Bucket List Books: How and why to add reading to your bucket list by Joe Hearn Is reading on your bucket list? If not, it should be. Why is regular reading so important? How will you benefit from reading more? How can you make it through dozens of books
in the typical year? What have I read so
far on my way to 500 books in 10 years?
Read on to find out. Why You Should Read More: It keeps your mind
sharp. It inspires you to do
interesting things.
Reading gives you ideas of things to do and then inspires you to do them. It’s difficult to read A Walk in the Woods by
Bill Bryson, without being inspired to get up off the couch and plan your own
hike. If you read My Life in France by
Julia Child, you’ll probably want to sign up for cooking classes or maybe even
plan a trip to Paris. Reading is a great
way to get ideas and inspiration for your bucket list. It gives you ideas for self-improvement. Getting Things Done helped me to bring some sanity to my
To-Do list. The Power of Habit helped me to understand how I can get
rid of bad habits and create good ones.
On Writing helped me to improve my writing. It’s fun and a low cost form
of entertainment. I
spend most Saturday mornings on the couch with a cup of coffee and whatever
book I happen to be reading. Not only is
it enjoyable and relaxing, but it’s cheap entertainment (I get most of what I
read from either the library or Amazon).
Find a list of what I read during the first 2 years of my 10-year
goal. "Life is short. Be intentional." http://intentionalretirement.com/2015/02/bucket-list-books/
Colcannon (Irish: cál ceannann, meaning
"white-headed cabbage") is a traditional Irish dish mainly consisting of mashed potatoes with kale or cabbage. It is also the name of a song about the
dish. Find lyrics to the song and link
to Irish dishes, cabbage dishes and potato dishes at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colcannon
URL is the abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator. URL is the
global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. The
first part of the URL is called a protocol identifier and
it indicates what protocol to use, and the second part is called
a resource name and
it specifies the IP
address or the domain
name where the resource is located.
The protocol identifier and the resource name are separated by a colon
and two forward slashes. An URL is one
type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI); the generic
term for all types of names and addresses that refer to objects on the World Wide Web. The term "Web
address" is a synonym for a URL that uses the HTTP or HTTPS protocol. The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) was developed
by Tim Berners-Lee in 1994 and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) URI working
group. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/URL.html
France has
become the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying
unsold food, forcing them instead to donate it to charities and food banks. Under a law passed unanimously by the French
senate, large shops will no longer bin
good quality food approaching its best-before date. Charities will be able to give out millions
more free meals each year to people struggling to afford to eat. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/french-law-forbids-food-waste-by-supermarkets
“Explore
674,208 items digitized from The New York
Public Library‘s collections. This site is a living database with new
materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts,
streaming video, and more.” A recent
addition is a collection of over 2,000 Turn of the Century Posters. http://www.bespacific.com/download-2000-turn-of-the-century-art-posters-from-nypl/
The Bob Dylan Archive has been acquired by the George
Kaiser Family Foundation and The University of Tulsa and will be permanently
housed in Tulsa. The Dylan
archive – comprised of more than 6,000 items spanning nearly 60 years of the
artist's career--will be under the stewardship of TU’s Helmerich Center for
American Research, for subsequent public exhibition in the city’s Brady Arts
District. http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/music/kaiser-family-foundation-tu-acquire-bob-dylan-archive/article_732caa5f-16bd-5073-8e80-008d3e909046.html
WORD FORMATION
Compound words combine two or more lexemes into a single new
word. Compound words means may be
written as one word or as two words joined with a hyphen: notebook, stir-fry.
Clipping means a word is reduced or
shortened without changing the meaning of the word: gymnasium – gym, influenza – flu. The
four types of clipping are back clipping, fore-clipping, middle clipping, and
complex clipping. Back clipping is
removing the end of a word as in gas from gasoline. Fore-clipping is removing the beginning of a
word as in gator from
alligator.
Middle clipping is retaining only the middle of a word as in flu from influenza.
Complex clipping is removing multiple parts from multiple words as in sitcom from situation comedy.
Blending is the word
formation process in which parts of two or more words combine to create a new
word whose meaning is often a combination of the original words: advertisement + entertainment →
advertainment, biographical + picture → biopic.
May also be called portmanteau words.
Portmanteau
words put two words together: emotion
icon = emoticon.
Contraction
words take two words that are used in order and removes something: emoji is a contraction of the words e and moji,
which roughly translates to pictograph.
Internet pioneer Ray
Tomlinson, who is credited with the invention of email, has died at the age of
74. The computer programmer came up with the idea of electronic messages
that could be sent from one network to another in 1971. His invention included the ground-breaking
use of the @ symbol in email addresses, which is now standard. Tomlinson died on March 5, 2016, according to
reports. He sent what is now regarded as
the first email while working in Boston as an engineer for research company
Bolt, Beranek and Newman. The firm
played a big role in developing an early version of the internet, known as Arpanet.
His work was recognised by his peers in 2012, when he was inducted into
the Internet Hall of Fame. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35741116
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1437
March 7, 2016 On this date in 1876, Alexander Graham
Bell was granted a patent for
an invention he
calls the "telephone". On this date in 1912, Roald Amundsen announced that his expedition had
reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
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