks . . . in SF, Boston, NY, Chicago, and afar . . .

Absinthe makes a legal comeback!

an article on legalization (in red) then a video down bottoms UPway

liberated from the sfgate.com:

Alameda distiller helps make absinthe legitimate again

Stacy Finz, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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It was the drink of choice for 19th century painters, poets and writers.

Vincent van Gogh sliced off his ear while sipping it, Edgar Degas and Pablo Picasso painted it, French poet Paul Verlaine cursed it as he lay dying in his bed.

For nearly 100 years, the United States and many other nations banned it.

Absinthe. "It leads straight to the madhouse or the courthouse," declared Henri Schmidt, a French druggist urging his own countrymen to outlaw the green liquid in the early 1900s, which they did.

Now it seems that no one can remember exactly why it was prohibited. Some say it was the chemical thujone found in the herb wormwood, used to make absinthe, that affects the brain. Others say it was a plot by the wine industry to put the popular spirit out of business. And there are those who believe it was a case of baseless hysteria, not unlike "Reefer Madness," the 1936 propaganda film about marijuana.

Earlier this year, a lone Washington, D.C., lawyer took on the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau in an attempt to lift the ban. After some legal wrangling, the agency agreed - with some limits.

Last week, St. George Spirits of Alameda received the news that, after seven applications, the federal agency had approved its label, the final obstacle before going to market. On Monday, the small artisan distillery sold its token first bottle, becoming the only American company since 1912 to sell absinthe in the United States. Then the staff took a moment to celebrate.

"We made champagne and absinthe cocktails, which rapidly degenerated into just sipping absinthe out of the bottle with crazy straws," said Lance Winters, a 42-year-old master distiller at the seven-employee company.

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For 11 years Winters experimented, adding a little of this and little of that. No matter how close he came to perfection, each new batch had to be dumped down the drain to comply with federal dictate. But come Dec. 21, St. George will begin selling 3,600 bottles of its Absinthe Verte. That's too few to distribute to big chains, so for now the company will offer it at its Alameda tasting room and at limited liquor stores for $75 for a 750 ml bottle.

The 25-year-old company, started by Jorg Rupf, a German distiller who moved to the Bay Area to attend law school, is most known for its Hangar One vodka, but it also makes single-malt whiskey, grappa and a number of eau de vies.

From the beginning, absinthe was Winter's baby. The brewer-turned-distiller liked the challenge of blending his grape-based brandy with locally grown herbs like wormwood, absinthe's most important - and controversial - ingredient, plus tarragon, basil and mint.

Winters also uses anise and fennel.

"Absinthe is really complex," he said. "There are a lot of powerful botanical ingredients all fighting for dominance. So you strive for balance."

St. George will compete with three other absinthe distillers - the Swiss Kubler, French Lucid and the Brazilian Absinto Camargo. All have begun importing the licorice-flavored spirit into the United States in recent months. It was the Kubler distillery that hired attorney Robert Lehrman to end the prohibition, while Lucid was the brainchild of Ted Breaux, a New Orleans chemist who reverse-engineered an old bottle of absinthe to devise his formula. He worked with a French distillery to reproduce it. All have paved the way for U.S. distillers to sell their own perfected versions of the drink, which are likely to hit the shelves soon.

Lehrman said Yves Kubler, who produces a few hundred thousand bottles of absinthe a year, saw a real market for the spirit here and was eager to tap into it. So in 2000, Lehrman started making inquiries of federal regulators only to determine that the fight would be a tough one.

"When something has been banned since 1912, it's hard to get it undone," he said.
But Lehrman persevered. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau officials said they were willing to accept absinthe formulas that fall under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations that the drink contain no more than 10 parts per million of the chemical thujone, but the word absinthe on the bottle's label had to be small and used with a qualifier like St. George's Verte or Kubler's Swiss Absinthe Superieure.

Lehrman said thujone in mass quantities "is bad stuff," but small amounts are found in a number of herbs, ingredients and materials, including sage and cedar, and are considered fairly harmless. More notable is absinthe's high alcohol content, typically 120 proof or more, about 50 percent higher than vodka and whiskey.

"Look, absinthe is bad the way Jack Daniels is bad, the way Skyy Vodka is bad," says Lehrman. "The worst component is the alcohol. If you drink too much, something bad will happen."

But in 1905 the Swiss government was convinced that it was absinthe alone that turned a law-abiding citizen into a homicidal maniac. After Jean Lanfray, a 31-year-old laborer, killed his pregnant wife and two children, the Swiss government banned the spirit. Although Lanfray had sampled a bottle of absinthe before breakfast that morning,
officials failed to take into consideration that he had also consumed Creme de Menthe, cognac and soda, more than six glasses of wine and a cup of coffee laced with brandy, says Barnaby Conrad III, the San Francisco author of "Absinthe: History in a Bottle"
(Chronicle Books, 1988; the publisher is not affiliated with this newspaper).
Conrad, an artist and journalist who traced the downfall of absinthe in his book, says the drink became synonymous with the degeneration of the world's most famous bohemians, from Van Gogh's infamous ear cutting to Verlaine's debaucherous sprees of sex and rage.
Even Oscar Wilde was quoted as saying "After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, which is the most horrible thing in the world."

But Conrad says absinthe was probably the least of these artists' problems.

"Van Gogh suffered from schizophrenia, a disease that went way back in his family, and

Verlaine was a raging alcoholic," he said.

The author believes that absinthe merely became the scapegoat of politicians. Its controversy was probably fueled by the wine industry, which was threatened by the popularity of absinthe.

But the mystique of the famous liquid only adds to its allure, says Conrad, who has sold more of his books in the last five years than in the first 15 of its existence. Many young enthusiasts entranced by its folklore have tried ordering absinthe on the Internet, hoping not to get caught. Some modern-day moonshiners even tried distilling it at home.

"It's the forbidden fruit factor," says the author.

And that, he says, will certainly help sales.

"Just because you drink absinthe doesn't mean you're going to become a creative genius," Conrad warns. "But it will tickle your imagination as it tickles your brain cells."

Why the mystique?

Modern absinthe got its start as a medical elixir in the late 18th century but became immensely popular as a drink in the mid-1800s, especially among the avant-garde.
Edgar Degas created his famous painting "L'absinthe" of a woman sitting in front of a glass of absinthe, and Pablo Picasso painted "The Absinthe Drinker" during his blue period. Ernest Hemingway is said to have been a consummate absinthe drinker and was known to have a glass or two before running with the bulls.

Freelance writer C. contributed to this report. E-mail Stacy Finz at sfinz@sfchronicle.com.

The Chicago Sun Times had a contest. about the name of WRIGLY FIELD being sold; a TRIBUNE 'intern' entered with the support of a team of Tribunites. So there are those in the media with a mischievous sense of humor:

Easter bunnies, from the cute to the homicidal. check the video!

Alice's friend, the late rabbit: Everyone's favorite, BUGS!

Ah, a cute bunny!

and another cute bunny:

Frank, the bunny from DONNIE DARKO:

not so cute, but a great movie, with a fine line about Graham Greene - a woman at a parents meeting protests the teaching of his work, THE DESTRUCTORS, another parent asks if she 'even knows who Graham Greene is' to which the judmental censor replies, "I think we've all seen Bonanaza."

Now, click it twice, and watch, the most famous movie bunny, anyone seen my holy hand grenade of antioch?

HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!!!!!!

March 8-9 Blizzard Photos

A car STUCK in the street, a rescue effort by local plows, the chokeberry (home of the robbins).

An amazing snow, late in the season, worst (best?) in 40 years . . .

how lost is Persephone?

maybe she needs an Atlas, get it?

something wrong with google, pics wont post, will edit them in later.....


A few quotes from the Akron Beacon Journal this past weekend:

The sheriffs tried, “A Level 3 snow emergency has been declared in Summit County, meaning only emergency personnel are allowed on the roads”

The mailmen tried, but “One carrier was still stranded on Knollbrook Drive at 3:30 p.m. after becoming stuck 51/2 hours earlier, he said”

The plows tried, but “In Stark County, the roads were so bad that a Plain Township snowplow slid off Beverly Avenue Northeast and needed help from a front-end loader.

The nurses tried, and the hotels helped: “''We picked up 70 rooms,'' including 30 to 35
that Akron Children's Hospital rented so nurses could stay overnight, he said.”

The frugal ruled, “The city still had salt but was using it judiciously to conserve, he said. Only major hills were being salted, but Valle said cars were still having trouble negotiating them.”

the worst March snow in 10 years

I thought we were getting off early, in this our first winter in Ohio. Almost spring. There had been days in January with highs near 60 if not in the low 60s.

Now, a ton of snow. Blizzard warning, more heavy snow coming. Cover up and sleep.

But on my way to section a grapefruit I saw birds, you can gauge the amout of snow from the tree branches, or my tin plate on top of the bird feeder.

There were 4 bluejays, a cardinal, assorted titmice, and that fat loud bird (I have my audoban guide to birds of eastern north america, but that one .....)

this follows the ice storm of earlier this week. Yesterday at this time there was NO SNOW in the yard.

10 inches, 12? 15? once its like this who cares. AKRON is snowed in . . .

GUNS FOR EVERYONE! on COLLEGE SHOOTINGS......

"If people can vote and serve in the military at age 18, they should be able to carry a concealed gun," he said. ( Charles Smith, Executive Director of the Oklahoma Rifle Association)

Bill would lower concealed-gun age to 18


By MICK HINTON World Capitol Bureau
3/5/2008
Last Modified: 3/5/2008 1:32 AM


OKLAHOMA CITY -- A bill that would lower the age at which people can carry concealed weapons from 21 to 18 is headed to the state House for consideration.

"In my district when you turn 18, you already have 16 years of experience with a gun," said Rep. Jerry Ellis, who added that he was exaggerating to make his point.

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Ellis, from southeastern Oklahoma, is the author of House Bill 2232, which was approved 15-1 on Monday by the House Judiciary and Public Safety Committee.

The bill was requested by the Oklahoma Rifle Association, the state affiliate of the National Rifle Association, said Ellis, D-Valliant.

Charles Smith of Yukon, executive director of the state association, said the reason for passing the bill is simple.

"If people can vote and serve in the military at age 18, they should be able to carry a concealed gun," he said.

Rep. Marian Cooksey, R-Edmond, who cast the lone dissenting vote, said she realizes that sometimes, especially in rural areas, fathers teach their sons how to hunt and handle a gun at an early age.

"I'm not against guns," she said. "But, I wonder whether 18-year-olds are old enough to carry them. I am here to vote for what I think is right."

A week ago, the judiciary committee approved a bill that would allow 21-year-olds to carry concealed weapons on college campuses and sent the bill to the House.

Ellis emphasized that his bill has nothing to do with that measure, sponsored by Rep. Jason Murphey, R-Guthrie.

But Rep. Lucky Lamons, a former longtime Tulsa police officer, said that if these bills both pass, an 18-year-old would be able to carry a concealed weapon into a college classroom.

Lamons, D-Tulsa, said he realizes that it is difficult for lawmakers to vote against legislation dealing with the Second Amendment's right to bear arms because they don't want to be perceived by their constituents as being against guns.

Lamons said college officials are quietly contacting legislators to express concerns about Murphey's bill but that administrators don't want to speak publicly against gun-carrying laws.

"It's a sad day in Oklahoma and the United States that we are even looking at these issues," Lamons said.

Rep. Mark McCullough, R-Sapulpa, who was not present during the committee meeting when the vote was taken, said he is still struggling with the merits of Ellis' legislation.

"I am a staunch supporter of gun rights and have a permit myself," said McCullough, a lawyer and a former assistant district attorney.

He and Lamons agreed that the Legislature needs to consider the bill's ramifications.

"This is something that we ought to have robust discussion about before we do this," McCullough said.

Meanwhile, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says it is having a difficult time keeping up with all the applications for concealed-carry licenses. The OSBI has to run security and background checks on applicants within 90 days.

"We are absolutely inundated," OSBI spokeswoman Jessica Brown said. "We are barely able to process applications in the time frame allowed by law."

More than 60,000 Oklahomans are licensed to carry concealed weapons. Licenses granted in 2006 totaled 9,591. That number jumped to 16,426 in 2007, according to the OSBI.

TIME TRAVEL STIMULUS click till it plays

Sealed With A Kiss
by
Brian Hyland
Album: Greatest Hits Released: 1962

This archetypal American high-school teen love song was composed by Gary Geld and lyricist Peter Udell. The duo began their writing partnership in the early sixties and wrote over 100 songs together. One of their first songs was this, which they wrote in 1960 and was a hit for Brian Hyland two years later. Hyland said in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, "Sealed With A Kiss was recorded about a year before I did it by The Four Voices, who had a sound like The Brothers Four. It dragged and didn't have any life in it, so it wasn't a hit. I told them we should do it. Gary Geld was a classically trained musician and he had been inspired to write it from a finger exercise for the piano."

This was Hyland's biggest hit in the UK, but 2 years earlier in the US at the age of 16, he enjoyed an American chart topper with "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini."

Lyrics:

Though we've got to say good-bye
For the summer
Darling, I promise you this
I'll send you all my love
Everyday in a letter
Sealed with a kiss
CHORUS:
Yes it's gonna be cold, lonely summer
But I'll fill the emptiness
I'll send you all my dreams
Everyday in a letter
Sealed with a kiss
I'll see you in the sunlight
I'll hear your voice everywhere
I'll run to tenderly hold you
But, Darlin' you won't be there
I don't wanna say good-bye
For the summer
Knowing the love we'll miss
Let us make a pledge
To meet in September
And seal it with a kiss
(instrumental)
(CHORUS)
Sealed with a kiss
Sealed with a kiss
Sealed with a kiss

a check from Google

THANK YOU FOR CLICKING; since late last October when I started this adSense / ads by google endeavor.

at the 100 buck mark they pay; I hit it after Christmas (lots of pictures back them); at a nickle to a few dimes a click it took some time.


I have found a temporary job, well it found me. So postings may decline, but clicks will be appreciated. In a University Library . . . by the kindness of old friends.....

Snow: more in the past 5 days than in the past 3 months

Snow, here, there, everywhere, fell by the TON! but like a NUT I cleared the driveway - with now place to go..... till next week.

Double click to make the pics large, click twice to play video......

The snow out the window, my flash to illuminate the new cornice.
Cardinal in the snowy branches

Large birds in large tree across the street, eyeing my bird feeder!

zoomed in on them (very orwellian)

They arrived, hungry and obnoxious, I had to refill it after they skipped without leaving a tip!

SNOW Fell by the ton! and so late in the season (13 degrees now, to be 50 on Monday).

Squirrels, snow, videos of black birds....

Squirrel on Finial - what a view!

Squirrel plotting with woodpecker about corn hoarding!

Black squirrel, as close to the window as ever, the only squirrel to pull the cob up and dine sitting up (opposed to haning upside down)


Some snow falling:

Some larger black birds:

Combine your favorite feeds into one concise "river of news".

Comparing RSS readers/ rss feeds stuckin into blogs WITH 'mashups' via yahoo pipes.

Experimenting:

Click this:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=tOAUq9_i3BG6Of_ZoeNLYQ

how does it compare to this:

http://johnsohionews.blogspot.com/

I cannot filter this page, I can "filter' the pipes page, ie: get only articles about hillary, obama or mccain from sources dealing with ohio; so yahoo lets me target the article list. (but not go back in time, if it does I have not figured that out yet).

I can search the google reader for obama under Ohio news, but cannot share that with you.

my little brain is bleeding...... the pipes is a 'mashup', something new to me. the microsoft mashup requires a tiny software download; the google mashup is far to difficult for me (requires code knowledge)

silhouette of tree pigs

My epic battle with the squirrels continues. After stepping out in slippers to throw a stick at one in 14 degree weather.....

I put a roof on my bird feeder; failed - you recall they dangled and devoured; then I strung it down an extra 6 inches with a coat hanger. The squirels dangled at it THEN FELL TO THE GROUND as the wire was too thin. SUCCESS? well I felt good and giggled? THEN They attacked the 'squirrel proof suet', not so much that they ate but they prevented the birds from eating.

SO I GOT SOME CORN for them, a peace offering (very pilgrim, right).
Check the claws on these creatures, click twice on the picture (then back arrow to the page) and watch the video, the sun was wrong, but this worked
hit play a few times.





Silhouette of a dining squirrel:

count the copyright violations!

Got to go, JK Rowling's is at the door with a brigade of rather short federal agents and a lawyer named Sancho Panzo . . .

count the copyright violations....

snapshots and clips: birds eating, plump birds

CLICK THE PLAY BUTTON!

what is this large dotted bird?


who enjoys both hanging suet and bird feeder seed?

who pushes his way to the suet, of course the woodpecker eats non-stop; must have an Energizer battery in neck muscles!

a clip from British tv, the E4 series SKINS

Hows the wife – said the guy dancing with the dog to a friend, who replied: “they gave her early release, still gotta wear the electronic chain of course. Banned her for life from operating a concrete mixer or a cattle prod, "bummer, but probably for the best" conlcluded dog dancer.

volume up?

CLICK the play button, twice maybe

Mystery Bird has been identified! Red Bellied Woodpecker

aka: Pic à ventre roux (French)

American: RED BELLIED WOODPECKER !

yes, and here is the skinny on RED,
you can even hear what it sounds like (no windows open here, 4 above, wind chill: -15 !

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Red-bellied_Woodpecker.html#sound

we are near its northern extreme, from which it might head south. BUT IT HASN'T, maybe the winter will end soon?

NO SQUIRRELS seen all day . . . they are lurking, I can feel their stares.

7 degrees, -16 windchill, what do you do in Ohio?

Yesterday it was mid 40s, now this, AGAIN.

SO, first you get the papers (Plain Dealer, NYT, Beacon Journal).


Then you notice the neighbors -across and diagonal- are having an open house. In Ohio. In the Winter. On a day with sub zero wind warnings and weather alerts. In the beginning (midst?) of a Recession (well, in Ohio, economic downturns are the rule more than the exception). Ohio, a California realtor's dream.....

And guess what? there were people coming to take a look . . .

AKRON is evolving; the mayor want to sell the sewers, privatize them. And use the money to send AKRON HIGH SCHOOL students to the UNIVERSITY OF AKRON. The people than run utilities nationwide say its a horrible idea, rates will rise; one economist said it could help restore home prices. the AKRON PLAN . . .

after spying on the home for sale I saw a new bird, -16 and the birds are dining. this one is similar to the downy woodpecker, but with a lot more RED on its HEAD; and is twice the size of the regular visitor; like Ringling Brothers did the plumage, click the pic twice, 'should' double the pic size:

the regular downy woodpecker:

NO stew today, after the birds I opted for CHICKEN in the fine new wall oven.

keep warm!

my god, a book for 92 cents, plush shipping,

ITHACA by Cavafy, read by Sir Sean Connery, music by Vangelis

The versions differ slightly, but the meaning so vibrant . . . and Mr. Connery's voice with the music by Vangelis..... forget the rearview mirror for a few minutes. . .

Pray that the road is long.
That the summer mornings are many

Ithaca

When you set out on your journey to Ithaca,
pray that the road is long,
full of adventure, full of knowledge.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
the angry Poseidon -- do not fear them:
You will never find such as these on your path,
if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine
emotion touches your spirit and your body.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
the fierce Poseidon you will never encounter,
if you do not carry them within your soul,
if your soul does not set them up before you.

Pray that the road is long.
That the summer mornings are many, when,
with such pleasure, with such joy
you will enter ports seen for the first time;
stop at Phoenician markets,
and purchase fine merchandise,
mother-of-pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
and sensual perfumes of all kinds,
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
visit many Egyptian cities,
to learn and learn from scholars.

Always keep Ithaca in your mind.
To arrive there is your ultimate goal.
But do not hurry the voyage at all.
It is better to let it last for many years;
and to anchor at the island when you are old,
rich with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting that Ithaca will offer you riches.

Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.
Without her you would have never set out on the road.
She has nothing more to give you.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you.
Wise as you have become, with so much experience,
you must already have understood what Ithacas mean.

Constantine P. Cavafy (1911)

+ how is your greek?+

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Το ποίημα Ιθάκη του Κωνσταντίνου Καβάφη σε απαγγελία Sean Connery και με μουσική επένδυση από τον Βαγγέλης (Vangelis)...
*DUTCH*
Een toevallige vondst van het gedicht Ithaca.
Het gedicht wordt voorgedragen door Sean Connery en de begeleidende muziek is gespeeld door Vangelis.

Some Home Improvements -of shades and ovens

The large window in the living room has a new 'treatment'; a valance with a pattern that matches the view. The shades provide complete privacy, at night it was kind of a fishbowl existance. This is the 'bird' view window . . . .:

the old swag pattern was a bit heavy and dated, Paul looked at it with replacement in his eyes:

Then he selected this - light and airy and catches the mood....

The wall oven, I had boasted I would kill it and the home guarantee program would pay for a new one, this was probably put in back in 1959 when the house was built:

So I called and said the timer is broken, and the broiler will not work. The kid who came to fix it was half its age and in shock upon seeing it. He called the insurance company . . . and 2 weeks later!:!:

(a 50 buck deductible and I got this, it would have cost me 1100 for the oven and 200 to install!)

NOTE THE WINDOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Must get stainless steel wipes.......

Paul felt the chandalier needed a bit of sprucing up; the lights could be bright (on a dimmer); but this is so elegant! Scallop style . . .

the aerogarden is growing into a hydroponic jungle, the basil tastes great, the mint, a leaf in the morning is a pagan's pleasure . . .

Don't you want to come for a visit?

wintery mix always in the forecast...... stew in the slow cooker . . . and books everywhere . . .