Month: July 2014
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one fingered typing.
Today I take a great leap forward. This is the first blog I try writing from the Nook Color tablet as opposed to from the laptop computer. typing is a lot slower when you use single fingers instead of two hands. I can see how it os necessary for texting, but for full article writing…
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Keep Calm…
Originally posted on Cedar Writes: This is mirror-posted over at According To Hoyt, and you can read all of it there. I am a weapon. When the time comes to strike, the tool I happen to use is not the weapon, the squishy gray stuff between my ears is. In aid of keeping my weapon…
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Chromebook casting — a Best Buy saga
Saturday afternoon we were out shopping around for computers. Betsy wanted a light, portable computer that she could write on, check e-mail. Her dream would be the Surface Pro 3, but that was in a price range of $1K or more to get what she wanted. We could replace her main notebook computer twice with…
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A Year’s Difference
My niece Sofia returned from her year as an exchange student in Latvia. We had a party a year ago when we she left, and Saturday we had a party to celebrate her return. At the first party we took pictures with her and our two kids. Saturday I took a similar set of pictures.…
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Remakes #2 — Parent Trap
This is one of those remakes where I like both movies. If made to choose, I would rate the Haley Mills original over the Lindsay Lohan remake — but there are sections of the remake that are definitely better done than the original. Watching the opening credits of the Haley Mills version of The Parent…
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Remakes — #1
I thought I would put together a short piece on a movie remake, and maybe sometime soon put together another comparison of another pair of remakes. Somewhere a few years back we picked up That Darn Cat! on sale on DVD. It was a two-disk set:the 1965 Haley Mills version and the 1997 Christina Ricci…
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Plethora of Missions
“Offer them food and they will come” was the joking subtitle to Sunday evenings Ice Cream Social and Missions Fair at Avondale United Methodist Church. Besides the ice cream, the key feature of the evening was a presentation and update by Larry and Kristy Schmitz of their ministry at TESOL (The English-speaking School of Lubumbashi)…
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ToonTown Rewritten Reaches 1000
Today is going to be a short look at Toontown Rewritten. This past weekend they expanded the amount of time everyone could play. If you got a slot or waited in the playline, when your turn came up you got 6 hours instead of 3 hours of play time on Saturday and Sunday. For me…
At The Rainbow 