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POW: PIcture of the Week 15

My grandfather can grow tomatoes like nobody’s business.

My Middle-Earth Name and my IKEA name

Uh oh - I found the Generator blog. Now, I have a ginormous list of fun generators of all kinds o’ useless (and useful) stuff. Reader, beware.

First up, my Middle-Earth Name:
Elven Name Possibilities
The root name suitable for feminine and masculine is:
Dimlain
Another masculine version is:
Dimlainion
More feminine versions are:
Dimlainiel
Dimlainien
Dimlainwen

Adûnaic name
Kildiaz

Then, I had to find out my IKEA furniture name.

Labor Day: Some thoughts on work

So, I spent the United States holiday of Labor Day, designed to honor those who labor, floating in a pool with friends. It was nice, relaxing and sun-burning.
Today, I paid attention to the construction workers that surround my work right now. They are truly laboring. I know I cannot stand the smell and noise but they are with it day and day out and when this job ends, there will be another one (or I hope there is).

I was also thinking about my work and what I do most days. My first “real” job was selling popcorn at the local movie theatre. A job that still exists.

My current job, supporting faculty in their use of technology in teaching at a community college, did not exist then. In fact, it didn’t exist when I graduated from undergraduate school. I wonder how many jobs didn’t exist then?

A quick visit to monster.com revealed even catagories of jobs that didn’t exist back when I was pushing popcorn:

• User Interface
• Information Architecture
• Web Development

And the job titles are just great fun:

• ASP Developer
• Voice User Interface Designers
• Emerging Technology Lead

There are also gurus and evangelists in the techno-world now.

It is an interesting time to labor and I celebrate all who labor, with their body or their mind or both.

olympic rings

Why didn’t I think of the best comment on Flickr for this photo?

It’s “pop” art!!!

Awesome.

I’m not gone..I promise

I know my posts are getting farther and farther apart. I am sorry about that…for me and for my three readers.

I have just been a little overwhelmed with getting things done at home and work. Then, that little thing called the Olympics takes over my spare time.

I’ll be back soon…I promise.

What Olympic Sport are you?

I like this one…Thanks to Mary N for sharing this survey.

You Are Kayaking

You have a competitive spirit, but you don’t like to compete alone. You do well in a partnership, where you can feed off the other person’s energy. If you have the right partner, nothing can stop you. Your energy is infinite!

080808 - the day is special for so many reason

Yes, I posted my photo to the Flickr 888 group. Yes, I thought of all my friends and family at 8:08 this morning. AND…the Olympics start.

Plus, I just read a post in the Flickr group that made me stop and think. We only have FOUR more days like this..through 2012. Wow..I know they always fascinate me as do the days like 6/7/89 and so forth. But, wow..only 4 more in my lifetime? Let’s see…in 15 years, we will have the entire month of January be 1/23..that will do!

Okay..back to the Olympics.

POW: PIcture of the Week 14

This week it is actually a movie from a Flip camera..which is a fun thing to play with.

888- 24 hours of Flickr

Right up my alley - I’ll definitely be posting to this group next Friday. And, the Olympics start…what a day!!

A most auspicious day! « Flickr Blog

Testing my new ipod touch WP application

If you are reading this then the app works!!