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Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time: A Thank You Party!

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Yeah, Thank YOU!!!

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YES, the mic will be open again tonight. So start collecting your thoughts. Remember, you get to bring what you want to talk about.

The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Tonight it’s about saying thanks to the world and each other!

We might also talk about

  • people we know who’ve done cool stuff
  • books, movies, songs that made a difference
  • things that make us glad that we’re alive
  • all things we appreciate

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and Milton the Moose.

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Links Leaking All Over Time!

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In Due Time

We went exploring and some could say we got lost in time at Tuesday Open Comments Night, last night. We were set on going forward in time until Renée mentioned going back and then back was the favorite way to go.

The Link Leak Virus apparently crosses time as well as space. — The Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes at Open Comment Night they become a link free-for-all.

Welcome to all of the new folks who came. It was a great time having you!

Cool links were shared time after time.

A Good Time Was Had . . . By All

Trisha would rather explore with the Doctor than Dora. She figures that traveling to the past to visit would be fun, but she wouldn’t want to live there.
BJ would rather go forward than backward — can’t live without the Internet. She was also heard saying My bedroom has been taken over by aliens. I collect vintage SciFi. I think I have every time travel paradox that exists ensconsed on one of my bookshelves.

Doug launched which isn’t the same as exploring, but it seems that way,
and it went well enough with the top secret project SeanRox was working on.

Robert Bruce would be dead by 3 days old from disease, late 1800’s American frontier. You know, Smith and Wesson on the hip, 12 gauge on the saddle.
katiebird would like to travel to the future as long as she could come back here to visit….
Char doesn’t think she could go back too many years in time – what would I do with out the Internet?

Rick is set for the future because it would be bad losing toilet paper and toothpaste, and various other things we take for granted. He knew what he was talking about — I go with the Many Worlds Theory, Joe, so I think you already did it and it created another world. Look at that! You get to be a murderer and a god at the same time.

Renée had a reason to go back in time — The first place/people I want to go is my maternal great grandma era. . . . I would like spent a few months with her, learn those skills she had cultivated.

Ben was traveling by train and his train didn’t give him much time to stay.

Starbucker was exploring musical moments in history — when the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan show. All those screaming kids – wow.
Cat provided the recipe for how to break your toe in no time at all.

Meikah asked a question which got a new conversation going — Wonder who I was in my past life?
Joe asked another and had his own answer — Why does everyone want to go into the past?
I would rather be “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century”.

Mike thought he had Joe with this comment — Having lived my whole life in the past, I can say with some surety that it’s overrated. — He was just kidding.
Chris thinks he’d like to go have a chat with some of the American revolutionaries.

Leon thought the mixing of comments was time travel fun.
Carolyn thought she should reset her clock.
Delaney went back in real time to see Pink Floyd.
Ah Pek was looking for a flashlight to go exploring.

Hans showed up some time past bedtime for me.

And the rest is history.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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The Mic Is on and We’re Going Exploring!

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

Here’s how it works.

open mike night

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Tonight it’s we’re going exploring!

We might also talk about

  • goining exploring as a kid
  • space the new frontier
  • time traveling
  • famouns explorers

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and Milton the Moose.

map and compass

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time: We’re Going Exploring!

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Who’s Got the Flashlight?

Personal Branding logo

YES, the mic will be open again tonight. So start collecting your thoughts. Remember, you get to bring what you want to talk about.

The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Tonight it’s we’re going exploring!

We might also talk about

  • goining exploring as a kid
  • space the new frontier
  • time traveling
  • famous explorers

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and Milton the Moose.

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Links Leaked over the Lyrics and Quotes

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Can I Quote You?

Wisdom and conversation were the same thing at Tuesday Open Comments Night, last night. We heard from Oscar Wilde, Somerset Maugham, and Betty White So it was no real surprise when the links started leaking as they always do.

The Link Leak Virus seeped into every thing we saw. — The Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes at Open Comment Night they become a link free-for-all.

Welcome to all of the new folks who came. It was great fun having you!

Cool links were shared in a word or twol

Quoting Geniuses

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Ellen Weber Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:03 pm e
My quote – “We can learn from experts – and we seek them for mentors as well as partners. Yet, when these pros grow stagnant and compacent – we call them on their relapse, and encourage their evolution forward.”

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Sean says “It’s yet another in a long series of diversions at an attempt to avoid responsibility.” – Chris Knight (Real Genius)

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Ah Pek Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:07 pm e
“Imagine all the people..living life in Peace….”

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Joe Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:07 pm e
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away…

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Sean Says:

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”

– Albert Einstein

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Mermaid Renée Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:18 pm e
“To be successful at anything you have to have the guts to be hated” – Bette Davis

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Sheila Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:21 pm e
“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need.”

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HART (1-800-HART) Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:21 pm e
Sudden-savage-shining-solid-soiled-solid-sanded
Steel-shuddering-shattering-shovelling until the
Sabre toothed rooter roots the earth
The eater eats his fill and is not satisfied and
Roars and reves his mathematical rage
on the footprints of Vikings
trapped on a sonic tape recorder
ten million years old, ten million years old, ten million years old.

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Delaney Kirk Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm e
WOODY: Pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson? NORM: All right, but stop me at one. Make that one-thirty.

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cat Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm e
“No offense intended, I’m also fiery passionate about the brand of nuts I eat”

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ME Strauss Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm e
“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!”

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Chris Cree Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:42 pm e
OK, Instead of Bette Davis, how about a quote from Betty White?
All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Or course, they can’t mate or the mice would explode.

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Scorpia Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:43 pm e
More like:

You’ve got questions. We’ve got security flaws.

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Rick Cockrum Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:50 pm e
Or maybe a pod? The kids look at me like I came out of a pod sometimes. Would that make us iPods?

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Jessica Doyle Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:50 pm e
“I fear what i do not know.” from my boyfriend eric.

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Marti Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:51 pm e
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

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Service Untitled – Douglas Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:54 pm e
“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. “

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Steve Sherlock Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:56 pm e
Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest… Simon and Garfunkel

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Sandra Renshaw Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 9:10 pm e
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
– David Brinkley

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Char Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 9:11 pm e
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 10:01 pm e
“Money…it’s a gas…”
“Hello out there, we’re on the air, it’s hockey night tonight…”
“All in all we’re just a ‘nother brick in the wall.”

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Candice brought the lovely Christopher Walken video

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Troy Worman Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 10:29 pm e
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Sir Winston Churchill

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John Richardson Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 11:55 pm e
It was 90 degrees here in Sunny California today…

All the leaves are brown
And the sky is grey

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ME Strauss Says:
November 8th, 2006 at 8:10 am e
“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love, you make”

The Beatles

-ME “Liz” Strauss

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