What Is Twitter?

This week I will have somehow accumulated 500 Twitter followers. To celebrate, I bring you my hack tutorial – Twitter for Newbies.

If I had a dollar for every person who asked me “What is Twitter?” in the short time I’ve been using it, I’d have at least enough for a tasty cocktail at a pricey club in West Hollywood, but maybe not enough for the …

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Taken from her blog.

Well, readers, if you haven’t figure this out at this point yet… I am a giant nerd about certain things.

So one of these things are The Muppets. Love love LOVE them. My high school quote might have been from Being Green. And by might, I mean yes.

Anyways, when listening to a TBTL podcast from May 29 today about the traveling Muppet exhibit from Smithsonian I decided to try and find the exhibit information to see if maybe it was coming to NYC, as I’d be willing to travel there to see Muppets. After some Googling, I found the exhibit page, as well as some good news.

1. There is a Podcast from members of Henson’s family. (eeep!)
2. THE EXHIBIT IS COMING TO LEXINGTON.

Yes, folks. The exhibit is coming to Lexington on April 3, 2010 to the National Heritage Museum. I am very very excited and when I read this, I gasped. So mark your calendars… The Muppets are coming to town (in ten months).

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This is a LIEMAX theater; not true IMAX.

At 56×29 feet it’s less than 50% the IMAX standard screen size:

You be the judge.

AMC says they’ll charge $3 or $4 more for their “IMAX Experience”. The AMC “IMAX” also runs digital projection, not film.

Standard IMAX is 70×50 feet with 15/70 film — 9 times the resolution of standard 35mm theaters — which is known for far superior picture quality.

Via chicagovelocity.com:

“But now IMAX has partnered with a couple theatre chains to snooker people to pay extra for what they call IMAX but really isn’t. They take a regular theatre, remove a few seats and put a screen that’s only slightly larger than normal a little closer to the audience. (They actually have a patent on doing this. Seriously.) Then they put in a pair of ordinary digital cinema projectors which they overlap on the screen for a brighter picture and to hide the pixel grid. No gigantic IMAX film projector. No special super duper digital system. Nope…just a pair of ordinary projectors beaming ordinary “2K” low resolution pictures. For this you are asked to pay four or five dollars over the price of a regular movie ticket.”

Shame on you AMC, for taking our money, claiming quality, and delivering a far inferior product.

INSTEAD GO TO:

Jordan’s IMAX in Reading or Natick (10 minutes away). These are both True IMAX theaters running 15/70 film — the largest and highest resolution IMAX film format — as well as Posteurpedic memory foam seats with custom “ButtKicker” in-seat subwoofers. And! The icing on the cake is they’ve got the best surround sound system I’ve ever heard.

SOURCES and Information:

B – Bed size: Not large enough for 2 people and a dog

C – Chore you hate: Sweeping

D – Dog’s name: Leia / Layla / BrownDog / Pooch

E – Essential start-your-day item: Adderall

F – Favorite color: #440099

G – Gold or Silver: Gold

H – Height: 6’4″

I – Instruments you play: Drums, Spoon, Tambourine, Butt Trumpet

J – Job Title: Hey You Down in Front Work Harder

K – Kid(s): Are nice

L – Living Arrangements: Key coordinator of the Smuggler’s Notch Resistance Front

M – Mom’s name: Mom

N – Nicknames: Stinky, Boris, Mathilda

O – Overnight hospital stay other than childbirth (if applicable): Forehead sebum draining (scalpel and squeezing) and subsequent intravenous antibiotics

P – Pet Peeve: People who intentionally wait until the last second to cut you off before a merge on the highway

Q – Quote from a movie: “Gozer the Gozerian… good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.”

R – Right or Left Handed: Right

S – Scared of: That glow in the dark sea diver from Season 1 of Scooby-Doo

T – Time you wake up: Just after 4:00am

U – Under the water or Up in the air: Swim like a fishy or jump like a bear

V – Vegetable(s) you dislike: Squash, garlic when someone else eats it

W – Ways you run late: ADD, baby

X – X-rays you’ve had: Wrist

Y – Yummy food you make: Peanut butter and bacon sandwiches on white bread

Z – Zoo favorites: Leaving. I don’t like seeing animals in cages too much.

The Bacon Cheese Pizza Burger
This Bacon Cheese Pizza Burger is pure genius.  Take two meat pizzas and squash a ton of beef, bacon, and cheese in between those two pizzas and pack in probably 2000 calories of heart exploding goodness per slice.

A Labrador who fought to protect its owners from a knife-wielding burglar has been honoured for his bravery.

Toby the Hero Dog

Toby was stabbed four times in the chest and legs by the intruder but still managed to chase him out.

The Morton family, from Barnoldswick in Lancashire, had been staying at Leconfield Barracks in East Yorkshire.

They awoke to find their pet in a pool of blood. But the eight-month-old survived and has been awarded by the animal charity, PDSA.

Story from BBC NEWS:

Published: 2009/04/18 10:16:46 GMT
© BBC MMIX

Please consider helping her (and the cause!) out. Any amount will help.

Also! There’s no better place to spend some of your tax returns, folks.

An excerpt from her site:

Racing to Save Lives

I’m training to participate in an endurance event as a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team In Training. All of us on Team In Training are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives. I am completing this event in honor of all individuals who are battling blood cancers. These people are the real heroes on our team, and we need your support to cross the ultimate finish line – a cure!

Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance LLS’s mission.

I hope you will visit my web site often. Be sure to check back frequently to see my progress. Thanks for your support!

MEGAN GODDARD

http://pages.teamintraining.org/ma/rnrseatl09/mgoddard

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com

By Gail McCarthy
Staff Writer

April 08, 2009 10:26 pm

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When Eoin Vincent’s daughter donated her birthday money to a Tanzanian orphanage at age 11, the good deed sparked an idea that would take her father, a Rockport photographer, nearly half way around the world.

“Hanna thought if she could help just one child get an education then she would have made a positive influence in the world,” said Vincent, a graphic designer and father of three. “Her wish sent me on a journey to Arusha, Tanzania.”

Over the Thanksgiving holiday of 2007, he traveled to the East African country, known for its famous Mount Kilimanjaro. He visited 18 orphanages, schools, and hospitals where he photographed children and their way of life.

The result is the book “Eyes of Tanzania,” a photo documentary of his travels, which will be unveiled Wednesday at a special event at the Rockport Art Association. Vincent was accepted into the association in 2008 and will share some of the stories behind his images in a slide show slated to start at 7 p.m.

“This trip inspired me as I observed what people were doing to help each other, how dedicated they were to their work, and how strong their desire for learning was,” Vincent said. “I am self-publishing the book and will not take any financial benefit from its sales. The proceeds will go to the organizations that I have visited to help support efforts so important to Tanzania’s future.”

Vincent’s daughter learned about local efforts to help Tanzanian citizens through Gloucester’s Gail Ahern, who spent time there helping orphans and others, having taken contributions from Cape Ann including the young girl’s birthday money.

Vincent, 37, has a life-long affinity to the arts. He credits his love of the creative process to growing up in a family that fostered the arts. His uncle, Peter Vincent of Rockport, is a marine painter. His grandfather Kenneth Vincent Sr. ran an advertising agency in Rockport for many years. His father, Ken Vincent Jr., a mathematician, was part of Draper Laboratories and the Apollo space missions during the late 1960s.

But his father died of melanoma when Vincent was 13.

“The arts saved me because it allowed me to express my emotions and feelings,” he said. “I used to go up to Halibut Point and just get lost with my camera for hours on end. It was me exploring the world and working through the things I needed to work through. I was always the person with the camera.”

Decades later, Vincent uses his photography and arts skills as a marketing project manager for Olympus NDT. His latest project beyond work is the Tanzanian book, which contains about 100 images.

“The idea is to let the images speak for themselves,” said Vincent.

While on his two-week trip, he experienced everything from mud slick roads, a product of the rainy season, to being surrounding by children in the markets as he stuck out as the lone American.

“You could walk into these classrooms and see the children’s strong will to learn. They were orderly and well behaved. They were like sponges taking in the information,” he said. “I met teenagers who would do anything to get an education. They understand that this is their way out of poverty. They completely understood that without an education, they didn’t stand a chance.”

Vincent hopes to send some money back to each of the 18 organizations. He remains in constant e-mail contact with many of the groups who are eager to update Vincent about their work.

In terms of how far money can go, Vincent was told by a Tanzanian man that $5 would buy food for three weeks.

Law Hamilton, the photographic representative on the Rockport Art Associationn board of directors, said the association is pleased to present the unveiling of this book, which she has been privy to see.

“Even though this is a Third World country, surprisingly the kids are smiling as they learn at school, or do their chores,” she said. “There’s a certain elegance to these people. There is a level of pride that comes through in their demeanor and how they dress. Their shirts are more ironed than mine. Overall, the book is fabulous. Eoin went over their bearing gifts and came back with a changed perspective on human nature and how easy it is to help.”

Gail McCarthy may be contacted at gmccarthy@gloucestertimes.com.

IF YOU GO

What: The unveiling of a charitable book “Eyes of Tanzania” by Eoin Vincent, in which all proceeds will benefit children in Tanzania. This is a free event that includes a talk and slide show.

When: Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m.

Where: Rockport Art Association, 12 Main St. in Rockport. Books are $30. For more information, call 978-546-7805.

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