Sunday Sundries

September 5, 2011 By Shelly Durkee

Wow. September is here. Labor Day weekend, the beginning of school, my birthday month. Happy Labor Day everyone–if you are employed, take a few minutes to be grateful for your job. I certainly am.

1.I love libraries–small, tiny, large, bookmobiles–I always like to explore new libraries. The library in Kansas City is designed to look like books–real books! on shelves. I particularly love the giant sized “Charlotte’s Web”. You can see pictures of the library HERE.

2. Ok. Yes, I am a Trekkie. Always have been. Particularly for Jean Luc Picard and his crew, but also Spock, Doc, Scotty, etc. Here are some bloopers from Star Trek. Funny.

3.Beautiful and nerdy stained glass art

4. Hysterical: Very funny political tweets posted after the East Coast Earthquake

5. Popppppcoooorrrnnn poppppppinnng iiiinnn sloooooooow Moooootiooooon

Sunday Sundries

August 29, 2011 By Shelly Durkee

Mean Irene has moved on up the coast. Today has been a day of cleaning up the debris and putting things back to right in the house–all the things we had moved to prepare for the flooding which thankfully didn’t occur at our house. Others are not as fortunate and are dealing with water damage tonight–my thoughts are on my friends who are having to look into house repairs and insurance claims.

1. 10 Beautiful Art Quilts. My favorite, of course, is the Muppet Quilt.

2. How Big is the sun compared to earth? Justin Taylor illustrates it for us.

3. Three guys decided to take a trip around the world, and recorded/edited it down to 3 great 1 minute videos. Take a look HERE

4. One of the things we did while waiting out Irene was to watch LOST episodes. We like watching it and pointing out all the different Hawaiian locations we are familiar with. It wasn’t unusual to see the Lost crew filming around the island…often they were at the end of our street, which is the start of a hike to Manoa Falls. We also enjoy watching Claire’s baby, who was a baby in our church (who played baby Jesus for the proverbial Christmas pageant.) Anyway, probably this is of interest only to those familiar to Hawaii, but here’s a list of filming locations in Hawaii.

5. Lastly, I’ve been trying to teach myself the productive software EVERNOTE. I would like to use mostly to capture ideas and writing prompts, organize material that I want to keep, as well as help me to be as paperless as possible. Right now I have 3 files: Writing Ideas, Writing Tips and Leadership Material. With Evernote I can capture the things I know will be useful, that I don’t want to forget. There’s a lot more I need to learn about it, but it seems to be fairly simple and it’s free. You can down load it HERE. I’m not sure if there is a program for PC’s or not. Below is a humorous video describing Evernote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNE0R3rEe5Q

Sunday Sundries–Video Edition

August 22, 2011 By Shelly Durkee

Tonight’s Sunday Sundries are a bit different…I’ve compiled a list of videos, some serious, some hysterical. Enjoy!

1. I want one of these new ERGONOMIC WORKSTATIONS! (And no, staff at Seaford, the budget does not include a line item for the purchase of 4 of these so don’t even try it busters!)

2. Another nerdy video—How Books are Made

3. Whew……the reuniting of two young men who were buddies when they were friends in an orphanage named Baby House 10. They shared a crib and became friends. They never forgot each other. Check it out HERE

4. I love Johnny Cash. Always have. Here is his incredible rendition of Hurt as he knew he was dying. Be sure to listen to the words, and watch for scenes from cash’s life and scenes of the crucifixion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

5. Last video is short. It’s of our youth at Seaford Baptist Church leading worship this morning. So proud of them!