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| ONE OF T.OLIVER KOPIAN'S CREATURES OF DELIGHT - YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL FIND ON THE WEB, DO YOU? |
I can’t seem to warm up to Facebook or Twitter, or even
Pinterest, though I do belong to Facebook to take advantage of some
freebies. When I’ve time to go on line,
I’m interested in finding new things for myself. I rarely want to know what friends and family
know or like, or what they’re doing.
Sounds cold, doesn’t it? But if it’s important enough I’ll hear it
anyway – why go searching for the trivialities of the day.
I’m finding more and more interesting sites every day. Once
the New York Times decided to charge for digital access – I’ve only my laptop,
so why would I want to add on Smartphone or tablet apps – I sought out other
news sites where I wouldn’t be limited to just ten articles a month. I still
keep the NY Times as my home page so I can check regularly for ‘what’s
happening right now’, but I’ve found Slate
and it suits me much better.
My regular morning laptop routine starts like this: homepage
to see what happened over night; then Slate, of course; NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day *
to learn a little bit about our universe and see some wonderful pictures; Arts & Letters Daily, to see what web
article The Chronicle of Higher Education has selected to further aid education
today; and The Writer’s
Almanac to see what of significance happened on this date, and who among the
world’s past and present notables was born on this day. Where do you suppose I
pick up all the interesting topics for my essays?
Then it’s on to Yahoo to check my junk mail. I use my internet server for family and friends email.
Any other emails and on-line purchases where I might attract spam go out on
Yahoo. This has kept my local emails fairly
spam free. I check the official and
unofficial websites for our community, go on to check the weather and what
might be of interest on the tube that day – though for all the programming out
there, there is very little to interest me. I find little of value to learn on
the Learning Channel and less to discover on Discovery, though there are exceptions once in a while. (All in
all, for all the programing on TV, I’d rather read a book.) I end up at last
with the blogs I follow. Now there’s a treasure trove.
Some of you may know that I love ‘shelter’ magazines. My Mom
was a regular subscriber to Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day and Family Circle,
and the like. I am happy with Martha Stewart Living, Country Living,
Traditional Home, Elle Décor, and such. So when I get to my shelter blogs I am
in hog heaven. So many of the great blogs, like My French Country Home,
have little teasers at the end. After
the day’s main entry it will say something such as “you may also like:” and
they have clickable references to entries in the same vein – and those
references have more references, and I click on and on until I forget
everything I was supposed to do that day. Couldn’t happen to a nicer person!
If you’d like to see more of what interests me each day, do
check out the listing on the right. One never knows – you might find something
to amuse and amaze you.
* and do watch this video on Astronomy Picture of the Day. It is guaranteed to make you smile.
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