Month: July 2005
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Jake's Pride Pics
82 Originally uploaded by whoadoggie. I liked this picture from Jake’s Flickr line up.
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6,200 Pages
My blog’s 5 year anniversary is a few days away and yesterday I finished the 31st volume of my handwritten journal. I use Mead’s 200 page composition notebooks and write only with Pilot Precise V5 Extra Fine Point ink pens. 31 volumes * 200 pages/volume = 6,200 pages
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Hottest Day in Last Decade
Wow – yesterday was the hottest day in Chicago for the past decade. Over 104 degrees.
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South American Countries Form Channel – US Promises to Counter-cast
The Venezuelan government officially launched Telesur – a new Latin American satellite TV station. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said the station will give South America a voice independent of traditional media conglomerates like CNN… The station is being launched with help from other Latin American governments including Argentina, Cuba and Uruguay. Last week the […]
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Sneaking a Goodman
Totally forgot to chronicle Madge and I sneaking into the AFL-CIO’s Labor Communications convention to see Amy Goodman speak. I wasn’t sure we’d get in, but Madge had her video camera and I carried a tripod and nobody said anything. We set up in the back of the room just after they finished dessert and […]
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That's a Good Girl
I met Glenda through my professional blog. She’s a blogger and talks about accessibility (she has cerebral palsy). She is writing about the challenges of living in the internet plane – where she has greater communication enhanced by technology – and reality – where there are greater obstacles. I love this story: A lady kindly […]
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Genetically Modified Crops Helped Create Superweed
From Monkeyfilter: Modified genes from crops in a GM crop trial have transferred into local wild plants, creating a form of herbicide-resistant "superweed"… The cross-fertilisation between GM oilseed rape, a brassica, and a distantly related plant, charlock, had been discounted as virtually impossible by scientists with the environment department.
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Star Tribune on Same Sex Marriage
Another bloggin’ Andy points to this editorial in the Star Tribune: What Americans can learn from Martin’s transformation, and that of many Canadians, is that religious freedom and a minority’s right to equality can go hand in hand under the Constitution just as they now do under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. No religious […]
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Careful With Money
ELAINE: How would you like it if someone told YOU the truth? GEORGE: Like what? What could they say? ELAINE: There are plenty of things to say. GEORGE: Like what? I’m bald? What is it specifically? Is, is there an odor I’m not aware of? Give me one. … ELAINE: You are very careful with […]
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Sacred Cows
I used the term ‘grill sacred cows’ in a coaching program I’m in and someone asked me what I was talking about so I emailed my rendition: You know the one where Moses comes down with the Commandments and the Israelites are like ‘OMG y’all there’s this golden calf – it is all like – […]