tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10569442622274248932024-02-25T00:33:00.734-08:00Writing AnythingWriting about anythingMatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-55645652993168894842018-03-11T14:40:00.003-07:002018-05-01T09:01:19.448-07:00Shop, Play, Win! Monopoly 2018 Rare Pieces Table (Updated May 2018)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #040406; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">I have never been this excited about a Grocery store "spend more on stuff you don't need" Promotion Game... since the last time grocery stores have offered such a game.</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)">Monopoly</a> has always been a big winner. First for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Brothers">Parker Brothers</a>, then for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_Monopoly">McDonalds</a>, and now for grocery stores. Talk about a winning streak.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #040406; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #040406; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Ok, so you are suckered into playing the latest version of the game at your local Safeway, Shaws, Albertsons, Vans, Tom Thumb and Randals grocery stores and you want to know if you won. Below is a table of the rare pieces based on my playing of the game thus far. I will keep this table update, but please feel free to add or correct any information in the comments below.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #040406; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #040406; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> Currently (February 7th 2018 - May 8th 2018) Safeway</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> is promoting their latest Board Game: Shop, Play, Win! Monopoly</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">. With over $250 million in prizes and money saving offers, how could you not join in the fun and play!</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> For this Safeway </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">game, the rules are simple.</span></span><br />
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<li style="border-style: none; border-top-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.498); margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Redeem your recipe for a booklet with 4 game pieces and 1 coupon/Entry Code at the register</li>
<li style="border-style: none; border-top-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.498); margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Fill in a game board with the game pieces</li>
<li style="border-style: none; border-top-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.498); margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Check <a href="http://writinganythingblog.blogspot.com/">This Blog</a> to see if you have a rare Safeway game piece</li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #040406; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The idea is to fill in the 4-8 game pieces to win the particular prize category. <a href="http://www.city-data.com/forum/arizona/631192-looking-pieces-albertsons-monopoly-game.html" style="color: #4444b2; text-decoration-line: none;">The trick</a> with these types of monopoly games is that they leave one (or two) pieces to be very hard to obtain, thus making the prize hard to win. To make things a bit easier to tell if you should even worry about getting a game board and licking the game pieces to fill in the different prizes, here is a list of the "hard" items to obtain to win the entire prize. Some reward categories are still being determined which game piece is the rare one, but as information is known, the table below will be updated!!!</span></div>
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<tr><td>$1 Million Vacation Home</td><td>110BB, 116BH</td><td>Forget about it. <a href="http://couponsinthenews.com/2013/02/07/you-are-not-going-to-win-a-million-dollars-from-albertsons/">Very Very unlikely</a>. Do not plan on winning this prize. (4 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$1 Million Cash</td><td>108AH</td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 0px; font-family: "arial" , "sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">0.0000000000005 (2 available)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>$100,000 Cash or Luxury Car</td><td>181TA, 182TB</td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">0.0000000000005 (15 available)</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td>$40,000 Vehicle of your choice</td><td>189VD, 190VE</td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2.5 × 10<sup>-13 </sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">(25 available)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>$25,000 Kitchen Makeover</td><td>193WC, 194WD</td><td>Designed by who? (35 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$20,000 College Tuition</td><td>199XD, 200XE</td><td>Kinda like a scholarship? (50 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$10,000 Cash</td><td>203YB, 206YE</td><td>All winnings are Taxed! (50 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$7,500 Family Vacation</td><td>207ZA, 209ZC</td><td>Not likely to win but worth trying (75 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$5,000 Cash</td><td>179SC</td><td>Again, taxed, so actual winnings might be less (50 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$5,000 Free Groceries</td><td>173RA</td><td>Save this money for next years monopoly game, and you can win again! (50 available) </td></tr>
<tr><td>$2,600 Movies for a year</td><td>172QD</td><td>Free movies! (50 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$1,500 Gas Grill & Groceries</td><td>166PB</td><td>Be careful, these BBQ's can be dangerous (50 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$1,000 Cash</td><td>164OD</td><td>Again taxed at ~60%.... (100 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$1,000 Grocery gift card</td><td>159NC</td><td> Again, save the money for next year's monopoly game! (100 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$1,000 Weekend Getaway</td><td>154MB </td><td>1-way trip to the town next door! (100 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$1,000 Laptop Computer</td><td>149LA</td><td>Sweet, a new 8" mac book Air! (100 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$500 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>145KA</td><td>The more you shop, the more you drop! (350 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$300 Spa Day</td><td>144JB</td><td>Toes up, Rest up! (600 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$200 Family Picnic</td><td>138HB</td><td>Nice Family Outing! (750 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$200 Cash</td><td>135GC</td><td>Mo Money, Mo Problems (750 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$100 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>132FD</td><td>Less than a week of groceries! (2,500 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$100 Cash</td><td>126EB</td><td>~$40 bucks after taxes (2,500 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$50 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>121DA</td><td>1/50,000 chance of winning (5,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$25 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>119CC</td><td>Can be used on gift cards to other places they sell in the store! (10,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$25 Gift Card Mall</td><td>213AB</td><td>Mall Shopping Spree!! Oh, wait only $25 (10,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$25 Cash</td><td>218BC</td><td>Cash is King! (10,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$20 Cash</td><td>220CA</td><td> 1/20,000 chance of wining (12,500 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$15 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>227DD</td><td> Buys 1 loaf of bread at Safeway Prices! (25,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$10 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>228EA</td><td>1/10,000 (40,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$10 Cash</td><td>235FD</td><td>1/10,000 (40,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$5 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>237GB</td><td>I hear some people actually win this prize! (900,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$5 Cash</td><td>242HC</td><td>Not worth playing the game for only this prize. (900,000 available)</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #040406; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The table above can be used as a reference to see if your game piece is of value, or just another </span></span>run of the mill<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #040406; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> game pieces. Each booklet also provides a free coupon for some random item within Safeway (and NBA Store and Snapfish) this is typically a barcode to enter in an online drawing to earn tokens. However, occasionally this is a coupon redeemable for free items in the grocery store, so keep your eyes peeled! If you're desperate for more pieces, you may try a search on </span></span></span><a href="http://www.ebay.com/" style="color: #4444b2; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration-line: none;">ebay</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #040406; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> or </span></span><a href="http://craigslist.org/" style="color: #4444b2; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration-line: none;">craigslist</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #040406; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> for what people are selling: </span></span>Safeway Monopoly Pieces, just make sure you are buying a rare one!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #040406; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #040406; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: black;">After download the app (</span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shop-play-win-monopoly/id1333309930?mt=8">iOS</a><span style="color: black;"> or </span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digitalattic.cpsalbertsons2018&hl=en">Android</a><span style="color: black;">), you can easily scan your game cards to collect extra tokens. See the example below where I used my camera to scan the piece in and find that I was not a winner 33% of the time. The app was simple and scanning them with a camera made it worth entering in all the potential tokens!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When you are a winner, you win Tokens for Fandango, Universal Studios or Fuel Rewards. Additional prizes for Flower shop discounts or NBA store are also available. Since I don't plan on using the NBA store (<a href="http://www.nbastore.com/">www.NBAstore.com</a>) discounts, here are mine if anyone want's to use them, they expire 7/31/208. Just let others know in the comments below if you use one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Cheapest 2 Ply Toilet Paper is found at Costco to be:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I love buying in bulk. It makes me feel better about spending a bunch of money on toilet paper or toothpaste, or diapers! As my dad would always say: “Go Bulk or Go Home”! I ran the numbers for the lowest cost toilet paper and found that Costco provides the cheapest toilet paper! Amazon and Walmart is a close 2nd place. The details for these calculations are provided below. Note that these prices do not account for the membership fees for Costco or Amazon Prime. To calculate the actual cost of the toilet paper with membership fees would require scaling all the items purchased from these outlets over the year to determine how much of the membership fee should be divided up and added to the toilet paper purchase. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When buying bulk, the cost per item decreases. The more quantity of an item sold, the lower the cost can go. Unfortunately, the cost does not hit zero, but it does approach it.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With toilet paper, the number of sheets stacked on top of each other determines the Ply value. Typical ply values are 2 or 3 sheets. There are many other factors that go into an effective toilet paper, but since we are literally throwing this stuff away anyways we want something that can get the job done without too much discomfort and without hurting our pocketbooks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For each product bought in bulk, it is important to determine what is the optimal unit quantity worth analyzing. This could be cost/pound or cost/sq ft or even (cost+time)/oz. For toilet paper, the unit cost we're interested in is Cost for 1,000 sq ft. since this allows us to clearly see how much toilet paper we are actually getting regardless of how many rolls this is divided up into and we won't compare pennies by accounting for 1,000 square feet. This puts the cost calculations in the favor of you the consumer so you can see how far your dollar goes. The lowest priced toilet paper from the big Online retailers is compiled here:</span><br />
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Costco"}" style="overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: small;">Costco</span></td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Kirkland Signature Bath Tissue"}" style="overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.costco.com/Kirkland-Signature-2-Ply-Bath-Tissue%2C-30-Rolls.product.100142093.html">Kirkland Signature Bath Tissue</a></span></td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":2}" style="overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></td><td data-sheets-numberformat="{"1":4,"2":"\"$\"#,##0.00","3":1}" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":18.99}" style="overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: small;">$18.99</span></td><td data-sheets-numberformat="{"1":4,"2":"\"$\"#,##0.00","3":1}" data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":11.92}" style="overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: small;">$11.92</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you are looking for an even cheaper toilet paper, there is a 1 Ply toilet paper available, but I don't consider this comfortable toilet paper to use. <a href="http://amzn.to/2H4tR52">This Scotts 1000 is the cheapest toilet 1 ply paper I found</a>, costing only $7.08 for 1,000 sq ft, but when the toilet paper is that thin, it itself is approaching zero!</span>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-34363266733611725032018-01-01T12:47:00.001-08:002018-01-01T20:50:59.134-08:00The Best Free Ebooks/PDF's Online (With Download Links)I love the Internet. I love the ability to share information so freely that ideas can burgeon quickly and spread like wild fire. It's amazing to see and be apart of. The list below are some 100% Free PDF's of information that I found very valuable. It's truly awesome to see others create content that empowers others to improve their life. These PDF's condense information so efficiently that it's hard not to be excited when reading them. Please feel free to share them with others and let me know if you have other Free PDF's I can add to this list!<br />
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<li>Eat Well on $4/day GOOD AND CHEAP by <a href="https://www.leannebrown.com/about/">Leanne Brown </a>[<a href="https://cookbooks.leannebrown.com/good-and-cheap.pdf">PDF</a>]</li>
<li>How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Bernstein">William J Bernstein </a>[<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwjn3bCc0LfYAhVS9GMKHaCVCg0QFggpMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etf.com%2Fdocs%2FIfYouCan.pdf&usg=AOvVaw25wxjcA_8Pzo-SB3S580I5">PDF</a>]</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.larrysanger.org/2010/12/baby-reading/">How and Why I TaughtMy Toddler to Read</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger">Larry Sanger </a>[<a href="http://larrysanger.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/How-and-Why-I-Taught-My-Toddler-to-Read.pdf">PDF</a>]</li>
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As with any game, the real goal is to have fun and think of new designs this Roll & Bounce Tower can create! Of course it's not likely may people will see this post, but in the unlikely even someone competes, I am excited for the competition! Don't forget to create a video of the ball rolling down your best design and post a link to the video in the comments below.</div>
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Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-76802228195955233312017-11-21T12:33:00.000-08:002017-11-21T12:33:01.444-08:00Kaiser Permanente Automated Phone Service (1-800-464-4000) HackCalling Kaiser is never an enjoyable part of the day. They have an elaborate phone tree that can get very frustrating when just trying to perform a simple task. I decided to write up a diagram that shows all the services provided over the phone so I can skip to exactly where I need to next time. This is by no means complete, but it's a start. Let me know how I should add to it in the comments below. For now, I hope this helps you the next time you call Kaiser Permanentes' Automated Phone Number ( 18004644000 ).<br />
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Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-40658933465725219582015-03-10T10:44:00.000-07:002015-04-22T13:55:09.051-07:00Albertsons Monopoly Shop Play Win Spring 2015 Rare Game Pieces<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #040406; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">I have never been this excited about a Grocery store "spend more on stuff you don't need" Promotion Game....</span><a href="http://writinganythingblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/albertsons-sizzlin-summer-giveaway-rare.html" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> since the last three giveaway</a> <a href="http://writinganythingblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/html-overflowvisible.html" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">games Albertsons had</a><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> (and the Rachel ray promotion 2 years ago)! Currently (February 5th 2015 - June 6th 2015) </span><a href="http://www.albertsons.com/" style="color: #4444b2; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Albertsons</a><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> is promoting their latest Board Game: </span><a href="https://www.playmonopoly.us/" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Albertsons Shop, Play, Win, Monopoly Collect & Win Game</a><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">. We have seen these types of games done before, notably the famous </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald's_Monopoly" style="color: #4444b2; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">McDonalds Monopoly game</a><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">. For this </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertsons_(SuperValu)" style="color: #4444b2; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Albertsons</a><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> game, the rules are simple.</span></span><br />
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<li style="border-style: none; border-top-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.498039); margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Redeem your recipe for a booklet with 4 game pieces and 1 coupon/Entry Code at the register</li>
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<li style="border-style: none; border-top-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.498039); margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Check <a href="http://writinganythingblog.blogspot.com/">This Blog</a> to see if you have a rare Albertsons game piece</li>
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<tr><td><a href="http://couponsinthenews.com/2014/02/10/albertsons-monopoly-gets-bigger-richer-and-even-harder-to-win/">$1,000,000 Cash Reward (paid over 30 years)</a></td><td> 102A, 105A,106A, 107A</td><td>Forget about it. <a href="http://couponsinthenews.com/2013/02/07/you-are-not-going-to-win-a-million-dollars-from-albertsons/">Very Very unlikely</a>. Do not plan on winning this prize. (3 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$500,000 Vacation Home</td><td>110B,112B, 113B,114B</td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 0px; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">0.0000000000005 (3 available)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>$100,000 Cash or 2015 <a href="http://discoveringelonmusk.blogspot.com/">Tesla</a></td><td>117C,118C,<br />
120C,122C</td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">A <a href="http://discoveringelonmusk.blogspot.com/">Tesla model S</a>? Sweet prize (and sustainable!) (6 available)</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td>$50,000 Home Make over</td><td>123D, 125D, 126D, 128D</td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2.5 × 10<sup>-13 </sup></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">(12 available)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>$35,000 Vehicle of your choice</td><td>134E</td><td>These can be dangerous (12 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$20,000 College Tuition</td><td>135F, 137F, 138F, 139F</td><td>12 available, so not impossible, but still very unlikely. (24 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$10,000 Jet Ski</td><td><br /></td><td>These are fun, but better to rent! (36 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$10,000 Family Vacation</td><td>141G, 142G, 143G, 144G, 145G</td><td>Not likely to win but worth trying (36 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$5,000 Cash</td><td> 153J,</td><td>Do you really need that much green paper?(40 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$2,500 BigJoe Grill & Groceries</td><td>156K, 157K, 158K</td><td>Semi likely if you obtain a lot of tickets. (60 available) </td></tr>
<tr><td>$1,000 Cash</td><td>159L, 160L, 161L</td><td>Cash!! (75 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$1,000 Romantic Weekend Getaway</td><td>163M, 164M, 165M, 166M</td><td>75 available, so not likely but might be worth playing for.</td></tr>
<tr><td>$550 Redbox Movies for a Year</td><td>167N, 168N</td><td>That's a lot of chick flicks! (250 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$500 Apple iPad Air</td><td>171O,172O,173O, 174O</td><td>Those Mac Air's are skinny! (250 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$200 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>175P, 176P, 177P,</td><td>Kinda unlikely Likely (500 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$200 Cash</td><td>179Q, 180Q, 181Q</td><td>Is this even a prize? Likely if you collect 10 game pieces a day for 100 days you might win! (500 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$100 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>188S, 189S,</td><td>The more you shop, the more you drop! (1,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$100 Cash</td><td>184R, 185R</td><td>Not worth playing the game for this one but cool if you win! ($1,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$50 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>191U, </td><td>Can't complain about free groceries! (4,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$25 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>195V, 197V, 198V</td><td>Yay! Free groceries! (8,000 available) </td></tr>
<tr><td>$25 Cash</td><td>200W, 202W</td><td>Not worth playing the game for only this prize. (8,000 available<br />
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<tr><td>$10 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>207Y, 209Y, 210Y</td><td>Ten bucks, that's it? (20,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$5 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>212Z, 213Z, 214Z</td><td>This is possible to win! (100,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Instant Free Product Winner</td><td>N/A</td><td>This is possible to win! (3,661,105 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>2 Free Game Tickets</td><td>N/A</td><td>I have won these before, they are not that rare, keep your eyes peeled for them! (41,814,987 available)</td></tr>
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<li style="border-style: none; border-top-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.498039); margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Redeem your recipe for a booklet with 4 game pieces and 1 coupon/Entry Code at the register</li>
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<li style="border-style: none; border-top-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.498039); margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Check <a href="http://writinganythingblog.blogspot.com/">This Blog</a> to see if you have a rare Albertsons game piece</li>
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<tr><td><a href="http://couponsinthenews.com/2014/02/10/albertsons-monopoly-gets-bigger-richer-and-even-harder-to-win/">$1,000,000 Cash Reward (paid over 30 years)</a></td><td>X803, X805</td><td>Forget about it. <a href="http://couponsinthenews.com/2013/02/07/you-are-not-going-to-win-a-million-dollars-from-albertsons/">Very Very unlikely</a>. Do not plan on winning this prize. (3 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$500,000 Dream Home</td><td>W807 <span style="color: #cccccc;">or W809</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 0px; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">0.0000000000005 (3 available)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>$100,000 Cash</td><td><span style="color: #cccccc;">V812 or</span> V816</td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">0.0000000000005 (8 available)</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td>$40,000 Vehicle of your choice</td><td>T820 <span style="color: #cccccc;">or T821</span> </td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2.5 × 10<sup>-13 </sup></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">(10 available)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>$40,000 Motorcycle or Boat</td><td>S823 <span style="color: #cccccc;">or S825</span></td><td>These can be dangerous (12 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$25,000 Backyard Makeover</td><td><span style="color: #cccccc;">R828 or </span>R829</td><td>20 available, so not impossible, but still very unlikely. (20 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$10,000 Family Vacation</td><td>P832</td><td>Disneyland here we come...NOT!! <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Family's greater than 4 need not apply.</span> (24 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$5,000 ATV or Camping Package</td><td>N839</td><td>Not likely to win but worth trying (40 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$2,500 Free Groceries</td><td>M843</td><td>Do you really need that many groceries?(60 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$1,000 Free Groceries</td><td>L848</td><td>Semi likely if you obtain a lot of tickets. (150 available) </td></tr>
<tr><td>$500 iPad Air</td><td>K849</td><td><a href="http://facebookapplegoogle.blogspot.com/">Free Apple Products</a>!! (250 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$500 XBox One</td><td>J854</td><td>250 available, so not likely but might be worth playing for.</td></tr>
<tr><td>$250 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>I860</td><td>That's alot of Dog Food! (500 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$250 Cash</td><td>H864</td><td>More money, more problems? (500 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$100 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>G866</td><td>Kinda Likely (2,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$50 Albertsons Gift Card</td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span>F871</td><td>Is this even a prize? Likely if you collect 10 game pieces a day for 100 days you might win! (4,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$25 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>E874</td><td>The more you shop, the more you drop! (6,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$25 Cash</td><td>D879</td><td>Not worth playing the game for this one but cool if you win! ($6,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$15 Monopoly Board Game</td><td>C882</td><td>Is this a Joke? They will give you a monopoly board game? (10,000 available)</td></tr>
<tr><td>$10 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>B887</td><td>Yay! Free money! (20,000 available) </td></tr>
<tr><td>$5 Grocery Gift Card</td><td>A889</td><td>Not worth playing the game for only this prize. (40,000 available</td></tr>
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Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.com172California, USA36.778261 -119.4179323999999823.886873 -140.07222939999997 49.669649 -98.763635399999984tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-80511684299578534662014-01-14T17:17:00.002-08:002015-10-13T16:13:04.962-07:00The $1 Bike Handlebar Social Experiment: From Serindipity to Appropriation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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May 14, 2013 - I found a dollar bill in gutter on my <a href="http://trafficstudy.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-growth-of-orange-county-bike-lanes.html">bike ride</a> to work. It was a little wet, so I wrapped it to my handle bars rather that just putting it in my pocket.<br />
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June 2013 - The parking attendant 'stole' the dollar, leaving me confused and thinking the experiment was over. However, the next day he left this note:<br />
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Then left another note, and put the ORIGINAL dollar back on the handle bars. And because he wanted to have a mention in the blog, he gets one!<br />
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I rode <a href="http://bicycleridethoughts.blogspot.com/">hundreds of miles</a> with it attached to the handle bar by a bandanna.<br />
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August 2013 - While waiting at a stop light, I saw the dollar bill had been replicated. I later discovered that the same parking attendant found a dollar in the parking machine and donated it to the 'handle bar bike experiment' I was conducting.<br />
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A few months later, I saw it was $3 on the handle bar, due to the parking attendant's second generous donation to the experiment.<br />
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I continued to ride all over, even leaving my <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000KBEH1W/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000KBEH1W&linkCode=as2&tag=matt911com-20">rear red blinky light</a> on the bike (~$20 value) knowing someone would more likely take the money on the handle bars. At one point I had it locked up for a few days and felt confident the bike was safe with the dollars as a deterrent, providing stronger security than a kriptonte. Granted the bike was locked up in the '<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/irvine-safest-city.html">safest city in the world</a>' for a majority of the time.<br />
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December 11th 2013 - 7:13pm in Costa Mesa at the intersection of <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/iYfGj">Newport blvd and Harbor</a>. STOLEN (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10b-mX41mnY">Just like in this video from across the street</a>)! The $3 dollars was finally stolen from the handle bars on this Wednesday evening. Likely due to the location at an intersection with an open area for high pedestrian traffic, creating a threatening environment for the dollar bill to survive on the handlebars.<br />
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I was so happy to see the money finally stolen! After all, that was the point, it just dragged on and kept growing in size, becoming a bigger experiment then initially planned for. Looking back it was a wonderful experience. I had countless discussions with friends and strangers about the meaning of the dollar bill(s) on the handle bar and even stirred some excitement leading to friendly gestures left by my bike.</div>
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So what's the next handle bar experiment? Maybe $5 Handlebar Social Experiment, maybe a parrot? Or maybe other bicyclists want to perform this experiment in their city and compare results!<br />
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Sometimes Dreams do come to full completion when you get to show the Blog post to the Co-Author!<br />
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Just to be clear <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooveshark">Grooveshark is Awesome!</a> It provides a great online music streaming service to play virtually any song ever! It also creates a nice community of users to interact and 'follow' one another. Since 2006 <a href="http://grooveshark.com/">Grooveshark</a> has made it apparent that they are not for the traditional audio ads that online radio has traditionally seen. The only ad's for Grooveshark users are the visual banner ads on some pages of the site. This is really neat to break away from the pandora/spotify type <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/grooveshark-is-coming-back-2013-9">online music streaming services</a>. In fact <a href="http://krykeywebradio.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/6-reasons-groovesharks-ceo-thinks-recorded-music-should-be-free/">Groovesharks' CEO want's to disrupt the entire business model of music as we know it</a>, making it 100% free to listen to and only paying for concert shows. A neat idea, but <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5873630/grooveshark-is-being-sued-by-all-four-major-music-labels">who knows if the artists will fully support this and it will really work</a>.<br />
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That's <a href="http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/11/01/9-ways-to-enhance-your-grooveshark-experience/">Grooveshark</a>! Free, online streaming music. Recently however they made it possible for anyone (you and me) to <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/22/4252314/grooveshark-broadcast-lets-anyone-be-a-radio-dj-wacky-interludes-and">make our own 'radio station' for other online grooveshark users to listen into</a>. How neat is that? Instead of <span id="goog_779735458"></span><a href="http://www.quora.com/How-does-the-Pandora-algorithm-work">some algorithm</a><span id="goog_779735459"></span> determining what to play next, a fan of a certain genre of music decides. Or if you are listening to the station, you can make song suggestions to play next, or vote on other song suggestions to encourage the <a href="https://turntable.fm/">DJ to play them</a>. How cool! It's like a Wikipedia for Radio, crowd-sourced selections always playing the freshest beats! Finally, <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/22/business/la-fi-tn-grooveshark-broadcasting-feature-20130421">Grooveshark Broadcast</a> takes the music selection power away from the communist robots (Pandora, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/napster-founder-former-facebook-president-and-spotify-billionaire-sean-parker-fined-over-extravagant-starstudded-10m-wedding-8643405.html">Spotify</a>, iHeartRadio etc.) and gives it back to the people that matter; The Listeners!<br />
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Oh yea, and no need to call into the radio station and beg them to play your song, just search and add it to the suggestion list (Talk about band promotion!). Want to hear it right way? Just click the play button and preview the song! Each suggestion and vote, you are helping co-pilot a radio station and enjoying some of the music you like at the same time!! Unfortunately there is a limit on the number of suggested songs for a radio station, so if a DJ does not play suggestions, the list of songs can be queued up and not allow for additional suggestions...LAME!<br />
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This online DJ radio station service may have been seen before back in the Winamp days, where you could do practically the same thing, only now it's from a browser, and you don't have to have the music on your computers hard drive. This could really take off, in a world where <a href="http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/13/pandora-the-money-losing-music-machine/">pandora-fied</a> music becomes so routine and unable to add a fresh mix into the music all the time. Here live DJ's and other 'experts' can suggest a randomized playlist while introducing hundreds of new artists with a fresh look.<br />
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While using this service for the past few weeks, I came across a few ideas to make the service more user friendly or increase revenue possibilities.<br />
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As a DJ, it would be great if you could have two additional features;<br />
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<li>Artists could '<a href="http://thetrichordist.com/2013/06/24/my-song-got-played-on-pandora-1-million-times-and-all-i-got-was-16-89-less-than-what-i-make-from-a-single-t-shirt-sale/">pay-to-play</a>' a song on a specific genre radio station for hundreds of listeners to hear if the DJ of that station liked it and wanted the listeners to hear it</li>
<li>A radio station playing only local or unknown bands where the bands promote their nearby shows in the ad's on the page</li>
<li>A DJ could have the option of playing a public service announcement or audio ad to it's users to generate income for the artists it is playing but leaving the option for users to enable or disable the feature</li>
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<li>The ability to ask polls to the listeners to see what other types of music they are interested in or areas of interest in their life they enjoy</li>
<li>The ability for new/potential listeners to search for a radio broadcast playing an artist or similar artist</li>
<li>The ability to easily announce sport events or live radio broadcast of any real time event, including TV shows, news events, E-gaming events, personal interviews or group discussions!</li>
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To conclude, this <a href="http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/04/hands-on-groovesharks-new-broadcast-feature-exploring-your-inner-dj.html">Grooveshark broadcast feature is really neat </a> because it allows for a rapid and direct way for individuals to have an influence in what others listen to. This also allows for others to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNy_HQxErwmG4fpiJP1G6fg">bring original music suggestions to broaden one's horizon of the music</a> they love. Let's hope that users continue to benefit from it and it opens up new possibilities into radio as we know it. Imagine the potential this has for <a href="http://blog.grooveshark.com/post/13471268420/livio-radio-brings-grooveshark-to-your-car">entering into the airwaves and into cars</a>! That's Dope!<br />
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<b>P.s. </b>If there is one broadcast station that stands out among the rest it has to be: <a href="http://grooveshark.com/#!/chuckago/broadcast">One-Eyed Sasquatch Radio</a> created and DJ'd by <a href="http://grooveshark.com/#!/chuckago">CaptainKevman</a>. This station provides all that is good in the world of indie/folk music! The DJ is very open to suggestions and does a great job of creating a community around the music and it's listeners!<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The Fullerton Loop is basically a residential fire road (12 feet wide) that goes behind houses that is used by horses, joggers, dog walkers and bikers. The trail is relatively flat and is sometimes hard to follow when it ends at a busy street and continues a block over. Some of the trail had some side wall rides (nothing major) and some built in dirt jumps (small) and some single track running parallel to the fire road. </span></div>
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I may be wrong in my analysis about how the trail routes through the neighborhood but I was very unimpressed with the connection across streets. I ended up only doing about 5 of the 12 miles, because I got lost looking for the trail otherwise. If you do ever go check it out, get a good map of the trail before you depart.<br />
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I am glad to have checked it out, but I will not be returning. I think it's more of a local kinda thing to get out on the bike. From now on,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Cove_State_Park"> I'll be sticking closer to home</a>.</div>
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To complete your taxes, their are a bunch of options available. <a href="http://www.hrblock.com/">H&R Block</a> and other tax preparation services can walk you though preparing your taxes with you (not for you, at the end of the day, you are responsible for everything on your tax forms). While these firms usually know the in's and out's of your tax forms to help maximize your return, they also charge money for their services and take away the self-empowering enjoyment of doing your own taxes!<br />
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Another option is to use online or desktop software, such as Turbo Tax, to complete your taxes. This is another great method to essentially do your taxes yourself from the comfort of your home and their <a href="http://www.mymoneyblog.com/turbotax-taxact-hr-block-lightning-review.html">are some great write ups on these different tax software's</a>. It truly is a great method if your taxes are a bit complicated and are willing to pay the fee for the software.<br />
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The third method I would like to mention is doing your taxes 'from scratch'. Essentially just using the correct tax form you need and the instruction booklet for that tax form. While this may sound old fashioned in this technology age, I believe that it empowers you on a journey to tax knowledge and understanding that the previous two methods don't allow. Below I outline a few overview points about tax forms in general and then give a few pointers to help follow the instruction booklet. While this is public here on this blog, I plan to use this as a reminder each year for issues I need to remember to expedite my tax filing in years to come.<br />
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<a href="http://www.mymoneyblog.com/how-to-e-file-your-federal-tax-extension-online-for-free.html">If you need to file a tax extension in 2013 for 2012 taxes, their is a nice write up here about it.</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Overview of a Tax Form</b></span><br />
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Ok, so let's dive into the basics of a tax from. In a very general form, <a href="http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc352.html">the 1040EZ and 1040A</a> essentially do three things as you fill in the lines<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
1. Calculate up your total money earned in the filing year and subtract any deductions from this total earned income to calculate your Adjusted Gross Income (AGI).<br />
2. Determine your Standard Deduction that the government provides (typically ~$6,000 for a single individual (in 2012) and additional for dependents) and subtract it from the adjusted gross income.<br />
3. Calculate your Tax in the tax table from your AGI, subtract additional, after tax, reductions, such as federal income tax withheld (Box 2 of W-2, etc.) and determine the amount of tax owed or amount that will be returned.<br />
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Those are the three main sections to work through on the tax forms. Of course, many other factors (and worksheets) can come into play depending on your finances, but in general that's the basics as I see it. Now, let's look at some specifics for following the instruction booklet correctly.<br />
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Overall, I really enjoy the instruction booklet. It does a great job at walking you through each line. Although I will admit that sometimes it becomes a convoluted process that takes more time than anticipated just to fill in one line on the tax form. This is all part of the exciting process of doing your taxes yourself!!! In doing taxes this year, I jotted down a few tips for next year.<br />
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<li>Follow the instruction booklet and ensure it all makes sense. It maybe helpful to skip ahead and see where things are going or to re-read a section<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></li>
<li>If it says: "Subtract line 5 from line 2" This means Line 2-line 5, Not Line 5 - Line 2. Sounds simple but can easily be misinterpreted<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></li>
<li>Use a spreadsheet (Excel or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Docs">Google Docs</a>) to calculate entries and lines, to easily make changes later, and to explain your logic in case of an audit or you become confused looking over everything weeks/years later. Separate sheets for additional forms or calculations helps too!<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></li>
<li>Examples are provided which can be very helpful to learn what is happening with the monetary values and how the value should be calculated<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></li>
<li>Sometimes additional calculations or worksheets that pop up while filling out the tax form, (Capital Gains Tax, Life Long Learning Credit, Savers Credit, Earned Income Credit, etc.). I see these as an opportunity to learn more about the tax system and what taxes we have to pay or credits we can receive The instructions for these are provided online and are usually just as well documented as the main tax form being filled out<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></li>
<li>Their are plenty of opportunities to take tax credits. You may have more opportunities than you realize. As you read about each line on your tax form, be sure to make sure you cannot qualify for this field. If you can, it might be worth looking into more by either filling out another form or doing some additional research on the tax credit<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></li>
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Don't Forget Tax day is April 15th (unless on it lands on a weekend)! Any Questions about taxes, just Google it, or look into <a href="http://www.aarp.org/money/taxes/aarp_taxaide/">AARP</a> for looking over your taxes with you. Besides the IRS website, their are some great question and answer forums, <a href="https://twitter.com/TaxQA">Twitter</a>, and other websites talking about a bunch of tax related questions. If you have other tips you would like to share, please do so in the comments below. Best of Luck!!<br />
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<br />Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-19227883975650652902013-01-31T22:12:00.001-08:002013-02-01T18:48:58.736-08:00Official Printable Superbowl 2013 100 Squares Game InstructionsWith the big Superbowl approaching, you maybe interested in doing some fun betting to ensure you can reap the monetary rewards from your friends!! Here is a link to the <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxaN9AprE6pIMGllbDZHVnlmNEE/edit?usp=sharing">Official 2013 Superbowl Squares PDF file</a>. This PDF is sponsored by <a href="https://www.betyoubet.com/">BetYouBet</a>, a betting site setup for any type of bet you desire!<br />
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Here is a description of how to use the squares:<br />
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1. Print out the <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxaN9AprE6pIMGllbDZHVnlmNEE/edit?usp=sharing">Squares Game Board PDF</a><br />
2. Gather Friends, Family, Extended Friends and Family, or anyone willing to throw down some money for a fun betting game for the Superbowl (or any game!)<br />
3. Set a price for each of the 100 squares and sell them to the gathered loved ones. The participants can mark their initials in the print out board.<br />
Example: If each square sells for $1 dollar, the entire pool of money will be $100 bucks. Depending on the number of participants, a cap may need to be set to limit the number of squares that can be bought.<br />
5. Once all the squares have been sold, the money is gathered and stored until the end of the game.<br />
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Using a way to <a href="http://www.mathgoodies.com/calculators/random_no_custom.html">Randomly Generate</a> a 0 to 9 across the top gray row and left most column. These numbers represent the last number in the score board that occur for each team during 1st, 2nd, 3rd and final quarter of the game.<br />
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For Example if at the end of the 1st quarter the score was: 49ers: 10, Ravens: 7. Then the person who bought a 0 on the 49ers side and a 7 on the Ravens side, would win X% of the total pot. A typical distribution split at each of the quarters is given below in the Payouts section.<br />
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Typically payout is<br />
1st Q: 10%<br />
2nd Q: 20%<br />
3rd Q: 10%<br />
Final Score: 60%<br />
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Here are some other helpful links on how to play football squares:<br />
<a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_2294551_play-football-squares.html">eHow: How to Play Football Squares</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ask.com/answers/108237741/how-to-play-football-squares">Ask.com - How to Play Football Squares</a><br />
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Some other websites have done some nice analysis on the probabilities of winning, depending on the numbers you have. <a href="http://caseyshead.com/2013-super-bowl-squares-odds/">Odds Of Winning Football Squares for Superbowl found here!</a><br />
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Best of Luck!!!<br />
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<br />Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.com1New Orleans, LA, USA29.951065799999991 -90.071532329.511125799999991 -90.7169793 30.391005799999991 -89.4260853tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-57438074355109758662012-12-11T20:45:00.000-08:002013-09-19T11:12:16.295-07:00All About: "If This Then That" Online Social Programming Service'If This Then That' is a well known programming statement for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_(computer_programming)#If.E2.80.93then.28.E2.80.93else.29">simple 'if-then' logic</a>. Now thanks to <a href="http://ifttt.com/">IFTTT.com</a> recipes can be written to interact between two online "channels" to automatically complete tasks for you. This service is just so incredible, I had to put together this post to help spread the word! If you have ever wondered about how you can put the internet to work for you, this post is for you!<br />
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Buffer<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://bufferapp.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_oM5STqk_RFgLOWYbFfZL-UofLbg" target="_blank">http://bufferapp.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Expand your social feed with interesting articles and pictures and videos that works "automagically"!</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">BuzzFeed<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.buzzfeed.com&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_hdKx1uGNkteHkQ1CF8xw5aS8B4w" target="_blank">www.buzzfeed.com</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Popular articles on the web</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Campfire<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://campfirenow.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_goxuV9xiQxo3h3Ln_m6PZBOgc3A" target="_blank">http://campfirenow.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Team Collaboration with realtime Chat</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Craigslist<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites&usd=2&usg=ALhdy29vYWvx79-aqb6jic8b8i0JZk7ypw" target="_blank">http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">A classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, items wanted, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Date & Time<td class="s3" dir="ltr">Native IFTTT<td class="s3" dir="ltr">A Native Date and Time Channel</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Delicious<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://del.icio.us&usd=2&usg=ALhdy28WpndcsNxIlObyeDP37w-7nqUArw" target="_blank">del.icio.us</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">A social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Diigo<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.diigo.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy29mj2ti8tgmO90eXFWQG5x6-T8XUA" target="_blank">http://www.diigo.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">A social bookmarking website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Dropbox<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dropbox.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_Ax7oRjKLgvZg1__5lsUb7IXDoyA" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">a file hosting service that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, and client software</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Email<td class="s3" dir="ltr">Native IFTTT<td class="s3" dir="ltr">Generic email account login</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Evernote<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://evernote.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_wJKC18yW4h9GtNo6tzNugPIuD4Q" target="_blank">http://evernote.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">A suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving everything in your life</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Facebook<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://facebook.com&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_bSdV2YtYV67jRtujTl2jBeV9AdA" target="_blank">facebook.com</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Social Network website with over 1 billion users</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Facebook Pages<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.facebook.com/FacebookPages&usd=2&usg=ALhdy28scJZKP1P3PazTCvQA5XCGq6krpw" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/FacebookPages</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Orginization and Company "Like Pages"</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Feed (RSS)<td class="s3" dir="ltr">World Wide Web<td class="s3" dir="ltr">RSS or ATOM feed from many places on the web</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">ffffound!<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://ffffound.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-3MNrXd2UasQSgmClUPlWxF7kKQw" target="_blank">http://ffffound.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Image Bookmarking Site</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Flickr<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.flickr.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy298UJDssbbJYFURBu7N8Rkg-wD80Q" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Image Hosting and sharing website for Amature and professional photography</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Foursquare<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=https://foursquare.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-Y9EN1E3LtzDjc1vMX28i-GM7y0w" target="_blank">https://foursquare.com/</a><td></td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Gmail<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.gmail.com&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-Fsh4ljKS2BGxfOjvT9wtN4nXyMA" target="_blank">www.gmail.com</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Link to random survey data study [http://randomsurveydata.blogspot.com/2009/10/email-phone-bank-companys.html]</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Google Calendar<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://calendar.google.com&usd=2&usg=ALhdy286hXBLYMhBRW4T7faWbpIrhU8AGg" target="_blank">calendar.google.com</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Online Calendar provided by google</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Google Drive<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://drive.google.com&usd=2&usg=ALhdy283S5Eqofj-btO31ax3urj4qqx2ug" target="_blank">drive.google.com</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Online file storage system by google</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Google Reader<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://reader.google.com&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_2UTWxlnyfqnOwiSO5h5MCKxlgwQ" target="_blank">reader.google.com</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">RSS Reader aggergrater by google</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Google Talk<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://talk.google.com&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_c-PunMfn3mMpYFnbjLTjB82kySA" target="_blank">talk.google.com</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Integrated Google Chat Service</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Hootsuite<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://hootsuite.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-oJuyPxaX4DD-Z4x37RklLyJwlmg" target="_blank">http://hootsuite.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Social Media Management System for brand management</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">IFTTT<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=https://ifttt.com&usd=2&usg=ALhdy28IX_CKM1T-4Lf1ctq0RjhfDCv-rQ" target="_blank">https://ifttt.com</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">If This Then That Online Social Programming Website</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Instagram<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://instagram.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-vD9C1QnoM2FaKEvGc_QCVi6FOXQ" target="_blank">http://instagram.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">A Free photo sharing and social network for easy beautiful photography</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Instapaper<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.instapaper.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy29FcWz3jIqRYTFC2kp0tNjRt7k8WQ" target="_blank">http://www.instapaper.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">A simple way for saving webpages for viewing later</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s2" dir="ltr">Last.fm<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://last.fm&usd=2&usg=ALhdy28zDA8stI0TPisDtKXw0lfjgGq9CQ" target="_blank">last.fm</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Online Streaming Music Website and Music Community Social Site</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">LinkedIn<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://linkedin.com&usd=2&usg=ALhdy29eW7ymkymn-cSt0iJBdEY8-lX_0g" target="_blank">linkedin.com</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">A Social networking site used for people in professional occupations</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Phone Call<td class="s3" dir="ltr">Native IFTTT<td class="s3" dir="ltr">A Phone Service Built into IFTTT for phone calls</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Pinboard<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://pinboard.in/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-CC0gvo9BAEh3OaUAxOPncKa5kew" target="_blank">http://pinboard.in/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Basic online bookmarking service</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Pocket<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://getpocket.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_ceaqDiiRQBzLy-cWRj5oPbcu57A" target="_blank">http://getpocket.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Save it for later service. Mark things to read later.</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Pushover<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=https://pushover.net/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-OjRV0d83bJps0_ay2QlgpCLFjqw" target="_blank">https://pushover.net/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Pushes notifications to your iPhone or Android Device</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Readability<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.readability.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-B5lEdjZlOD8gwcYZ1x_kpa1eAiA" target="_blank">http://www.readability.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Converts Webpages into easy to read formats for tablets and phones</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Salesforce Chatter<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.chatter.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-Jet6DGO1-_5P8lspXtjte7lyRbg" target="_blank">https://www.chatter.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Create a free private social network </td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">SMS<td class="s3" dir="ltr">Native IFTTT<td class="s3" dir="ltr">Text messaging for texting updates directly to/from your phone</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">SoundCloud<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=https://soundcloud.com&usd=2&usg=ALhdy29mmKbsWl1qytbgH3bNF6ce_5nbig" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">an online audio distribution platform that allows collaboration, promotion and distribution of audio recordings</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Stocks<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://finance.yahoo.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy29D3mhQa4gflQWeYBCtleAnGZrbSQ" target="_blank">http://finance.yahoo.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Yahoo Finance for Stocks</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Storify<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://storify.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy29dkJHj7_ACVpmA1jGoCpYt2TTjjA" target="_blank">http://storify.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Compile pictures from other social sites (Instagram and Facebook) to add text to create a story</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Svpply<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=https://svpply.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy28RjL9GGZLMIQXDuiMtYr5crblDpQ" target="_blank">https://svpply.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">A curated collection of the worlds best products and stores</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Tumblr<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.tumblr.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_DhJ57M0n0vg57BvS9_O3stq59mg" target="_blank">http://www.tumblr.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">A blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes, and audio to a short form blog</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Twitter<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-ubjEzcdwJaUrfSEaRFNxmyI3PuA" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">A social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read "tweets" up to 140 characters long</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Vimeo<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://vimeo.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_NAeku28oCNistuKCWFC_aIq0I-g" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">A video-centric social networking site which supports embedding, sharing, video storage and user-commenting</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Weather<td class="s3" dir="ltr">Native IFTTT<td class="s3" dir="ltr">Pulls weather data to use in your recipies. Provided by Yahoo! Weather</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">WeMo Motion<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.belkin.com/us/wemo&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-uKz9ZmvnTiTavwQqHm_NDJIQ6iw" target="_blank">http://www.belkin.com/us/wemo</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">A home automation made easy system</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">WeMo Switch<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F7C027&usd=2&usg=ALhdy28iiIOjI4IEabB7U8kaJaasguF7dA" target="_blank">http://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F7C027</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Belkin's WeMo system for controling anything you want</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Withings<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.withings.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_W-a2qgRoxXRaub-cQKIMiYSxlLw" target="_blank">http://www.withings.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Creates smart products and apps dealing with you</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">WordPress<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://wordpress.org/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy28RQGkJis0zF24ksGykZaMa8w80eg" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">An Open source blog tool and publishing platform</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Yammer<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yammer&usd=2&usg=ALhdy29GsisY4eENYKQzgWJnWu5tnOt1yg" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yammer</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">An social network for companies</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Youtube<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.youtube.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy28C9Ky8ycnkSywLZFGC0bZGEVW2Yw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">A video-sharing website where users can upload, share and view videos</td></td></td></tr>
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</td><td class="s4" dir="ltr">Zootool<td class="s3" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://zootool.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy286nEO22KH0CAmxK_uxpISXMvAuGw" target="_blank">http://zootool.com/</a><td class="s3" dir="ltr">Visual Bookmarking to collect, organize and share your favorite images, videos, documents from all over the internet</td></td></td></tr>
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Table last updated: December 2012<br />
<br />
<a href="http://blog.ifttt.com/">IFTTT is busy</a> adding <a href="https://ifttt.com/recipes/55201">additional channels</a> so some of the newer services may not be included in the table above. Just looking over these services we can see that some interesting recipies can be made to automate tasks on the web. Some ideas are:<br />
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<li><a href="https://ifttt.com/recipes/152">If it's 9:00 A.M., Then call my phone</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ifttt.com/recipes/52129">If it's going to rain today, then send me a text message</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ifttt.com/recipes/25679">If I take a picture</a> on <a href="https://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sugexp=chrome,mod%3D15&q=instagram&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=oea2UMeXF-jc2QXfo4DQAg&biw=1024&bih=658&sei=qOa2UMzjNsiy2wXDuYHIDw">Instagram</a>, then Send it to my <a href="http://dropbox.com/">dropbox</a> account</li>
<li><a href="https://ifttt.com/recipes/15">If a photo of me is tagged</a> on <a href="http://facebook.com/">facebook</a>, then upload it to <a href="http://evernote.com/">Evernote</a></li>
<li>If my <a href="https://ifttt.com/recipes/26217">Stolen Bike Shows up on Criagslist</a>, Send me a text message</li>
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Those are just a few simple recipes that others have already made for you. However, IFTTT provides a creative environment for you to begin creating your own recipes. Put this service to work for you. Combine the different channels to 100% automate your own task. <a href="http://vwvanagons.blogspot.com/">It's Truly Wonderful!</a> I am excited to see how <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifttt">IFTTT</a> expands and allows for more recipes. Currently they have a <a href="http://www.belkin.com/us/wemo">WeMo channel</a> for products in "the real world" to interact with and connect to. The Potential here is endless!</div>
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While the current <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-computing/the-great-dropbox-twitter-facebook-mashup-arrives-173341?page=0,1">IFTTT</a> is jaw dropping, I figured I would give a word or two about some additional services that would be over the top spectacular to include. Of course any additional ideas you may have can be included in the comments! </div>
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Here are some additional channels I would love to see added to IFTTT:</div>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google">Google</a> Services: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Latitude">Latitude</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Voice">Voice</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate">Translate</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps">e</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)">t</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B">c</a>,</li>
<li><a href="http://www.groupon.com/">Groupon</a> [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupon">Wiki</a>]</li>
<li><a href="https://www.mint.com/">Mint</a><a href="http://www.mint.com/">.com</a> [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint.com">Wiki</a>]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.strava.com/">Strava</a> (or other exercise apps)</li>
<li><a href="http://pinterest.com/">Pintrest</a> [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinterest">Wiki</a>]</li>
<li>Home Security Systems, Baby Monitors, Web Cams</li>
<li>IFTTT triggers to create new recipes</li>
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Opening these additional channels and adding some additional trigger features could create more possibilities such as:<br />
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<li>Translating your email/news feed from text to speech for a morning phone call</li>
<li>If <a href="http://www.groupon.com/">Groupon</a> posts a deal about dog grooming services in my area, then send me an email</li>
<li>If one of my <a href="http://mint.com/">Mint.com</a> account drops below a $100, then send a Facebook status asking for money from friends.</li>
<li>If <a href="http://www.strava.com/">Strava</a> detects a new ride/run, then log it in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Docs">google drive spreadsheet</a>.</li>
<li>If <a href="http://gasbuddy.com/">Gas Buddy</a> Lists the lowest Price at the station near my house, Then send me a text message.</li>
<li>If a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Latitude">Latitude</a> friend is out of their typical State, then send them a text message saying: "Have a great trip!!!"</li>
<li>If a song on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube">youtube</a> is played twice, then use a <a href="http://keepvid.com/">youtube ripper site</a> to download the audio to my dropbox account</li>
<li>If I tweet about a <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=ifttt">trending topic on twitter</a>, create a new <a href="https://ifttt.com/ifttt">IFTTT recipe</a> to email me news about that topic</li>
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Also adding more complex scripting to gain the ability to have multiple triggers to trigger one 'That' service would be interesting. Or having a If this then that, that, and that kinda programming logic available. It's inevitable, that with all the possibilities of IFTTT, people <a href="http://vwvanagons.blogspot.com/">have figured</a> out a way to make money using this service...even if it is <a href="http://www.mymoneyblog.com/incredible-secret-money-machine-book.html">only nickels</a>. The <a href="http://www.narrowbridge.net/using-ifttt-to-make-your-finances-easier/">degree of automation and usefulness</a> of IFTTT creates a high probability that a <a href="http://www.zagg.com/community/blog/how-im-using-ifttt-to-find-my-stolen-bicycle/">useful service can be automatically generated</a> for a large group of people to benefit<a href="http://fastblackhatmoney.com/strategies-how-to-make-money-with-ifttt/"> creating a revenue stream</a> for the creator.<br />
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I love how IFTTT is a lot simpler than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes">yahoo! pipes</a> or other similar services that require tedious details. While <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/17/1845224/mashing-up-multiple-web-services">IFTTT does limit functionality</a>, it provides a simple foundation to program basic web tasks. This maybe limiting for now, but in time I'm sure the service offerings will grow and with it functionality and endless opportunities for web 3 point 0 programming to really <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/12/04/ifttt/">change the web as we know it!</a><br />
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<br />Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.com21601-1645 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA37.7749295 -122.419415537.372514 -123.0511295 38.177344999999995 -121.7877015tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-92016351825805391112012-11-20T13:19:00.002-08:002013-01-01T13:29:52.908-08:00Dinner Recipe: Fajitas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well this is not an <a href="http://writinganythingblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-recipie-sloppy-matts-aka-spaghetti.html">Original recipe</a>, as seen previously on the blog, but is one that is such a staple in my life that I had to share it! <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fajita">Fajitas</a> allows for a great dinner for a whole family or just two! This makes for a great opportunity to mix it up a bit if your in the typical, <a href="http://www.kashi.com/products/category/Pizza">Pasta</a>, <a href="http://www.chipotle.com/en-US/Default.aspx?type=default">eat out</a>, <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/turkey-lasagna-recipe2/index.html">pasta</a> routine. It allows your creativity to run wild and add lot's of different tasty ingredients that are often fun to shop for and find in the local <a href="http://writinganythingblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/albertsons-sizzlin-summer-giveaway-rare.html">Albertsons</a>. Before we dive into the recipe, let me explain that we do use some assistance from the folks over at <a href="http://www.mccormick.com/?cmpid=ps-mc-rp55-gg-brand-Master%20Brand-mccormick's-homelp&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=mccormick's&utm_content=rp55-brand&utm_campaign=Master%2BBrand">McCormick's</a> for the awesome Fajitas Mix! I couldn't do it with<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105812/">o</a>ut them!!!<br />
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First, let's list the ingredients so you know what to shop for:<br />
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<li>1 Package <a href="http://www.buythecase.net/product/20422/McCormick_Fajitas_Seasoning_Mix/?CAWELAID=1500598044&catargetid=1494042637&cagpspn=pla&gclid=CPb6kfCMyLQCFQmCQgodPjIAOw">McCormick Seasoning Mix</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola">Canola Oil</a></li>
<li>Boneless beef sirloin, cut into 1/2 inch strips (chicken can be used instead if desired)</li>
<li>1 Onion, Cut into strips or squares. </li>
<li>2 Bell Peppers (two different colors to mix it up)</li>
<li>Tortillas</li>
<li>Cheese (shredded)</li>
<li>Salsa</li>
<li>Sour Cream (100% Optional, totally not necessary)</li>
<li>Avacados</li>
<li>Sliced Tomatoes</li>
<li>1 Can of Corn</li>
<li>Black Beans</li>
<li>Creative toppings of your choice - Include in comments!</li>
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Now that we have the ingredients, let's head over the the kitchen. Heat up the griddle with 1 table spoon of oil and fry up the meat that is cut into strips.</div>
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While the meat is cooking, Cut the onion and bell peppers.</div>
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Once the meat is cooked to your prefection, toss it into a safe location, keeping any juices in the pan. Add the cut onion and bell peppers to the frying pan with an additional tablespoon of oil added to the pan.</div>
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In the mean time, while this is saute'ing and making the house smell nicely, you can begin putting together the toppings. This includes: Shredding cheese, heating up beans and heating up corn.</div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine,_California">Irvine</a> is
an absolutely wonderful place to get around via bike. Wheather it’s for pure
recreation, running errands or commuting, <a href="http://www.ci.irvine.ca.us/cityhall/pw/projdev/city_of_irvine_bikeways.asp">Irvine provides safe efficient bikepaths</a> for the casual to expert rider. Here are three casual riding trails to
get you out and about on your bike! They are listed from shortest to longest, with 8
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<span lang="EN-CA">This is a
great trail to become familiar with three recreational bike paths. The mountain
to sea trail, the 405 Greenbelt and William Mason Regional Park Wash Trail. All
of these continue further, than the given route, but this gives a good
introduction to each of them. [<a href="http://goo.gl/maps/ujlvT">Google Map Link</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://goo.gl/maps/8ucMw">#2: 10 Miles – Sand Canyon Reservoir-Quail HillLoop (1.5-2.5 hours at casual pace)</a><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">I love this
trail! It brings me to another space whenever I go on it. The winding bike lane
through the Gated community with views of the golf course, Irvine and Tustin,
make me realized how wonderful of a place we live in. The longer straight away
section adjacent to the 405 is quite enjoyable to see the preserve area. [<a href="http://goo.gl/maps/8ucMw">Google Map Link</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://goo.gl/maps/4eBWW">#3: 15 Miles – Back Bay Loop (2-3 hours at a casual pace)</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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scenery and a chance to really get out seeing the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_1"><span lang="EN-CA">Pacific coast highway</span></a><span lang="EN-CA">, </span><a href="http://www.irlandmarks.org/Explore/Back-Bay-Loop-Trail.aspx"><span lang="EN-CA">back bay</span></a><span lang="EN-CA"> and natural wild life. This is a must do for
anyone who owns a bike!! The views around the bay bring sheer joy to my face
each time I ride around it. The natural wildlife in and around the bay almost
can stop a beating heart sometimes, it’s that pleasant. If you decide to do the
whole loop, or just an ‘out-and-back’ ride around the bay, Enjoy! [<a href="http://goo.gl/maps/4eBWW">Google Map Link</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">While these trails maybe close by to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Irvine">UC Irvine</a> and enjoyable, don't let them limit you; these are just starting points to begin exploring the world around
you! Each of these trails can be extended further to make for a longer (more
enjoyable) ride. The <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/mountains-to-sea-trail-orange"><span lang="EN-CA">Mountain to Sea trail</span></a> for example goes from the ocean to
the edge of Irvine near the mountains. Also, the PCH allows for miles of bike
travel both north and south from Irvine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-16387917892294330082012-06-03T11:57:00.000-07:002012-08-15T11:25:46.030-07:00Albertsons Sizzlin' Summer Giveaway Rare Game Pieces<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #040406; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">I have never been this excited about a Grocery store "spend more on stuff you don't need" Promotion Game.... <a href="http://writinganythingblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/html-overflowvisible.html">since the last game Albertsons had</a>! Currently (May 16th 2012 - August 21st 2012) <a href="http://www.albertsons.com/" style="color: #4444b2; text-decoration: none;">Albertsons</a> is promoting their latest Board Game: <a href="http://albertsons.com/summergame">Sizzlin' Summer Giveaway</a>. We have seen these types of games done before, notably the famous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald's_Monopoly" style="color: #4444b2; text-decoration: none;">McDonalds Monopoly game</a>. For this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertsons_(SuperValu)" style="color: #4444b2; text-decoration: none;">Albertsons</a> game, the rules are simple.</span><br />
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<tr><td>$1,000,000 Cash Reward (paid over 30 years)</td><td><div style="text-align: left;">
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<tr><td>$50,000 vehicle of your choice</td><td>SC08 or SC10</td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 0px; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">0.0000000000005</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>$50,000 Cash</td><td>SC13 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">or SC15</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">0.0000000000005</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td>$25,000 <a href="http://www.harley-davidson.com/en_US/Content/Pages/home.html">Harley-Davidson</a> or <a href="http://www.bostonwhaler.com/">Boston Whaler</a></td><td>SC17 <span style="color: #cccccc;">or SC20</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2.5 × 10<sup>-13</sup></span></td></tr>
<tr><td>$25,000 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTpZn8K2PVQ">Backyard Makeover</a></td><td><span style="color: #cccccc;">SC22 or</span> SC25</td><td>What if you don't have a backyard?</td></tr>
<tr><td>$5,200 <a href="http://www.ralphs.com/Pages/default.aspx">Groceries</a> for a Year</td><td>SC30 or SC31</td><td>20 available, so not impossible, but still very unlikely.</td></tr>
<tr><td>$5,000 ATV or Ca<a href="http://adventuresinspired.blogspot.com/">m</a>ping Package</td><td>SC32<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> or SC34</span></td><td>20 available, so not impossible but still very unlikely. This is a very cool prize however!!</td></tr>
<tr><td>$1,000 Gas Grill</td><td>SC37</td><td>Cooking over coals is better than gas anyways.</td></tr>
<tr><td>$500 <a href="http://www.rei.com/">REI Gift Card</a></td><td>SC43</td><td>Semi likely if you obtain a lot of tickets. R<a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Does+REI+sell+gear+or+the+idea+of+using+the+gear+to+seam+outdoorsy%3F">E</a>I Spending Spree!!!! </td></tr>
<tr><td>$250 <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ALBERTSONS">Albertsons</a> Gift Card</td><td>SC45</td><td>Do you really need that many groceries?</td></tr>
<tr><td>$250 Weekend Getaway</td><td>SC50</td><td>250 available, so not likely but worth playing for.</td></tr>
<tr><td>$200 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Fire-Amazon-Tablet/dp/B0051VVOB2">Kindle</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle_Fire">Fire</a></td><td>SC56</td><td>Unlikely. What is so good about this electronic device anyways, don't we have enough gadgets?</td></tr>
<tr><td>$100 Grocery Cookout Albertsons Gift Card</td><td>SC58</td><td>More Albertsons money? 600 available.</td></tr>
<tr><td>$50 Gift Card Mall Gift Card</td><td>SC61</td><td>Kinda Likely</td></tr>
<tr><td>$20 Albertsons Gift Card</td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span>SC67</td><td>Is this even a prize? Likely if you collect 10 game pieces a day for 100 days.</td></tr>
<tr><td>$10 Cash</td><td>SC69 </td><td>10 bucks, Woot woot!!</td></tr>
<tr><td>$5 Cash</td><td>SC74</td><td>Not worth playing the game for this one but cool if you win!</td></tr>
<tr><td>$2 Cash</td><td>SC77</td><td>125,000 available. Depends upon how many people play.</td></tr>
<tr><td>$10,000 Family Vacation</td><td>SC82 or SC83</td><td>10 prizes available. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Family's greater than 4 need not apply.</span></td></tr>
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P.s. In attempt to support other blogs I link to this <a href="http://mertonthinker.blogspot.com/2012/08/appreciation.html">Appreciation Blog Post</a>.</div>
Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.com116Irvine, CA, USA33.6839473 -117.794694233.578246299999996 -117.95262269999999 33.7896483 -117.6367657tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-3754489595268138452012-03-18T11:42:00.004-07:002012-06-05T12:56:25.631-07:00The Ice Cream Tub<br />
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Blame it on Global Warming! At least, that’s what people say
when it comes to ice bergs melting, crazy weather patterns, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpRSWua0wR8">warmer winters</a>. But why stop there! I think <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1206_041206_global_warming.html">Global warming’s effects</a> are extending to the local supermarket. If you haven’t seen
the change in the Ice Cream Tub recently, then this post is worth a read!</div>
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Things started to 'heat up' when I was seeking out a cheap deal to curb my ice cream cravings. Rather
then going with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_%26_Jerry's">high quality, low quantity brand</a>. I stumbled upon the “Ice Cream Tub” or ICT we’ll call it
for all practical purposes. I fell in love with it when I discovered I could
have a full bowl of ice cream, smothered in chocolate sauce, every night of the
week for 2 weeks straight, without requiring an additional trip to the store.
The ICT can be found in the frozen section of any major super market next to
all the <a href="http://dreyers.com/main/index.asp?b=104">flavorful</a> ice creams. However it typically goes unnoticed
by the casual observer due to its opaque bucket clearly showing the contents
inside and its distinctive thin red plastic handle strap. Additionally, the limited selection of flavors
and bulkiness of this product usually keeps shoppers overlooking these gallon
buckets full of frozen goodness.</div>
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Typical cost’s for an ICT used to be about 5 bucks. I
remember paying $5.49 in the hay day before these things before they were
‘blowin up’ off the shelves. Unfortunately, in today’s economy, we are seeing
ICT’s sky rocket in price. My recent adventure to the <a href="http://translate.google.com/">supermercado</a>, led me to
find the ICT to be $6.99. (That’s a 27.3224% increase). Unfortunately this is
not the worst of it. More recently at food stores all across the nation, there
has been a shift away from the large <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=1+gallon+to+table+spoons">1 gallon</a> red strap (that’s red strap, not
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Stripe">red stripe</a>.. you’re on the <a href="http://www.blogaboutbeer.com/">wrong blog</a>) ICT to a smaller half gallon blue trap
ICT (This really shouldn’t even deserve the name ICT, but we’ll let it slide).
The blue strap reduction tubs are the same price as the original red strap ICT.</div>
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Moving forward! I leave a few reasons for this tub
conversion from it ICT to the blue strap half barrel.</div>
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1. The deflated economy has pushed more
shoppers to the “free-cheapo-buyer” side of the spectrum when shopping and taking
a careful look at possible deals the grocery store is more rewarding. </div>
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2. <a href="http://www.apple.com/">Plain is the new thing</a>! Perhaps ice cream lovers are craving the simple flavors of vanilla
with scattered flakes of chocolate or a sherbet you will never forget or the
occasional cookie dough cluster vanilla or Pure Chocolate. All these flavors keep you wanting more… more
from the tub, and more tubs when they empty. </div>
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3. The third possibility the size
of the tub is changing, is due to global warming. This is the only
other likely possibility. As the temperature of the planet heats up, it must
cost more to produce and store ice cream in its frozen state. This cost is
simply transferred to ice cream consumers like me.</div>
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I guess my options are to continue to bike and walk and hope
the ICT (and the planet) doesn’t get any hotter than it already is!<br />
<br /></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-8718177322970733862011-11-06T21:44:00.000-08:002012-06-03T11:59:41.000-07:00Albertsons 2011 Grocery Store Promotional Win Big Monopoly Game - Rare Pieces<link href="/static/spreadsheets/client/css/2238438423-tiler_view_ltr.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></link><style>
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I have never been this excited about a Grocery store "spend more on stuff you don't need" Promotion Game.... until now! Currently (November 2011 - January 31st 2011) <a href="http://www.albertsons.com/">Albertsons</a> is promoting their latest Board Game: Wish Big Win Big <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)">Monopoly</a>. Only it's a bit modified to resemble products instead of real estate. We have seen these corporate monopoly games done before, notably the famous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald's_Monopoly">McDonalds Monopoly game</a>. For this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertsons_(SuperValu)">Albertsons</a> game, the rules are simple.<br />
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<li>Buy products at Albertsons (especially the ones with the "Win Big" stickers near the price tag)</li>
<li>Redeem your recipe for a booklet with 4 game pieces and 1 coupon at the register</li>
<li>Fill in a game board with the game pieces</li>
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The idea is to fill in the 4-6 game pieces to win the particular prize category. <a href="http://www.city-data.com/forum/arizona/631192-looking-pieces-albertsons-monopoly-game.html">The trick</a> with these types of monopoly games is that they leave one piece to be very hard to obtain, thus making the prize hard to win. To make things a bit easier to tell if you should even worry about getting a game board and licking the game pieces to fill in the different prizes, here is a list of the "hard" items to obtain to win the entire prize. Some reward categories are still being determined which prize is hard to obtain, but as information is known, the table below will be updated!</div>
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Chances you might actually win this prize</div>
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Diamond Nut Topping</div>
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H483</div>
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Rare</div>
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$5 Cash Prize</div>
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Pie Crust</div>
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H479 </div>
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Not likely</div>
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$10 Cash Prize</div>
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Diet Snapple</div>
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H476</div>
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Unlikely to win</div>
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$20 Albertsons Gift Card Prize</div>
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Sweet Peas</div>
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H473</div>
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Probably won't win</div>
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$50 Albertsons Gift Card Prize</div>
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Diet Coke</div>
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H468</div>
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Highly unlikely</div>
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$100 Digital Camera</div>
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Peperoni stix</div>
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H462</div>
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Not very likely at all</div>
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$100 Albertsons gift card</div>
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Ore-Ida</div>
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H459</div>
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Very not likely </div>
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$250 Gift Card Mall Gift Card Prize</div>
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Donettes</div>
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H454</div>
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Slim chance</div>
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$500 Albertsons Gift Card Prize</div>
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Crackers</div>
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H450</div>
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Very slim chance</div>
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$650 Apple iPad 2 Prize</div>
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Reddi <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ScyVd-hXNk">whip</a></div>
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H446</div>
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Ultra low slim chance</div>
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$1000 LED TV Prize</div>
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Turkey gravey </div>
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H444</div>
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Extremly ultra low slim chance</div>
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$5000 Cash Prize</div>
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Chocolate Chips or Peppermint mocha</div>
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H439 or H441</div>
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Don't play the game trying to win this</div>
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$5200 Groceries for a Year Prize</div>
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Oreos or Maxwell coffee</div>
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H433 or H435</div>
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Do you really want that many groceries anyways?</div>
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$10,000 Vacation Prize</div>
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Brawny paper towels</div>
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H427</div>
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Basically impossible</div>
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$25000 Vehicle of your choice Prize</div>
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Gingerman or Quartet</div>
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H422 or H426</div>
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$25000 Cash Prize</div>
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Corn or Green beans</div>
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H418 or H419</div>
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0.000000000001</div>
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$50000 Vehicle of your choice Prize</div>
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Corn chex or Cinnamon rolls or Crecent rolls</div>
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H412 or H415</div>
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0.0000000000005</div>
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$50000 Cash Prize</div>
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Contry Crock butter or Oreo ice cream</div>
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H408 or H410</div>
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0.0000000000005</div>
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$250000 Cash Prize</div>
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Mozzarella Cheese or Stove Top Turkey stuffing</div>
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H404 or H405</div>
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Unsure if they will even give this out to 2 lucky people</div>
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$1000 Albertsons Shopping spree sweepstakes</div>
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None</div>
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Neither</div>
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The table above can be used as a reference to see if your game piece is of value, or just another <a href="http://therunofthemill.net/">run of the mill</a> game pieces. Each booklet also provides a free coupon for some random item within Albertsons, this is usually a measly 25 cent off coupon. However, occasionally (1 in 10 chance) this is a Coupon redeemable for 2 more additional game pieces on your next visit to your local Albertsons! If your desprate for more pieces, you may try a search on <a href="http://www.ebay.com/">ebay</a> or <a href="http://craigslist.org/">craigslist</a> for what people are selling: <a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=albertsons+monopoly&_sacat=See-All-Categories">Albertsons Monoploy Pieces on Ebay</a>. I hope this makes the game easier to play and you can <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=strategize">strategize</a> your purchases accordingly! Good Lick!!<br />
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<b>Update: </b>If you are looking for the Current <a href="http://writinganythingblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/albertsons-sizzlin-summer-giveaway-rare.html">Albertsons Sizzlin' Summer Giveaway Rare Game Pieces</a>. Look No further!</div>
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Jean shopping for me was never fun. In fact clothes shopping in general was never an enjoyable experience. I always felt like I had to re-define 'my style' of clothes and that meant going out on a limb of change. I never knew what I liked, and what I wanted from these clothes, other then just to look good, feel good and not be naked. It wasn't until I went to pick up a new pair of jeans at a local clothing store in 2009, that I really fell in love with a pair of jeans. I remember first looking at them, and noticing they did not have a zipper. "No Zipper?, I don't want something weird like buttons for a zipper!" I was hesitant to even bring them to the dressing room. I don't know why I walked into the dressing room that night, but for some reason I did.Later that night I walked away away from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohl's">the store</a> with 3 pairs of jeans.</div>
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Just as a quick side note about buying clothes all at once. I have found that when you buy more then 2 items of clothes that are supplementary to one another (ie. one day you can wear one and the next day you can wear the other, but you could never where both items of clothes on the same day because that would be a double layer of unfashionable warmness) it seams that you will always prefer one over the other. Somehow one will just become your "favorite" of all the others. This is the problem when buying clothes "in series" as I call it. Buying clothes "in series" is when you buy the clothes in one trip. However buying clothes in parallel is when you buy them in multiple trips, and it's when clothes are bought in parallel that you can find similar clothes that are complementary, but you can like both of them very much, but for 2 completely different reasons. Anyways, so with this particular "in series" shopping spree, I picked up 3 pairs of jeans. Only one of which I still wear to this day. That pair of jeans is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Strauss_%26_Co.">Levi Strauss</a> <a href="http://us.levi.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11616794&">501</a>.</div>
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I can't describe exactly what I like about these pair of blue jeans, but the way they fit, their comfortable spacious interior is unlike any other jean I have had. They give a relaxed feel, yet still allow movement and hard work to take place while wearing them. They are like a multipurpose room from elementary school, allowing all sorts of activities to take place within one set of walls, weather it is basketball, choir practice, or a rainy day lunch. The button up fly not only works, but also gives a nice variance to the typical fly and zipper set up on many other popular <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/03/conan-jeggings_n_791512.html">leg/thigh coverings</a>.<br />
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My usage of the Levi 501 has lead me to reveal a flaw in the making of the jeans, noticeably around the arch of the jean where one pant leg meets the other. It seams that in 2 of the 4 pairs' of the 501 jeans I own, that they simply do not hold up well at this weak point. While the jeans continue to provide great leg covering, they also add an additional, yet unwanted, air conditioner to the <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/ultratouch-recycled-denim-insulation.html">denim coverings</a>. They also appear to give a rip at the knees, but I'll blame this on user error, rather than the jean's fabrication.</div>
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To conclude, these 501's by Levi Stauss are an amazing piece of work, and if you haven't gotten your leg's inside a pair yet, then I suggest you give it a try, hey you might like it enough to buy a few pair of a pair of jeans in series!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-12060785227577177852011-10-04T21:41:00.000-07:002014-01-27T19:09:59.919-08:00Lost in a Moment - The Story Telling Art of Country Music<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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To Start I present a song, to play in the background as you begin reading this <s>email</s> Blog Post.</div>
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There are a bunch of song links below, but figured this could help get things started!</div>
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So I regret to inform you that this response was supposed to be much longer and more accurate (in regards to <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">Country</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span> - the true <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span> still played on the radio), but I guess Gmail decided not to save my draft I had typed out after a long drive home listening to some of the latest and greatest <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">country</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span>. What I have written below is an attempt to reproduce that explanation of <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">country</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span>. However nothing I write will be as good as that original write up/outline. This is simply <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_cNFfSgI78">a tribute</a> to that original lost email.</div>
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So let's start off by saying that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music"><span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">Country</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span></a> is different. It's not like everyone likes it, and because it has such a strong connotation with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly">hillbillys</a> and cowboys, most people shy away from such <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span>. While it's clear that the so called "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LkQbPhkVfI">Twang</a>" in the singers voice gives away the musics' style and purpose, it's really about the lyrics in <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">country</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span> (kinda like how <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbB4PP4HknU">rap <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span> is about the bass</a>!). The song's mentioned in this email mean nothing unless the time is taken to hear the lyrics out to their entirety. The lyrics tell the story, not the guitar strings, or the drums!</div>
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So some may find the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twang">twang</a> annoying at first, but that's really what can help define the <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">country</span> song. It's apart of the song, much like how<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkadog/3684396632/"> fireworks are apart of America's fourth of July Celebration</a>, and the jack of spades is a part of a deck of cards. The twang may be a hurdle to over come to really enjoy the <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">country</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span>, but it's one hurdle that is worth jumping over in life. There is an endless possibility of <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">country</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span> after that Twang is enjoyed rather than <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/parenting/01/15/par.most.annoying/index.html">annoyed</a>.</div>
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I propose that there are three types of <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">country</span> songs can be grouped into a couple different categories. Some fun, and free, others more serious, and some with a message learned from life experiences.</div>
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An example of a fun, more upbeat song could be <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxWjtWONuGc&feature=related" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Eric Church's - Smoke a little Smoke</a>, or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QHHpyRbdt8&feature=related" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Jason Aldean's - Dirt Road anthem</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZC_wkIW4U4&feature=related" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Hicktown by Jason Aldean</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmekzvbKrF8&feature=related" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Joe Nichols - Gimmie that Girl</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhDe46UsHtY&feature=related" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">She won't be lonely long by Clay Walker</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLdQ4GUg-U4" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Jake Owen's - Barefoot Blue Jean Night</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLdHwjw8Ilk" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Rodney Adkins - Take a Back Road</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9mUH1JltbA" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Justin Moore - Backwoods</a></div>
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A more serious song could be <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbGvzyVBloo" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Brian Mcomas - Baby let me be your man</a>, or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xXD9-1mLBY&feature=related" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Blake Sheltons' - Who are you when I'm not looking</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f0p5KqdU9U&feature=related" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Don't Blink by Kenny Chesney</a> just to name a few.</div>
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Another aspect of <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">Country</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span>, which some prefers to ignore, is the girls singing <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">country</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span>. Song's like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f27zNlmRMWU&feature=related" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Carrie underwood - Last Name</a>, or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EGabHDMUN0&feature=related" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Miranda Lamberts - Me and Charlie Talking</a> are nice to mix things up a bit from the usual guy dominated <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">country</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span> scene.</div>
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If your still having trouble figuring out what <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">country</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span> is all about, you may try a couple song's by Brad Paisley. He is an amazing song writer with top charting hits every few months. He continually writes song's that hit the heart! Try a few of these on your local stereo to see what I'm referring to:</div>
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izo9w1ElWdc" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Waiting on a Woman</a></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw5kOzGToec&feature=related" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">This is <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">Country</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">Music</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etnXccIRhpE" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">I thought I loved you then</a></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE6iAjEv9dQ&feature=related" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Online</a></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Yg9wjctRw&feature=relmfu" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Welcome to the Future</a></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Among Many, many more!</li>
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Unfortunately <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">Country</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span> is not all fun and games. <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">Country</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span> is one of the few types of <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span> that brings the real aspects of life into it's <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span>. It lets you live through their experiences when they sing about stuff like breakups and leaving a lost love. A few songs present this here:</div>
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tZaIDo_ULk" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">The Truth - Jason Aldean</a></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0N44CWgGx4" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">Give it Away - George Striaght</a></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8XkLrErSHw" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">You and Tequila - Kenny Chesney</a></li>
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To end things off, I have one last song that me and my sister have a particular liking to:</div>
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Best of luck to enjoying one of the greatest American traditions that is still <a href="http://www.shoutcast.com/radio/Country">very much alive</a>!! If you STILL have a problem with the Twang, give it a week or two!</div>
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p.s. one more: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3TWpWf798s" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/<wbr></wbr>watch?v=p3TWpWf798s</a></div>
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p.p.s This wouldn't be a <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">country</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fcf7bd; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">music</span> introduction without some Allan Jackson!!</div>
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Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-89967491997680127282011-05-24T12:08:00.000-07:002011-05-24T12:08:05.103-07:00ArchLive Vol. 1 - A Selection of Music From Archive.org<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;">After I learned about </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive" style="font-family: Verdana;">Archive.org</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;">, I wanted to have a way to share the music more with the public to spread the love of some of the amazing music hosted there. My hopes is to revel new artists to some listeners, and encourage them to listen to some new artists they may not have known about before. My approach was to try and get some jam bands together, to make a playlist of some enjoyable music. If you think I missed some great music, drop a line about some good artists I am missing out on!</span><br />
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<tr style="text-align: left;"><td width="25%"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Artist</span></b></td><td width="25%"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Song Title</span></b></td><td width="25%"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Date</span></b></td><td width="25%"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Location</span></b></td><td width="25%"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Listen</span></b></td></tr>
<tr style="text-align: left;"><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_Truth">Barefoot Truth</a></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/bft2008-02-07.flac15" id="ky-o" title="feed on the ground intro > damage done">feed on the ground intro > damage done</a></span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">February 7, 2008</span></span></td><td width="25%"><a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=coverage%3A%22S.+Burlington%2C+VT%22"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">S. Burlington, VT</span></span></a></td><td width="25%"><a href="http://ia600305.us.archive.org/16/items/bft2008-02-07.flac15/bft2008-02-07d1t15_vbr.mp3" id="lrrz" title="Mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mp3</span></a></td></tr>
<tr style="text-align: left;"><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weepies">The Weepies</a></span></td><td width="25%"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/weepies_2004-09-18_live_in_ohio.shnf" id="lor." title="Rocks and Water"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Rocks and Water</span></a></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">September 18, 2004</span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=coverage%3A%22North+Olmsted%2C+Ohio+and+Oberlin%2C+Ohio+%28Tracks+24+and+29%29%22" style="color: #0000cc;">North Olmsted, Ohio</a></span></span></td><td width="25%"><a href="http://ia600201.us.archive.org/0/items/weepies_2004-09-18_live_in_ohio.shnf/weepies_2004-09-18_live_in_ohio_04_rocks_and_water_vbr.mp3" id="uins" title="Mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mp3</span></a></td></tr>
<tr style="text-align: left;"><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Rudd">Xavier Rudd</a></span></td><td width="25%"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/xrudd2010-09-05.akg483.flac16" id="or:j" title="Food In The Belly"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Food In The Belly</span></a></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">September 5, 2010</span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=coverage%3A%22St.+Petersburg%2C+FL%22" style="color: #0000cc;">St. Petersburg, FL</a></span></span></td><td width="25%"><a href="http://ia600107.us.archive.org/21/items/xrudd2010-09-05.akg483.flac16/xrudd2010-09-05_tw_07.mp3" id="wr60" title="Mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mp3</span></a></td></tr>
<tr style="text-align: left;"><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.hillcountryrevue.com/">Hill Country Revue</a></span></td><td width="25%"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/hcr2008-10-16.dpa4023.flac16" id="go1t" title="Highway Blues"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Highway Blues</span></a></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">October 16, 2008</span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=coverage%3A%22Philadephia%2C+PA%22" style="color: #0000cc;">Philadephia, PA</a></span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ia600304.us.archive.org/32/items/hcr2008-10-16.dpa4023.flac16/hcr2008-10-16dpa4023t04_vbr.mp3" id="momf" title="Mp3">Mp3</a></span></td></tr>
<tr style="text-align: left;"><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Butler_Trio">John Butler Trio</a></span></td><td width="25%"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/jbt2004-05-27.flac" id="mefx" title="Tomorrow I'll Be Home Today"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tomorrow I'll Be Home Today</span></a></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">May 27, 2004</span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=coverage%3A%22Broadbeach%2C+Gold+Coast%2C+QLD%2C+Australia%22" style="color: #0000cc;">Broadbeach, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia</a></span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ia700108.us.archive.org/7/items/jbt2004-05-27.flac/jbt2004-05-27d1/jbt2004-05-27d1t11_vbr.mp3" id="una4" title="Mp3">Mp3</a></span></td></tr>
<tr style="text-align: left;"><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Doughty">Mike Doughty</a></span></td><td width="25%"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/mdoughty2006-07-04.fm.flac16" id="fddy" title="St. Louise Is Listening"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">St. Louise Is Listening</span></a></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">July 4, 2006</span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=coverage%3A%22Chicago%2C+IL%22" style="color: #0000cc;">Chicago, IL</a></span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ia700209.us.archive.org/1/items/mdoughty2006-07-04.fm.flac16/mdoughty2006-07-04t12_vbr.mp3" id="d_qw" title="Mp3">Mp3</a></span></td></tr>
<tr style="text-align: left;"><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_%28band%29">moe.</a></span></td><td width="25%"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/moe2011-02-04.vm44" id="z0vl" title="Plane Crash"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Plane Crash</span></a></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">February 4, 2011</span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=coverage%3A%22Denver%2C+CO%22" style="color: #0000cc;">Denver, CO</a></span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ia700409.us.archive.org/19/items/moe2011-02-04.vm44/moe2011-02-04-vm44-16bit-s1t08.mp3" id="it8b" title="Mp3">Mp3</a></span></td></tr>
<tr style="text-align: left;"><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Monsoon">New Monsoon</a></span></td><td width="25%"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/NM2003-11-02" id="dvez" title="Don't Feel Welcome"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Don't Feel Welcome</span></a></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">November 2, 2003</span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=coverage%3A%22New+Orleans%2C+LA%22" style="color: #0000cc;">New Orleans, LA</a></span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ia600201.us.archive.org/10/items/NM2003-11-02/nm2003-11-02D1T07.mp3" id="n55e" title="Mp3">Mp3</a></span></td></tr>
<tr style="text-align: left;"><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.A.R.">Of A Revolution</a></span></td><td width="25%"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/oar2005-03-31.flac16" id="izp2" title="About An Hour Ago"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">About An Hour Ago</span></a></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">March 31, 2005 </span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=coverage%3A%22West+Lafayette%2C+IN%22" style="color: #0000cc;">West Lafayette, IN</a></span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ia600208.us.archive.org/4/items/oar2005-03-31.flac16/oar2005-03-31d2t04_vbr.mp3" id="g8g1" title="Mp3">Mp3</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr style="text-align: left;"><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slightly_Stoopid">Slightly Stoopid</a></span></td><td width="25%"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/slightlystoopid2010-08-12.flac16" id="f_-s" title="Collie Man"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Collie Man</span></a></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">August 12, 2010</span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=coverage%3A%22Kansas+City%2C+MO%22" style="color: #0000cc;">Kansas City, MO</a></span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ia600103.us.archive.org/21/items/slightlystoopid2010-08-12.flac16/slightlystoopid2010-08-12d2t08.mp3" id="b-by" title="Mp3">Mp3</a></span></td></tr>
<tr style="text-align: left;"><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Furtado">Tony Furtado and the Dangermuffin Duo</a></span></td><td width="25%"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/tonyfurtadoanddangermuffinduo2010-06-12.matrix.flac16" id="mq1." title="Ghost of Blind Willie Johnson"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ghost of Blind Willie Johnson</span></a></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">June 12, 2010</span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=coverage%3A%22McMinnville%2C+Oregon%22" style="color: #0000cc;">McMinnville, Oregon</a></span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ia600105.us.archive.org/5/items/tonyfurtadoanddangermuffinduo2010-06-12.matrix.flac16/tonyfurtadoanddangermuffinduo2010-06-12matrix-set01track06.mp3" id="v5vt" title="Mp3">Mp3</a></span></td></tr>
<tr style="text-align: left;"><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonder_Mountain_String_Band">Yonder Mountain String Band</a></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/ymsb2004-04-17.sbd.flac16" id="v1_w" title="Just The Same">Just The Same</a></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">April 17, 2004</span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=coverage%3A%22San+Francisco%2C+CA%22" style="color: #0000cc;">San Francisco, CA</a></span></span></td><td width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ia600201.us.archive.org/18/items/ymsb2004-04-17.sbd.flac16/ymsb2004-04-17d2t11_vbr.mp3" id="n:an" title="Mp3">Mp3</a></span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://archive.org/" style="font-family: Verdana;">Archive.org</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"> has a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Music_Archive" style="font-family: Verdana;">large collection of music</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"> at the </span><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/etree" style="font-family: Verdana;">Live Music Archive</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;">, that could be used for a variety of project's. Including a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Radio">Pandora styled</a> radio player, where similar artists play one after another, from the database of live shows. Allowing users to vote for songs they like and build up a similarity ranking among the music on archive.org. Also presenting a media player for all the music on the site at one location would also be beneficial!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"> I hope these tracks are enjoyed and leads to new, free music discovery on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Archiveorg/106077522765885">Archive.org</a>! </span><br />
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I recently had the chance to work on a housing project in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camal%C3%BA">Baja Mexico</a> that was building an <a href="http://www.goalforthegreen.com/2009/02/dirt-cheap-eco-domes/">Eco-Dome</a>. Like me, when I was first introduced to the project, I was unaware what an <a href="http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/images/cal-earth_eco-dome.jpg">Eco-Dome</a> was. So let me take a few words to explain this type of building. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"> An <a href="http://calearth.org/building-designs/eco-dome.html">Eco-Dome</a> is a </span><a href="http://calearth.org/building-designs/what-is-superadobe.html" style="font-family: Verdana;">superadobe</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"> structure with walls made of sandbags and barbed wire. Designed by <a href="http://calearth.org/">Cal-Earth</a>, originally meant for <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/">NASA</a> to build on the <a href="http://astrophysicsclub.ucsd.edu/images/projectmoon/Moon004.jpg">Moon</a> and <a href="http://www.survivaltopics.com/survival/how-to-find-the-north-star/">extraterrestrial planets</a>, now looks to use local building materials to form a sturdy structure for a home here on earth. The structure uses the nearby <a href="http://www.earthdirt.org/">dirt</a>, sand, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil">earth</a> to fill sandbags in a cylindrical formation to form a stable structure. Each layer has a strip of barbed wire to help with tension forces on the building. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaster">Plaster</a> is then placed around the sandbags for weather protection and aesthetic appeal. Here are some <a href="http://calearth.org/galleries/eco-dome.html">pictures</a> of the particular Eco-Dome I had the privilege of working on.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"> Inside you can see the staircase up to the second story, as well as the tile flooring. Notice the windows around the house to provide natural lighting. The base walls are made of extra long sandbags that are 2 feet wide to help keep the inside temperature different from the outside temperature, so hot outside should leave the inside cool, and cool outside should leave the inside a bit warmer. This technique is common for sustainable designs. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"> Another sustainable building design that is common besides the <a href="http://www.comingunmoored.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ecodome2.jpg">Eco-Dome</a> is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship">Earthship</a>. This looks to use local trash and recyclables to build a versatile and economic design. By using rubber car tires, glass bottles, and earth (among other materials), the Earthship is designed to capture natural sunlight and rainwater to help provide heating and <a href="http://www.earthship.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=119">water</a> for the house. The <a href="http://www.dreamgreenhomes.com/plans/earthship.htm">Earthship</a> is typically faced southward, with windows allowing sunlight to heat up the rubber tires on the inside of the home for heat. <a href="http://www.earthship.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24&Itemid=118">Solar and wind power</a> have also been a common option to provide basic electricity needs. Although <a href="http://www.rubberflooringdirect.com/images/th_dumped-tires34kb.jpg">tires</a> and glass bottles are typically <a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2757/4260634185_e9a982a308_o.jpg">free for the scavenger</a>, the <a href="http://www.earthpower1.com/">Earthship</a> uses concrete and stucco to form a structured wall around the recycled materials.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"> These type of housing designs have been evolving ever since they have been developed, and they have yet to be finalized in any particular form. Each Eco-Dome or <a href="http://www.genrefluent.com/earthshi.htm">Earthship</a> is unique in a different environment or terrain. This flexibility allows for change and innovation in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica">any</a> location on the planet.</span></div>
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Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-17288623430149745742011-03-17T12:51:00.000-07:002018-04-06T10:42:27.011-07:00Guessing a Number 1 to 100Each month, my local housing community has a residence council meeting to talk about any updates in the community. I attend these meetings for three reasons,<br />
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<li>They provide free pizza</li>
<li>They have a "drawing" for one lucky winner to win a $20 <a href="http://www.traderjoes.com/">T</a><a href="http://www.freakonomics.com/2009/02/19/do-you-know-who-owns-trader-joes/">r</a><a href="http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/article/6-things-to-buy-at-trader-joes/6191657/">a</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU4QJZb-S7w">d</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQd5Qq3ApI&feature=related">e</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWpzdGVlT-0&feature=related">r</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdB7GDZY3Pk">Joe</a>'<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trader_Joe's">s</a> gift card</li>
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The first two items keep me excited about this meeting each month, but this last one is an added bonus. For over a year now, I have tried to go last on the sign in sheet, studying the other numbers and guessing a number that has the widest spread. Looking through everyone else's numbers, you can see what numbers would give you the highest probability, since they allow for the closest number to win the gift card. Recently, however, it's been a game of cat and mouse with who will get the last signature (and guessing number) on the sign in sheet. Inspired by Watson, this made me take a more sure way of choosing a number. </div>
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Using the <a href="http://diveintopython.org/">python</a> <a href="http://www.python.org/doc/">programming language</a>, I was able to code up a quick script to enter a given set of numbers between 1-100, and then have it spit out the optimum number to choose. It basically just looks at the maximum distance between all the entered numbers, and then chooses the middle number between that distance. The <a href="http://www.python.org/">python</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)">code</a> can be seen <a href="http://www.its.uci.edu/~mredmond/ofintrest/One21Hundred.txt">here</a> (to be converted from a txt file to .py file).</div>
The code is free to use and modify without any permission. I'm sure it can be optimized to have fewer lines of code, but that's what you get for not being much of a computer programmer. So far the program was used once at a previous meeting, with a friend using the second highest probability number, and we both lost. I blame it on the council choosing a random number from their head (#2), and not a <a href="http://www.random.org/integers/">random number generator</a>. Either way, stuff like this takes time, so well have to wait and see. I have a couple more try's to use the program, so well see if it can maximize my odds enough to obtain another gift card!!Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-46274549334166007162011-02-16T21:18:00.000-08:002013-02-25T21:29:56.557-08:00Original Recipe: The Two Eyed Pancake Recently, while trying to combine the best of two breakfast meals, I had an moment of <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/GWzx">Eureka</a>. I believe I was driving at the moment of the <a href="http://www.clifbar.com/blog/detail/clif_4_ever_and_the_story_of_clif_bars_annual_epiphany_ride/">epiphany</a>, when it occurred to me, that I could combine the <a href="http://writinganythingblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/classic-recipe-egg-in-hole_11.html">classic Egg-in-a-hole recipe</a> with the <a href="http://writinganythingblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/evolution-of-cereal-pancake.html">massive 2000 Calorie morning pancake</a>. Why not make a hole in a pancake, and fill it with eggs!<br />
To create the hole in the pancake batter, I used a pint glass upside down in the middle of the pan. This created a solid <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus">torus</a> for the pancake to form around. Managing the timing of the pancake, as well as the eggs in the center took a little more effort than a typical <a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/07/egg-in-a-hole-see-alternate-names-below/">Egg-in-a-hole recipe</a>, where the bread doesn't need to cook thoroughly like a pancake does. Once the pint glass was taken out, the shape of the pancake allowed for eggs to be cracked in the center.<br />
Note: the rim of the pint glass, was a bit messy and really needed a scrubbing in the sink with some soap.<br />
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Once the egg's were cooked enough on the bottom, the pancake was ready for turning. A little tricky maneuver with the eggs so uncooked, but doable. The kitchen smelled of the sweet combination of pancakes cooking with fresh fried eggs in the air! While it was cooking on it's backside, I couldn't help but think of the toppings. Normally for a pancake, I put Peanut butter and syrup (<a href="http://www.walmart.com/ip/Mrs.-Butterworth-s-Sugar-Free-Syrup-24-fl-oz/10849979">Sugar Free Syrup recommended</a> for no Crash all Dash!) all over it. While for egg's I enjoy a bit of savory jam. So with this pancake-egg combination dish, I decided to use both of these toppings. With a rim of peanut butter for the pancake section, and a layer of jam for the egg portion. Then, all topped off with a nice layer of syrup! </div>
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Right when I was dumping a bunch of syrup on this two-eyed-pancake, I had a realization, that I might just have made the most <a href="http://www.yelp.com/topic/chicago-the-most-disgusting-food-combination">disgusting food combination ever</a>. After a bite, this was clearly not the case. Rather it was one of the best tasting pancakes I have ever had! With <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403803,00.html">lot's of calories</a> to offer and a full stomach, I was pleased with this new recipe! It took a bit more care to make, but it was an enjoyable experience, reflecting back on it now, I would call it a <a href="http://mycookingadventure.blogspot.com/">Cooking Adventure</a>! I felt that this recipe opened up a whole new set of possibilities for breakfast cooking. So I ask you, the reader, how could this recipe be modified to be even better?</div>
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Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10899454209266684449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056944262227424893.post-22436542198929027152011-02-11T08:54:00.000-08:002011-11-06T21:51:09.419-08:00Classic Recipe: An Egg in a Hole There is nothing like a <a href="http://www.xkcd.org/854/">homemade</a> breakfast with a fried egg. The day seam's to start much better when you get it off on the right foot with a high protein breakfast. A little toast on the side for some starch is also very yummy. If both these breakfast entrées are so good, why not combine them? <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4468910_make-egginthehole.html">Well people have</a>. For century's, the classic <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/egg-in-the-hole-recipe/index.html">Egg in a Hole recipe</a> (AKA: One Eyed Sam) has been floating around by word of mouth; Until Now! So here's the ingredient list:<br />
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<li>2 Pieces of Bread</li>
<li>A small amount of butter (to grease the griddle)</li>
<li>A Small cup (to cut a hole in the bread)</li>
<li>Your favorite flavored Jelly</li>
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We start with heating up the frying pan on the stove (low-medium heat), with a bit of butter melted on the pan. This helps toast the bread, and fry the eggs. </div>
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While the griddle is heating up, use the small cup (or shot glass) to cut a circle in the middle of the bread. The placement of this hole should be as close as to the center as possible, to allow for support of the cracked egg on all sides of the bread. </div>
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One idea, instead of <a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5135/5407047532_68f2a8fa6c.jpg">a circle</a> is to make a box, or <a href="http://assets.kaboose.com/media/00/00/1f/b0/b1833958c764d9d5a174df9b2ba575e2397c087b/476x357/eggs-VDay-475x357-476x357_476x357.jpg">a heart</a>, or <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ40fOcpFMpHR13015KJHKnEeCXNjzcIPfmkgucspgmVR_JUSdcirFpTZ4FRybvyQhRvD3YBOKrYPXjEBr1RLQDxjJ30bGssBcmWf4DBBtoXpjioip13mAyoYgOQibB5_X2ReL8DJxlH1d/s1600/egg+hole+1.jpg">any funky design</a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSCidnhyiA7KDtDbC50bU-c29LIuNDv7J-onnDblJbTqnHpFC-97V9kz3tNIswgNc2GJFts2axlSHLVwl4KI-UD1Si8DAh4C0fOszivr5Yh_SBvRo1BW5GE7rAK6NWMQSHO1jYtMt9X41o/s1600/girl+toast.jpg">you</a> <a href="http://bsinthekitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Mickey-Egg-4.jpg">please</a> ( including an <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcmp10-gHf3AdXzD-JKhz604GmduzbHKZht3Xty8Wff2eOmZ2DBHjQY51esNTNcTmSBgorhU5mdAv0XHwF1D7SOHdex5bqV-EJw_-RsZG-2qOqKKxTCKo2jpl-OlTWtizIdFV81zj2V9c/s800/bell-pepper-egg-in-a-hole2.jpg">Egg in a Bell Pepper</a> or some <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMomxYbE6zLstMNVI2ufrDDvFgJv6oFLE3E7A5VwV-pZQcM9w90Q09Oo7qG2x_L9HrdPhp7Mg2yCczgt7oCMJb9pnFn8FZjHEzyWEEWV99I8A30vFS2uN0PXg6LCQwjGYAI2K9YwrHmvw/s1600/Salsa+Holes.jpg">Salsa Holes</a>). The extra bread can be used as a light snack, or fry it along next to your egg, or feel free to dip it in some egg batter to make a small piece of French Toast!</blockquote>
When the griddle is warmed up, place the bread (with the hole in it) on the pan as flat as can be and crack the egg's into the holes. Be sure to aim for the hole, and not let the egg seep from under the bread. While this cooks (5-8 minutes depending on how you like your eggs), be sure to have your plate and jelly ready! Before flipping, be sure to toss a desirable amount of salt and pepper on your frying egg.<br />
When the egg has whitened up and cooked, you can flip the bread (with the egg inside), to fry the top side of the egg (if desired). When you feel the egg has cooked through enough, your Egg in a Hole is ready for jelly time! Placing the bread/egg combination on a plate and spreading jelly on top, your ready for your <a href="http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/508856">Egg in a Hole</a> breakfast! So next time your wondering how to mix up your breakfast routine, remember the Egg in a Hole recipe, you wont be disappointed!<br />
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P.s. If your feeling a little extra creative, try to get<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcuZOBRelxJueezZovXKciRD8RDItmWQ6Aw5sbCTkMVrISpWCWnQ3UQdsOMx2uyaz_JmWEgNCOhyPh1zo5k07G-BpTQsrtXq_HnKpEVUH67UQPPPT6cJUZVVUP3ZaW8YOnE7Scu48MU0A/s1600/egg1.jpg"> two yoke's out of one egg</a>! </div>
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