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January 18th, 2007
The source of my green educational Thursday Thirteen this week is Crissy Trask’s It’s Easy Being Green.
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- Biodegradable: The Federal Trade Commission defines “biodegradable” as a substance that has been scientifically proven to break down entirely and return to nature within a reasonably short time after disposal. However, because most detergents and soluble chemicals degrade in wastewater systems, they don’t always completely break down into eco-friendly substances. Read the label carefully to make certain the product is made up of nontoxic, renewable ingredients.
- Cage Free: While this label guarantees that
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Tags: green living, recycle, biodegradable, animal rights, organic, humane, waste, Thursday Thirteen, bloghopping, memes
January 11th, 2007
Today’s Thursday Thirteen is brought to you by the letters W, I, and G, and the numbers 5 and 23.
I found these all in less than seven days. I swear, New Englanders have the most Vanity Plates per square mile. 
Thirteen Things about N. Mallory
- This guy is just “CREWZN.”
- I can only imagine this person is a self-styled “gangsta”. Though, in a Mazda? Probably not very credible.
- This must be a mother.
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Tags: vanity plates, photo blogging, thursday thirteen, meme, bloghopping, license plates, automobiles, cars, parking lot, parking garage, Maine, New England
January 10th, 2007
Thanks to Buttercup, I discovered it’s National Delurking Week. Who knew? And who comes up with these things and when? Inquiring minds want to know, you know.
Anyway!
So what is it? Apparently, it’s the week when all the lurkers out there are finally supposed to own up to the fact that they visit blogs — you know, come out of the virtual blog closet, so to speak. The idea is that if you read a blog and have never actually commented, you’re supposed to leave a
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Tags: National Delurking Week, bloghopping, commenting
January 10th, 2007
Over at Thudfactor, James has talking about how companies are willing to give things away to bloggers who mention them or review them in their blogs.
I don’t mean those payperpost folks that give you some piddling fee to misrepresent yourself and tell everyone you’ve used a product or a website and highly endorse it, heck, you’ll bet your first born’s life on it… (Yes, I checked it out. It made me feel dirty and slimy. I never did see where anyone got anything for free to try when the product cost money to buy
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Tags: bribery, blogging, Adagio tea, Microsoft, Vista, payperpost, free stuff
January 8th, 2007
Random Joy
- After a long day, I like to kick back with…? HGtv, my afghan, and my animals.
- Do you know anyone “famous”/who is the “most famous” person you’ve ever met? I’ve met lots of famous people at sci-fi conventions — actors, writers, and artists. Most seem to be more down to earth at them. Laurell K. Hamilton, Jewell Staite, Ruth Thompson and Timothy Zahn come to mind. Didn’t care for Anne McCaffrey or Claudia Christian at all.
- What is your favourite piece of classical music? - Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
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Tags: Monday\'s a Bitch, meme, bloghopping
January 4th, 2007
My mind works in strange and mysterious ways…
Thirteen Things about N. Mallory
- How often do other people change out the underwear in their underwear drawer? I mean, so they schedule a regular amount of time? Twice a year maybe to go through and throw out all the ratty old underwear they wouldn’t wear on vacation or on a date or in front of their cats and replace them?
- Speaking of underwear, am I the only one who’s ever bought new underwear just so I didn’t have to wash clothes? Or whole new outfits
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, blog meme, meme, bloghopping, WAL-Mart, Target, the puppy, South Park, underwear, The Closer, Monk, Eureka, T.V., Amazon.com, mold, mildew, fibromyalgia, migraines
December 29th, 2006
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So, thinking about my “Things I’d like to do in 2007,” I decided to get a head start.
I took the To Do lists — daily, 2x a week, weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, 2x a year, annually, etc. — and assigned the items dates or days of the weeks. I put them all into my Palm Z22; the to do program has a repeating functionality which allowed me to do all sorts of neat things. I am giving myself permission to go
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, knitting, reading, books, housecleaning
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December 29th, 2006
I’ve seen this meme here and there this month. I can’t recall where now. The idea is to re-print the first sentence of the first post from each month in 2006. With the New Year approaching, this seems like a good time to do so…and I’m curious.
(If the “first post” fell on a “Quote of the Day” or similar, I skipped it to one of my own posts.)
December 27th, 2006
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So this is the time of year when everyone is doing New Year’s Resolutions. I prefer not to do “Resolutions” because they’re generally broken and joked about by the middle of January and forgotten by President’s Day. Then, next January, they’ll be resolved again.
So, instead, I usually try to use the time to reflect and think about the things I’d like to work on in my life, changes, improvements, and so on. I don’t make myself any impossible promises though. I know my limits and I know physics. There’s no way I can lose 60 lbs in 2 months, for example; nor is it likely that I’ll be getting up at 5am any time soon to exercise 3 times a week.
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December 22nd, 2006
It’s enough that the world is filling up with Princesses, Divas, and self-involved Assholes, but why even bother having a blog and inviting people to comment if you’re going to delete all of the comments that disagree with you? If you’re going to do that, could you at least put some sort of warning or disclaimer that only worshipers at your altar should spend time and risk carpal tunnel responding to your every thought, whine, or tribulation?
Tags: pet peeve, bloghopping
December 21st, 2006
(I apologize if some of the pictures are a little dark. I tried to use natural light because the flash washed them out. I’m much better at taking landscape photographs.)
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#1 & #2:
Tigger and
The School House Rock “I’m Just A Bill” ornaments.
(It even plays part of the song!)
#3 & #4:
Scooby Doo (entangled in lights) and
Spiderman (delivering presents) ornaments.
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, bloghopping, blog meme, Christmas, decorations, ornaments
December 14th, 2006
Check out the nifty socks Mac sent me. 
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December 14th, 2006
Today is a Murphy’s Thursday Thirteen.
Thirteen Things about N. Mallory
- I overslept.
- I forgot to take my morning medicines.
- I was out of both fruit and granola when I went to make breakfast.
- When I got in the car to drive to work, I realized I was out of gas.
- When I got to the gas station, I realized I had no purse.
- When I got home to get the purse, I sideswiped my side view mirror on my garage.
- I picked up regular instead of Diet Pepsi at the gas station.
- When I finally got near work, traffic was backed up 1½
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, blog meme, bloghopping
December 8th, 2006
Got this from the Laughing Muse:
- What time is it? Nap time?
- What is your full name? Fnord.
- What are you most afraid of? Dying alone and no one finding my body for weeks.
- What is the most recent movie that you have seen in a theater? Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.
- Have you ever seen a ghost? Yes. Several.
- Where were you born? Columbus, OH.
- Ever been to Alaska? Nope.
- Ever been toilet papering? Nope.
- Loved someone so much it made you cry? Yes.
- Been in a serious car accident? Serious enough to end up on crutches for a week once and sprained my
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December 7th, 2006
I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to read an interesting blog entry and want to comment or join in an on-going comment discussion only to find that you can only comment if you have a Blogger, Google, or Yahoo 360° account. (The worst ones are even more obscure or require registration with the website.)
The absolute last thing I want to do is sign up yet another account where I’m going to have to remember yet another sign-on name and password — because likely my usual sign-on has already been taken and it’s not a good idea to
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Tags: pet peeves, bloghopping, meme, commenting, registration
December 7th, 2006
Feel free to try to convince me to change my mind.
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Gone With The Wind — Though I did read the book. I absolutely couldn’t stand Scarlett or Ashley. I did love Rhett Butler, of course, the rogue. Still, I’m not sitting through a technocolor movie of the story.- Pulp Fiction — Gratuitous violence. Well, I think that’s what it is. That’s what it seems to be from the descriptions I’ve garnered from my male friends who’ve seen it and the commercials. It just seems to glorify violence and after seeing Natural Born Killers in the theater, I can’t stomach that kind of glorification anymore. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Thursday Thirteen, meme, bloghopping, movies
November 30th, 2006
I’m a geek. O.K. I’m a roleplaying geek. Many of my friends are roleplaying geeks. About 15 years ago, we were on this kick where we’d keep track of the really off-the-wall things we said, usually during roleplaying games. Sometimes, the quote was something we overheard somewhere else and repeated because it “sounded” like something we’d say — you know something “geeky cool”. Then if the quotable was worthy enough, I’d have it made into a button at the next sci-fi convention I made it too.
As I was packing to move into my house, I rediscovered my stash
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November 21st, 2006
“I don’t think Jesus likes dodgeball.”
– Baggage
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