Jen’s Twitter Updates for 2009-09-30
Posted by Jen - 30/09/09 at 03:09:00 pm- Saw RIP: A Remix Manifesto last night at OSU. Should be req'd viewing for every digital classroom and/or comp class. http://bit.ly/u3Yi7 #
- The Zumba people are not kidding about "aerobics that doesn't feel like aerobics". Latin dance meets rave? Yes. http://bit.ly/19fPzA #
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Jen’s Twitter Updates for 2009-09-29
Posted by Jen - 29/09/09 at 03:09:00 pm- Autism Speaks' "I Am Autism" campaign: insulting portrayal of autism that's having real consequences on OSU campus. http://bit.ly/mAUXI #
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Jen’s Twitter Updates for 2009-09-29
Posted by Jen - 29/09/09 at 03:09:00 pm- Autism Speaks' "I Am Autism" campaign: insulting portrayal of autism that's having real consequences on OSU campus. http://bit.ly/mAUXI #
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Jen’s Twitter Updates for 2009-09-27
Posted by Jen - 27/09/09 at 03:09:00 pm- Homemade dishwasher detergent that actually works – at last! http://post.ly/6U85 #
- Make yogurt in a crock pot! I am so trying this next week (btw the whole blog is excellent): http://bit.ly/rcZjy #
- RT @TechCrunch: Hello, And Welcome To Moviefone. Now Leave And Try ShowtimeFu. http://bit.ly/YKrHo by @parislemon [I like it!] #
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Homemade dishwasher detergent that actually works – at last!
Posted by Jen - 27/09/09 at 01:09:13 pm
I long ago converted to homemade laundry detergent (brief detour here: even if you hate the Duggar family, their laundry detergent recipe is the bomb http://www.duggarfamily.com/recipes.html). But when I tried the most common online recipe for homemade DISHwashing detergent, which is 1:1 borax and baking soda, it was no match for Ann Arbor’s hard water. My dishes came out filmy and unclean, and my glassware was all spotty and gross. So I “cut in” a box of dollar store powdered dish detergent, hoping that the enzymes in the store-bought stuff would improve my homemade stuff. It was passable, but my Cascade Gel-Pacs were clearly better, and I resigned to keep dishing out 20 cents per load for the rest of my life.
Fortunately, the people at Debtfreeadventure.com appear to have figured out the secret to a better formula. It uses the same washing soda found in the better laundry soap recipes (although in a much smaller quantity), uses kosher salt to create some of the “scrub” that the commercial formulations have, and uses food-grade citric acid to get that missing “sparkle”. I am psyched to try this! I’ve even already located my local beer specialty shop (http://www.winemakersshop.com/beer.php) to find the citric acid!
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Jen’s Twitter Updates for 2009-09-26
Posted by Jen - 26/09/09 at 03:09:00 pm- RT @tseale: Brilliant and Banned book list at audible.com, would be good to share w/ stdts and discuss the list: http://bit.ly/HT87H #
- RT @poem_tweet: MARK STRAND-ORPHEUS ALONE http://bit.ly/89sRO [one of my favorite takes on Orpheus] #
- Awesome, comprehensive site on Podcasting for ed (this is a RT but can't remember from who, really sorry!): http://bit.ly/2JFVym #
- Looking for digital/podcast resources re: Heidegger's "Question of Technology". Most available stuff is about Being in Time/Dasein. Ideas? #
- RT @web20classroom: Find Primary Source Material from Around The World at the World Digital Library…http://is.gd/3F9p1 #
- Officially converted to Twhirl interface. I love you Seesmic Desktop, but I'm not coming back until you add a font size function. #
- Grossed out by how the death of TriQuarterly, one of our finest lit journals, is being handled: http://bit.ly/o8DUA #
- Mashable.com's "Eight Tools for Capturing Screenshots in Firefox 3". 1 of them mass captures, another uploads 2 server http://bit.ly/12gPRg #
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Jen’s Twitter Updates for 2009-09-26
Posted by Jen - 26/09/09 at 03:09:00 pm- RT @tseale: Brilliant and Banned book list at audible.com, would be good to share w/ stdts and discuss the list: http://bit.ly/HT87H #
- RT @poem_tweet: MARK STRAND-ORPHEUS ALONE http://bit.ly/89sRO [one of my favorite takes on Orpheus] #
- Awesome, comprehensive site on Podcasting for ed (this is a RT but can't remember from who, really sorry!): http://bit.ly/2JFVym #
- Looking for digital/podcast resources re: Heidegger's "Question of Technology". Most available stuff is about Being in Time/Dasein. Ideas? #
- RT @web20classroom: Find Primary Source Material from Around The World at the World Digital Library…http://is.gd/3F9p1 #
- Officially converted to Twhirl interface. I love you Seesmic Desktop, but I'm not coming back until you add a font size function. #
- Grossed out by how the death of TriQuarterly, one of our finest lit journals, is being handled: http://bit.ly/o8DUA #
- Mashable.com's "Eight Tools for Capturing Screenshots in Firefox 3". 1 of them mass captures, another uploads 2 server http://bit.ly/12gPRg #
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Jen’s Twitter Updates for 2009-09-25
Posted by Jen - 25/09/09 at 03:09:00 pm- Dumped Launchbar for Namely as my Mac program starter. Simpler and free. Love it! http://bit.ly/m3xCW #
- RT @tseale: RT I could use this book in my English class – thanks! @burcuakyol: How Twitter was born http://bit.ly/KcoFy #
- GlassesUnlimited Eyeglasses | Select Frame and Lenses http://post.ly/6EkP #
- RT @web20classroom: RT @kjarrett: How Can You Use the National Gallery of Writing in the Classroom http://is.gd/3AGJz #
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Jen’s Twitter Updates for 2009-09-25
Posted by Jen - 25/09/09 at 03:09:00 pm- Dumped Launchbar for Namely as my Mac program starter. Simpler and free. Love it! http://bit.ly/m3xCW #
- RT @tseale: RT I could use this book in my English class – thanks! @burcuakyol: How Twitter was born http://bit.ly/KcoFy #
- GlassesUnlimited Eyeglasses | Select Frame and Lenses http://post.ly/6EkP #
- RT @web20classroom: RT @kjarrett: How Can You Use the National Gallery of Writing in the Classroom http://is.gd/3AGJz #
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GlassesUnlimited Eyeglasses | Select Frame and Lenses
Posted by Jen - 25/09/09 at 07:09:22 am
God bless the Slickdeals.net forums, which is where I found out about the Glasses Unlimited promotion for $9.99 prescription glasses + $4.99 shipping. I ordered two pair for $30 shipped. That’s pretty slick, especially for spare pairs. Go check it out, www.glassesunlimited.com
Two warnings if you’ve never ordered glasses online before: the stronger or more complex your prescription, the more likely they are to botch your order. My prescription is fairly straightforward. Also, it is worth taking the time to upload your photo into the “Virtual Try-On” mode. I’ve found it to be a pretty fair facsimile of what it’s actually going to look like.
If you are still a paranoid skeptic about ordering glasses online, try checking out the awesome blog at www.glassyeyes.com, which is by a guy who’s been ordering dozens of frames online for years and years.
Finally, a word on pupillary distance. This is the one important measurement for glasses ordering that almost never makes it onto your written prescription. Get yourself a metric ruler and have a friend measure it for you–it’s the distance from the center of one pupil to the other when you’re looking straight ahead into the distance. It’s not a hard thing to measure, but it makes a huge difference in whether your lenses are any good.
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