If you are a photographer, or camera happy tourist, here's a site to share your photos and have them show up on the map in the location you visited. Pretty cool!
http://www.panoramio.com/
I found this on Howie's blog. He has a link to his photos. Take a look:
http://photoforyouebaystore.blogspot.com/2008/10/panoramiocom.html
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Blog Pickle - quote - Virginia women
Found on Facebook and so true...but, I'm a little biased.
"Tough girls come from New York, sweet girls, they're from Georgia. But us Virginia girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and all the while making sweet tea, darlin'. And if we have an opinion, you know you're gonna hear it."
-Ashley Judd
"Tough girls come from New York, sweet girls, they're from Georgia. But us Virginia girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and all the while making sweet tea, darlin'. And if we have an opinion, you know you're gonna hear it."
-Ashley Judd
Friday, October 24, 2008
Blog Pickle - Various quotes from email signatures
I keep a few quotes in my iGoogle notes when I find them on email signatures. Here are a few that I've saved up over the last few months:
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
- Martin Luther & Noel Coward -
"Arrogance without humility is a recipe for high-concept irrelevance; humility without arrogance guarantees unending mediocrity." - Clay Shirky -
"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship" - Hellen Keller -
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
- Martin Luther & Noel Coward -
"Arrogance without humility is a recipe for high-concept irrelevance; humility without arrogance guarantees unending mediocrity." - Clay Shirky -
"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship" - Hellen Keller -
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Blog Pickle - overheard in the office
Someone was complaining.
Another said - "Bitter, table for one?"
Another said - "Bitter, table for one?"
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Blog Pickle - quote - response and provocation
"If there is one immutable law of history, it is this:
When the response is out of all proportion to the provocation, look further for the causes than the apparent facts of the matter."
- Page Smith, American historian-
When the response is out of all proportion to the provocation, look further for the causes than the apparent facts of the matter."
- Page Smith, American historian-
Monday, October 20, 2008
Blog Pickle - quote - Freedom
Hopefully I haven't posted this quote before. Since I'm at work I cannot actually access the blog to find out.
At the bottom of an email signature:
"For Those Who Fought For It, Freedom Has A Flavor The Protected Will Never Know"
(Anonymous ... found on ration box at Khe Sanh Vietnam 1968 ... for some ... also called Murphy's Combat Infantryman's Law of Vietnam.)
At the bottom of an email signature:
"For Those Who Fought For It, Freedom Has A Flavor The Protected Will Never Know"
(Anonymous ... found on ration box at Khe Sanh Vietnam 1968 ... for some ... also called Murphy's Combat Infantryman's Law of Vietnam.)
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Blog Pickle - quote - One
I've always loved a quote that is often attributed to Nelson Mandela about the Power of One.
It was actually written by Marianne Williamson and here's an excerpt from the famous passage.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
(A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles", Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3])
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marianne_Williamson
It was actually written by Marianne Williamson and here's an excerpt from the famous passage.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
(A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles", Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3])
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marianne_Williamson
Friday, October 17, 2008
Blog Pickle - quote - faith - update
This is an update to a formal blog pickle.
Here it is:
"Faith is not only a feeling; it is a decision. " - Elder Neil L. Andersen - General Conference - October 2008
http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-947-4,00.html
Here it is:
"Faith is not only a feeling; it is a decision. " - Elder Neil L. Andersen - General Conference - October 2008
http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-947-4,00.html
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Blog Pickle - photography by Pam S.
I've got some friends that are great photographers. One of them recently started a blog to showcase her pictures.
Take a look - http://picturemethis.wordpress.com/
I'm loving that people are sharing their photography online. It is 1.) giving me ideas and 2.) motivating me to take a photography class sometime soon.
Take a look - http://picturemethis.wordpress.com/
I'm loving that people are sharing their photography online. It is 1.) giving me ideas and 2.) motivating me to take a photography class sometime soon.
Blog Pickle - Internet use good for brain?
From BBC website....
Page last updated at 15:00 GMT, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 16:00 UK
Internet use 'good for the brain'
Areas activated by reading a book in the brain of an experienced web user
For middle aged and older people at least, using the internet helps boost brain power, research suggests.
A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulates centres in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning.
The researchers say this might even help to counter-act the age-related physiological changes that cause the brain to slow down.
The study features in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
A simple, everyday task like searching the web appears to enhance brain circuitry in older adults
Professor Gary SmallUniversity of California Los Angeles
As the brain ages, a number of changes occur, including shrinkage and reductions in cell activity, which can impact on performance.
It has long been thought that activities which keep the brain active, such as crossword puzzles, may help minimise the impact - and the latest study suggests that surfing the web can be added to the list.
Web use stimulates much more activity in the same brain
Lead researcher Professor Gary Small said: "The study results are encouraging, that emerging computerized technologies may have physiological effects and potential benefits for middle-aged and older adults.
"Internet searching engages complicated brain activity, which may help exercise and improve brain function."
The latest study was based on 24 volunteers aged between 55 and 76. Half were experienced internet users, the rest were not.
Compared with reading
Each volunteer underwent a brain scan while performing web searches and book-reading tasks.
Both types of task produced evidence of significant activity in regions of the brain controlling language, reading, memory and visual abilities.
However, the web search task produced significant additional activity in separate areas of the brain which control decision-making and complex reasoning - but only in those who were experienced web users.
Brain activity in web newcomers: similar for reading and internet use
The researchers said that compared with simple reading, the internet's wealth of choices requires that people make decisions about what to click on in order to get the relevant information.
However, they suggested that newcomers to the web had not quite grasped the strategies needed to successfully carry out a web search.
Professor Smith said: "A simple, everyday task like searching the web appears to enhance brain circuitry in older adults, demonstrating that our brains are sensitive and can continue to learn as we grow older."
Rebecca Wood, chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, said: "These fascinating findings add to previous research suggesting that middle-aged and older people can reduce their risk of dementia by taking part in regular mentally stimulating activities.
"Older web users - 'silver surfers' - are doing precisely this.
"Frequent social interactions, regular exercise and maintaining a balanced diet can also reduce dementia risk."
Dr Susanne Sorensen, head of research at the Alzheimer's Society, said: "Use it or lose it may well be a positive message to keep people active but there is very little real evidence that keeping the brain exercised with puzzles, games or other activities can promote cognitive health and reduce the risk of dementia."
Page last updated at 15:00 GMT, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 16:00 UK
Internet use 'good for the brain'
Areas activated by reading a book in the brain of an experienced web user
For middle aged and older people at least, using the internet helps boost brain power, research suggests.
A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulates centres in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning.
The researchers say this might even help to counter-act the age-related physiological changes that cause the brain to slow down.
The study features in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
A simple, everyday task like searching the web appears to enhance brain circuitry in older adults
Professor Gary SmallUniversity of California Los Angeles
As the brain ages, a number of changes occur, including shrinkage and reductions in cell activity, which can impact on performance.
It has long been thought that activities which keep the brain active, such as crossword puzzles, may help minimise the impact - and the latest study suggests that surfing the web can be added to the list.
Web use stimulates much more activity in the same brain
Lead researcher Professor Gary Small said: "The study results are encouraging, that emerging computerized technologies may have physiological effects and potential benefits for middle-aged and older adults.
"Internet searching engages complicated brain activity, which may help exercise and improve brain function."
The latest study was based on 24 volunteers aged between 55 and 76. Half were experienced internet users, the rest were not.
Compared with reading
Each volunteer underwent a brain scan while performing web searches and book-reading tasks.
Both types of task produced evidence of significant activity in regions of the brain controlling language, reading, memory and visual abilities.
However, the web search task produced significant additional activity in separate areas of the brain which control decision-making and complex reasoning - but only in those who were experienced web users.
Brain activity in web newcomers: similar for reading and internet use
The researchers said that compared with simple reading, the internet's wealth of choices requires that people make decisions about what to click on in order to get the relevant information.
However, they suggested that newcomers to the web had not quite grasped the strategies needed to successfully carry out a web search.
Professor Smith said: "A simple, everyday task like searching the web appears to enhance brain circuitry in older adults, demonstrating that our brains are sensitive and can continue to learn as we grow older."
Rebecca Wood, chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, said: "These fascinating findings add to previous research suggesting that middle-aged and older people can reduce their risk of dementia by taking part in regular mentally stimulating activities.
"Older web users - 'silver surfers' - are doing precisely this.
"Frequent social interactions, regular exercise and maintaining a balanced diet can also reduce dementia risk."
Dr Susanne Sorensen, head of research at the Alzheimer's Society, said: "Use it or lose it may well be a positive message to keep people active but there is very little real evidence that keeping the brain exercised with puzzles, games or other activities can promote cognitive health and reduce the risk of dementia."
Blog Pickle - quote - Faith
"Just as the capacity to defer gratification is a sign of real maturity, likewise the willingness to wait for deferred explanation is a sign of real faith and of trust spread over time." - Neal A. Maxwell -
(Ensign, May 1985, p. 71)
(Ensign, May 1985, p. 71)
Monday, October 6, 2008
Blog Pickle - run for president
Ok, Erin posted this on her blog and I put my name in it.
http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=370743&altf=Sfcfddb&altl=Dmbsl
http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=370743&altf=Sfcfddb&altl=Dmbsl
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Blog Pickle - blog of deep thoughts and quotes
After I finished my undergrad program I went to Indianapolis for about a year and worked as a substitute teacher and tried to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. Someone I knew was in the training business and invited me to work at his booth at a small ASTD (training and development association) conference.
While at his booth (Franklin Covey booth), I met a guy that not only trained people, but was also a professional motivational speaker for different organizations. I've kept his email since and about once a year keep in touch.
Recently, I invited him to join me on Facebook and I found out he has a blog where he keeps some of his personal thoughts as well as his thoughts about quotes from famous people.
I think I'll start following this - http://www.wisdomeverywhere.blogspot.com/ - going forward.
I was especially pleased to see that he knew about this book that I love - Notes to Myself by Hugh Prather.
While at his booth (Franklin Covey booth), I met a guy that not only trained people, but was also a professional motivational speaker for different organizations. I've kept his email since and about once a year keep in touch.
Recently, I invited him to join me on Facebook and I found out he has a blog where he keeps some of his personal thoughts as well as his thoughts about quotes from famous people.
I think I'll start following this - http://www.wisdomeverywhere.blogspot.com/ - going forward.
I was especially pleased to see that he knew about this book that I love - Notes to Myself by Hugh Prather.
Blog Pickels - quote - Faith
From a speaker at the LDS General Conference (will add who quoted it later because I forgot to write that down)
"Faith is not a feeling, but rather a decision."
"Faith is not a feeling, but rather a decision."
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Blog Pickles - quote - Glen Beck
I was watching Glen Beck tonight and he said this:
"Now that we are in the hand basket, let's go to hell together."
Um, I just thought it was a clever play on an old quote and so I looked up the original (the "to hell in a handbasket") to learn a little more.
Here's the link: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hell-in-a-handbasket.html
Here's the explanation from the link below:
Hell in a handbasket
Meaning
'Going to hell in a handbasket' is to be deteriorating - on a course for disaster.
Origin
The transit to hell is conjured up in various terms that use the imagery of swiftness; for example 'hellbent' and 'hell for leather'.
There are one or two theories as to why 'handbasket' was chosen as the preferred vehicle to be conveyed to hell. Handbaskets are, of course, baskets that are carried by hand. Items put in a handbasket are moved without resistance and it could be that the imagery of someone being taken off directly and without choice was in the mind of whoever coined the phrase. Another theory is that it derives from the use of the guillotine and the imagery of decipitated heads being caught in baskets, the casualty presumably going straight to hell, without passing Go. The first use of an alliterative 'in a handbasket' phrase does in fact relate to head rather than hell. In Samuel Sewall's Diary, 1714, we find:
"A committee brought in something about Piscataqua. Govr said he would give his head in a Handbasket as soon as he would pass it."
There's no real evidence to support those theories. 'Going to hell in a handbasket' seems to be just a colourful version of 'going to hell', in the same sense as 'going to the dogs'. The 'in a handbasket' is an alliterative intensifier which gives it a catchy ring. There doesn't appear to be any particular significance to 'handbasket' apart from the alliteration. That view is backed-up by the existence of similar earlier phrases, which, not having the same catchiness, have now disappeared - for example, 'hell in a basket' and 'hell in a wheelbarrow'.
The notion of sinners being literally transported to hell in carts is certainly very old. The mediaeval stained glass windows of Fairford Church in Gloucestershire contain an image of a woman being carried off to purgatory in a wheelbarrow pushed by a blue devil. The phrase isn't that old though and 'going to hell in a handbasket' and its alternative form 'going to hell in a handcart', originated in the US, around the start of the 20th century. The 'handbasket' version is now the more common there, although neither version is widely used in other English-speaking countries.
'Hell in a handcart' is found in print before 'hell in a handbasket'. The earliest citation I can find for that is in The Trenton Times, January 1895:
"Let me tell the gentleman that I am not talking today to men who believe in going to hell in a handcart instead of to heaven supported by truth."
Given the perfectly serviceable phrase 'hell in a handcart', the reason why the handbasket version arose isn't clear. There may be a connection between 'going to hell in a handbasket' and 'basket-case', but that's just speculation.
The currently used 'hell in a handbasket' doesn't appear in print until the 1920s, although it was probably in circulation in the spoken language for some time before that. The earliest example that I've found is from a 'New York Day To Day' column, written by O. O. McIntyre and syndicated to several US newspaper, including the Waterloo Evening Courier, December 1928:
"Not every small town girl, casting her lot in the theatrical world of Broadway, scoots to hell in a handbasket."
Copyright © Gary Martin, 1996 - 2008
"Now that we are in the hand basket, let's go to hell together."
Um, I just thought it was a clever play on an old quote and so I looked up the original (the "to hell in a handbasket") to learn a little more.
Here's the link: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hell-in-a-handbasket.html
Here's the explanation from the link below:
Hell in a handbasket
Meaning
'Going to hell in a handbasket' is to be deteriorating - on a course for disaster.
Origin
The transit to hell is conjured up in various terms that use the imagery of swiftness; for example 'hellbent' and 'hell for leather'.
There are one or two theories as to why 'handbasket' was chosen as the preferred vehicle to be conveyed to hell. Handbaskets are, of course, baskets that are carried by hand. Items put in a handbasket are moved without resistance and it could be that the imagery of someone being taken off directly and without choice was in the mind of whoever coined the phrase. Another theory is that it derives from the use of the guillotine and the imagery of decipitated heads being caught in baskets, the casualty presumably going straight to hell, without passing Go. The first use of an alliterative 'in a handbasket' phrase does in fact relate to head rather than hell. In Samuel Sewall's Diary, 1714, we find:
"A committee brought in something about Piscataqua. Govr said he would give his head in a Handbasket as soon as he would pass it."
There's no real evidence to support those theories. 'Going to hell in a handbasket' seems to be just a colourful version of 'going to hell', in the same sense as 'going to the dogs'. The 'in a handbasket' is an alliterative intensifier which gives it a catchy ring. There doesn't appear to be any particular significance to 'handbasket' apart from the alliteration. That view is backed-up by the existence of similar earlier phrases, which, not having the same catchiness, have now disappeared - for example, 'hell in a basket' and 'hell in a wheelbarrow'.
The notion of sinners being literally transported to hell in carts is certainly very old. The mediaeval stained glass windows of Fairford Church in Gloucestershire contain an image of a woman being carried off to purgatory in a wheelbarrow pushed by a blue devil. The phrase isn't that old though and 'going to hell in a handbasket' and its alternative form 'going to hell in a handcart', originated in the US, around the start of the 20th century. The 'handbasket' version is now the more common there, although neither version is widely used in other English-speaking countries.
'Hell in a handcart' is found in print before 'hell in a handbasket'. The earliest citation I can find for that is in The Trenton Times, January 1895:
"Let me tell the gentleman that I am not talking today to men who believe in going to hell in a handcart instead of to heaven supported by truth."
Given the perfectly serviceable phrase 'hell in a handcart', the reason why the handbasket version arose isn't clear. There may be a connection between 'going to hell in a handbasket' and 'basket-case', but that's just speculation.
The currently used 'hell in a handbasket' doesn't appear in print until the 1920s, although it was probably in circulation in the spoken language for some time before that. The earliest example that I've found is from a 'New York Day To Day' column, written by O. O. McIntyre and syndicated to several US newspaper, including the Waterloo Evening Courier, December 1928:
"Not every small town girl, casting her lot in the theatrical world of Broadway, scoots to hell in a handbasket."
Copyright © Gary Martin, 1996 - 2008
Blog Pickle - quote - knowledge
   “We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.” |
Blog Pickle - 1/2 way
I got a little kick out of this little post - http://sjolsethupdate.blogspot.com/2008/10/12-way.htm
Sometimes lately I've gotten only halfway through something...and not in an ADD kind of way (which is most typical), but it a completely forgot kind of way.
It seems to be associated with STRESS.
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