Fun on the Web Feb 25 2015 Travel

I'm reading the most recent Janet Evanovich book,  "Top Secret Twenty One" where Grandma Mazur makes a bucket list. Do you have a bucket list?

When  I make one, it will revolve around travel. There are so many wonderful places to visit in our world! I talk to everyone. and always ask the locals about their favorite places. Do you have any other suggestions?
http://higherperspective.com/2015/02/astounding-places.html
http://higherperspective.com/2015/02/mysterious-worlds.html
http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-amazing-unique-places-in-the-US-that-are-not-commonly-visited-by-tourists
http://www.quora.com/Which-are-the-10-most-awesome-places-to-visit-in-the-world-out-of-the-mainstream-like-Paris-New-York-London-etc


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Fun on the Web Feb 23 2015 No Trash

Are you trying to be green without using plastic?

At other times in my life I have lived a greener lifestyle but never did I get close to no plastics. I appreciate the idea but the spirit is week and I don't control the shopping now. Here is a girl who is living without trash:
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-16168/i-havent-made-any-trash-in-2-years-heres-what-my-life-is-like.html

and her blog  http://www.trashisfortossers.com/


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Fun on the Web Feb 22 2015 What are McDonald's French Fries Made Of

Come on admit it. Once in a while you have to have some McDonald's French Fries. I know I do. Then I feel guilty.

Do you? Do you wonder what they have in them besides fat and salt? Now you can see how they are made and what goes into the creation of those tasty goodies.
http://firstwefeast.com/eat/mcdonalds-reveals-what-its-french-fries-are-made-of/

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Fun on the Web Feb 21 2015 Brain Games

You'll find quizzes, videos, information boxes and more as you scroll down through the pages. Make sure to try each episode although I had trouble accessing episode one.
http://bg2.nationalgeographic.com/episode/2/


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Fun on the Web Feb 20 2015 Learning to Cut and Paste on iPhone

I am a latecomer into the iPhone world and went kicking and screaming lured by Seri doing things for me, while I drove an average of 750 miles a week. For a long time if Seri didn't do it, then I didn't use the feature.

I am never able to "read" those Dummies Books but I sure find their help useful online where Google can sort it out for me. I learn better when I can write it and then immediately apply the information I have learned. I have cut and pasted on my iPhone previously only by accident.

So now I know:  double tap, use the handles to set the copy area. Paste is just tap on the cursor. How easy is that?

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-cut-copy-and-paste-on-your-iphone-4s.html

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Fun on the Web Feb 19 2015 Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year for me has always meant getting out and sampling the great food the local Chinese restaurants have to offer, but have no fear they usually do that for a week or so. Head to Google (or your favorite search engine) and find out who has those awesome dinner for two, three or more specials in your location. I will be joining a group for a Lion Dance followed by dinner.

This is the most important of Chinese holidays, celebrated by billions of ethnic Chinese around the world. It’s a 15 day celebration ending with the Lantern Festival. Each year is represented by one of twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac. For 2015, it’s the Year of the Sheep or Goat depending on your source. Chinese New Year is one of the holidays based on lunar cycles so it varies from year to year.

Wikipedia has a great chart and article on this topic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year

Previous postings on Chinese New Year
http://funontheweb2012.blogspot.com/2014/01/fun-on-web-jan-31-2014-happy-chinese.html
http://funontheweb2012.blogspot.com/2013/02/chinese-new-year.html
http://funontheweb2012.blogspot.com/2012/01/gung-hay-fat-choy.html


Hmmm this site http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/2015.htm says " The first day of the 2015 Chinese New Year is on February 19, 2015 in China's time zone. This day is a new moon day, and is the first day of the first Chinese lunar month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar system."

Happy Chinese New Year!

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Fun on the Web Feb 18 2015 More Life Hacks

I always find at least one I did not know. How about you?
http://diyhshp.blogspot.com/2011/10/did-you-know.html
http://diyhshp.blogspot.com/2011/12/did-you-know-round-3.html
http://diyhshp.blogspot.com/2012/07/tips-tips-and-more-tips.html


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Fun on the Web Feb 17 2015 Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras is Fat Tuesday in French. I have never been there, but always wanted to go. Not to just  Dallas, Huntsville, Mobile or Galveston where there are lesser celebrations but go to New Orleans aka NOLA for at least a couple of weeks leading up to Mardi Gras.

Carnival is actually an entire season which starts right after Twelfth Night. (The twelve Days of Christmas are from December 25th through January 6th. Twelfth Night, January 6th is Epiphany, the day the wise Men visited the Christ Child.)

This is the season for the winter social season in the south. Balls (some masked),  King Cake Parties (where a tiny baby is hidden inside the cake and the finder holds the next King Cake Party), Parades, Costumes, and Marching Bands are all part of the fun dating back into the 1700's according to written accounts. The first and oldest krewe, the Mystick Krewe of Comus was officially started in 1856.

The French population which was largely Catholic, regards Lent as a somber time that starts at the stroke of midnight on Ash Wednesday but before that as they say "Let the Good Times Roll" or "Laissez les bon temps roulez!"  The Carnival Season ending in Mardi Gras brings people from all over the country.

Although there were some storms and showers yesterday they had warm weather. Today will be cooler but no rain. I guess I would head indoors for great music and great food if the rain broke out or if it got too cold to be outside. I suspect snowbirds would have heavy clothes with them anyway.


Live video feeds
http://www.wwltv.com/videos/news/local/2014/09/09/15371877/
http://videos.nola.com/times-picayune/2015/02/watch_the_entire_endymion_para.html#incart_most-read_mardigras_article

Plenty of places to view online including this first hand viewpoint
http://videos.nola.com/times-picayune/2015/02/watch_the_thoth_parade_from_a.html#incart_maj-story-1

The very interesting history of NOLA and Mardi Gras appears here:
http://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/history.html

Pictures from the 2015 Mayors Ball
http://fox2now.com/2015/02/15/pictures-2015-mardi-gras-mayors-ball/

Pictures from the Krew of Baccus Parade
http://www.nola.com/mardigras/index.ssf/2015/02/mardi_gras_2015_krewe_of_bacch.html

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Fun on the Web Feb 16 2015 Blogging

I am trying to improve my blogging which is causing me to read blog and more blogs. This nifty blog has tips on blogging among other things: http://www.tipjunkie.com/category/blogging-tips/

Watching the classes live or see what is in the catalog. If  I want to make money at this I think I have to develop more and better content not just send you nifty links I find here and there.
https://www.creativelive.com/

This is the women who is teaching the content class that generates so much reading for me.
https://www.facebook.com/aksomitis.classes



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Fun on The Web Feb 15 2015 Printouts

So although this is not how I want to proceed with expanding my blogging I found this site that has amazing printouts for getting organized. Since part of my goals have always been to be better organized and not lose sites I may never find again, I am including them here:
http://diyhshp.blogspot.com/search/label/orgclean
http://diyhshp.blogspot.com/2013/07/ultimate-life-planning-system.html



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Happy Valentines Day

I hope you all had a great Valentines Day! I spent it traveling. Since I got home, I have managed  to eat dinner and I'm still working on unpacking. I was up at 5 am to get ready.

This week it was 80+ at my sister's. Now it is 0, with a Real Feel of -21 at home. What a difference a day makes! I just have to keep in mind that Jimmy the Groundhog said early spring. Just when does that start?

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Fun on the Web Promises

So I said I was going to write my article on travel but this is the reading list for the content class so far. I am having a hard time keeping up with that so those promises are just not being met yet.

Who knew there was so much to writing good content?

Google
http://www.google.ca/analytics/
http://www.google.com/adwords/
http://www.googleguide.com/


Keywords
http://www.wordtracker.com/
http://www.wikihow.com/Find-The-Most-Searched-Keywords

Content Marketing
http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/blog/

Branding
http://aboutpublicrelations.net/ucmckerns3.htm


Mindmaps
http://drichard.org/mindmaps/
http://lifehacker.com/five-best-mind-mapping-tools-476534555


Outlines
http://blog.journalistics.com/2010/use-outlines-to-write-better-faster/


Headlines
http://web.ku.edu/~edit/headproblem.html
http://web.ku.edu/~edit/headgood.html
http://web.ku.edu/~edit/heads.html

Writing leads
http://cubreporters.org/leads.html
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/735/05/

Online writing Lab
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

Transition
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/574/01/

Paper vs screen reading
http://news.yahoo.com/reading-brain-digital-age-science-paper-versus-screens-113000205.html

Better traffic and SEO
http://www.copyblogger.com/cornerstone-pages/

Plain language
http://www.plainlanguage.gov/
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-power-of-simple-words#review

Bad writing
http://centerforplainlanguage.org/wondermark/


Readability Tool
http://read-able.com/
https://readability-score.com/
http://www.officetooltips.com/word/tips/viewing_document_and_readability_statistics.html

Reading Level for WORD 2008
http://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=7505

Passive voice
http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/passive-voice/

Here are some more quizzes:
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/active-passive.html
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/active-passive.html http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_passive1.htm *********************************************************************

Fun on the Web Feb 10 2015 Trip

I am in sunny California helping my sister but it has been busy, busy, busy. We have been eating out a lot. She is doing well but the housekeeper is gone to El Salvador to see her mother who became ill, so there is extra driving, laundry and other things she usually does.

I am trying to keep up with my classes but it's a stretch. Expect my assignment to get posted tomorrow as an article on travel. I have done the mind map and am working on the outline now. I have done the lessons on outlining, plain writing and easy to understand writing, so we'll see.

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Fun on the Web Feb 7 2015 50 Shades of Lego

What a hoot! A Lego trailer for 50 Shades of Grey you must watch.Lego is always fun to play with but if you look Lego has clips that are fun to watch as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7AvZPTT4kU



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Fun on the Web Feb 6 2015 How Fast Do You Read

When I was a kid I developed a lifelong love of reading. I read every day for work and pleasure. I have several books going at any one time: one at work, one in the car in case I need to wait, and one at work for lunch time.

I just took this quiz which said I could read Game of Thrones in 104 days. That is about 25% of time that average reader can do it. It gives a speed per minute and shows how many books you can read based on how much time you commit to reading per day. Check it out:
https://blog.blinkboxbooks.com/how-long-would-it-take-you-to-read-game-of-thrones/



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Fun on the Web Feb 4 2015 Handy Uses

Although you can download the eBook
http://www.instructables.com/id/Unusual-Uses-for-Ordinary-Things/

or go to each one and see not only the originals but more in the comments like this one
http://www.instructables.com/id/13-Unusual-Uses-for-a-Hair-Dryer/


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Fun on the Web Feb 3 2015 Odd Jobs

Have you ever thought about joining a merchant steamer to some exotic location or running away and joining the circus?

Here are some people who did that and more; everything from icicle farmer to ant evolutionary biologist to body painter. "Ordinary people earning paychecks in extraordinary ways...." is how WCAX of Burlington Vermont describes this show. See video clips and read articles about these odd jobs here:
http://www.wcax.com/category/287606/odd-jobs

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Fun on the Web Feb 2 2015 Happy Groundhogs Day

Who saw their shadow? That will be the question most of the day after 7:10 am when we have sunrise. Groundhogs Day is always a day when those of us in the north look forward to finding out if we are having early spring or six more weeks of winter.

Here is a great explanation and history of Groundhogs Day:
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/canada/groundhog-day

Are you a big fan of Punxsutawney Phil? He is the one you most often see on TV and in newspapers. He has had about 39 percent accuracy ever since 1886. Sure enough, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow in Pennsylvania, signaling six more weeks of winter.

This Groundhog has his own club with a Ball on January 30th, events on Jan 31st and February 1st from 8 am to 8 pm range from Art Shows to Wine Tasting, Chain Saw Carving to a Top Hat Decorating Competition, an Amish Quilt Auction to FREE S'Mores. There are events for both kids and adults.
http://www.groundhog.org/

For over 60 years Wisconsin has had their own Groundhog, Jimmy. BTW he is right in his prediction about 80% of the time. Not sure I will be out there having the breakfast buffet but it might be fun. (Yes, in Wisconsin its always about the food.) BTW according to his website...."Jimmy arrived by limo to a well bundled up crowd at Cannery Square! There is nothing quite like the muffled applause of mittened hands! Jimmy did whisper his prediction…. And that is the beginning of a confused prognostication. As the mayor leaned in to hear Jimmy’s message, Jimmy nipped the mayor’s ear! Not serious, but enough to lend confusion to the event! The Mayor said Jimmy told him Early Spring, but since there was not a cloud in the sky… We’re pretty sure he misinterpreted it!"

http://www.groundhogcentral.com/

Jimmy even has a Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/Jimmythegroundhog

Was it Wiarton Willie in Ontario who saw it? In 55 years this has become a full on festival.

http://www.wiartonwilliefestival.com/

Buckeye Chuck is one of two groundhogs in Ohio known for predicting the arrival of spring. A native of Marion, Ohio, Chuck began predicting the arrival of Spring in the 1970s. Although he doesn't have his own website, Wikipedia says he is the Official State Groundhog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckeye_Chuck

Sir Walter Wally from Raleigh, NC
http://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climate/groundhog

Staten Island Chuck in NY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island_Chuck

Malvern Mel and Holtsville Hal disagreed with Staten Island Chuck!
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/groundhog-day-2013-malverne-mel-holtsville-hal-disagree-with-punxsutawney-phil-staten-island-chuck-1.4551277

From near Calgary, Alberta Canada there is Balzac Billy
http://www.balzacbilly.webs.com/

Smith Lake Jake from Birmingham, AL
http://www.birminghamzoo.com/wp-content/themes/zoo/zoonews/zoonews_07_02_01.html

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Fun on the Web Feb 1 2015 Content and Ads

I am taking a class on effective content so I hope my writing improves. There is also a marked improvement in my frequency which I will try to maintain over the long haul. Now it's back to the books for me but for you Pirate Bay is back online where you may just find something to while away your time before the big game.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet-security/11382772/Pirate-Bay-back-online-after-Swedish-raid.html

Why not head over to YouTube for the best of past years Superbowl Ads?
https://www.youtube.com/user/superbowladsman

Check out the present crop of Superbowl Ads:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-all-the-best-2015-super-bowl-ads-before-they-air-on-sunday/


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http://more-blues.blogspot.com/ 2005-2007
http://blues-babys-rants.blogspot.com/ 2003-2004

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