Yummy ’80s Keyboard Goodness

The Hubby arrived this afternoon from the long drive from Kansas, after spending Christmas with his dad, stepmom, and stepbrother.  Among the various gifts he arrived with, one was his old Casiotone MT-46 keyboard, that the Hubby had when he was eleven years old.  His dad had been keeping the '80s antique all of this …

RIP: Geocities, 10/26/2009

I knew it was coming, but I never had the time to download all of those little leftover files (like photos) on my free Geocities page that I've had since 1997. I've been using my free site as a web-based storage space, throwing .jpg's on there every once and awhile.  Until I started using WordPress' …

Nearly Forgot! Today’s the National Day on Writing!

Here it is, less than a couple of hours away from midnight, and I durn near FORGOT that today, October 20, is the National Day on Writing. Considering my workload, my forgetfulness would be excusable except that 1) I'm a member of NCTE, the non-profit that organized and championed the National Day on Writing, and …

The Quick Fix

Another "Why I love the Internet" discoveries lately has been ABC News' The Quick Fix, like this one about the word "like".  They're informal video blogs by a handful of correspondents on the ABC News staff, and I like them lots. Every once in a while, I think, "What if I had accepted SMU's offer …

Questionable Content, Yo!

I don't usually follow Questionable Content (one of the webcomix that the Hubby reads).  But the "Rime Of the English Major" was too funny to pass up. I never worked at McDonald's, but I was a Lemon Chill/Popcorn/Ice Water Relief Girl at a low-grade, now-defunct amusement park for one summer when I was an undergrad.  ::shiver::