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  • Hot Off The Presses - Mini-Posts

    At Queen Elizabeth’s Funeral, the Choreography of Public Mourning – The New York Times

    September 19, 2022 - By ginny

    The events around Queen Elizabeth’s death have unfolded with an astonishing amount of formal, choreographed movement. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/arts/dance/choreography-queen-funeral.html

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  • Mini-Posts

    The Queen: order of service for the committal at St George’s Chapel | Queen Elizabeth II | The Guardian

    September 18, 2022 - By ginny

    The full order of service for the committal of Queen Elizabeth II at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle on 19 September — Read on www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/18/the-queen-order-of-service-for-the-committal-at-st-georges-chapel

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    The Orders of Service for Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral and committal service – CNN

    September 18, 2022 - By ginny

    Buckingham Palace has released the Orders of Service for Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral and committal service on Monday. — Read on www.cnn.com/2022/09/18/uk/order-of-service-queen-funeral-intl-gbr/index.html

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  • London

    Remembrance

    September 11, 2022 - By ginny

    I’ve been remembering a lot of things today and in the days since the Queen’s passing, and today being the anniversary of 9/11, remembering that, too. The British are very, very good at remembering things. We’re… not but there are some memorials that we do well. Pearl Harbor is one. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is another. Some of the 9/11 memorials are meaningful to me personally (as I’m in travel, today always brings back memories of the terrible days of silence in the skies above Chicagoland during the nationwide ground hold). In November 2010, David and I took…

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  • Mini-Posts

    NAFO / North Atlantic Fella Organization| Know Your Meme (I was slow to catch on to this. Good job, Fellas!)

    September 11, 2022 - By ginny

    Browse the best of our ‘NAFO / North Atlantic Fella Organization’ image gallery and vote for your favorite! — Read on knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/nafo-north-atlantic-fella-organization/photos

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  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Easily Resize Your Photos With This Simple iOS Shortcut

    September 11, 2022 - By ginny

    OMG it’s working… Scene from a woodland walk This image should be resized as a 800px wide PNG, if I did this right. I’ve never bothered to use the Shortcuts feature on the iPhone but I encountered a problem with an oversized image. Easily Resize Your Photos With This Simple iOS Shortcut — Read on gooddogstrategies.com/news-notes/easily-resize-your-photos-with-this-simple-ios-shortcut

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  • All Things Interesting - Today

    Vaccine Dreams

    September 10, 2022 - By ginny

    At approximately 1020am this morning, I was sitting in a CVS Pharmacy getting a Moderna Covid19 bivalent booster vaccine, along with a flu shot. Within 3 hours, I was having the weirdest, semi-conscious, somewhat lucid dream of my life. I may be needing tea and sympathy tomorrow if, by some reports, the second day is the kicker. Because we’re Team Moderna here, I had been looking at the various pharmacy sites ever since the new boosters were approved by the CDC, trying to find Moderna vaccine available near me. Once again I had to go pretty far afield to find…

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  • Mini-Posts - Politics, Schmolitics

    Now Listening: The Cornfield Resistance with Driftglass and Bluegal for Friday, September 9

    September 10, 2022 - By ginny

    I’ve been a listener since stumbling into a Second Life group that used to host listing parties online during the Bush-W Administration. Do check out their Patreon! listen.stitcher.com/yvap/

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  • Entertainment - Games - The Never-Ending Bloga

    Homescapes: Time Suck, Coin Suck, Energy Suck, Yet I Can’t Stop Playing

    August 21, 2022 - By ginny

    Homescapes is a video game for smartphones and tablets that’s designed to remove money from your wallet, time from your day, and you from engagement with everything else that’s going on in your life. It’s a match-3 type of game, very similar to Bejeweled (which I used to like a lot) or Candy Crush. It has levels to pass, and to break up the repetitiveness, it’s also an exploration, makeover, redesign game. There are periodic events where you compete head to head, within your team, or against other teams. There are also “seasons” lasting about 4 weeks where you are…

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  • All Things Interesting - The Never-Ending Bloga

    New iPhone, Who Dis?

    August 21, 2022 - By ginny

    It’s been a long time since I logged in to write a new blog post… Some things have changed, some things remain the same. It’s unchanged that when I get frustrated, I ragequit or stop doing something to make the frustration go away. So when WordPress for example, has big changes, I don’t want to even start my desktop, laptop, iPad, or iPhone to start a post. If it’s frustrating, I tweet, because gratification must not be delayed. I got a new iPhone recently… this is frustrating because Apple and I have a history. A history where I have an…

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  • Sorry About The Mess: Trump Wrecking World Economy

    Post: He’s nuts if he thinks manufacturers will move to the US; they like paying rock bottom non-union wages and they’ll pass the higher costs to American consumers. Lose-lose! What can possibly go wrong?

    Since he lives in his own bubble universe, I’m wondering how long his big donors, the few relatively sane conservatives in Congress, and his “IKEA cabinet” will hold out until the murmurs behind the scenes become screaming fights in the Oval Office.

    Spine of steel? Nope. Skull of rock.

    Maury Povich lie detector meme: It says here… Trump is as dumb as a box of rocks.

    Global economy rocked again as rates on imports to the US from dozens of trading partners rose further, with China hit by 104% tariffs

    Link: Donald Trump unleashes new wave of tariffs against dozens of countries

  • Now Listening: Joni Mitchell | Black Crow

    Joni Mitchell album cover Black Crow. A woman is superimposed over an empty road that leads into her silhouette.

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    ”Black Crow - There's a crow flying Black and ragged Tree to tree He's black as the highway that's leading me Now he's diving down To pick up on something shiny I feel like that black crow Flying In a blue sky I took the ferry to the highway Then I drove to a pontoon plane I took a plane to a taxi And a taxi to a train I've been traveling so long How'm I ever gonna know my home When I see it again I'm like a black crow flying In a blue blue sky In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving diving diving diving Diving down to pick up on every shiny thing Just like that black crow flying In a blue sky I looked at the morning After being up all night I looked at my haggard face in the bathroom light I looked out the window And I I saw that ragged soul take flight I saw a back crow flying In a blue sky Oh I'm like a black crow flying In a blue sky”

     

    Link: Check out this song I heard on Radio Paradise

  • LIVE STREAM Intuitive Machines 2 Lunar Landing - NASA+

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    Watching now!

     

    ”Carrying NASA technology and science, Intuitive Machines is targeting no earlier than 12:32 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 6, to land its lunar lander on the Moon.”

     

    Link: Intuitive Machines 2 Lunar Landing - NASA+

  • Slava Ukraini!

    This font might work for a quilting project inspired by recent events.

    Gathering some fabric from my stash and some new fabric next.

    A casual font called Sunflower

    www.fontspace.com/sunflowers-font-f50996

  • Living On Blue Island In Lake Illinois

    A local bike riding friend remarked today that he feels like he’s living on a blue island. I made sure he sees this.

     

    ”JB Pritzker trolled the president on Friday by claiming he planned to rename Lake Michigan as Lake Illinois and annex Green Bay.”

     

    Link: Illinois Gov. Ridicules Trump's 'Gulf Of America' Proposal With 1 Of His Own

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