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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.

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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.
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johnlscott.com/PropertyDetail
jade
amyyang

Tips for Tax time:
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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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