Beeker’s Words

I appreciate comments! I decided to give back to the people who read my blog and to offer an incentive to leave a comment. You should notice the shiny new top commentators widget on the left side bar. It is currently set to reset each month. I think recognition should be relevant to the moment. [...]

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My husband and I like interesting conversation and debate. So I decided to dedicate this list to naming the thirteen non-religious, English speaking (Sorry, we aren’t fluent in any other language.) but dead individuals whom we would like to invite to a dinner party.  Who would you add to the list?
1. Adam Smith
2. Milton [...]

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So my husband was speechless when I gave him the grand total for saving our cat Kirby. (Whom, we affectionately call Infiniti G37.) $3019.85
This is Kirby lounging in the laundry basket today.

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The following is an excerpt of the Op/Ed piece by Gregory Rodriguez of the Los Angeles Times about the website Stuff White People Like:
“By “white people,” Lander doesn’t actually mean the more than 221 million Americans who check that box on the decennial census. But that’s part of the fun. Lander is doing to whites [...]

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We had a little snow storm on Friday. Today was the first day I felt like going out to the store. People around here take their storm preparation seriously. The two stores closest to me were down to sesame seed bread, milk that expired tomorrow, cheap toilet paper (We like the super soft and thick [...]

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The Katrina Cottages were mentioned in the NYT a few times over the past few years and I have fantasized about them since. Katrina Cottages are small, permanent dwellings that Andres Duany developed as an alternative to the FEMA trailer.  After Katrina, people needed a quick, inexpensive way to rebuild. Duany designed various floor plans [...]

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My favorite 13 Romantic Movies for Thirteen Thursday.
1. Four Weddings and a Funeral
2. Princess Bride
3. Moonstruck
4. The English Patient
5. Bull Durham
6. True Romance
7. The Cutting Edge
8. An Officer and a Gentleman
9. Sense and Sensibility
10. Dirty Dancing
11. Sleepless in Seattle
12. Sabrina
13. Sixteen Candles

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I know the book is 1000 places but who has the time or the money to see 1000 places. I have traveled quite a bit but there are still 10 places I would like to see before my expiration date.
1. Moscow, Russia

photo by: Andrei Z
2. The Taj Mahal, India
3. Ayers Rock, Australia
4. Istanbul, Turkey

photo by: [...]

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Note: This blog is not a technical blog, but I just spent a few hours figuring all of this out and I hope someone might find it useful.
I kept seeing Entrecard on a number of sites I visit on the web. I liked the idea of creating a web business card and distributing it so [...]

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In Mrs. Fong’s 9th grade Honor English class, she had us fill out a survey of all our favorite things, current events, predictions etc. at the beginning of the school year. She had the class give her the surveys in self addressed, stamped envelopes and promised she would mail them to us a year later. [...]

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