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A World of Their/Our Own

New blog post: "ds106zone: You are About to Enter Another Dimension" http://t.co/nDXUH3lrTo #ds106 #ds106 #soitbegins — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) May 13, 2013 When Jim Groom lights up #ds106 you can feel the energy waves transmorgify. I for one am darned excited because I now get to be a humble open participant in ds106, and the […]

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That Old Maverick

Oh how fond is my memory of that 1973 Ford Maverick I drove out to Arizona from Baltimore, it went to the lowest elevations and up into the White Mountains of eastern California. In 1988 I traded it in when I bought a Chevy S-10 pickup. I think they gave me $300 for Martin the […]

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Contouring Your Way

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog The direct path from here to that ridge, was a huge loop to the left, and quite a bit of up and down to get there. The view from my back deck looks across the valley to a high ridge, one that looks continuous […]

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Happy Belated Birthday Dad

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Sorry I missed your birthday yesterday, Dad. I did get my calendar reminder, and woah, you’d be 87. Twenty years ago you were in Phoenix to climb Camelback Mountain for a special day. And the last one we celebrated together for your 75th is […]

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The New Beatrice

If you watched TV in the mid 1980s you should recall the smarmy commercial for some megacorp that apparently owned more food products than you could name (Airstream, Altoids, Avis, Blue Valley, Butterball, Culligan, Ekrich, Good & Plenty, Hunt’s, Jolly Rancher, Krispy Kreme, La Choy, Meadow Gold, Orville Redenbacher, Peter Pan, Playtex, Reddi Wip, Samsonite, […]

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New Takes Photo of Old

cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Today’s ds106 daily create: "Take a picture of the oldest thing you own, and the newest thing you own" tdc.ds106.us/tdc480/ It might not be the oldest thing I own — I do have some pre-Cambrian granite– but this chess medal bears my grandather’s name "David Gottfried" and […]

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More Stories, Please?

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Christian O. Harris On May 15th I am bringing a new round of Amazing True Stories of Openness to the Yavapai College Summer Institute and guess what? I WANT MOTE STORIES! A few people said they would do these last time, and fell short. […]