Vancouver, here I come....

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Originally uploaded by jewly1

Okay, so the summer Olympics just ended and we all had a bit of Olympic fever for a few weeks. Good news: the winter games in 2010 are only 18 months away! I had fun playing with Flickr to create this futuristic magazine cover.

I find it amazing that it is so easy to create something like this today, when not that many years ago this would have been a very complicated, time consuming and expensive task.

Skate for Hope

Skate for Hope
Originally uploaded by jewly1

This Saturday my daughter will be participating in the 5th annual Skate for Hope at Nationwide Arena. A $15 ticket will let you see over 100 local skaters and several Olympic and National Champions. All proceeds go to breast cancer research, and each skater has raised at least $350 to participate. This is a great cause, and the local skaters involved have a great time performing in Nationwide Arena and meeting the stars.

Visit the website at www.skateforhope.org for more info.

A little help from Technology

Okay, so I've decided to use technology to update my blog. How much easier could it be than to subscribe to Merriam-Webster's word of the day and cut and paste from the email? After all, it was pretty tedious to open the dictionary every day or so and type in the definition...

Today's word is trepidation:
Meaning
: timorous uncertain agitation : apprehension

Lifelong learning

For me, the hardest of the 7 1/2 habits of lifelong learners is certainly the first one, begin with an end in mind. Frequently my learning is connected to my interests. If something catches my interest, I am likely to seek more knowledge about it. However, a clear end is not always in sight, and I may wander from my original idea or it may turn into something completely different.

The easiest for me is using technology to my advantage. I think it is fascinating that at 3 in the morning if you suddenly want to know more about the life cycle of a flea, a quick google search will put more information that you ever wanted to know at your fingertips.

Today's random word is circulation:

1: orderly movement through a circuit; especially : the movement of blood through the vessels of the body induced by the pumping action of the heart2: flow3 a: passage or transmission from person to person or place to place; especially : the interchange of currency b: the extent of dissemination: as (1): the average number of copies of a publication sold over a given period (2): the total number of items borrowed from a library


Hmmm...what a fitting word for a library employee!

Quiet, please!

Today's word is:

tacet - to be silent - used as a direction in music for a part to be silent through a movement or a section.

August 15, 2008

Here is my blog, with a random word of the day from Webster's Third New International Dictionary.


Today's word:


kinkaider - a settler on free land in Nebraska under terms of the Kinkaid Act in 1904 which allowed each bona fide settler 640 acres upon payment of a filing fee of 14 dollars.