Ken Nordine Stare With Your Ears

Links for my search for more Stare With Your Ears tapes:

Ken Nordine on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ken-nordine/id5207291?trackPage=2#trackPage

A google group copy of alt.ken-nordine.word-jazz which contains an incredible 1996 listing of all the tapes, including the one that I have!!!!
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.ken-nordine.word-jazz/39wXAlB9HOE

Online bookmarks

Looking for a way to drag all my bookmarks, mostly diversions, across many machines into some kind of central location that can be archived. Has to be able to work with IE, would be nice if I could save my Safari bookmarks from the iPhone, but an alternative would be to have some kind of online service that I could simply access via Safari. Needless to day, this concept is terribly unreasonable and I probably won't find what I am looking for, if for no other reason than because manufacturers of different browsers hate interoperability.

Here is a weak-ass article that describes how cloud storage for bookmarks works for chrome and firefox separately, nothing about IE (because there probably is nothing):

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2045685/seamlessly-sync-your-data-across-devices.html

According to this, there is a way to synch stuff using Windows 8 and a "Microsoft account," none of which I want to have.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/sync-settings-pcs

This article gives the following options: Use Windows 8, manually shuffle favorites folders around with SkyDrive or another cloud options, or use Xmarks which seems promising. The cloud storage idea is presented with a kinda nice trick; apparently IE lets you define a location other than the default location for the favorites folder, so if you define it as being in a folder that is automatically synched with the cloud, then this option becomes much less manual.

http://www.howtogeek.com/131249/how-to-synchronize-your-internet-explorer-favorites/?showcomments=1#comments

Here is another example of doing the cloud storage option by redefining the location of the favorites folder:

http://desktopdeploy.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/sync-internet-explorer-favorites-with-skydrive/

Here's an article about how agonizingly hard it is to synchronize bookmarks between Firefox and IE:

http://www.pclicious.com/sync-your-bookmarks-synchronize-bookmarks-between-ie-internet-explorer-and-mozilla-firefox/

Some cloud bookmarking services exist as something called "social bookmarking" which is intended on being like tumblr or pinterest or something but just with links. This is clearly not what I want, but there might be one of these that offers sufficient privacy for my purposes. The main thing is that none of these are really oriented towards downloading the links back into Favorites or local bookmarks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

One of these Social Bookmarking services, Delicious, is sufficiently hated that there are several articles about alternatives to it:

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2011/03/16/8-better-ways-than-delicious-to-bookmark-content/

Here's another article about online synch services. Xmarks comes up several times, but one commenter points out that Xmarks reserves the right to publish and otherwise mine the information. Another commenter mentions something called BookmarkSync and has a link to a different Wikipedia article comparing online sync tools.

http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/3317/bookmark-sync-tool-between-internet-explorer-firefox-chrome-safari-and-opera

The Wikipedia article in question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_synchronizers

Here's an unsorted pile of ways to synch bookmarks, from IE to Chrome, from Firefox to IE, and some online services:

http://mashable.com/2007/09/20/sync-bookmarks/

Pedestal Sinks

Looking for a white pedestal sink for the bathroom remodel, it is surprisingly difficult to find one that is just the right size for our small bathroom. Here is the list of models that fit that have been found so far.

This is a basic one that's the right size to replace our old 24"x18"x32" block vanity, was in stock at the store for easy pickup, and it has the layered square styling to match the bathtub, but when we set it up it still jutted out into the narrow space between the walls and was a hazard to the kids:

http://www.lowes.com/pd_76118-70476-AP1222-00_0__?productId=3697624&Ntt=pedestal+sinks&pl=1¤tURL=%3FNtt%3Dpedestal%2Bsinks

Here's the one that I really wanted, from Kohler. 18" deep, a full 24" wide, lots of top surface area, a sexy truncated oval shape. The side profile, including with the pedestal, is an absolute work of art. Sadly, Lisa felt that it wasn't round enough, and I made the mistake of mentioning that it was a little taller than our old sink.

http://www.us.kohler.com/us/Cimarron-bathroom-sink-with-4-centerset-faucet-holes/productDetail/Non-Catalog/424300.htm

http://www.us.kohler.com/webassets/kpna/catalog/pdf/en/1020683_1.pdf

http://www.us.kohler.com/us/storelocator/whereToBuyResults.jsp

So, looking through other options at Lowes, there were a few round sinks. This one was too small, it has to be close enough to the 24" width so that the original medicine cabinet doesn't look ridiculous. Also, the stumpy pedestal is just stupid looking:

http://www.lowes.com/pd_142553-71652-EPL3300_4294737305__?productId=3138477&Ntt=pedestal+sinks

This Crane design is a nice oval, but 20" deep is way too big!

http://www.lowes.com/pd_221349-834-0236004EC.021_4294737305__?productId=3396716&Ntt=pedestal+sinks

So I very much liked this design from Crane, but I think that with the pedestal it was "too tall". Plus somebody online reviewed it as not being level although that could have just been installation.

http://www.lowes.com/pd_165598-834-178V100_4294737305__?productId=3161433&Ntt=pedestal+sinks

Here are a few more Khol's options. This one was the right dimensions but just looked ridiculous with it's bulbous shape:

http://www.us.kohler.com/us/Wellworth-bathroom-sink-basin-with-4-centerset-faucet-holes/productDetail/Non-Catalog/417582.htm?skuId=368884&brandId=783155

The width and depth on this Kohler alternative are right, but it wasn't unpointy enough for Lisa, it's ridiculously tall, and looks ugly from the side.

http://www.us.kohler.com/us/Veer™-24-pedestal-bathroom-sink-with-4-centerset-faucet-holes/productDetail/Pedestal-Sinks/941422.htm?skuId=941381&brandId=960402

http://www.us.kohler.com/webassets/kpna/catalog/pdf/en/1216014_4.pdf

Bimbo Bread

Local bread company with a Hispanic name (say "beembo"), the fact that the bread is made without HFCS makes it the most like the Wonder Bread of my childhood. They have a website here:

http://www.bimbobread.com/

which has a store locator, but the locator appears pointless, as it does not list my local market (El Toro) that has the bread, but does list the big chain (WalMart) which used to have the bread but doesn't anymore.

Corvair Clubs in Maryland

My search for Corvair clubs in my local area came up with a Baltimore branch of the big national club, one in the "Chesapeake" area, and one in Bowie that doesn't even seem to have a website or email.

http://www.corvair.org/chapters/chapter672/CorsaMap/East/MD.htm

http://corsa212.homestead.com/

http://www.corvair.org/chapters/chapter210/chapter210/Page_1x.html

http://www.corvair.org/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/view&Itemid=333&reset=1&id=519&gid=9

The Baltimore group has a FB page... with 26 members...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/baltimore.corvairs/

I'm pretty sure that Dad's was a '67 corvair. Might have been a '69?

https://www.google.com/search?q=1965+corvair&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=61Y_UoHnGIe72AW2yIDAAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1090&bih=525&dpr=1#q=1967+corvair&tbm=isch

Here's the top-level organization's website, looks like a fairly lively place:

http://www.corvair.org/

Here's a list of a bunch of chapters:

http://www.corvaircorsa.com/links01.html

The smallest keyfinder

A running log of my project to find a suitable keyfinder for Lisa. It needs to be useful for both keys and objects such as the cell phone and remote.

My first purchase was the "Click-n-Dig" brand, which is very nice. It has both stick-on and keyring style beepers, check. It comes with spare batteries for all compents, nice. However, the beepers are relatively large. In our case they are actually bigger than both the cell phone and the remote. And the dongle with the buttons to make the beepers beep is tiny; they've gone to a lot of trouble to make the colors and shapes of the buttons match the colors and shapes of the beepers, but there's no way to distinguish which beeper you've assigned to which object except to keep a separate list. Also, the battery covers have fallen right off of both the keychain beepers in the 4-beeper set that I got, and so far I've only found one.

http://www.amazon.com/Click-Receivers-Wireless-Keyfinder-Batteries/dp/B009JJJ7S4/

This Sharper Image one has a remote with spaces where you can write what each beeper was attached to, but the beepers are gigantic and the device apparently suffers from Sharper Image's reliability issues.

http://www.amazon.com/Sharper-Image-Wireless-Electronic-SI667GRY/dp/B0000A1OCM

This "EZ-Find" device seems to have it all; mini stick-on beepers, a way to select a beeper by assigned name, but the form function of the remote is just painful and absurd. I'm trying to like it, but I don't think that I can. Plus it has a price befitting such a complicated piece of electronics.

http://www.amazon.com/EZ-FIND-Item-Design-Electronic-Locator/dp/B004FVFGMW/

http://ez-find.com/faqs/

More as new developments arise.

Some asides:

This is an interesting idea using rfid tags, but it turns out to be pure vaporous concept and unlikely to ever actually exist:

http://www.yankodesign.com/2011/11/03/key-control/

Here's a version of the Click-n-Dig that has even more oversized beepers, plus the remote is huge:

http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Find-Remote-Control-Locator/dp/B0000X0YTO/

This "Find One Find All" concept is pretty neat, but the smallest stick-on remote that they have is the size of a credit card:

http://www.findonefindall.com/