Egyptian Cat Recipes?

I recently created my own "roll" in Rollyo. Rollyo is a site that allows you to create your own mini-databases. Instead of searching the entire Internet, you can limit it to whatever websites you want. It'll ignore the rest. So I thought I would try it using cat sites. I have a couple of favorite cat sites that I check for kitty health, and I used Yahoo directories to add some more. Since Egypt used to worship cats, I used it for my first search. And what do I get? Eyptian recipes. They all came from a site called wuzzle.org. Apparently Yahoo thinks there's something on this site that's cat related. I couldn't find anything there. Lots and lots of recipes though. I'll know to add it if I ever create a cooking roll.

I don't know what other weird stuff will come up with my roll, but if you'd like to try it, here it is:

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But they won't be available for Christmas

Long-lost 'Furby-like' Primate Discovered In Indonesia



ScienceDaily (2008-11-19) -- Anthropologists have discovered a group of primates not seen alive in 85 years. The pygmy tarsiers, furry Furby-like, or gremlin-looking, creatures about the size of a small mouse and weighing less than two ounces, have not been observed since they were last collected for a museum in 1921. ... > read full article

This supposedly extint animal has been rediscovered. Its no wonder they got lost. If you were only two ounces at adulthood, you'd be pretty hard to find too.

Cute as these little guys are, I hope they don't cause a Furby come-back.

Another Mosaic

Just because I like Mosaics.



1. Kiss from a rose, 3. Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss, 4. Kiss, 5. .. KISS .., 6. 34/52 a kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know..., 7. kiss me., 8. Kiss, 9. The Kiss, 10. Trees Kiss, 11. A Santa's Kiss, 12. Kiss the Rings, 13. Shadow Kiss, 14. a beach kiss, 15. Kiss, 16. The Kiss, 17. Eddie's Kiss, 18. 28/365 - Toe Kisses, 19. A kiss!, 20. let the rain kiss you..., 21. you may kiss the bride, 22. a 'real' butterfly kiss ..., 23. Red kiss, 24. Kissed, 25. Kisses

Image Generators

Just like RSS's, mashups, and wiki's, there are a lot of image generators out there in the virtual world. Unlike the other stuff, I had a hard time finding one that I liked. They all just about do the same thing, add text, other images, and effects to pictures. They all have different types of effects to add though. Some you had to scroll or browse through their options; others you could search. Some you could upload your own pictures; others you had to use their pictures. Sorry I don't have all the names with me. I wrote them down on a scrap piece of paper and then I left it my bag at home. I'll edit this post when I find it.

One site that I thought was simple to use was Jelly Muffin. They mostly cater to MySpace users; but, you really could use their graphics and generators for just about anything. Their image generator is mostly point and click. You select a picture (note: you cannot upload your own images), you type in your text, and you select as many effects as you want. This picture comes from them:

Myspace Picture Generator

I also found a smiley generator. I IM a lot and one thing my friends and I complain about is the lack of smileys that accurately reflect our moods/tone of voice/personalities. I don't know if it was just the connection that day or what, but none of the images would show up until after I selected it. You know that "x" that appears wherever an image should be? All their smiley options were like that. And then you couldn't really change the image, just add text. Here's what I did there:

Which I think will work well in any of our arguments.

But the one that I really like is called Picnik. This is a photo editing site that lets you use your own photos as well as the ones in their gallery. If you already have an online photo gallery, like a Flickr or Photobucket account, you can use Picnik to access and edit those photos online. So you don't have to be at your home computer to edit your photos. They've got a tutorial that shows you how to navigate and to edit and its all free. I used a couple of pictures from my book display files and came up with these:

I'm very impressed with Picnik. And now that I have a digital camera, I think I'm going to need it. At least until I figure out all the options all my camera. And even then there are things you can do on Picnik that you can't do on a camera. Picnik is like a poor man's Photoshop and I love it.

more RSS

Like I said before, I already have several RSS feeds set up, and added a few more when this Thing came up. So instead of adding even more RSS's to my list, which would've been really easy to do since there are so many out there, I decided to organize my feeds. Shocking, eh?



If you've ever looked at my desk, you'll know that organization is not one of my strong points. I have papers and stacks of books everywhere. I know what each stack is and where everything is (mostly) but I'm sure to anyone else, it just looks like a mess. Online folders don't get that same cluttered messy feeling that paper does, but it can still look a bit haphazard. So I created folders and tags for all my feeds. They're all nice and neat now. It was quick and painless too. The only problem I had was deciding if my librarian friend's blogs belonged in the work folder or not. If only organizing my desk were as simple.

RSS

The next thing on the list was to set up some RSS feeds. I already had a couple for work and a few blogs that I read, but I thought I would add a couple more, just for fun. I found the PLA's (that's Public Library Association) news feed so I can be in the know for all the changes and innovations happening in public library land. While we're still trying to get a grasp on Library 2.0, they're already starting Library 3.0.

The Holidays are Coming Early

Has it really been over a week since I last posted? My oh my how times flies. And I haven't done any of the holiday stuff that I need to do before Dec 4th. Why Dec 4th you ask? Well, on the forth my friend, who we'll call Mason, is flying into the Alamo city to take off on a Caribbean Cruise with me. By the time we get back it'll be too late to get all the Christmas presents mailed out to arrive by the big day. And I have a niece who's birthday is happening during the week I'll be gone, so I've got to take care of that too. Work is already taken care of. Substitutes for programs have been found, schedules are being made. Hmm, maybe I should look ahead at the 23 Things and do some extra blog posts about them. I guess work isn't quite as taken care of as I thought.

So here's my to do list:

• Shop - buy Christmas and birthday presents, wrapping paper, and a turkey.
• wrap and ship said presents
• finish latest home decoration/improvement project. I found some decorate wooden panels at Michael's that are going to become a back splash in my kitchen. I just have to to measure, cut, paint and glue them. And this one has to be done before Thanksgiving.
• find a glue that sticks to metal and cement. I was finishing up another project last week (putting tiles in a bathroom) and went to nail down the carpet edger (that metal thing that you put between the carpet and the tile to make the edges look nice and keep the carpet from coming up and fraying) and found that there's cement under the floor in that part of my house. If anyone knows of a special glue that will stick metal to cement, please let me know.
• make Thanksgiving dinner. Crazy I know, but this year I wanted to cook the turkey.
• decorate. I'll be taking off to my sister's place for Christmas (so there's a couple of presents that won't need to be shipped) and I know if I wait until after the cruise, I won't get them up. I really enjoy Christmas decorates and I have no problem with after Thanksgiving decorating.
• finish schedules for the days I'll be gone.
• read all the books that due during the days I'll be gone.
• get ahead on the blog, which could be tough cause I think I'm several posts behind.

I think that's everything. I hope that's everything.

The good news about all of this is when I get back from vacation, I won't be going through all the holiday stress that everyone else'll be going through. I'll be all through with that and can just relax. How cool will that be? Getting to enjoy December?

Thing 7

Technology.

What do I think about Library 2.0 so far? So far its been fun. I've always like playing with the way things look, like the layout of a page and the composition of a drawing. Change one little thing and you change whole the feeling of the work. But 2.0 does more than that. It puts what you've done in an environment where other people can react to it. They can comment, they can copy, they can create something new from it. Its about building communities through shared interests. Communities are no longer limited by their physical locations. And the technology is advancing so that you don't have to have a degree to participate in it. Course, if you want to create new technology, you may want to get the degree anyway.

One little piece of technology I'm looking at buying right now is a digital camera. Shocking isn't it? There are people out there that still use film. It may soon be that digital is all there will be. Like with analog TV in 2009 - film will be a thing of the past. Already my favorite department store doesn't carry my film anymore (advantix) and the rest of the film was all on clearance. So I'm jumping the divide and getting a digital camera. Maybe I'll even start to take more pictures. I'm notorious for having multiple Christmas' on the same roll. But on my last vacation I actually took a roll and a half and pictures. So I may be getting better at this picture thing.

Creating new stuff from old stuff

Or maybe you could say we're shinning up the old stuff. Making it prettier. Hopefully.

Thing #6 is all about creating new content from content that's all ready out there. Mashups, I believe, is the word for it. A lot of my co-workers have been using this as an opportunity to create librarian trading cards. Since I don't have a picture of myself (well, I do but they're on my home computer and my computer and I have issues) I decided to do a nature trading card instead.

I've also had fun with Big Huge Lab's framemaker.

This last image is from the cover of H.P. Lovecraft's book of the supernatural. Wouldn't it make a nice display picture? I'm seeing all sorts of possibilities for displays with the Big Lab toys.

I haven't had a chance to play with Animoto yet. There aren't many computers with speakers here, and I keep forgetting my ear buds. I know, there's always my computer, but like I said before, we have issues.

BTW - if you haven't seen Digital Goddess's letters yet, then go now and ponder all the ransom letter possibilities.

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