Rediscovering the convenience of shopping on line. Also rediscovering Ebates. I had been a member years ago and actually received a couple of checks from them. Last week I went back on and found that I still had money in the account from something I did years ago. So I'm checking them out again. It just makes sense to get a small precentage back for purchases that I would be doing already online.
If you do decided to join up I'd appreciate a referral:
http://www.ebates.com/rf.do?referrerid=bARr5wQ2DQA%3D
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Typing Tutorial
Here's a great typing tutorial that I read about in Swiss Army Librarian's blog. I tried it a few minutes ago and it is addictive. It'll be a great site to visit when I am manning the circulation desk. Besides it'll look a lot better if I am working on my typing than spending the time on Facebook. Thanks Brian.
Check it out.
http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/tutor/keyboarding.php
Check it out.
http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/tutor/keyboarding.php
Saturday, October 22, 2011
More bad TV
Just came across more bad TV over the past few weeks. The two that top the list are:
My Extreme Animal Phobia on Animal Planet. It's just disgusting and I don't mean because it has "disgusting animals" but it is disgusting to watch people suffer with their fears. I don't care if the "therapist" is "helping" them I think it is cruel to watch people in pain. What type of person enjoys that? I also think it is cruel to subject the animals to this therapy even if "no animals were harmed in the process." Come on Animal Planet. You can do better than that!! Oh wait, Animal Planet is actually owned by Discovery...Never mind, makes sense now.
TLC (the lousy channel) has brought back Ami James from Miami Ink for another boring tattoo show. These tattoo shows would be okay if they focused on the art and the customers. However, these shows focus on the boring workers and their fake drama. Hated Miami Ink, Hated LA Ink, and totally hate NY Ink.
Hey America, are we really this stupid?
My Extreme Animal Phobia on Animal Planet. It's just disgusting and I don't mean because it has "disgusting animals" but it is disgusting to watch people suffer with their fears. I don't care if the "therapist" is "helping" them I think it is cruel to watch people in pain. What type of person enjoys that? I also think it is cruel to subject the animals to this therapy even if "no animals were harmed in the process." Come on Animal Planet. You can do better than that!! Oh wait, Animal Planet is actually owned by Discovery...Never mind, makes sense now.
TLC (the lousy channel) has brought back Ami James from Miami Ink for another boring tattoo show. These tattoo shows would be okay if they focused on the art and the customers. However, these shows focus on the boring workers and their fake drama. Hated Miami Ink, Hated LA Ink, and totally hate NY Ink.
Hey America, are we really this stupid?
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Big Savings at Discount Store??
While I was at our local Target store I thought I would grab some cat food. I laughed so hard at this sign that I decided to wait until I got to the grocery store to buy my cat's food. I just could not stand the idea of saving 32 cents!!!! Who would put a sign up saying that the customer would save 32 cents? Target, that's who.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
You know?
I hate it when people keeping saying "you know" when they're talking to me. I especially hate listening to people on television using the phrase in almost every sentence. I keep wanting to shout "no, I don't know, that's why I'm listening to you." Thanks Mom for breaking me of that habit when I was a kid.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Stan Rogers
This week a friend from work introduced me to the music of Stan Rogers. If you haven't heard him do yourself a favor and check out his song Barrett's Privateers. It's an awesome shanty. I also love Northwest Passage.
What a great voice and what a great songwriter he was. Unfortunately for us he died too young. He was only 33 when he was killed along with 22 others in that horrible fire aboard the Air Canada Flight 797 on June 2, 1983.
If you love folk music then you will really enjoy Stan Rogers.
What a great voice and what a great songwriter he was. Unfortunately for us he died too young. He was only 33 when he was killed along with 22 others in that horrible fire aboard the Air Canada Flight 797 on June 2, 1983.
If you love folk music then you will really enjoy Stan Rogers.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Sherlock Holmes pulled from reading LIst
Just read an article about the Albemarle County Public Schools pulling the book A Study in Scarlet , by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from a required reading list because a Mormon Parent complained. Although the article didn't cite what passage the parent found objectionable this passage was quoted:
" (John Ferrier) had always determined, deep down in his resolute heart, that nothing would ever induce him to allow his daughter to wed a Mormon. Such marriage he regarded as no marriage at all, but as a shame and a disgrace. Whatever he might think of the Mormon doctrines, upon that one point he was inflexible. He had to seal his mouth on the subject, however, for to express an unorthodox opinion was a dangerous matter in those days in the Land of the Saints."
To me this would have been a great teaching moment for this Mormon parent. The book was published in 1886. Utah joined the union in 1896. Didn't Wilford Woodruff, issued the famous 1890 manifesto outlawing the practice of polygamy in hopes of Utah joining the Union? So in 1886 polygamy was the norm in the Mormon church. Women could not attain salvation on their own but had to be "married" to a man.
I sure as hell would not have wanted my daughter to marry a Mormon then and I think it was quite progressive of Doyle to make that comment at a time when women were still considered property. Instead of complaining this Mormon parent should have used this time to teach his or her child about the history of their religion. This parent missed a great teaching moment. Oh wait. We don't teach our children anymore. We train them don't we?
I have to give a grade of F to the school board, to the educational system of Albermarle County and to the person identified as a Mormon parent. God help our children today.
" (John Ferrier) had always determined, deep down in his resolute heart, that nothing would ever induce him to allow his daughter to wed a Mormon. Such marriage he regarded as no marriage at all, but as a shame and a disgrace. Whatever he might think of the Mormon doctrines, upon that one point he was inflexible. He had to seal his mouth on the subject, however, for to express an unorthodox opinion was a dangerous matter in those days in the Land of the Saints."
To me this would have been a great teaching moment for this Mormon parent. The book was published in 1886. Utah joined the union in 1896. Didn't Wilford Woodruff, issued the famous 1890 manifesto outlawing the practice of polygamy in hopes of Utah joining the Union? So in 1886 polygamy was the norm in the Mormon church. Women could not attain salvation on their own but had to be "married" to a man.
I sure as hell would not have wanted my daughter to marry a Mormon then and I think it was quite progressive of Doyle to make that comment at a time when women were still considered property. Instead of complaining this Mormon parent should have used this time to teach his or her child about the history of their religion. This parent missed a great teaching moment. Oh wait. We don't teach our children anymore. We train them don't we?
I have to give a grade of F to the school board, to the educational system of Albermarle County and to the person identified as a Mormon parent. God help our children today.
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