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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, they’ve all said the same thing — long, cold and quiet. From this bit of information I can’t help but imagine that I’ll be traveling in an oversize sardine can.

I’ve equipped myself with my trusty Gameboy Advance (with The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords), an issue of Entertainment Weekly and a pillow. Here’s hoping that the compartment is a sleeping one because we won’t arrive in Chicago until 10:40am the next morning — which means plenty of time for some multiplayer Zelda via the connection cord.

Chicago, here I come.

While browsing the ‘Under $15′ DVD 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 then slides Sea Bisquit into the cart.

Gasps — as if Sea Bisquit is the final piece to her DVD collection.

New category, Witnessed, inspired by robotjohnny.com

“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 isolated, but there’s always someone to talk to about sports, recipes or politics.”

A broadcast originally aired October 8th, 1993 describes a network of debates and open communication called the “Internet” (aka: The WWW). According to one user at the time, the Internet “has more soul than any human being I know!” and yet another user describes it as liberty and information — “part of our everyday life”.

It’s interesting that much of these philosophies exist today.

Detail | http://tinyurl.com/2g2nd

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 easy access portal with a hodge podge of links I’ve found ranging from political to CSS references.