Sailor in my black lagoon

Thing #23

A couple of times I thought that I wouldn't make it, but here I am at #23. This has been a real lesson in perseverance. I found a whole unknown cyberspace world. Some of these exercises were helpful, some seemed useless, some interesting, some boring.
Just finding out about the world of blogs was educational. Flicker and image generators were fascinating, my favorite was image chef. The social interaction and sharing were not of interest to me but good to know about.
YouTube was fun, especially since the day after I first tried it, our grandson called us from his Navy training. He mentioned that one of his buddies took videos of them in diving gear in the water and we could see it on a place called YouTube. He was very impressed when I told him that I had been on that sight the day before. I found the video the next day, even though he was barely recognizable it was a thrill to see it.
Thanks to Barb, Michele and especially Louisa for their help

Thing 22

So many choices! I will obviously need to download this from home to use my MP3 player with downloads form my computer. I never thought that I would enjoy reading a book from the computer screen, but listening to one might be worth trying.

Thing #21

Tried some podcasts, found Yahoo the easiest to use. Didn't find anything really interesting. I tried to add an RSS feed to a Library Channel podcast but got this message "string could not be parsed as XML" which was not too enlightening. I e-mailed my favorite blogadvisor, and she has yet to get back to me.
YouTube was definitly more fun.

Thing #20

Tried YouTube! AT first everything looked pretty weird, but then I found the Puehse Twins skateboarding and from there Extreme Pete, the skateboarding dog and Rodney Mullen a world champion skateboarder. Really fun to watch.

Thing #19

I logged onto the short list. I tried the "games" category #1 arcaplay, gamehouse and immediately I got "Window's is shutting down." I took this as a bad omen and tired #2,Games2Web. It required you to fill out a long questionnaire. I then tried "city guides and reviews." Yelp was # 1. Among it's small and curious selection of restaurants in Youngstown was Inner Circle Pizza, Handel's ice cream and Precious Paws Salon. Judy's place was #2 and I put in 44512 for a zip code, a veritable mother lode of stores and restaurants. Only 4 stores were listed. When I pressed additional there were stores and as far away as Warren, but no more in Boardman. Yahoo local was #3, but it was the best. The restaurants were listed by category - ethic, fast ice cream etc. Handels was one of the many listings. Only 3 furniture stores were listed and one dentist. I'm, sure that all of these will be more complete with time. It's hardly in competition with Ref USA but it's a chatty fun way to check area resources and has some pictures.

Thing #18

#18 Looked at Zoohoo, but it required an account to which they could add charges, no thanks. Tried docs.google.com - much like regular spreadsheets. I made a little document comparing SR stats for our unit for the last 3 years. I tied to e-mail it to by self but it was all garbled when I opened it. My first try at saving it to my documents came up blank, but the second worked. I can't see any advantage over excel, if you have excel.