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Vee
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02-23-2004

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 11:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
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.

Jewels
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09-23-2000

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 1:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jewels a private message Print Post    
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!

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 1:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
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

Vee
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02-23-2004

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 2:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
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!!


Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 3:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
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!

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 4:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
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.

Myjohnhenry
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01-02-2002

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 6:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Myjohnhenry a private message Print Post    

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.



Mak1
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08-12-2002

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 7:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
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.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 4:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
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.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 1:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
The Dialectizer

Jhezzie
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07-05-2001

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 3:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jhezzie a private message Print Post    
http://nyctmc.org/xmanhattan.asp

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 7:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
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.

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 8:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
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.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 8:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Mary, I should throttle you for getting me involved in jigzone. I'm so hooked on it I spend hours doing puzzles! ACK!

Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

Thursday, June 16, 2005 - 4:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cablejockey a private message Print Post    
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.

Sanfranjoshfan
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09-17-2000

Friday, June 17, 2005 - 9:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sanfranjoshfan a private message Print Post    
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

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 8:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
Urban Dictionary

This site cracked me up. Just click the letters to explore if you can't think of something to look up...

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 3:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Coffee Art

Faces Around Us

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 4:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
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!



Cindori
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07-25-2003

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 4:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cindori a private message Print Post    
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.


Serenity
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06-28-2005

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 7:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serenity a private message Print Post    
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!

Cindori
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07-25-2003

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 7:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cindori a private message Print Post    
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.

Serenity
Member

06-28-2005

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 7:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serenity a private message Print Post    
"...thought provoking" -- that's it exactly!

Landi
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07-29-2002

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 8:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
amazing site cindori. just amazing.

Serenity
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06-28-2005

Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 7:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serenity a private message Print Post    
Just found this site that shows the strength of human resolve : Human Resolve


Link fixed (MG)