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!!)

Lux Fiat

Lately it has been stormy at our place. We don't have any flash lights so I'm in the market for some lux.
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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.

Again, there are NO order minimums and absolutely NO setup charge. Custom laser engraving from pexagontech.com is FREE on all Store-It Thumb Drives!

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Store-It Thumb Drives allow you to take your important information and personal data with you wherever you go. Store your digital photos, music files, business documents, and more on an ultra-smaill, Hi-Speed USB flash drive. Easily access and transfer files between multiple computers. Includes security software to password protect your sensitive information.

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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