Buying Gas cheaply

In these days of quickly fluctuating gas prices, it pays to have a handy tool to check the price at the pump before venturing out. The web site www.gaspricewatch.com does that for you. Just enter your zip code. Saved me about .12/gallon today by realizing I could fill up for $2.01/gallon vs $2.13 [...]

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NYC trying to put the hammer down on trans fats

Guess NYC is getting tired of seeing its citizens lining up in the emergency room because they eat crap for food. Suspect the rest of the country should get on the bandwagon.
New York City’s Health Department on Tuesday proposed a near ban on the use of artificial trans fat at restaurants, likening its health danger [...]

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circles in a spiral in a square

An interesting design seen on Flickr today. If you haven’t tried Flickr, you should check it out – if you don’t upload excessive numbers of pictures, it is free each month to upload. (You can see the differences between a free account and a Pro account here.) You can see my Flickr pics by clicking [...]

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A few Handy tools for Firefox users

I’m alway interested in new Firefox extensions that will make browsing easier. Two recently that I found are FasterFox and Email This!
FasterFox helps pages load faster in Firefox and does seem to make a difference. You’ll have to try to see how it works for you – you can always uninstall it, of course. [...]

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Black Cat John Brown

Had to experiment with embedding a YouTube video in this blog, just because it’s possible. Besides,it’s a cool tune and it mentions “Full Moon”, my AT trail name, so it can’t be all bad.

Technorati Cosmos: other blogs commenting on this post

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An “Art Gurls” project

A group of women (“Art Gurls”) meet weekly in Abingdon,VA to collaborate on an original piece of art. One person starts the project and then passes it on to the next person in the group who can do anything they want with the piece before passing it on to the next person. Quite fascinating [...]

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Refreshing

Having just moved into a new neighborhood and not knowing anyone, it’s always kind of nice if someone actually introduces themselves, but having lived in neighborhoods before, I don’t hold my breath. So it came as quite a refreshing moment when a neighbor across the street came up to us and enthusiastically greeted us. [...]

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Art and Remembrance

We recently went to an interesting Holocaust art experience presented at the Art Gallery at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. Esther Krinitz and her sister, whose parents and other family members perished in the camps, managed to escape to a neighbor’s house and hid out as Catholic farm laborers during the war. Many [...]

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Time for a new Tea!

Liptons is going upscale in the tea world lately. No more of that tea “dust” inside the bag – now we’re going to longleaf – the real stuff and inside cool new bags.
James Wong, a Unilever vice president and general manager of Lipton, in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., said the company’s research showed that “every consumer [...]

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Google’s Pedometer Tool

This is a slick new tool. I take walks daily and was wondering how far I was going and was trying to figure out how to get into an old pedometer I used to use to change out the battery. I happened to be browsing through my daily emails from Lockergnome and stumbled [...]

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