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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 11:21 am
Thanks for the interesting site, Mak. Twinkie, I believe that snythetic fabrics wick moisture away from the body better than cotton, but why they would choose those bikes (oh, my aching back) I can't imagine.
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 1:10 pm
How fun. I was wondering why our local news here in Portland, OR never picked up on this, but then I looked at the map and they never even came to Portland! They started on the coast and then went south before heading east. They should call it Coast to Coast not Portland to Portland!
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 1:39 pm
The father and the oldest boy rode mountain bikes across part of Europe in 2000. The father is parlaying his adventures into a business. Here's another site with more info on the family, their business, and pictures of their European trip. I was trying to learn how they chose recumbent bikes (my aching back, too!), but he doesn't say, other than that the company is one of their sponsors. I hadn't noticed that, Jewels, and I agree! m2expedition.com
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 2:29 pm
snythetic fabrics? LOL Obviously, they've made some adjustments to their plans. I'm a little concerned that there has been no word since Friday. Yikes!!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 3:25 pm
I found the ad song!! And I have you to thank, Mak! I joined the adtunes site and asked there and someone pointed me in the right direction! Yippee!! Its Son's Gonna Rise by Citizin Cope. I love it! Now I have to find the whole song. Thanks, Mak!
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 4:23 pm
Glad to be of assistance, Twinkie. I'm happy you found it, and that you're so happy about it!! After the rocky-sounding start, I'm a little concerned too, Vee.
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Myjohnhenry
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 6:39 pm
http://www.cdapress.com/articles/2005/03/09/news/news01.txt snipped ".... nifty WizWheelz "recumbent tricycles" that allow distance and speed without the strain on the back...... They found recumbents on the Internet after deciding that mountain bikes would be too uncomfortable for another long journey, and the whole family loves them. "They don't call it 'riding,'" Altman says. "They say you're piloting, because it feels like you're flying. They're really cool. It's hard to have a wreck and you can ride a long way in a day without your backside feeling like it's been through a shooting gallery." Although they won't be riding them on any interstate, Altman says they're more safe than regular bicycles because other drivers don't take them for granted. "Sometimes people just want an excuse to run a bicyclist over," he says. "But with these, they can see you a long ways out and by the time they're finished wondering what they just saw, you've passed them."....." I kept looking for the Portland connection too.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 7:07 pm
Thanks, MJH. I probably would've stumbled upon that eventually. From the sound of the mom's first night's post, I think when you're in hilly country, it isn't like flying anymore.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 4:24 pm
The dad has made a couple more posts, and there are pictures up from 6/6 and 6/8. They're still in mountains, and it is raining day after day. They've hit some snags, but he's very positive. I didn't realize that he will be spending next year in Iraq.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 1:50 pm
The Dialectizer
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Jhezzie
Member
07-05-2001
| Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 3:34 pm
http://nyctmc.org/xmanhattan.asp
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 7:44 pm
Thanks Eeyore. That Dialectizer is awfully funny. I put a couple of phrases in and it was okay but when I put in an actual website, I was LOL. Suggestion: If anyone wants a laugh try copying the URL for one of our TVCH discussion pages (just ctrl C and ctrl v) and let it "translate" our lovely comments.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 8:35 pm
For those of you who have enjoyed jigzone.com in the past, the good news is that it has been updated recently with lots of new puzzles and a much easier to navigate homepage.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 8:44 pm
Mary, I should throttle you for getting me involved in jigzone. I'm so hooked on it I spend hours doing puzzles! ACK!
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Thursday, June 16, 2005 - 4:50 am
Jhezzie, I love being able to watch streets in New York. I'm still in that 'gosh gee whiz' stage where everything on the internet is so amazing.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Friday, June 17, 2005 - 9:15 pm
If you've seen that commercial with Paris Hilton washing a car while wearing a skimpy black swimsuit and eating a hamburger....then you will LOVE this parody! It cracked me up! http://paris.lmi.net/Accolo-rethink-recruiting-QT.mov
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 8:33 am
Urban Dictionary This site cracked me up. Just click the letters to explore if you can't think of something to look up...
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 3:39 pm
Coffee Art Faces Around Us
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 4:10 pm
I woke up in the middle of the night and went downstairs to the bathroom there, and since it was very early in the morning, I checked and sure enough, the paper was here.. so.. I ended up tucked into bed with the paper and The Critter.. and the heading of a column caught my eye.. don't normally read Corky Carroll's surfing column, because, well, I'm not a surfer and he tends to irritate me, but in the heading he refered to Tim Morgon, a singer I loved back in the day when he sang at The Prison of Socrates (LOL) a coffeehouse near the Newport Beach Pier.. so I had to read the column. And I found out that Tim's albums (I had two that I played and played back then) were all on CD. So.. after I finished the paper I grabbed the laptop and went online to the website they mentioned and ordered two.. almost ordered three but the faster shipping kicks in at two and I noticed that if you return and order again, they send you a free CD.. well, heck.. Anyway I like the site CDBABY! and then later today found that they are quick to send the first email and, now I note that they are quick to ship AND, this is what I love.. customer service with a sense of humor! Here's the email I got within the last hour (and about 10 hours after I ordered)
quote: Lynn - Thanks for your order with CD Baby! Shipping Address and order info here Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow. A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing. Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy. We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved 'Bon Voyage!' to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Saturday, June 25th. I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year". We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!! Thank you once again, Derek Sivers, president, CD Baby the little CD store with the best new independent music phone: 1-800-448-6369 email: cdbaby@cdbaby.com http://www.cdbaby.com/
I can't say the prices were great for my particular item, because it is the only place that HAS the items, but this sure made me smile!
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Cindori
Member
07-25-2003
| Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 4:37 am
This website was mentioned in one of my daily e-newsletters. Very interesting. http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ Artist posts secrets on the Internet A Washington-area artist has four boxes of the world's secrets stored in his home and is putting them on the Internet. Warren began his project at Artomatic 2004 in November, handing out 3,000 postcards at the Washington artists gathering that invited people to send him their secrets anonymously. He has also tucked postcards into library books and given stacks of them to bartenders. "It seems like everybody has a secret, and they're all individual and different, but at the same time, there are elements to everyone's secrets that we have in common," Frank Warren told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. "As we share the secrets that keep us separate, we can discover our common humanity." In January, Warren began posting secrets on his Web log, PostSecret.com. Every week, he puts 20 to 30 of the responses he has received from around the world on the site. Warren's own secret is in there somewhere. He sent himself a postcard -- anonymously, of course.
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 7:21 am
Thanks for posting that site Cindori. The humanity that bleeds from it is just incredible. People are much more similar than we give ourselves credit for. Great project!
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Cindori
Member
07-25-2003
| Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 7:33 am
You're quite welcome, Serenity. On the page there's also a link to an article that Frank Warren wrote about his project. He mentions one postcard that said "I steal small things from my friends to keep memories of how much I love them." He asks if makes you want to laugh or cry . . . very poignant. I think it's a fascinating site . . thought provoking, to be sure. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 7:53 am
"...thought provoking" -- that's it exactly!
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 8:27 am
amazing site cindori. just amazing.
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 7:53 pm
Just found this site that shows the strength of human resolve : Human Resolve Link fixed (MG)
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