A collection of interesting items I found in my daily reading.

• What is vanilla bean paste? – July 27, 2010


• HOW TO: Use Annotations to Promote Your Brand on YouTube – July 27, 2010


• Upcycled Tea Time for the Birds – July 26, 2010


• Want a map of your Twitter followers? – July 25, 2010


• Christmas in July – Homemade Vanilla Extract – July 26, 2010


• Orzo Pasta with Peas and Parmesan Cheese – July 26, 2010


• 101 Patterns for Influencing Behaviour Through Design: Oblique strategies for changing and controlling behavior – July 22, 2010


• At Malibu Family Wines in the Santa Monica Mountains, It’s About Enjoying the Company – July 21, 2010

I Like This – July 28, 2010 is a post from My Word with Douglas E. Welch

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We spent a few hours at the Renegade Craft Fair today down at Los Angeles State Historic Park. Lots of great crafts from yarns, to papers to cards, to shirts to wallets and more. I especially loved these of anthropomorphized animals and more especially, the badger in the upper right.

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Royal Albert Hall seen from the steps of the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park from our June 2010 UK Trip.

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Friday July 23, 2010 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

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Gelato Bar
4342 1/2 Tujunga Blvd
Studio City, California 91604

Join us for coffees and casual conversation…and some cool, cool, gelato at the Gelato Bar in the Tujunga Village section of Studio City.

We sometimes hit Henry’s Tacos down the street for some more substantial food, too. Arrive early to check out the cheese shop across the street or have dinner at Vitellos.

Call 818-804-5049 if you need help locating us the evening of the event.

Next LA Friday Coffee: Gelato Bar in Tujunga Vilage area of Studio City – July 23, 2010 is a post from My Word with Douglas E. Welch

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I now forget where I heard about this book, but as we are planning a trip back to Sicily (our 3rd) to see “la famiglia” I thought it would be a great way to immerse myself back in that world.

As with many American books on Italy, there is a bit of the typical “gee, don’t they do things differently here” stuff, but there is much, much more heart and soul here that make it a worthwhile read. I wish American writers could get over that part of the experience and simply immerse themselves in it. It tends to make them sound naive and a more than a bit ethnocentric.

That said, I enjoyed “Four Seasons in Rome” quite a bit. My son was 2 1/2 when we first visited Rome, so I could relate a bit to their struggles with their newborn twins. It must have been so much harder than our visit, but actually “living” there for a year, in an apartment, was certainly an advantage. We were in a nice, residential hotel, but as I found when visiting London on that same trip, a flat of your own is an amazing thing.

I found myself reliving my own initial feelings on visiting Rome and later meeting my Italian in-laws. Yes, it truly is a different world, but different in both good and bad ways. The history of Rome, and Italy in general can overwhelm you in some ways. There is such an accretion of history, all layered on top of each other, that it can leave you standing and staring as you try to contemplate the age and complexity of it all.

While I might contemplate living in Sicily for a year, under the protective eye of the family, I think living in Rome would be a lot like living in New York City — too much of too much — and would probably burn me out within a few weeks. It is nice to be able to see it through someone else’s eyes and enjoy it vicariously.

Amazon Link: Four Seasons in Rome

Book: Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr is a post from My Word with Douglas E. Welch

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A collection of interesting items I found in my daily reading.

• Quick and Simple: Pasta with Pistachio Cream Sauce – July 20, 2010


• I've Got It Made in the Shade – July 20, 2010


• Field Notebooks from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology – July 20, 2010


• Harry Potter's Butterbeer!!! – July 20, 2010


• Cooks.com – Recipe – Curried Chicken With Potatoes – July 19, 2010


• Chicken And Potato Curry Recipe – July 19, 2010


• Sony Bloggie MHS-PM5 Review – July 18, 2010


• Silkiest Butter Pecan Ice Cream-No Ice Cream Maker Needed – July 18, 2010


• CookDinner – awesome recipe site does it all beautifully – July 16, 2010

I Like This – July 21, 2010 is a post from My Word with Douglas E. Welch

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I just saw via LAist.com that the Max Headroom series will finally be available on DVD August 10, 2010.

I loved this 1987 series when it was new, but my lowly, off-air VHS copies gave up the ghost years ago. It would be great to share this with my son, too, as (surprise, surprise) he is interested in geeky things like this. I don’t normally go in for purchasing series on DVD, but this just might make it onto my wish list for my next birthday or other event.

Amazon Link: Max Headroom: The Complete Series – Available August 10, 2010

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Van Nuys Cruise Night is back! Held the 2nd Wednesday of every month, cool rides cruise “The Boulevard” between Burbank and Oxnard then hang out near the corner.

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Risa Rosenthal, one of my fellow co-chairs at CareerCampSCV caught this great photo of me in a breakout session on Social Media.

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A collection of interesting items I found in my daily reading.

• Free Rose and Everything Changes – July 13, 2010


• Anne's Food: Grape Champagne Cocktails – July 13, 2010


• Nixty Launches With Ambitions to Build Something Huge in eLearning – July 13, 2010


• Gmail on Safari 5 Supports Drag-and-Drop Attachments, Stay-Open Windows [Gmail] – July 13, 2010


• Analog Twitter at the Boing Boing picnic – July 12, 2010

- I am going to stash this idea away as a great idea for a future conference. You could also do something like “CareerCamp is…” and then allow space underneath for postings. Hmmmmm
• Creamy Macaroni & Cheese – July 9, 2010


• Rich text signatures – July 8, 2010


• Pivotal Tracker – Free Lightweight Agile Project Management & Team Collaboration, from Pivotal Labs – July 7, 2010

I Like This – July 14, 2010 is a post from My Word with Douglas E. Welch

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