~The Catch-All Drawer~

Thursday, January 29, 2004

A little poetry fun.
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I kinda doubt it, but this first one is supposed to be Ogden Nash,
according to the trustworthy unknown website where I found it:

There was a young lady called Harris,
That nothing could ever embarrass;
___Till the bath-salts one day
___ In the tub where she lay
Turned out to be plaster of Paris.

This one I wrote, plagiarizing from a saucy one. I just liked using the last word:

An inventive young fellow named Lodge
Had a pantry installed in his Dodge.
___When he got in the mood,
___He could have his fast food,
Without even leaving his grodge.

Ogden Nash I will never be, but it is fun to mangle words, especially about personal experiences:

When calling for toll free assistance
To get help he still had a littlechance
___Told "hold" in four languages
___He sent out for sanduages
The gent had amazing persistance.

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Monday, January 26, 2004

American Accents
I enjoyed listening to the stream of americanisms on this website. Aren't you glad you don't have to LEARN our English??

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Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Inbound Link Check
With this link you can search the blog world and see who is linking to your blog or website. News: Only my immediate blogfamily in my case. Technorati: Link Cosmos Also some interesting techie stuff on this site.

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Saturday, January 17, 2004

What to Do If You Are Ripped Off Online
Here is a page with some great resource links: Online Fraud Resource Center. If you have problems on line, mainly on auctions like ebay, or identity theft or whatever. . . Who ya gonna call? Click here to feel like you are doing something about it.

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Thursday, January 15, 2004

Old Time Music
You can find all sorts of interesting CDs and music from the past at this wonderful online store, Venerable Music.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Supercalifragilisticexpialagoogle
Google interprets certain things you type in as data to evaluate, not mere search criterea. I have used the calculator feature, 5*2 etc., but it is tricky to use, doesn't really do it for me, but they keep trying. Here are some nifty new ones they just announced:

Area Code Information. Enter a U.S. telephone area code into a Google search box (e.g. 760), and results feature a thumbnail map naming the geographic region at the top of the results page.

Universal Product Codes. Want information about a specific product? Enter its Universal Product Code (UPC), the number on the bottom of a bar code displayed on product packaging into the Google search box (e.g.: 074101420241). If the product can be found, results include a link to the UPC Database for more information.

Flight Tracking. Enter an airline name or code and a flight number (e.g.: UA 44)and you'll get two links to flight information, from Travelocity and fboweb.com. This feature works well and is robust, accepting variations on the example above such as "united 44" and "ual 44", two other ways of referring to United Airlines.

Vehicle ID Numbers. Enter a Vehicle ID number (VIN) (e.g. JM1BJ225431140254) returns a link from carfax.com for a page with more information about the year, make and model of a specific car.

U.S. Postal Service Tracking Numbers. USPS tracking numbers generate a direct link to the USPS website with information about the shipping status of a package.



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Thursday, January 08, 2004

Trains
Do you ever miss standing by the old trestle, watching trains go by? Well, now the internet can help you re-create that wonderful feeling!

This website is in Japanese, but it's not necessary to speak Japanese to enjoy its strange and wonderful charm.

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Tuesday, January 06, 2004

Public Domain Poetry
You can find a lot of poetry (including Ogden Nash) at Poet's Corner. They state that everything there is old enough to be in the public domain, so I think you are safe quoting Ogden. Here is a large collection of his work.

One of my favorites is "The Wasp"

The wasp and all his numerous family
I look upon as a major calamity.
He throws open his nest with prodigality,
But I distrust his waspitality.

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Life found on Mars
Click here to see the alien,


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Ogden Nash
The camel has a single hump
The dromedary two
Or else the other way around
I'm never sure, are you?

Man, I love quick and funny little poems like this. Instead of warm fuzzies, why am I thinking the following: Are poems like this in the public domain? Can I just use a poem like this on a website technically and legally? hmmm I wouldn't get in trouble if I recited it out loud, so why should I worry about writing it down? And after all, I did attribute it to good old Ogden. hmmmm

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Monday, January 05, 2004

Look ma! No Keyboard!
I referenced a virtual monitor a few blogs ago - well here is an almost released virtual keyboard to match. Just beams it onto the desk and a laser scopes out your finger movements. This technology is really here, not like the monitor, and supposedly has "similar response to a real keyboard" they say, but that is bunk, because the mechanical feedback and pressure of a keyboard, and the click or lack of click have always been important to keyboard quality. Nevertheless, it would be maintenance free, coffee spills would not hurt it, and other devices besides computers come to mind as well. PDAs, game stations, cell phones(?) and people might even accept those tablet computers if they had a virtual keyboard.

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Thursday, January 01, 2004

Comet Catcher Moves Into Position
This is a really interesting space project. Comet Catcher was launched in 1999 that is in position to sample comet dust tomorrow afternoon! On the far side of the sun! At 13 thousand miles per hour relative to the dust! I just have to use these exclamation points for this!!! It transmitts video of the comet for ten hours, then packs up the samples for the trip back to earth - Utah, to be exact, January 15, 2006 at 5 a.m.!!!!

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A little poetry fun.
American Accents
Inbound Link Check
What to Do If You Are Ripped Off Online
Old Time Music
Supercalifragilisticexpialagoogle
Trains
Public Domain Poetry
Life found on Mars
Ogden Nash
Look ma! No Keyboard!
Comet Catcher Moves Into Position