I am not Myself!

The improper usage of "Myself" is becoming an epidemic. People in high places are using incorrectly and it seems as if it passes, unnoticed.

John and myself repaired the copy machine. (incorrect)
Jane drove Sherry and myself to the movies. (incorrect)
They should read:
John and I repaired the copy machine. (correct)
Jane drove Sherry and me to the movies. (correct)
This problem most often occurs when someone substitutes the singular, first-person reflexive pronoun myself for one of the singular, first person personal pronouns I or me. Be careful!

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Get back on the bus!

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Interesting Use of Twitter

You can follow the LA Fire Department "tweets"

http://twitter.com/LAFD

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Link - Don't Embed

Some good advice re: Copyright Risks in Embedding YouTube Clips.
From the BlogHerald.

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Net Not Neutral, by Comcast

This from Yahoo news today. Comcast blocking some internet traffic. This is all something worth paying attention to.

"To get its acquisition of BellSouth Corp. approved by the Federal Communications Commission, AT&T agreed in late 2006 not to implement such plans or prioritize traffic based on its origin for two and a half years. However, it did not make any commitments not to prioritize traffic based on its type, which is what Comcast is doing.

The FCC's stance on traffic shaping is not clear. A 2005 policy statement says that "consumers are entitled to run applications and services of their choice," but that principle is "subject to reasonable network management." Spokeswoman Mary Diamond would not elaborate." ... read the article.

Some Net Neutrality links:

http://www.savetheinternet.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality

And as usual .. Askaninja says it best!

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Must See.- Visualize.

One of the elements of Thinking Like a Genius (snagged this from Study Guides and Strategies) 2. When Einstein thought through a problem, he always found it necessary to formulate his subject in as many different ways as possible, including using diagrams. He visualized solutions, and believed that words and numbers as such did not play a significant role in his thinking process. ...read the rest

Mind Map It

Get Visual... Found this interesting site with stumbleupon. It's called Visuwords

Enter a word to get a visual dictionary result of it's forms and related concepts.
Hover over each word or concept to reveal the definition. Check it out, play with it.

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Father and Daughter

The song Father and Son by Cat Stevens always "gets" me, as does Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin.

This is nicely done short film... go ahead, take a break and appreciate something creative. I've been thinking that I don't do enough of that, lately.

I just tossed a music CD in the dash on the way home from the airport the other day and realized how long it has been since I've let myself get into some music! Too often I'm listening to some audiobook, or podcast that is wonderfully informative and educational , but doesn't "touch" and inspire the same way.

Funny how memory works better when connected to emotion (and visualization). We may remember where we were when the towers fell, or when Kennedy was shot... Our emotions were engaged.

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The Technical Lie

For years our kids could not figure out why we would LIE to them when they would ask us what time it was.

They would ask the time, we would look at a digital clock that might read 8:13, and we would claim that it was 8:15..... If it was 8:11, we might claim it as 10 after 8. They never said a word about it, for many years.

They just quietly pondered this obvious deception and wondered what our motive might be.

Somewhere along the way we realized that we grew up telling time on analog (dial) clocks and our kids learned to simply read the digits on the display of a digital clock. No need for approximation, just read!

We all had a good howl over this when we figured out what was going on. Our poor confused kids must have thought we were trying to pull a fast one!

What made me think of this is that I was referring to a call going "right to the machine" instead of: "right to voicemail". Well, we haven't had a "machine" answering our calls for quite a while. We don't even "Dial" a number, but the lingo has lingered.

I don't make a Xerox of anything, but there might be some that still do.

Some may say they video "taped" something, but maybe it went to disk or hard drive with no tape involved!

I wonder how long we will Google, or Blog, or use our Blackberries.

I heard an older speaker (not that old, either) refer to the laptop and projector as the "typewriter"... (Yikes!).

I'm amazed how many people don't apply new technologies. I guess it takes us quite a while to dislodge the old methods, including some of the language.

SAFE!

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Originally uploaded by SdPanek

Diggin the Canon 40d ... This one is cropped from a larger image size... I don't have a zoom lens beyond the 28-135 that came with the camera.... So I used the highest res. setting and cropped on the pc.

We did get the macro lens (100mm) and it is a-m-a-z-i-n-g! more on that one, later.

Meth Kills . . . and Worse

This truly is the drug from hell. I'm thankful I don't speak from direct experience on this one. But I've seen the effects. It changes people. It reprograms the brain. one thing, one thought, more meth, more meth... People become aggressive, agitated, paranoid, zombies.

You may have seen the Faces of Meth pictures



I've got neighbors that have the look. They're are tweakers in and out at all hours, the Cops raid the place every month now.... But there are new faces showing up all the time...

Nice teeth.

The scariest part is that this could be the Prom Queen from your high school.... The validectorian, the jock, the prep .... It's not just us "stoners" (speaking for myself, now recovered since 15) that hung out in the back parking lot in high school. This can take your children, your brothers, cousins, aunts, uncles, friends.

If any of this is hitting home? If it hasn't yet, the statistic are not in your favor. This is a life and death issue.

It's clear that we shouldn't let it...hit home, I mean. But, it's also clear that after the very first hit, it's likely to be too late. The statistics on recovery are lousy.
What am I doing about it? Not enough. Let me work on protecting my family first.

Some sites that provide information and help: (there is hope)

• http://meth-kills.com/forum/blogs/
• "What may be most devastating about the drug is its ability to so easily enslave the mind. "

• "When you start to get violent, stop. When you are scrubbing your tub daily, stop. When you realize you havent eaten in a few days, stop. When your body is covered in bumps you created, stop. When you are combing through your carpet for a tiny rock to calm your cravings, stop. When you have no money for anything, not even a soda, stop. When you have hundreds of dead lighters and broken cigar tubes everywhere, stop. When you are evicted and living under a bridge, begging your old employees for scraps of food and spare change, stop. When you know you have hurt all those people who love you, stop" full story
• http://www.parentsstopmeth.org/meth_and_hitler.htm here's a good one!
• http://www.prevent-drug-abuse.com/index2.htm

pray.

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