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Just Shelley

Mashed Potatoes

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My Dad was an odd man. He was very macho, and his furniture was all dark and heavy and full of plaid and brass. At the same time, though, he would buy me delicate teacups for a collection he started for me when I was less than one year of […]

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Women and Web 2.0

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have many things to do and it seems or feels little time to do them. This is compounded by some frustration in wanting to get a little of the Fall photography in while I have the opportunity, but this endless summer refuses to end. The only tasks I have […]

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Technology Web

October 5th is Web 1.0 Retro day

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Thanks to zo in my comments and Ken Camp, I was able to find out about the upcoming Web 1.0 conference: Sponsored by 43 Folders and the year 1998, with generous contributions from Adaptive Path, Mule Design, WordPress, Blogger, Flickr, and Central Desktop. We will meet to discuss line breaks, spacer gifs, and the […]

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Writing

In celebration of taste

I’m reading a lovely little book titled Bittersweet Country, edited by Ozarkian author Ellen Gray Massey. It contains the best articles from a periodical named Bittersweet, published by Massey’s English class from the Lebanon, Missouri high school. The magazine focuses on the Ozarks, the culture and the way of life of the early Ozark settlers. The first […]

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Media

Post Serenity

I did go see Serenity tonight. The movie theater is about 1/2 mile from us, and no one was out. We had the stadium seating theater; shared with approximately 20 other people. The seats were excellent and so was the sound, but the film developed a flaw in it for the last ten minutes. Didn’t […]