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Well..folks always tell me I don’t sound southern

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland

“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.

The South
The West
The Inland North
The Northeast
Philadelphia
Boston
North Central
What American accent do you have?
Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

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Gas Temperature Map – A great way to share and display data

I would have loved to have done something like this when I worked at the energy museum. Mapping the current fuel prices and then color coding their “Temperatures” to see the trends around the country.

USA National Gas Temperature Map

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I just needed another survey


What Your Taste in Music Says About You


Your musical tastes are energetic and rhythmic.

You are full of energy and can be quite talkative.

You are forward thinking and open minded.

You despise conservatism of any sort.

You are intense, detail oriented, and motivated.

You are an ambitious person, though your ambition is anything but conventional.

What Does Your Taste in Music Say About You?

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Resizing the Newspaper: Are we seeing history in the making?

Banksy is toastI was out this weekend getting some coffee and I finally actually saw the newly “shrunk” version of the local paper. They announced this new size a while ago and made the switch about two weeks back but I had not yet seen it.

Amazing what cutting the width by 1.5 inches does. It seems so small..almost cute. But, I am guessing it will be easier to handle (not sure about read – my eyes are older, y’know)] I think I will really like it in a crowded spot like on a plane (which is about the only time I seem to read a paper these days).

I know this is being done for economic reasons as newsprint costs are skyrocketing and I was thinking back
to the really old newspapers from the early days – they were WAY
bigger. I wondered if the size decreases through the years were always from economic reasons. From some quick research (hey, that library science degree comes in handy sometimes), I found that our local paper actually decreased the size in the more recent past than I thought (back in 2003 when they got new presses). So, this kind of major change can be from economics or technology.

Whatever the reason, the change in the paper feels somewhat like history passing me by and I’m a witness to it. The newspaper has been an important part of the daily life of our culture. Pressures from what seem like millions of news channels on television, radio, the intertubes and fill-in-the-media-option-of-your-choice are certainly affecting the newspaper industry (like it has the music industry). I guess I just noticed it this time. So, when a “flagship” of how our society shares information changes, it just feels big.

I know stuff happens every minute of every day and it is also history in the making. But, this seemingly little thing – the change in the size of a newspaper is just a bit more striking. I guess I just had to take notice and add my thoughts about it to my little corner of the web.

Image: ‘in touch with the outside
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POW: Picture of the Week 4

While i want to say that this is my sister’s regular outfit for her work, sadly it is not. I helped her make a short film for her costume shop where she works at the university. This was one scene and I thought she was cute!

(NOTE: I just did a backload of POWs but changed the dates for posting so I didn’t look too much like the slacker I am. Scroll back in time to find them all!)

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Google Doodles – go vote for your favorite

Doodle 4 Google is a competition for K-12 students to re-imagine the Google logo. Now, we could go down that “oh no, not brand identification at such a young age” road..but, let’s face it. “I’ll Google it” is a common sentence now and Google is both noun and verb (and probably adverb, adjective, participle and preposition at this point).

So, it is what it is. Go vote. There are some nice ones!

http://www.google.com/doodle4google/index.html

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Storm Troopin’

One of the funniest photo sets on Flickr!

My favorite of the set.

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POW: Picture of the Week 3

Graduation is not over.

One of our family friends, Haley, also graduated from the four year school in town. So proud.

More cookies!!

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POW: Picture of the Week

Graduation Day!!

The whole reason we do what we do.

I love it. The regalia.

The mace bearer.

The Pomp.

The Circumstance.

The cookies and the punch!!!!

Love it all.

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Techno Karma?

Nos rayaron la pared!!!This has been a delayed post..I thought of it a while back but haven’t taken the time to write it.

I won an award at my school during our annual employee appreciation/awards day. It was a big surprise and I was tickled as you might imagine.

Then, to cap the day off — a bit of techno-karma as I got in my car to drive home

Imagine my surprise when my radio, which had been broken for several months and I have been too lazy to get replaced, suddenly started working again.

It took a second for me to realize as I was driving..hey, that is NPR!! hey, my radio is working again….hey! Cool!

Quinkydink? I think not!

Hmmmmm…..I guess it was just a great day all around!

Image: ‘Modulatio(n)
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