SI Valentine

Back in the days when I was a single man, Valentine day meant many things. Sometimes good and some times bad. But let's not get into that mess.
besides for Valentine's Day, the other big "holiday" on that date is the release of the 43rd annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and all the hype, history and controversy that surround it each year.
Feb. 14 is also the release of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. This year, SI is going high tech and it's about time too. There is an exclusive cell phone wallpapers of SI swimsuit models available at SI Mobile (www.simobileswimsuit.com). In addition to checking out the issue, people can see their favorite SI models at any time by downloading cell phone wallpapers from SI Mobile.

"These images come straight from the photo shoots featured in the magazine, are only $1.99 each and are available for all major wireless carriers. Over 50 supermodels are featured on the site, and bloggers are encouraged to name drop some of the more popular ones in the posts including Victoria's Secret model Heidi Klum,
Marisa Miller, Ana Beatriz Barros, tennis star Maria Sharapova, Molly Sims and 2005 SI cover girl Carolyn Murphy. Classic SI cover girl wallpapers from past years that are also featured on the site include three-time cover girl Elle Macpherson ('87, '88, '94) and Kathy Ireland ('92, '94). SI Mobile users can also download video clips from the photo shoots, "video ringers" (ringtones with video), animated screensavers and more. Bloggers are required to include an image in the post.
NOTE: If you choose to purchase cell phone wallpapers off the site, you will be asked to provide some personal information to ensure delivery. Your personal information will not be disclosed to any third party.
Bloggers are required to include an image in the post."

Marisa Miller

Valentine Ecard

http://www.realestateecards.com/214/yang

Every one is getting flowers at work, well most of the girls are. I sent my wife flowers as well. It was delivered when I drive my wife to work. She was totally surprised.
I wore a cripy white BCBG shirt with a red print tie and an Armani Exchange blue with brown pin stripe suit to work for picture day. It was like first grade all over again :).

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Lighting

If youve ever considered upgrading your home lighting, indoor or outdoor this post is for you. Shoppremier sells a large variey of home lighting fixtures.

I've been eying this light-wall-sconce for a long time now. We have two sconce in the T.V. room. Sometimes, we just don't need that much light while watching t.v. I've taken one light bulb out. Now the living room lighting looks uneven. I wish to install a new light sconce so that it can be on a dimmer switch and I can have a remote control for the light and adjust the level for reading or watching t.v.
The other problem I have is that the lighting in the eating area is in the very high ceiling. When the bulb goes out, I'll have to upgrade it to something practical. Or maybe I can install another wall sconce at the low level next to the dining table.

Frank Buchwald Lamps

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"I had fallen in love with the movie A Room with a View that year, and was especially taken by Julian Sands "declaring the universal Yes" as he ran, ecstatic, through a field of wildflowers. "On the other side of the everlasting 'why'," his character's father had said earlier in the film, "there is a 'yes'. And a 'yes' and a 'yes'!"

-Gayle Grandeis

quote

Italy

I remember watching Dian Lane in 'Under the Tuscan Sun' and thinking I would like to get a villa next to her. Well, now with property in Italy I can dream about it and possibly make it a reality.

In college, I had a chance to go to study abroad in Rome. The University of Oregon offer an architectural program to study for a semester. At the time, I had passport problems. Some students decided to stay and miss graduating in time. They brought back sketch books full of buildings, ideas, and personal discoveries. They wore Italian Leather Jackets.I even enrolled in an Italian Class. The only thing that stuck in my mind now is the words for bicycle, gelato, and ciao. Italian is a beautiful romance language base on Latin. I coveted a few of the old Latin tutorial text from the local library discards.

The Italian weather is great for bicycling or hop around in a Vespa like you see in the movies. Oh talk about great sceneries of Italy in the movies! I could watch 'The Talented Mr. Ripely' again. How about 'Room with a View' or 'Wings of a Dove'? I think I worn out the VHS version.
My favorite parts of the English Patient is when they are in the abandon Villa. The author read books about life of the villa as research.
A holiday to Italy would be fine to see the Pantheon, on my list of wonders of the world.
Italian food is my favorite because I love pasta. I believe that Marco Polo brought noodle from China during his visit and has influence Italian cuisine.

The names of their cities: Tuscany or Sicily or Lake Como is soft and evocative on my tongue.
The actor George Clooney's was so enamoured with Italy that he bought a house.
The real estate market for unique property is there. Keep looking, Keep dreaming.

property in Italy

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Tisimi

Hi Lexly,

I am about to launch a new site for design and innovation. The site is www.tisimi.com and is planned to go live on March 1st.

The problem I have is that for me to launch the site, I need to have something up there.

If you are interested in showcasing your designs and winning prizes (up to $1,000) by doing so, check out the site.



Thanks for your time.

-Robin
I would love for you to upload some of your images to the site, so you can showcase your talent, and maybe win... i particularly like these ones:

www.flickr.com/photos/ducly/tags/drawings/
www.flickr.com/photos/ducly/tags/fashion/
www.flickr.com/photos/ducly/tags/sketches/
www.flickr.com/photos/ducly/tags/architecture/

cheers!

misc

carnegiehall in an effort to attract younger hip crowds invites alternative folk song artist like Banheart.

metameat.net/kafka-while I was in Hungary, I missed a chance to see Prague. I skim and skip around Kafka's diary.

One of the diary prompts from TJ4 asks what makes you happy today?
One of my post is featured on: notebookism.com

What made me happy yesterday? Armand from Notebookism invited me to be featured on Notebookism. I also got a $20 coupon for diner at a fancy restaurant.

veryshortlist.com/lists

Windflower

Windflower combines Capolan, TFR

There are the elements: earth Sirocco, Wind- Zephyr, Water Mr. Ham

The characters represent the elements.

What about the drawing paintings at the bottom of each page? One almost don’t need a bookmarker because, the images trigger the words, it acts as it’s own bookmarker. But there is no coralation between the image and the images on that page. It is only after you read the description and imagine it in your head that a few pages later it shows up. The image doesn’t dictate your imagination.

I came to the Retro Traveler through the Notebookism.com, which also has a group on Flickr. The Retro Traveler uses Journals to keep track of his travels. He uses the pocket Moleskine.com hard paper and soft paper plain collects postal stamps from the different countries that he has been to.

Official Google Blog: New sunrise layer on Google Earth

Official Google Blog: New sunrise layer on Google Earth

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Realestate

Current concerns about realestate.
johnlscott.com
johnlscott.com/PropertyDetail
jade
amyyang

Tips for Tax time:
epowernews.com/articles/art0702/04vat_0702.htm

Current Concern about Art:
pulliamdeffenbaugh.com/Artwork
There was a course at PSU taught by Joseph Beil call "current concern". I thought this was a good title and topic. My inspiration moves with the time. One day to the next, what is current on my mind should be visually documented. Currently, I'm interested in the drawings on Vellum.

banksy.co.uk/drawing/index.html

financier who snatched up “No. 5, 1948” for $140 million last November

artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/karlins/karlins7-10-00.asp

Effexis

When I was a teenager, I had order two floppy disks software to keep a journal on the computer. That was before blogs. I still keep an document of diary but the blog is conveint to sort through. The calendar features is great for skipping around to check out on different days. The Journal, has this feature. I've wanted this feature on a wish list for a very long time and now I found it. Even some blogs you can't skip around to different days so easily to edit and add to my memory pool of what happen on a certain day.

The Journal belong in a group of other softwares offer by: http://www.effexis.com/achieve/planner.htm
This software is in my radar of GTD. There are a few good time management software.
I like it because it works seamlessly with Outlook. I would like to download it and take it for a spin like I did with the Journal. There are so many things to do, to organize. It makes planning fun.

Drawings

I stumble upon this site of Leonardo Divinci Drawings in a Mozilla plug in call 'Stumble' I really like the drawing diagrams of his concave surfaces and the light on the sphere: http://www.visi.com/~reuteler/leonardo.html

This site is so very minimal: http://wooptydoo.com

Lastest news radar picks up a Hurricane brewing over Frankfurt, Germany. Soon it will go into Poland.

DVD Ripper News

Dvdripnews.com is the only site which tells you when a DVDRip will be released to the internet

DVDRipnews.com is the only site in the whole of internet which lets you know the release date of the DVDRip of a movie (not DVD). Besides that, it will inform you what the size of the DVDRip will be (1CD or 2CD) and also the file format (XviD/AC3/MP3). The site is perfectly legal as it just gives the dates and file format info.

It is the one and only site of it's kind. The site provides an accurate way in which the site reveals even the file size and format details in advance.

Right now there is also a commenting contest which lets visitors win a free backlink to their sites.

DVDRips are distributed through the P2P networks, there are file sharing, movie sharing via bittorrent, movie sharing over the internet in general, movie downloading etc...

DVDRip News

blogspot blog roll

I came across this site through flickr, particularly Hardley Sutton's account. http://babeswithbooks.blogspot.com
"Hard" as people call him has a picture of Daniel Day Lewis in the movies "Room w/ a View". His Cuties Curios blog is amusing.

November of 2006, I saw The Sartorialist's photo in a GQ magazine while waiting for my wife to get her hair color. It was the article with Will Ferrell on the cover of 2006. A few pages later, I read an article on Thom Browne. Back at the keyboard, I decided that I would google Thom and found enough to create a Squidoo lens about Thom. Of course The Sartorialist had blog about Thom!

thesartorialist.blogspot.com

The Satorialist’s gear:
dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Canon/canon_eos5d.asp

thesartorialist.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_thesartorialist_archive

Gallery Leather

The Gallery Leather company has good products. I've bought their Photo Albums before from B&Noble stores. I found a good mini three ring binder, Desk Planner for 2007 at T.J. Max. The standard mini three ring paper fits easyly into the three ring binder, which is the same size as the Original of the Franklin Covey binders. The thing I don't like about FCovey is that it's too thick for my use. When the year is over, I end up with an big stack which I have to buy another special binder made of paper to keep the whole year together. Also FC binder rings are (proprietary) too many which requires a special puncher to make new papers fit into the binder.
They have a new website coming up galleryleather.
I enter to win the recipes organizer.

The Sheltering Sky

"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply part of your being that you, that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless."-Paul Bowles, "The Sheltering Sky"

Update: 12/6/06

Writings inspired by Magic Paula's question: "What is Time?" from the Letter's Lives Group on Flickr.

A nomadic tribe wondering through a labyrinth carried by the wind
An ancestral grid dividing the chronology
the wind whispering its strange language for trees to decipher, transmute and deflect.
The days are a canonical mocking of our small existence.

What is time?
Time is the underlying theme in Paul Bow's novel about travel, love, and cultural difference. I read this book over the holiday break and away from my normal environment. It made me think and feel lonely at the same time. I was jet lagged and in a different time zone, nine hours difference. It's a good book to bring along on a distant trip. I marked it up frequently because I wanted to remember those passages. Usually, I don't like to mark up the book.

Online Calendar

I have the envious task of keeping track of my family's happy birthday
and aniversaries. I also try to keep track of my wife's family's Name Days, and all the other special Polish holidays too. I have a large family. There are lots of calendars out there. I've try using google, which is a cool calendar too. I use Google because I get my emails on their most often from family and friends. I'm hoping that the American Greeting can send out special ecards on the days of my friends and family's birthday or aniversaries. It would be cool if it automatically sends a card to the recipient instead of having to send me a reminder. But that's cool too because I then can pick and choose an ecard to send out.

The website has tons of ecards to choose from as well as Birthday printables and inviations. I think it's a good idea and about time that American Greetings up dated their website to include all of these services. It is the "one stop" shop for birthdays. I've used the free American Greetings before on other websites such as Yahoo. It's easy to select an ecard from several categories: Family, Belated, and Over the Hill. The whole process is user friendly. You can customize and print your cards or invitations in several easy steps. The very cool thing about this online free calendar is that it will sit on your desktop to remind you of the important days coming up!!! Hopefully you'll never have to send out a belated birthday again.





happy birthday

online calendar

Thom Browne

Links to Thom's favorite restaurants, and artists.

Thom Browne official website

The fashion video, 'The Septemberist' filmed by Anthony Goicolea, seems like a movie trailer. the narrator / hypnotize sounds familiar. His a chinese voice and script reminds me of the Woody Allen movie 'Alice'. I saw 'Alice' the other day when I couldn't fall asleep. It was on Demand on Comcast cable television.

Libertine

John Hartig a friend of Thom. They started out in LA buying vintage clothes and altering them as a hobby.

Anthony Goicolea

Anthony filmed the "Septemberist" Video on Thom's website. If Thom was to become an artist, he would be Anthony. Their asthetics match very well.

Radio Interview

Elvis Mitchell has a Radio Interview with Thom for the Radio Show "The Treatment"

Pastis

Pastis is a restaurant where Thom as his black coffee and white toasts.

Il Cantinori

Another great restaurant

squidoo.com/thombrowne

Sartorialist

thesartorialist.blogspot.com/2006/04/alan-flusser-on-thom-browne.html

http://men.style.com/fashion/collections/S2006MEN/review/TBMEN

http://web.mac.com/thombrowne/iWeb/www.thombrowne.com/www.thombrowne.com.html

http://www.time.com/time/2004/style/111504/men/3.html


http://www.squidoo.com/thombrowne


I'm a big fan of your blog 'SARTORIALIST' since I found out about it in GQ magazine. I'm glad you are covering Thom Browne. I have made a lens on Squidoo dedicated to Thom Browne. Check it out. I would welcome suggestions and inputs.

http://www.squidoo.com/thombrowne

Paul Smith Story collonge
Haitian Vetiver
the idea began as a sketch of a book
the bottle is shaped like a book
smells of old paper.
http://www.paulsmith.co.uk

What is time?

Inspired by Magic Paula's question: "What is Time?" from the Letter's Lives Group on Flickr.

A nomadic tribe wondering through a labyrinth carried by the wind
An ancestral grid dividing the chronology
the wind whispering it's strange language for trees to decipher, transmute and deflect.
The days are a canonical mocking of our small existence.

Favorite Book and Movies

Favorite Books
Last great book I read:
'The Sheltering Sky' Nov 25, 2000
'Keep the River to Your Right' June 2001 in Hungary, Budapest.
'Utz'
'Sun Also Rises' Sept. 11 2001
'A Year in Provence' Nov. 2002
'Book of Illusion' Dec. 2002
In chronological order

Favorite on-screen sex scene: in 'the unbearable lightness of being', when juliette binoche first arrives at daniel day-lewis' apartment. damn. PolaX
there's only one scene. According to the actor (Gerald Depardu's son)...it was real...

'The Sheltering Sky'...when

Group Loop

GroupLoop is designed for anyone who needs to organize a committee. Board of directors, private clubs, non profit groups, chambers, and even families can benefit from its collaboration tools. GroupLoop provides a simple place for you to share and archive files, a central area for discussion, and a calendar (with RSVP) to manage your meetings.

When you setup a free account, some general personal information is needed, along with the acceptance of our Terms of Service. If you'd like to have the account upgraded (so you can add multiple committees, send an email via the Contact Us button on the website).

I signed for a free account at signup.grouploop.com, I did it for a small committee using
GroupLoop application for group collaboration. I think it's great idea and website. The gallery 114 can add meeting minutes, budget list to keep track of monthly member dues and other expense of running a gallry. We've been adding track lights so I think there's also a section to keep track of the different projects.

http://g114.grouploop.com/people
GroupLoop.com

Dune John Harris Paintings.

On 3/13/04, I finally finished reading Dune. I'm sort of interested in keeping track of when I've finished reading a significant book. This book made me think of how I use water. Our house hold uses 180 gallon average per month. In where I live, there are plenty of water. Still, reading this book made me hyper sensitive to water and to see how precious water is. I found the work of John Harris's architecturally influenced painting. These paintings remind me of Dune but I can't find the link to his art work anymore.

Some Related Links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)

squidoo.com/ducsbooks

Kitty Litter Cake

"Kitty Litter Cake"

This is *no joke*

READ THE INGREDIENTS AND STUFF FIRST AND THEN LOOK AT THE PHOTO...

TRUST ME...

DON'T LOOK AT THE PHOTO FIRST, BUT LAST ...

This is for all you cooks out there looking for something a little different.........

WANT TO HAVE FUN AT A PARTY? PREPARE THIS RECIPE! COMPLETELY EDIBLE,

BUT YOUR FRIENDS MAY NOT THINK SO!

On a recent visit to our veterinarian to get shots for our cat I found this recipe on the waiting room bulletin board. After recovering from hysterical laughter, I obtained a copy from the office staff so that my wife could make it, which she refused to do. I took it to work and gave the recipe to a lady at work who loves cats. The pictures below show the results of her work. It doesn't look very nice, but it's actually quite tasty, so I decided to pass it along.

CAKE INGREDIENTS:

1 box spice or German chocolate cake mix

1 box of white cake mix

1 package white sandwich cookies

1 large package vanilla instant pudding mix

A few drops green food coloring

12 small Tootsie Rolls or equivalent

SERVING "DISHES AND UTENSILS"

1 NEW cat-litter box

1 NEW cat-litter box liner

1 NEW pooper scooper

1) Prepare and bake cake mixes, according to directions, in any size pan. Prepare pudding and chill. Crumble cookies in small batches in blender or food processor. Add a few drops of green food coloring to 1 cup of cookie crumbs. Mix with a fork or shake in a jar. Set aside.

2) When cakes are at room temperature, crumble them into a large bowl. Toss with half of the remaining cookie crumbs and enough pudding to make the mixture moist but not soggy. Place liner in litter box and pour in mixture.

3) Unwrap 3 Tootsie Rolls and heat in a microwave until soft and pliable. Shape

the blunt ends into slightly curved points. Repeat with three more rolls. Bury the rolls decoratively in the cake mixture. Sprinkle remaining white cookie crumbs over the mixture, then scatter green crumbs lightly over top.

4) Heat 5 more Tootsie Rolls until almost melted. Scrape them on top of the cake and sprinkle with crumbs from the litter box. Heat the remaining Tootsie Roll until pliable and hang it over the edge of the box. Place box on a sheet of newspaper and serve with scooper. Enjoy!

"Kitty Litter Cake"

ANY OF YOU WHO HAVE A HALLOWEEN PARTY TO GO TO, THINK ABOUT THIS CAKE.

I KNOW OF SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY MADE IT AND TOOK IT TO WORK. (THEY HAD A GREAT TIME!!)

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Rice Bowl Journals ~ An Asian Online Journal Community

Rice Bowl Journals ~ An Asian Online Journal Community

I don't know how to put a link on to ricebowljournals.com
i just uploaded sunday blog to ricebowl site so have a look.

last night misiu asked me again to tell her stories and always i default to my false memories of vietnam. I told her about the fish and fish fighting, cock fighting etc.
06.17.05fl2i

Light Box

Artist, Photographers & Scrapbookers Light Box.

I am planning to get this for my sister who loves to do scrap booking!

Cool Little Light box that photographers and artist just love...and only $32

They have a cool little light box that seems to be really popular. Photographers use it to view slides and negatives and also will buy two and set the light boxes as background lighting when they want to shoot small objects with a lot of detail (watches or rings, for example). Artists use it to trace pictures. Scrapbookers use it for cutting and drawing shapes.

Yeah I use mine to view slides and do some tracings. It's really handy and safe. So check out suppliesnet.com and the lightbox.
There are also some very good items for drafting tables.

My Amazon wish list

I emailed this list to my wife. I found out what my sister want for Christmas through her list. It's a handy tool. It makes Christmas shopping so easy. I like to edit my list all the time. Amazon is very smart to link up with Xanga blog, then Vox blogs. They are also connected with Squidoo lens. I'm sure they are in more places. There is also this listmania which I've yet to check out.

I want to leave you with a quote:

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
-Thomas Mann.

Dune

Dune
is a very influencial movie. Last night I was watching the SC FI channel. There was a movie call 'Pitch Black'. It starts with Vin Disel. The planet has three suns. Some times the camera is red, other times it's blue. I immediately thought this is a Dune rip off. Vin was locked up in blackness, like a prison. He had to get an operation to see in the dark. Vin plays an escape convict. I didn't finish the movie. So I think it's kinda lame.

Flash Drive

Gift cards are so last year. So what do you give that one person who has everything? How about a thumb drive with their name or business LASER ENGRAVED on the front?

Pexagontech.com is offering incredible deals on custom flash drives with FREE laser engraving. There are no order minimums so you can get just one drive engraved for your nephew to carry around his music files. Or perhaps get a thumb drive for each of your daughters so they can tote around their schoolwork on a keychain. How about that one special teacher who would love a personalized portable device for work and play? Forget the fruitcake, what your uncle really wants this year is his very own, custom miniature hard drive to backup his important data.

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Steak Tarta

The Savvy Traveler
too bad this radio talk show about travel is closed.
I now listen to Rick Steves radio show about travel. Rick talked to a Frenchman about steak Tarta, which is a raw hamburger! I mention this to my wife. She said yes that's what she was trying to describe to me the other day. Tarta is a very special wedding dish. She may ask Waldek's mother to make it for us. On the plate will also be rabbit. It's being aged now in the freezer. It takes two to three weeks to age the rabbit meat.

alain de bottons

luxly

luxly

Newgie

Newgie.com



Newgie.com is a news website that ranks stories based on the interest that other users have shown.

Newgie is a newbie. It's still in it's infancy. The potential for this news site is yet untapped. Of course there is Diggs. Some one has to give Diggs a competition. when there's competition, applications tend to improve. So it's good for all of us.
I gravitated to an article right away after I signed up. It was a USA Today column about Mortgage. It was very easy to save it as my favorite so that I can read it later on. I like this feature alot!

My blog post will include:
1 A brief description of the site and what it does.
2 My opinion about the concept of ranking articles based on user activity
3 My comments about the general look and feel and usability of the site. All Constructive comments are welcome, whether I find something that you like about the site, or SPECIFIC ways that the site can be improved.
I welcome all of your comments.

To answer #2, I like the concept of ranking articles. It allows me to vote for my favorites. It's democratic in a way. However, the people who are better at navigating the internet can influence the readership of an article. A certain population can control the news feed. It's like the bloggers who has a better handle on RSS feeds can get more readership. People are lazy, we tend not to search too deep for quality news or writings. A good book gets more readers only after it's been made into a movie.

To answer #1, I like the categories, and communities feature. After skimming through the article about mortgage, I join the community call 'The Housing Bubble'. The community have saved up numerous articles pertinent to the subject. The site also has a front page which allows me to save the news feeds from major news source. It's very similar to the Homepage, or PageFlakes.

There are now different choice for people to look at news and get information. The more they can control their media the better I belive. The more influence and voting choice we have regarding our news the more interest we will take in the subjects and explore other opinions on the same topic.

Deals Plus

"DealsPl.us is an online social shopping community driven by its users and community. It offers a distinctive place where user can share great bargains gathered from throughout the internet. dealspl.us was founded on the principles of Web 2.0 design philosphy"

well sooner or later some one will come up with this website. It has a similar concept to Digg. Digg is where the people vote on the best stories. Here, Deal Plus, the people vote on the best deals! What a great idea! I wish that I had thought of this. I'll join to check it out. I even like the clever name. DealsPl.us. This names reminds me of Del.icio.us because it uses the spelling and combines the .us for the address.

Cafepress

Cafepress

lex's Goals

lex's Goals

Frank Herbert Biography

testing msn live space

this blog is a test of microsoft's live writer.

http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com

Susan Korman Foundation

http://race.komenoregon.org/site/TR?pg=personal&fr_id=1020&px=1270877

Amie Street

Here's an inovative path to music on Amie Street.
We've been looking for a new mp3 freee down load site. Edonkey free site has been shut down!

An awesome new music website called Amie Street, where all songs start free and rise in price based on their demand among. Amie Street members sign up with no credit card and immediately begin to listen to and download great independence bands.

Amie Street combines the best elements of social networking, online music retail and discovery engines. It’s the destination for independent artists to promote and sell their music, and where fans can explore, recommend and buy that music. Users sign up for free, and immediately begin to discover, sample, buy and download quality independent music. All songs on Amie Street start free and rise in price the more they are purchased. When a member finds a great new song, she can recommend it to her friends and the community and earn credit for more music downloads as the song rises in price.
HOLLA
wWohoo, I got qa holla back from Elliott!
This is Elliott from Amie Street. Would love to talk to you more about Amie Street. Send me a message if you have any other questions.
Thanks Elliott. I checked out Elliott's music and downloaded one song from him. Plus I found MeganPalmer who does acoustic music. Wonderful site... Rock on!
I am really digging her song 'Everyday'.
Look for me: lexly87 on Amie Street.

Writing Strategies

Here are my strategies for keeping a journal. First write in word and save it in my travel drive. I will dedicate one travel drive to the writing project.

Next if it’s worthy, I’ll post it on Wordpress.com because it has the ability to organize post by tags.

I have a Moleskine ruled journal but I only use it if I don’t have a computer near by. I like to use my Sony Vario laptop which has no internet distractions. It is a bare bones word processing typewriter. I have on old edition of Microsoft words. I like to type on the word processor because I find my thought like to jump around and this is the best way for me to edit.

For printing I’ve decided to save everything in the travel drive and then print for the desk top.

One thing about the travel drive, if I need to upgrade to more memory, I hope that if I buy the same brand, I don’t have to install a new driver.

Websites that spurs creative writing:

Luis Urrea and Will Self - fine writer and blogger.

Ramdomaccessmemory. - Writings by random memory

dandelife - Organize your Autobiography in a time line

Crystal Palace

Elegant gifts and collectibles

Christmas time is coming up and we've been looking for unique gifts. In architecture school, I've study the Crystle Palace designed by Paxton.
I'm putting the Eiffle Tower on my wish list. Which is your favorite landmark? These elegant gifts are provocative, at a great price range. This idea would be great for student of architecture. I can admire the Golden Parvillion of Japan, the Taj Mahal. The website is organized into several different typologies and geographic regions. I would like to combine these terms into a geotypologies.

The Crystal Palace miniature landmark souvenir collection has long been the gift of choice for visiting dignitaries and heads of state for years. These miniature landmarks are detailed, nothing else like it.

Halloween

Happy Halloween

d o c t o r f o x g l o v e

d o c t o r f o x g l o v e

LifeKnot - why not?

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• Many activities you won't find anywhere else. Many listed on this PDF.
  
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lifeknot
I like their infinity like logo.
I wonder what mountain that is?

my blogger blog as a graph

www.lexly87.blogspot.com GRAPH

Layout HQ

I have a mySpace but the layout is really boring. I'm looking to spice things up a bit. I like free stuff. There are a rash of new layout applications out there. Here's one that I really like. It's call LayoutHQ.com - Myspace Layouts.
The site has 100% custom myspace layouts created by a part-time graphics artists Jason Sanzone, Todd Dickerson and Ashley Allen. They add 20+ layouts week and will take requests on the site for custom layouts. There are several that I like particularly is the Lambourghini. There's even a Christian Theme layout. These artists are having fun and they got some $k111s (skills-for those of you who are not hip to the leed speek.) I want to find a theme of leed speek. /\/\4d $k111$! Boy isn't that annoying? I hope myspace will be more groovy now!
My favorite right now is the Halloween Jack-o-Lantern. You can change it everyweek to keep things fresh. It's all about customizing. That's your brand, your look and feel of the mySpace. I wish to know more about creating layouts but I can ask these artists to custom design me one. I think that I would want a painting that I did as a custom layout!
LayoutHQ.com - Myspace Layouts

qotd-Can't get you out of my head

what song is stuck in your head?

yes it's tracy chapman and it's from her debut album 'tracy chapman' album cover by matt mahurin one of my fave photographer and also album. i've been trying to learn that fast song car for ages now but not that good yet.

I third the Modest Mouse
and second on beck - like sea change a ton.

Oh Hallow Ground is a scary good album!!

Long december

fables of reconstruction

Sting

Ten Authors

If you are bored, take this list, remove the authors whom you have not read, and replace them with authors that you have read to make ten authors.

Vladimir Nabokov
Henry Miller
Virginia Woolf
Mervyn Peake
Evelyn Waugh
Marcel Proust
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Dorothy Parker
Jane Austen
Colette
Anais Nin

wow this ad sense from google is spooky. I took this list from a blogger at SCAD and there it is the ad appears!
http://www.scad.edu

Set your DVR

most of the CSI spin offs because we are hooked on it!!

Here's what I'll be watching with the wife:

Mon: 10pm CSI Miami CBS

Tue: 8pm House FOX (DVR 8pm NCIS CBS)
8pm Standoff FOX- excellent show
Wed: 8pm Bones FOX
10pm CSI:NY CBS

Thu: 9pm CSI CBS

Fri: 8pm Ghostwhper CBS
Sat:
Sun: 9pm Cold Case CBS
10pm w/o A Trace CBS

Update: Shark is a new favorite! The blonde actress is hot and smart!

My DVR is set to record Medium on Lifetime because it's too late on Sunday to watch it.

for a full list of tv: sytycd.wordpress.com/2006/09/10/tvs-season-...

tags: T.V., CSI

Capote

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  Capote

good movie.
I didn't know that the lady who wrote 'To Kill A Mocking Bird' is Nelles Lee Harper. She was a chain smoker in the movie. I had the book by Gerald Clark but never read it. I'm curious about 'In Cold Blood' and Mocking bird.

Last Friday, we saw 'Black Dahlia' I came from the movie confused. Maybe I'll read the book.

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  The Black Dahlia

Tags:

• movies,
• capote,
• the black dahlia

tfr

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  The Forgetting Room: A Fiction (Byzantium Book)

  Nick Bantock

I got this book from a Goodwill store during Labor day weekend. I like Bantock's combination of word and pictures. some related links: http://www.raincoast.com/feature-barbara-hodgson.html

money and art

http://www.anthonywhite.net

3 rings to rule them all

Prosaic Three Ring Binder

Levenger's Three Ring Binder

Buxton's Three Ring Binder at Staples

dailyplanner.com - 3 ring binder with linen cover

Straight out of comptonline.com - presentation binders

ossi - Italian soft bound for junior 3 ring binders.

unifiedbinders - French Stiched Leather Binders (adsense)

Some related links:

ducly.wordpress.com/tag/papers

keyproductsinc

circa rolla

Circa Rolla

iem - August 20, 2006

I have had this type of notebook since freshman college 1985, and had been frustrated with finding it again until about 5 years ago with Rollabind.com who was bought out by Carl Products. Rollabind makes these high-end notebooks for Levenger. If you are interested in trying out these notebooks in a less expensive they are now being carried at Target with the poly covers for $9.99 for a letter size AND junior size sold together. Staples also carries a cloth covered version in both sizes, sold separately, $9.99 and $5.99, respectively. Staples does not have these out on display, I just happened to look up at their overstock shelves above the notebooks and saw the rollabinder rings sticking out, so you may have to ask if they have them in stock. They are labeled Rolla Notebooks. They are still online at Rollabind.com but have mostly been targeted towards crafters/scrapbookers. If you do end up liking these, the punchers are well worth the price, and they are less expensive online at Rollabind.com.

I have gone to staples and they now have them out on the shelves near by the Blank and Red notebooks. I asked the people in the store and they are clueless. I got the faux brown leather version of Rolla Notebooks.

https://jasonalanmoore.wordpress.com/2006/04/28/my-gtd-implementation/#comment-49

http://kvet.ch/articles/2006/05/04/review-of-levenger-circa-junior-notebook

Ty

I like shopping for ties on internet. I bought one which said it on it’s label “Made expressly for the Society of Colonial Wars”. The tie has a red background with white strip. It looks like a typical club tie. I’ve never really tied a bow tie and have always wanted to try it. I know a collage buddy who will throw out his ties after two or three wears. Women have a thing for dimples, both on men and on the knots of ties. I don’t have a dimple on my face but I can wear a dimple on my ties. My brother-in-law likes the skinny version. Sort of like the early eighties worn by Rick O’ Casek of the Cars.

I remember the springy pastel plaid ties popular during high school and the reign of ‘Miami Vice‘ of Don Johnson ties.

don't blog

http://www.wikihow.com/Dissuade-Yourself-from-Becoming-a-Blogger

October is breast cancer awareness month

October starts off with the Breat Cancer Awareness Month.

• I never thought some one I know would get breast cancer. But my sister was struck with this illness. She's fighting it and doing fine. Thank God. I pray for her and one of the thing I'm greatful for is that she is doing fine.My other sister is walking in Susan Korman Foundation Charity. Check out the link race.komenoregon.org

• Here's another example of a survivor. Her post in http://www.BreastCancerVictory.com is example of a woman's personal story about her experience with breast cancer.

• The Cable television Channel 69 Life Time is showing a movie 'Why I Wear My Lipstick to My Mastectomy'. It's about a woman's journey into BreastCancer treatment.

• My neighborhood Safeway is taking donations of a $1 for three cookies. Chocolate Chips.
• 'Intimations of Morality' by Violet Weingarten is a excellent book
• 'The Road Back To Health' by Neil A. Fiore

Some Related Links:

Utube

Inventionland Video uTube

Inventionland Video - Very cool video of someone drawing. I like uTube. It sounds very similar to one of my favorite bands U2. uTube is a great place to find videos, I spent a few hours perusing Rush videos.

Google Video Sharing - Google is taking over the world! This site allows bloggers to embed videos into their website.

What's in your Fridge? Pocket Sandwich?

I remember listening to a radio show on NPR “Splended Table”. Hm you might wonder why I was listening to such a show, well I was fascinated with MFK Fisher’s writing only through other author’s mentionings such as Raymond Carver. Anyway that’s beside the point. The show has a segment where the caller calls in to challange the host with a problem. The caller looks into his/her fridge and reports what’s in there…usually not much…mustard, old left over hot dogs for example. Well then the host would have to suggest a recipes for the ingredients. RecipeMatcher is a similar idea. You tell it what you have to cook with and it comes up with a wonderful and tasty recipes. Hm…I wonder if the creator of RecipeMatcher was inspired by the “Splended table”

RecipeMatcher.com allows its members to find recipes based on what they have at home. Searches return with recipes ranked by the percentage of ingredients you already have.

So you don’t have to go to the grocery stores which is one of the lesser joys of cooking. The other cool thing about the site is that it’s a Web 2.0 application.

Links: RecipeMatcher

Island

Tropical Vacations allows people to talk about their experiences of cruising to the Carribean islands. This is a cool site for the forum it has. People get together on-line to discuss their misquito bites, the favorite dive sites. I still remember fondly my trip to St. Lucia. I met a couple from Stoney Brook and another awesome couple from Santa Barbara. A family was sailing to another island.

tadao ando

Tadao Ando

http://www.pageflakes.com

http://www.pageflakes.com
a useful free link from adsense

tantra

After watching a dvd movie call "Bliss", my wife and I are interested in Tantric lovemaking. I've found a great website. It's call Tantra.

• Tantra love making concentrates on the union of the male and female.
  
• There arefree content, ebooks, or picture gallery and more.
• You can find techiques for Tantric massage to please your woman.
• You can find great books. I know that I was curious about Tantra after 'Bliss' and the first thing I did was to research my library and book store on the internet.
• Tantra is your best source. They are discret.

tags: Tantra sex

Epson Printers for Photography

Epson inkjet printers
I have two epson printers for my at home use. One is at the studio and the other one is at the computer room. I have gotten great results from printing 8 x 11 of a tulip I photograph from the backyard. Mon requested a copy printed out for her. It was very easy to do and I was amazed at the quality. It looks just like a photographic paper!! It's great to print web pages in color when I need to print from my blog. I like the background color of my blog very much. So I prefer to print from the blog. It looks like an old parchment. The letters are crisp.

wowc woot

2003-09-27

Do you like drunken noodles?

It’s my favorite right now…I could eat so much of it. Oh there was so much carnage in unreal tournament. Jeff had four or five powerful computers hooked up. Mark brought over is hard drive, monitor and the works. I was on Jeff’s Sony laptop which kicks.

I like mining for crystals and refining the land for resources to build my empire on Star Craft. But watch out for the larva Zergs. Kill or bee killed. We stay until five in the morning.

Ahh that was back in the good old days. I didn't have the opportunity play WarCraft with the guys. I got the WC after the gaming group disbanded. I play it for a while and it's very addictive. Now warcraftunderground.com has an amazing newsletters with tips and tricks. My favorite is that you can have a MySpace layout! Woot! I can get improvements on my game! Pull all nighters playing in the game group.

talking plants

http://www.npr.org/programs/talkingplants/features/2003/danh/index.html

http://online.sfsu.edu/~amkerner/ch/binh.htm

Paper

The Rachel Paper Chase Feitish

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  journal

A few of my favorite journals from a collection. The Aspen Paper Chase

• http://www.wanotobira.jp - The Japanese have a feitish about Paper
• I’m practicing the art of Origami
• papersnobbery
• paperbits
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawkexpress
• rollabind.com - Cira
• dailyplanner.com - 3 ring binder
• travelling journals - Travelling journals in which the book actually travel.
• PaperStyle.com

islands in the sun

http://bustamann.blogspot.com/2005/08/islands-in-sun.html

Our IT Lady uses Snagit

The IT Lady at my work uses Snagit to capture screen shots of her computer when she wants to do a Calyx Points Presentation. Calyx Points is a program that we use in the mortgage business to keep the borrower's files. She does some trainings in Points so Snagit is very handy for her to capture screen shots of Point for Presentations. We can see exactly what she's trying to show is on the projector. She has a laptop for the presentation. I didn't know this until I saw her short cut to "Snag it" on her desktop. Then I did a Google search to find out what it is. I've download it and play around with it.

Snagit 8 Screen Capture Software

I really like the product packaging.

Here's the lovely screen shot.
Of course you can also use Snagit for fun. There are several flickr clubs about screen shots.

Drawing is Dangerous

drawing is dangerous

crawl Tiger Balm

Polish Festival

Polish Festival Portland, Oregon is coming up this Saturday. I plan to go with my wife and a few friends.

cornell note taking system

this is a fantastic tip.
I've printed out the pdf page and added my name and company to the sheet which can be use in meeting notes or diary. How do I remove the dates?

http://thepotentialblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/09/cornell-note-taking-system/

http://www.eleven21.com/notetaker

Found this tip via http://patrickrhone.com

Cassandra's Complex

Cassandra's Complex

sillent hill

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  Silent Hill (Widescreen Edition)

god we have been trying to get a copy of silent hill at the local blockbust for like a week now and nothing... the wall full of empty picture tempation!! BB has a monopoly on the recent dvd because they have put out the smaller video stores. i think a pirate version is an alternative at the

The Blue Whale

2003-10-27

Sometimes there would be left over gizzards. When I worked at a convenient store I remember: I remember moping up and getting free soda pop drinks and a movie to watch after work. I usually get off of work at 1 or 12am. Sometimes I would drive the blue whale station wagon to an empty field and look at the star, drink soda pop and drag on a cigarette. I was in high school at the time. It was hard to sell tampons to girls that I know. I can’t believe that they were not embarrass to make that purchase while I was the checking them out. The hardest part was rejecting beers to my under age classmates.

August 30, 2006 Wednesday updated memories:

I remember the blue whale. It is a beast on four wheels. It was my car when I took the drivers exam. On the way home from the DMV, the rusty muffler fell off. I did pass my exam. My father drove the blue whale all over the place. He taught me how to drive in that car. I nearly crashed one time on high way 205 south of Canby. I was looking to my left as I was going forward and not slowing down. Father yelled at me. I had not seen him in fear for a long time. He used to drive that car everywhere. I help him load up the concession stand material for our food booth. We had to set it up at the General Canby Fair Day. He hid a soft pack of Marlborough underneath the driver’s seat. His key chain fob is of the Marlborough Bull. It weight heavy and golden, inlaid with incidental scratch marks gathered from being drop onto concrete or pavements.

We had a fun relationship with transportations. I use to ride behind him on a bicycle. I held on to a bag of soap and we deliver black market goods on bike. Father always wanted to make a business or own a store. In Vietnam, he started his own bicycle repair shop which later evolved into something much bigger. There is a snap shot of his bicycle repair shop. They didn’t have a camera around so each year; Father would hire a photographer to take a portrait. He is a handsome young man, before the eight of us were born. His sister is there. The rims of the wheel hang glimmering in the sun. The circles hang on metal folding door frames.

I know that he wanted a store similar to T-n-T. He always thought that I was lucky to get that job. I think so myself. He wakes me up when I have to open up the store before the morning commute. I sometimes ride the bicycle to work. Sometimes I think he longs for the lost store. But he was always starting a new enterprise and didn’t wallow in the lost of the previous adventure. The communist grazed down my Father’s store. It occurred soon after Saigon became Ho Chi Minh City. The city official wanted to make a park perhaps even a memorial park for the Party. We used to live above the store. I would walk to the artist studio next door to see him draw portraits, black and white death portraits of people. He works from a small wallet size picture that was provided by the commissioning patron. He then scores the photo into a grid. Their charcoal surface haunted my dreams. Next door was a watch repair vendor. He works from a small cart. A glass case surrounded him. I can see a loop propped into his eye socket as he scrutinized the detail gears of a gold watch. Glass bowls cover the spindles like a giant stadium dome. Small gears soaked in Petri dish. All those things are gone now, grazed leveled to the street.

I remember my sister C fell from the hammock and broke her arm. I went to the Herbalist with her. Father had taken her into have her arm repair. The Herbalist painted her arm a stain of yellow which reeked of putrid acrid fume. He adjusted and pull on the joints and then wrapped C’s arm in a cast.

FW: [Sunday] Newport

Jul 24, 2006 at 10:55 AM Mapimage What was the highlight of this past
>weekend?
>July 24,
>St. Helen
>Newport Beach
>July 29, 2006 Saturaday
>Kahneeta
>*Starry Night
>*Sunset hot tub
>*Swim
>Sunday
>*Japanese Garden
>*Rose Garden
>
>--
>Posted by lux to Sunday at 8/24/2006 02:47:50 PM

Ice cream social

Nina says:
tell me what?
Duc Ly says:
ice cream
Duc Ly says:
you want it or i shall eat it
Duc Ly says:
it's starbucks coffee
Nina says:
eat it
Duc Ly says:
we had an ice cream social today which means an ice cream truck came buy to give free ice cream in the parking lot.

Duc Ly says:
okay i'll eat it
Nina says:
ok
Duc Ly says:
yummmm

I got the Starbucks coffee ice cream. Then an hour or so later, I went back for the Hagen Daz dark chocolate.

taxidermist

Keith just came back from a hunting trip. He told me about his kill. He had the meat processor make pepperoni and then the head will be feed to beetles. The process takes three months. The beetles will eat clean the skull of the antelope. This is called a European Mount.