Color My World

by kartooner on January 21, 2004

Tonight I begin my trek to The Windy City to cel­e­brate my brother’s Naval Boot Camp grad­u­a­tion. This will be my first trip on a train, let alone an Amtrak train. From those that I’ve talked to about train expe­ri­ences in general, (…)

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Witnessed at the Store

by kartooner on January 20, 2004

While brows­ing the ‘Under $15DVD table at the store a lady walks by and gasps. I watch as she pro­ceeds to the used DVD cart and hugs a used copy of Sea Bis­cuit. She flicks through the rest of the videos and (…)

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Sideways Emoticons

by kartooner on January 19, 2004

Punc­tu­a­tion marks that look like smi­ley faces express hap­pi­ness on a new com­mu­ni­ca­tion tool known as “Inter­net.” The com­puter net­work is already being used by 15 mil­lion peo­ple world­wide — to chat or do impor­tant research. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion may be anony­mous and (…)

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Tidbits

by kartooner on January 19, 2004

An arti­cle on Scrip­ty­god­dess describes how to imple­ment a ‘Quick and Easy Link Page’, a portable solu­tion pro­vided as an alter­na­tive to a Favorites or Book­marks folder, which is only stored remotely. For my own ref­er­ence I’ve cre­ated kar­tooner tid­bits, essen­tially an (…)

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