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November 22, 2014

Smiles Sent Saturday~Thanksgiving Care Package~November 22, 2014

My cousin is currently serving in the armed forces, so I sent him a care package for Thanksgiving (which is not only my favorite holiday, but also the one I find hardest to not be with family).  I had been seeing about decorating the inside of the box, so decided to give it a try.  I got some colored paper , old magazines, ads, and catalogs to try to line it with.  I just picked the pictures I liked the look of, and cut them down to the size to fit/show well. I used glue sticks (although I think I may try something else next time, but it did okay)  to attach them.  The top edges I used washi tape to edge the tops to secure it, but it also gave a nice finishing touch.  Then, as they didn't reach the bottom on all sides I lined the bottom with yellow printer pages held in place with packing tape.  It looked better, and was easier to do than I expected!

I filed it with a container of pumpkin cookies from a recipe I found among some of my great-grandmother's recipes that he'd liked before.  A copy of a card game I'd gotten and liked earlier this year.  Then went to the store and tried to find items that mirrored a Thanksgiving dinner:

To topped it off with a card I made from an image I found at 521 Lake Street of a sailor home for Thanksgiving that I thought was just too cool

If you'd like toe see the Thanksgiving box I sent a couple years ago, my mom blogged about it with photos here:  Shoe Boxes for Sailors: Thanksgiving Dinner in a Shoe Box

The name “Smiles Sent Saturday” denotes my hope these things I mailed cause the people who receive them to smile.

November 6, 2014

Military Envelope

I was getting some Veterans Day cards together to send to some family and friends and was trying to figure out how to decorate the envelopes (if at all).  While the image on one of the cards included dog tags, and it hit me that would be a GREAT decoration to use, so I got on Microsoft Office Publisher and made this template from some shapes:

Dog tag template Then I just printed it off, traced it with a pencil, and went over it with a silver marker, and added some dots for the chain and this is how it turned out:

Dog Tag Envelope


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Professor of Paleobiology

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  • History of Human Impacts on Shallow Marine Ecosystems
  • Evolution of Ocean Ecosystem Structure
  • Dynamics of Warm Climates from Ocean Drilling
  • Evolution and Biogeography of Marine Plankton
  • Processes of Extinction and Speciation in the Oceans

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  • Ph.D., Harvard University

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Tell her she's crazy.

Had a short, low-key Directed Study meeting today. It was ten minutes long: five minutes about reading about Rubens and five minutes about the debate last night. Once again I was urged to vote and to vote for Obama because no one in their right mind would vote for John McCain. So I told him my sister was voting for McCain. To which he replied, "Are you close to her? Can you change her mind?"

And my favorite:

"Call your sister. Tell her she's crazy!"

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Sound Of Philadelphia Studio Survives Fire,

Sound Of Philadelphia Studio Survives Fire

But the rest of the place is in bad shape.
 Sad news...from right here in Philly.    All of that memorabilia is probably gone for good. At least the master tapes are safe. The "arsonist"(allegedly) is such an idiot, he started the fire(allegedly) while he was still IN the building. Maybe he was a disgruntled, dyslexic rapper who couldn't rhyme. We've got plenty of those here.

By Clive Young.

Philadelphia, PA (February 23, 2010)—A two-alarm fire ripped through the offices of Philadelphia International Records on Sunday morning; the company's studio, where acts like The Jacksons, Teddy Pendergrass, Lou Rawls, Patti LaBelle and Chubby Checker recorded classic songs, was relatively unharmed.

The Broad Street offices and studio have been the working home to producers/songwriters Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff since the early 1970s. There, they recorded countless soulful singles that came to be known as The Sound of Philadelphia, generating more than 100 Gold and Platinum records and over 70 #1 hits, including “Love Train” by the O’Jays, “Me & Mrs. Jones” (Billy Paul), “If You Don’t Me By Now” (Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes) and “Enjoy Yourself” by the Jacksons. Prior to the PIR era, the facility was the home of the Cameo-Parkway record label, where Chubby Checker recorded “The Twist.”

The building was “severely damaged” according to PIR publicist Randy Alexander, who noted that police have found the blaze “suspicious;” an official ruling may come later today. Both Gamble and Huff were in New York City at the time of the fire.

When firefighters arrived Sunday morning, they had to rescue a man from a third-floor window; the floor houses the studio, offices and a merchandise storage room, where the fire broke out. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the man’s name has not been released to the public, and while no charges have been filed against him, he was reportedly “uncooperative” during police interviews as to why he was in the building.

According to Chuck Gamble, executive vice president of Philadelphia International Records and nephew of the songwriter, roughly 40 percent of the offices’ memorabilia, including photographs and gold and platinum record awards, is still unaccounted for; he told the paper, “It was dark in there, so at this point, we just don't know where they are. They could have been knocked off the walls or were melted."

The studio, however, was untouched by the fire, even including the original orange shag carpet covering the walls. Other than smoke damage, the recording facility reportedly appears to have survived the fire intact.

As a sign of the times, however, the studio isn’t PIR’s main revenue source these days; most of the company's work centers around licensing and marketing of its back catalog. The majority of PIR’s reported 10,000 master tapes were kept off-site.

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  1. That's bad news. I'm a sucker for the Philly soul stuff. In the late 70s, my father would occasionally drag home a batch of random LPs that he'd scoop from the local discount department store for a couple of bucks. Going through them to find anything decent was like panning for gold, but I did find some Spinners, O'Jays and Stylistics records in one batch. It more than made up for the Silver Connection and Barry Manilow II.


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News Stay informed about the latest enterprise technology news and product updates.

ONF launches vendor-neutral SDN certification program

With its SDN certification program, the ONF aims to set a standard for engineers to have a broad, foundational understanding of SDN technology and concepts.

The Open Networking Foundation is launching a vendor-neutral SDN skills certification program.

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) has not yet established the scope of what skills the ONF-Certified SDN Professional (OCSP) Program will verify. That work will begin this week during an invite-only workshop at an ONF Member WorkDays event in Santa Clara, Calif, said Rick Bauer, the ONF's technical program manager. The foundation has invited members and nonmembers -- including representatives from universities -- to meet and discuss what skills the certification will cover.

"It is critical that we have a good landscape for [SDN] certifications," said Brandon Mangold, principal architect for United Airlines. "As I progress in my career I care less and less about certifications, but the reality is that it is the baseline benchmark on which employers will gauge candidates."

What's most important to you in an SDN certification program?

Although the ONF is best known as the steward of the OpenFlow SDN protocol, Bauer said the certification program will not be focused on OpenFlow. "We understand that there is a lot more than OpenFlow within SDN, just as there is a lot more in the ONF than OpenFlow," Bauer said. "We want to make sure we include Network Functions Virtualization, overlays. We want this to be good, well-rounded exposure to SDN, including virtual machines, mininets, Floodlight, SDN migration strategies."

While the ONF certifications will be about more than OpenFlow, the ONF has a distinct vision of SDN that includes the separation of a network's data plane and control plane. Some vendors and their customers disagree with that dogma. Regardless, a vendor-neutral certification that is biased toward the ONF's own vision of SDN will still be valuable, said Eric Hanselman, chief analyst for 451 Research.

"Having a vendor-neutral certification opens the door to an objective and higher-level architectural understanding of what something as complicated as SDN is all about," he said. "The difficulty of this is whose vision of SDN do you wind up implementing. With any certification you have to weigh what that certification conveys. Having a detailed understanding of the ONF environment is certainly completely valid. The ONF has a particular vision. There are all sorts of things they can qualify around that environment."

A number of vendors have already designed certification programs, including Cisco, Brocade, and most recently VMware for its NSX portfolio.

Yet the ONF hopes that vendors will collaborate with it on these certifications, because a foundational SDN certification program should not be vendor-specific, Bauer said.

"I don't think we need a Brocade SDN certification or a Cisco SDN certification," he said. "If someone wants to validate skills on Brocade or Cisco equipment, that's fine. But the core concepts of SDN are all-encompassing and that's what we want to test on."

The ONF's move to start a certification program may be an effort to preempt any actions Cisco's dominant Learning@Cisco business might take to set the standard for SDN skills certification. Cisco has so far announced only one related certification on network programmability.

"It has also been my fear that Cisco would dominate this space," said Mangold, who is CCIE-certified. "I think the certification and training as a marketing extension is probably the biggest reason why Cisco continues to dominate. Up-and-coming technologists who Google how to get an IT job are presented with a matrix of suggested certifications to get their foot in the door. Cisco certifications are still the dominant force in this area. If the industry is going to develop a good pool of SDN/DevOps experts then we are going to need a good platform for certification outside of Cisco."

The OCSP will include two certifications initially. ONF-Certified SDN Engineer will test an engineer's understanding of SDN technology, architecture and deployment. The ONF-Certified SDN Associate will test networking industry sales and marketing professionals on the foundational concepts of SDN. The ONF will offer the exams online in early 2015. Prices will be based on geographies.

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Friday, April 22, 2011

I wonder...

I wonder if people come to my blog with hopes of finding the secrets of an actual bookie. If you do, I'm sorry to disappoint. Really wish I could have helped you on those horse races but that's just not my specialty.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Book Review: Infinity (Chronicles of Nick) by Sherrilyn Kenyon

AHH IT HAS BEEN A SUPER SUPER LONG TIME SINCE I LAST POSTED!!! Shame shame shame on me! I know you guys don't want to hear excuses so I won't make any. But I did finish reading Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon so here is my review!

(From Goodreads)

At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. . .until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity.
Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead.
But before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students are turning into flesh eating zombies. And he’s next on the menu.
As if starting high school isn't hard enough. . .now Nick has to hide his new friends from his mom, his chainsaw from the principal, and keep the zombies and the demon Simi from eating his brains, all without getting grounded or suspended. How in the world is he supposed to do that?

Characters: I thought the characters in this book were pretty cool. Nick was very funny and and snarky. He had a LOT of spunk. His mom I thought was pretty cool and I loved the mysterious characters like Kyrian and Archeron. I do wish the author talked more about them because they were around a lot for the first half of the book but sorta disappeared in the last half :(. That would have given this book major points.

 Plot: I thought the plot was very good! I was surprised and shocked at all the twists in the book. I really wasn't expecting what I got! But  I did not like how almost EVERYTHING was resolved at the end. (Hope that didn't ruin anything.) I wanted some sort of a cliff hanger but there wasn't one :(. The end didn't leave me super pumped for the next book. I also wish the book was more descriptive with the zombies. I mean come on, we need to know more about the zombies than the fact that they were falling apart and smelled like sulfur and rotten eggs! How did they smell like? What noises did they make?

Writing Style: Although I loved Nick's snarkiness, at times it was a bit too much. It irritated me how sometimes he would be talking really country, saying, "My mama ain't raised me to be no fool," back to regular old teenage adolescent talking. I saw what the author was trying to do but it just wasn't working. I thought Nick's analogies were funny and Kenyon did a good job of not overdoing them. I liked the third person point of view because you got to see into many other characters heads but sometimes, the shifting of "minds" wasn't clear. Nick would be talking to one of his friends and the third person would be describing how Nick was feeling but when there was a switch in character, it would happen so abruptly I would have to re-read a the previous sentences to see who's mind I was currently seeing into. (The word "gah" was used so much to convey frustration! WAS THERE NO OTHER WORD TO USE??? Just releasing some frustration >.<)

Verdict: 3/5. Pretty good! There were too many issues I couldn't overlook!


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Man Candy Monday!

It's Monday again, and you know what that means, right?  It's time for some delicious sweetness!  Today's Man Candy is brought to you by a great author, Laurie London.  If you haven't read her Sweetbloods novels, you should.  And if you have, then you are probably just as excited as I am for Jackson's story.  Laurie was so kind as to share a tid-bit of her inspiration for Jackson.  Ladies, meet Tommy Dunn.  Otherwise known as Laurie London's image of Jackson.  Enjoy!

Have a super sexy week!

  1. oh he is a perfect Jackson! What a great way to enjoy Monday

  2. Oh he's perfect.

    Lydia @ Sensual Ride

  3. Thanks for the fabulous man candy. Yummy! I hope you had an awesome weekend!

    Also, I’m a new follower— wonderful blog! Stop by my blog and follow me too? :) http://rachelbrookswrites.blogspot.com/

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March Winds

delightful, fearful, surprising
gentle breeze, forceful gusts

We watch and predict the unpredictable.

I went to the Jersey coast last month. Record warm days for the northeast made for an almost ideal private beach vacation at a popular summer seaside location.

It has been nearly 20 years since I was last here.

So much and so little has changed... mostly me.
 Older eyes see the world differently. Weathered by experience, what still stands after life has blown away the superficial fluff is an appreciation for time and perspective on the temporal.

I notice details that a high school girl was too busy to see, partly because I'm tired... sitting still, I take it in.

After long winter, I breath in the sea air for more than oxygen. I take in life with the currents that the breath of God has blown. Hair tossed in my face made damp by the spray of salt, the mist of ocean caught on wings as heaven skims across the surface of the waters.

"In like a lion,
Out like a lamb"?

"Out like a lamb,
In like a lion."

I can't help but spiritualize everything.
I am spirit filled with Spirit.

Your presence, Lord, is a constantly moving holy wind, stirring within me.

Sometimes soft and quiet,
a gentle whisper to Elijah. (1 Kings 19)
Sometimes roaring and howling,
the thundering voice of the Almighty who questioned Job. (Job 40:9)

Lamb of God, silent to the slaughter
Lion of Judah, coming again

You make "the clouds (your) chariot and ride on the wings of the wind." (Ps. 104:3)

Mighty, Powerful One.
You set the course of my life.
Blow me where You will.

Something in me longs to "mounted the cherubim and fly... and soar on the wings of the wind" with You. (Ps. 18:10)


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Bumpdate: 20 weeks

Hi guys! Today I am 20 weeks pregnant with Baby Tuff :) Most pregnancies are 40 weeks, which means he is halfway to being here :)

I'm definitely feeling bigger this week. Still in regular clothes, but I have been wearing the bella band to give a little more room in some of my tighter pants. And limited on what shirts don't look hoochie mama like.

Still craving hamburgers and hot dogs. And lots of fruit and lemonade this week, which is causing me to question my confidence that this is a boy.

According to my weekly email, during week 19, Baby R was the size of a mango. No real changes for him other than that he's still growing, and is now about 6 inches and 8.5 ounces.

The email also warned of leg cramps, and what do you know, I woke up with a horrible Charlie horse on Sunday night. Luckily that was the only one.

I've been feeling lots of movement this week! Last night I thought I felt it on the outside as well so I had J put his hand on my stomach. He didn''t feel the first couple so I stopped asking, but then after what I thought was a big one, J looked my way with big, surprised eyes.

Now on to weird highlights that probably don't mean much to you, but they do to me:

— Last Friday I had a HORRIBLE day and cried at least three times. Hello, hormones!

— Also on Friday, we decided to order in lunch at work. I'd never ordered from this place, but a baked potato sounded really good so I got one of those, and then added in a burger to round out the meal. Well, the food got here and THEY FORGOT MY BAKED POTATO! My coworkers realized this before I did and a few of them donated a portion of their potato so I could have one, since that's what I was really craving. So sweet.

— This morning, I forgot to put on makeup. I wasn't even running behind, just forgot. Whoops.

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