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Joseph and I took in another round of archery with the Woodley Park Archers today in the Sepulveda Basin this morning.
As I was leaving for client calls this morning, I pulled out of the driveway and right into this. One of the advantages of always carrying a camera with you, is you can catch things like this lovely double rainbow. What is funny, I didn't realize it was a double until I loaded the picture on my computer.
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Doug's Neat Friends is a new concept I wanted to try out using the Seesmic.com Video Chat/Conversation service. On Seesmic you can make a video post and other members can reply and then you reply..and so on. Since I have so many neat friends, I wanted to bring them into the conversation and share their knowledge and information with everyone on Seesmic and, also here on the blog.
My wife picked up this book as part of her Ph.D studies and I was immediately was drawn into the world leading up to Abraham Lincoln's nomination for president. The book details Lincoln's often-ignored life before the presidency. He was and adept politician who actively campaigned for the nomination in 1860 despite better know and better financed rivals, including Salmon P. Chase, William H. Seward and Edward Bates.
Douglas speaks on New Media during the founding meeting of StrikeTV: Adventures in New Media at the WGA Theater on January 9, 2008.After posting the note and video about The Dangerous Book for Boys yesterday, I saw this conversation in The Greenhouse, the community site for Gardenfork.tv.
Learning to DIY
...I discovered things like how flamable terpentine really is. How small engines worked. How to dismantle a bike. What bearings were, and why you needed them. Why you don't throw an "empty" can of OFF! into a campfire. How to pull the deck off of a riding lawnmower and use is as an off rad vehicle. How to cut wood to make a fort. How to build rockets. How to fire a gun. And many more skills that I treasure now.
I can't tell you how many things I've been able to fix around my house without involving an expensive repairman because I took a tape recorder apart or sat in the basement for a couple of hours watching the furnace fire up, move hot air through the house, then shut down when I was 11....
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I'm interested to know anyone elses thoughts on this. Here is the video:
(Via Forum - The Greenhouse.)
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Gonn Iggulden
I am trying to walk more since about mid-December in an effort to get some of my weight off. We used to have a route that was almost exactly one mile, but now I find that I have worked up to being able to do 2 miles with about the same amount of effort. This has caused me to expand my routes to check out parts of the neighborhood I don't normally see.Receive each new episode and blog post automatically
