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• Make Yourself at Home - The Internet is a Place “…the place where any telephone call takes place” - William Gibson This morning’s Citizen’s League conversation reminded me how not everyone considers this website a location. In the same way a park or a coffee shop is a location - a place where people meet for conversation. I’ve long seen blogs as back porches and think
• Can I Celebrate New Years on Feb 1? Like magic, all the crazy stress and pressure I’ve been working through the past 8 weeks evaporated at the stroke of 12 last night. Seriously, magic. I have no other explanation. Then again, I have no explanation for why January was that tough either. Things feel like they’re right back where they should be. Mind if
• Wanted: High Efficiency Washer / Dryer Recommendations Like Shel’s, our current washer and dryer is ancient. More ancient than the one we left at the last house. So, our washes aren’t as washed as we’d like and well, damp is not a synonym for dry. I checked. We were going to wait a year and do a huge home appliance upgrade (fridge and
• Paralympics: Wired, Olympics: Tired  If para-athletes continue to innovate and set records like this - space technology knees and backflipping wheelchairs - it’ll be their games, not their fully-able-bodied counterparts’, that will be the more inspiring viewing. (thanks to Boing Boing for the pointers)
• Wolf’s Den  This weekend, I popped by my alma mater for a few hours to briefly catch up with some people that went through the same foreign exchange program I did. Of the few (of hundreds) that brought themselves to a small, rural Wisconsin town from the far reaches of the globe - there are a handful