Thursday, February 28, 2008
Tattoos... How Touching!
At the RSS Luau
After posting a couple of feeds from Hawaiian newspapers (go figure!), I took a walk along the beach to the next cabana: Topix.net. There I did a search for the word "retro", and lo and behold, one of my hits was that of yet another Hawaiian newspaper, the Star Bulletin. I loaded them into the old list of feeds. On Topix, I found that I was able to search phrases in quotes, as may be true of all other rss feed search tools. But with the hits I received from Topix, on some I never could locate the actual link to a feed on the site. And quite by accident, the Topix site automatically provided me with a feed just sitting there on the page for Scottsdale News. I gobbled that one up.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Feeding at the information trough
It sounds pretty fun, though, the way that people have RSS feeds streaming right into their cell phones. Very cool.
If you're interested, here's a link to my bloglines account:
http://www.bloglines.com/public/USERNAME
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
A Different Sort of Surfboard... made of paper
My Little Grass Shack Library in Kealakekua, Hawaii
How did I catalog my library's collection? It was a snap with Library Thing. Here's a link to my little bookstore...
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/kfiske
Enjoy! Remember, in the Hawaiian (and japanese) tradition, please remove shoes upon entering the store. Mahalo for shopping with us.
Hang loose!!
Off to Paradise. AloHA!
Okay, Sherlock (my kitty)... we're off to the big breakers at Makaha!!!
Well, considering my kitty's forlorn plea in that last post, I thought I ought to get movin' on purchasing a ticket to the land of sunshine and waves... Honolulu International Airport!
I utilized the Airline Ticket Generator image generator site to accomplish this. And heck, this plane ticket to Paradise didn't cost me a cent!!
Catnap's over. Wake up, Daddy!!! It's time to "shoot the curl" at North Shore, Oahu!!
This little animation will be most understood by those of us whose lives are ruled by our kitties. :-) I originally spotted this on the blog of my friend, Stream of Consciousness.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
A Whole Lotta Shushing Goin' On - Right Here in River City
Ah, Marion and Harold Hill. What is there left to say about one of the best musical films of all time?
Vacationing on the shores of YouTube was such fun. And what a powerful search engine! Some of my favorite search terms were gumby [over 1500 hits], before they were famous [yielding some interesting surprises] and educational film [featuring some of those great old classroom films to which we all paid such close attention].
Which Way to the Beach?
For all you cats out there who might not have a GPS, here's the latest low tech offering. Who said technology has to be tiny and easy to use? This kitty knows that's not always the case. She lives with one of your coworkers at this great address in the blogosphere: http://upstream-streamoconsciousness.blogspot.com/
Maui Meow-ee
Alo-o-o-o-ha!!! Shall we check out (get it?) another one of our friends from work? Here's Sera de la Sera reading Michener's Hawaii.
It's so nice to relax on the beach with a good blog. And if you have no beach, no waves, and no cool breeze, do what she does... Light a "tropical breeze" scented candle, turn on your "crashing waves" ambient noise cd, and pull up a great blog. http://www.seradelasera.blogspot.com/
Monday, February 4, 2008
Troubled In Paradise
Nancy insisted that I create a trading card for her. And far be it from me to say no to Queen Librarian. So here she is!
I, of course, created this using the Flickr mashup Librarian Trading Card Maker. Fun! I tried out a couple of the other Flickr mashups, but they were finicky and not all of them ran properly. Here's a page with links to several of them http://www.webmonkey.com/06/08/index4a.html