Few people know about RSS or if they have heard about it they don't know what it does or how to set it up. In my first screencast I wanted to show you how to subscribe to your favorite websites and have them delivered to your RSS reader. RSS enables you to subscribe to sites so you don't have to continually check and see what updates were made to the site. Instead the new content...
Tag: Personal
Mill City Museum in Minneapolis, MN
I take my camera to as many places as I can, so when I was in Minneapolis, MN a while back I filmed a flour mill tour at the Mill City Museum. Minneapolis is called the “Mill City” and has lots of old mills that sit along the Mississippi River. This video isn't going to win any awards, but the museum did such a great job depicting the life of an average mill worker, I...
How David Beats Goliath
What I learned: "David’s victory over Goliath, in the Biblical account, is held to be an anomaly. It was not. Davids win all the time. The political scientist Ivan Arreguín-Toft recently looked at every war fought in the past two hundred years between strong and weak combatants. The Goliaths, he found, won in 71.5 percent of the cases. That is a remarkable fact. Arreguín-Toft was analyzing conflicts in which one side was at least ten...
Dozer Day
My mom, dad, and sister took my nephew Evan to Dozer Day in Vancouver, WA today. There were about 75 different dozers, back hoes, etc that the kids could 'help' operate. As www.djcoregon.com describes it: "The Nutter Foundation will put kids in the driver’s seat of bulldozers, dump trucks and other heavy construction equipment this month as part of its annual Dozer Day fundraiser. Dozer Day, which benefits the Clark County Parks Foundation, allows children...
The Mule & The Well
One day, a farmer's Mule fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the mule. So he invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the...
Starfish
Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work. One day he was walking along the shore. As he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think of someone who would dance to the day. So he began to...