One thing that would stop at least some bloggers from excerpting a bunch is if the newspapers would leave their URLs static. Quite often, online news sources don't realize that URLs shouldn't ever change, and so bloggers (like my mother-in-law) often copy the whole text of the article, because she knows if she doesn't, it will likely be gone, or moved the next time someone goes to read it.
She would happily link if it were possible.
The other day, I put a link to an AP story on yahoo, and by the time one of my readers read it an hour or two later, the link still worked, and the subject was still the same, but the headline and the entire article had been changed to be an entirely different story, and with an entirely different point. Very bizarre.
Lots of the emission check stuff happens on lots of cars, and isn't really a leak, nor even a broken sensor, but some major malfunction with the computer or something - I'm not sure why they seem to fail, but most people I run into with a check engine light on have some sort of emissions issue. As long as you can get it to pass inspection, (and it isn't really leaking exhaust), I wouldn't count that as a reason to get rid of a car.
I just dug some holes for a playset for my kids, and while I was digging it, I thought about starting the hole for the underground fort we were going to make. We hadn't really considered how hard it would be dig a hole in the middle of the woods, with tree roots sticking out, etc.
Also, I can dig holes faster when I am 20 years older, which also helps.
Yup, the rope one was a good one. We should practice some more, just one more time, and I think we'll have it...
I still have my marked deck of cards, that provides some entertainment now and then.
And we never did build that box so I could cut you in half.
My mom started (or at least said it out loud) a list some number of years ago. I think the way she stated it: "I've got a list of things I want to do before I die, and the number of years to do them is getting shorter, so I might as well start now, so I'm going to walk across New Hampshire leaving in a month".
That was followed by going on a week-long sailing trip, a trip to Europe, and walking a hundred miles or so along the Erie Canal. She also started downhill skiing, though I'm not sure if that was on the list, or if that came due to the youth group. Last I heard her list was getting pretty short, but I haven't heard her say anything in a while.
My parents (or maybe just my mom, I can't remember if Dad likes it) have a Swedish Glug (u is umlauted, I think) often at Christmas time. I haven't tried it in a long time; I didn't like it the last time I tried it.
In a museum in Switzerland, I found a large glass vase looking thing with knobby jewels/rocks all over it. I took a closer look, and it turned out to be a beer jug, that held a couple liters of beer. The knobby and wavy walls of the glass were so you could better hold it with one hand without dropping it -- the weight of the beer and the drunk holding it caused people to drop these large glasses often.
I don't remember the year it was made, but most of the stuff we were looking at were around 1000AD, so I guess the "growlers" were invented a long time ago...
When we lived in the city, we built some flower boxes, and grew various vegetables and herbs in them. It was pretty fun. The cucumbers and zucchini never really grew bigger than some small pickles, but radishes, carrots, lettuce and any herbs worked very well.
I have read that someone makes a larger box that you can hang out of your window, sort of cantilevered-style to offer more space for growing in cramped spaces.
As for the stuff you already do - yeah, it is funny how some people never think of doing the obvious things. The one I always laugh at is when people tell me how much time they have saved during their week by not watching TV for an hour or two every day. Since I'm already saving that hour or two, I'm not sure what to cut out, nor how they ever could take that much time on TV...
Mom mentioned the other day that she read an article that talked about how you can easily save water by limiting your showers to 15 or 20 minutes....
Mom will probably jump in with her comments regarding wimpy NH-ites, who now do seem to cancel stuff without really thinking - she even said something last year about some piano students not coming due to the weather, and they lived near your old house...
We got a couple inches of snow today, and I wasn't thinking it was particularly bad, and we had been helping a couple move, so drove a lot, but on the way home, people were going really slow, so some of us were in the passing lane, when someone in the passing lane stopped or slowed way down, and all of us started to skid, and slide into the center (two-way left turn) lane. I don't know that anyone was that close to hitting anyone else, but it did make us all suddenly realize that we needed more space between the cars...
Posted on August 8 at 7:35 a.m. (Suggest removal)
One thing that would stop at least some bloggers from excerpting a bunch is if the newspapers would leave their URLs static. Quite often, online news sources don't realize that URLs shouldn't ever change, and so bloggers (like my mother-in-law) often copy the whole text of the article, because she knows if she doesn't, it will likely be gone, or moved the next time someone goes to read it.
She would happily link if it were possible.
The other day, I put a link to an AP story on yahoo, and by the time one of my readers read it an hour or two later, the link still worked, and the subject was still the same, but the headline and the entire article had been changed to be an entirely different story, and with an entirely different point. Very bizarre.
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