Material Girl

I found the Bloglines Search the most straightforward way to find feeds. Subscribing by copying the URL and adding it to Bloglines was the easiest way for me of subscribing to feeds.

I can honestly say that there is a lot of mindless static out there, as well as very worthwhile information and cool stuff. I must admit, however, that I have never been too enamored of the virtual world. Give me the physical world. I like to feel the sun on my back and the rain on my face and the dirt between my fingers. To quote Cole Porter: "...give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in."

Go ahead, PUSH it

Whew! I feel like I just biked the entire Western Maryland Rail Trail -- all 45 miles! Well, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration but that RSS feed thing was a work out. Check out the fruits, I mean feeds, of my labor -- if you dare.
Kidding aside, it is actually very cool and I might actually end up using Bloglines. I feel like I have my finger on the pulse. Or maybe on the trigger. Either way it's a position of power!

Remember when...

Remember when you used to have to think about how to find really simple information like the hours of the National Gallery or the address of the American Cancer Society or who wrote a particular book or...I could go on and on.
Remember life before the internet? I don't know about you but I just take it for granted now. But there was a time when all this stuff was not just at our fingertips. Pretty amazing.

Color Wheel

I have always loved color so it's not surprising that I would be drawn to Flickr Color Pickr like a bean beetle to a Kentucky Blue. One feature that is really useful is that you can change the value of the hue from lighter to darker and so retrieve, for example, darker yellows or very bright yellows. It is also cool that it lets you pull images from different categories like flowers or architectural details.

Uploaded on July 1, 2005
by Gianni D.

Our Trip to the Swamp

This is a excellent drawing depiciting many swamp celebrities.
I particularly like Toad. The centipede pictured here may actually be a millipede, a very benign creature compared with the aggressive and predatory centipede. But for the sake of this blog we will pretend that it is in fact a centipede. The mix of critters in this jar will most likely prove to be a fatal melange. Hard to say who will be left when Marie-Tangerine gets home. Spider and Centipede may engage in their murderous grappling. Gnat's days are probably numbered. Toad might eat everybody but Snail.

To fully appreciate this drawing go to http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=517673342&size=l&context=set-72157600272648780

photo credit: Uploaded on May 28, 2007 by MarieLynn

Lifelong Learnin'

Hardest: Viewing problems as challenges.
It can be difficult for me to have a positive attitude when things don't go right.
Easiest: Begin with the end in mind.
I don't have too much trouble focusing on a goal and sticking to it.

First Post

While we go about our daily lives (eating, sleeping, working, composing weblogs), things are happening that we know nothing about. Silent conflicts are being played out behind walls and under floorboards. And in the dense verdure of nature.
Somewhere, spider and centipede are battling.