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More for the Lifehacker crowd than my normal audience (Wess being the most likely cross-over friend), I used a few mesh baskets and twist ties together yesterday to bundle my collection of cords and gadgets and documented it over on Flickr.For those with geek tendencies who don't know Lifehacker check it out, as it has a lot of tips and tricks and is a good place to share obsessions not necessarily shared with spouses or family members.
Francis on the cover of the mock magazine.Photo: A new publication of the Neo Post Convergent Diaper Set. An irony I have to point out is that I've agreed to have the boys raised Catholic, the faith to which Julie returned after eleven years with Friends. Can I help it if the kids look so dern photogenic in front of Quaker meetinghouses? Enlarged photo.
This morning I’m working on the Pete Seeger section of Quakersong.org, the website of Annie Paterson and Peter Blood (I’m their webmaster). Parts of their site are amazing—the Quakers and Music page has become a directory of sorts for all the many Quaker musicians out there (who knew there were so many!). But the Pete Seeger is still mostly a collection of CDs that Peter & Annie have for sale.
So I was wondering what a good Pete Seeger page might look like and starting surfing around. There’s a great fan page which is regularly updated but has bravely decided to maintain its original design since it was founded eleven years ago. And Wikipedia does its usual fine job at a biography. But the gold mine is YouTube.
A year ago a user uploaded three clips from Rainbow Quest, a short-lived TV program Pete put together for a low-wattage UHF station out of Newark in the mid-60s (it’s now a Telemundo affiliate broadcasting recycled Mexican soaps for its prime time schedule). I don’t know what kind of copyright issues there are on something like this but it’s great fun to see these old clips. Making this material widely available is one of the joys of YouTube (well, that and watching recapturing the innocence of our over-commercialized youth). I’ll leave you with this, a clip of Pete singing with June Carter and Johnny “I’m soooo stoooned” Cash a few years before they married.
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C Wess Daniels has challenged us all to become Clean Slate Posers and how can I pass it up?! Man, those Evangelicals have all the fun…
“Will It Blend?” has a solution for toddler messes. I used the suggestion box to recommend Thomas the Tank Engine paraphernalia. I’m sure Theo would stop refusing to pick up his collection at night if I showed him that video.
Okay, yes it’s insane to go on a vacation when one is unemployed. But logistically, it’s the best time to go: no juggling work schedules, no finishing up projects before you go, no taking cell phone calls from harried colleagues. Julie had saved up the money and started planning a getaway this summer and reservations were all in place when I suddenly found myself out of a job. We could have canceled but October brought us more than our share of disappointments and we decided to go for it. Three guesses where we are:
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