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Standing out in the crowd

by @ Thursday, February 11th, 2010. Filed under Photography, Squidoo, bird and wildlife watching, rant

I just sat down at the computer to try and kill a few minutes before I go feed when I noticed this outside my window: The bird on the right is a Eurasian Ring Necked Dove of which we have so many here that they are shoving the native White Winged Dove right out of [...]

Saturday Sketchbook

by @ Saturday, February 6th, 2010. Filed under Make Money on the Internet, art, not, rant, saturdaysketchbook

I happened to notice a few people doing #saturdaysketchbook on Twitter. If I can remember to do Follow Friday (and I usually do but some Fridays I am in town and away from the computer), and spend Music Monday at Blip.fm (I am trying to limit that since it seems to suck up our bandwidth [...]

Strange Days Indeed

by @ Tuesday, January 19th, 2010. Filed under Photography, Squidoo, bird and wildlife watching, rant, updates, writing

The last week has been quite eventful. First there was the idiot event. Sunday night, January 10th, the Internet suddenly just went off. Since I had just paid for it on the 21st of December, we thought maybe there was some sort of problem at the service. Finally on Wednesday we were able to find [...]

What a sweet response

by @ Friday, January 8th, 2010. Filed under rant

This is the email I got back from the organization that stole my article. On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Aaron Turpen wrote: I’ve removed the article from the site. I honestly didn’t think it would be a big deal and I gave full attribution with a link-back (which is likely the only [...]

Things I did not need today

by @ Thursday, January 7th, 2010. Tags:
Filed under rant

I did not need to open my email to discover a “pingback” to the article about Hoarders on this blog. I especially did not need to follow the link and discover my copyrighted article used without any permission or a request for permission on a blog FOR ANIMAL RESCUE ORGANIZATION. Needless to say, had they [...]

Hoarders – a pet peeve

by @ Monday, December 21st, 2009. Tags: , ,
Filed under Squidoo, rant, writing

For starters, let me admit that I do not like reality shows of any kind.  The only ones I ever enjoyed was cops – and that has more to do with my fascination with crime and law enforcement than love of “reality” shows.  Most of them portray a warped negative reality that has little or [...]

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