Archive: June 2008

A Day in the Life (of my new camera)

Posted by Katja on 29 June 2008 | Permalink
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In anticipation of our trip to Italy this fall, I bought a camera.
I’m not much of a picture taking person (as my children will attest), but maybe I’ll reform.
The camera came, I read the user’s manual, and today I’m trying things out. If you’re a close family member or really have nothing more interesting to [...]

Two Encounters

Posted by Katja on 23 June 2008 | Permalink
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The other day I pulled into a parking space, one of two permit spaces, each with its own access aisle. Another car pulled in next to me at almost the same second. I opened my car door, leaned my seat back. The driver of the other car, a 20-something man, did the same. I pulled [...]

Unread books

Posted by Katja on 15 June 2008 | Permalink
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Stole this idea from Dave Hingsburger: how many of the 106 top unread books from LibraryThings have you read?
Here’s my list (31 of the top 106):

Life of Pi: a novel (one of my kids gave this to me for Christmas a couple of years ago)
The Name of the Rose (got this after I had exhausted [...]

A.G. is in the house

Posted by Katja on 14 June 2008 | Permalink
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I’m two months late noticing, but The Angry Gimp is back and blogging. Good deal.

Overstream - caption your videos!

Posted by Katja on 13 June 2008 | Permalink
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Overstream allows you to caption YouTube, Google Video, MySpace Video, Dailymotion, Veoh and Megavideo videos:

Harriet McBryde Johnson

Posted by Katja on 8 June 2008 | Permalink
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Harriet McBryde Johnson has died.
Hers was a fabulous voice - a Southern voice, a woman’s voice, an advocate’s voice, a sensible voice - for the disabled.
I’m trying to find the first thing I ever read by her - an article about power dressing for an appearance in court. Time to go re-read Too Late to [...]