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Did I ever post this? I loved this short film.

Oh. My.

Actually, I learned a few things watching this. Some familiar patterns that triggered new thinking. So, it might be an example of a 4 1/2 minute exercise in “productive procrastination.” Might be.

I Tweeted: Could we crowdsource a nerd rap for Colorwars? Send your best line/couplet for this beat. I’ll record it.

You came through bigtime…(Stachio Stachio you’re doin’ a Mashio!)

Weeell theey call me ’stachio, i’m a twittering NUT.
Gonna PWN you nerd rappers, kick some colorwars butt.
My team is verygreen and I know it’s a sin,
but I don’t really care if we lose or we win (@the diva)
Thumb’s a flyin’, crackberry batt’ry dyin’,
got my 1-4-0 to prove them othas should be cryin’. (@tbrunelle)
Other Twitter DJ’s think you got the hit
But this rap be yo nightmare when i’m thru with it
Soc-ial me-di-a grow grow grow
Crowdsourcin’ is the future baby baby YO! YO! (@markhansler)
Big names… no! big avatars
usin screennames while addressing and coalescing in bars
it’s all a social meeting, just a different context
when it’s 30 seconds old, we be asking “what’s next?” (@scottypboston)
I live in the intarwebs, I think you all know.
Got so many e-friends here it makes me go “WHOA!” (@the diva)
my tweets shake yo webpage like a javascript.
I tweet so strong ur dome is blown before ur phone is un-flipped. (@steketee)
I twitter all day, hardly ever AFK,
so if ya makin up some bacon, better send some my way! (@the diva)

…YO. But don’t send me no B-A-C-N. That sh*t’s ruuuude. Peace. I’m out.

title credit @msholin)

my niece has grown into being a beautiful, smart, responsible, caring, hardworking woman. seeing her today… hearing her excitement about coming back for a longer visit (as soon as this summer?)… meeting her boyfriend and seeing he is a decent soul, and great with his kids… tearing up with her over the necklace… watching our babies play together… sitting with our families and laughing a while… it could not have gone better.

my half brother who took his life in ‘99 left behind some awful and jagged realities. his sons are dear to me, but continue to struggle mightily. she is the one wondrous thing he (quite accidentally) gave the world.

i still love danny (or at least my baby sister childish image of who he could have been) in a strange way. but in my niece and her son, that’s where something so much more worth loving lives on. danny’s been gone a long time, and the person i mourned when he perished probably never even was.

but i’ll never stop believing in her. thanks ace. i love you.

when i was 27 and living in PA i “adopted” my 14 year old niece, and raised her thru some pretty gnarly teenage years. the most shocking thing about the experience was learning how massive and stunningly permanent a parent’s love for a child is. i was unprepared for that. there’s no measure. even when you jump into the middle of it like that.

we each saved the other’s life. for 3 years it was just her & me. she helped me plug back in socially when i was lot of a loner. she gave me a strong sense of purpose to work and start making something of myself. i got out of a bad job situation and into a dream one, working from home so i could take better care of her. i bought us a house and some land and we had a little farmette.

she did amazingly well considering what life had thrown her way. she graduated high school and finished a year of college. but more than that she continued on her way to becoming this amazing person, with an ability to love and care and feel very deeply.

but, i haven’t seen her since august 2003. she ran away to ohio to be with a guy she met online instead of going back to school or coming to my wedding that september. at the reception, i kept thinking she would walk in, but her friend phoned me the next day once she’d figured it out. my niece has lived there ever since.

as hard as that was, i don’t fault her that choice. she wanted to start all over with a clean slate. yeah, it was REALLY dangerous. and the guy did turn out to be a loser. but she got into a better situation and she built a life for herself out there.
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I wanted to quickly share these great tips that everyone provided when I could not access the web from my client’s site. Thank you very much for the assistance. I will clean up the post and insert hyperlinks later on.

• Starman @istarman Under the Network System Preference, make sure that Built-In Ethernet is green, and that you have an IP that doesn’t start w/169
• hilary tyler @podcrawl Command-K
• scottypboston @scottypboston - I had that problem on my macbook pro. I set up a location that disabled wifi and used only eth to resolve it.
• Michael De Leon @mdeleon - Try renewing the DHCP License. Could be that it was tied to the other computer’s MAC address
• Steven Buehler @revtriste - Check that the wired interface is included in your location profile?
• Philip Campbell @philcampbell - check the light on the other end, try another cable, try a reboot with cable in - de-activate wifi, refresh dhcp in network set..
• Adele McAlear @adelemcalear - Make sure your Apple Talk is on; Make sure port is on (may be off if you use wireless)
• Wayne MacPhail @wmacphail - Try turning off Airport

If your current life focus were a bookshop, what section/s would you be browsing in? Why?

Don Lafferty @donlafferty ~ raising teens and mixology
mambo101 @mambo101 The music history section.
Aruni (entrepreMuse) @aruni I used to read a lot of sci-fi, popular novels. Now I can’t remember when I last had time to read a good book.
Kathryn V Jones @kathrynjones the kick me in the ass section
Bryce Moore @abiteofsanity “Mental Disorders And Behaviors”
Aruni (entrepreMuse) @aruni went to Barnes&Nobles this morning and spent most of the time in the kid’s book section.
David Buttrick @geekdave Anthropology & Philosophy - they are what I studied in College, and I’m still fascinated with them
Christopher Penn @cspenn business, economics, American history 1925 - 1933

Simple Whole Wheat Bread - Allrecipes
OK, this one I will follow pretty faithfully. Baking is not a good place to improvise

Part 1

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Fresh Mushroom Soup Recipe Internet Cookbook Vermouth Onion oooh, patriotic recipe by PA Gov. Tom Ridge. heh. I am making 3x this recipe. Hmm, look at all the butter!

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