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Wynter wrote:We have forest fires?!

Wow, where have I been?

You're not in Quebec apparently.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/23745086/detail.html

Don't know about forest fires. at the moment, though we have them on West coast... I'm not on the east side of US now. However, I have just been reading again about the great blackstrap molasses explosion and flood in Boston circa 1919(?). that was a great messy affair and you could smell syruppy buildings for a few years afterwards.
I can't imagine drowning in molasses. Huge storage tank... thousand of gallons.
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Peg

Jav_sol wrote:

You're not in Quebec apparently.

If she were, her username would be "hiver" or maybe "hyver".

Jav_sol wrote:

You're not in Quebec apparently.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/23745086/detail.html

No, Ontario. But you'd think it would be in the news more. I still haven't heard about it. Mind you, I don't watch TV. I get my news from the radio. :sweat:

brad2 wrote: However, I have just been reading again about the great blackstrap molasses explosion and flood in Boston circa 1919(?).

Why would molasses explode? :headscratch:

Eve wrote:Why would molasses explode? :headscratch:

A storage tank with molasses burst, flooding the city streets.

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_molasses_disaster

Since some of you were jokingly patting yourselves on the back for not joining Faceboook or FB maybe sometimes you should consider why people join. Several of my family and friends invited me for quite some time and I ignored their requests. At the end of last year a childhood friend of mine, a retired school teacher who had moved out of state, joined FB because her daughter had a baby and I guess she wanted to show off her new granddaughter's pics. And righfully so. I still didn't join FB with her invite. Well sorry to say my friend died suddenly of a heart attack this past March at the age of 59 and it made me realize that perhaps I should have shared in her FB joy, especially because my friend did not particularly enjoy responding to e-mails. In fact she never did. She was one of the most joyful, outgoing, positive woman I ever knew. I had sent her a card to congratulate her on her granddaughter back in Dec 2009 and she sent me an actual photo of her beautiful grandchild, but my FB comments might have been nice also. So sometimes joining FB has a deeper meaning than you realize so please don't be so quick to judge or joke about everything. :victory:

^ I dunno, I just don't have any interest in it. Like Twitter of Live Journal or any of that other stuff. Just doesn't have any attraction for me.

Enna wrote:Since some of you were jokingly patting yourselves on the back for not joining Faceboook or FB maybe sometimes you should consider why people join. Several of my family and friends invited me for quite some time and I ignored their requests. At the end of last year a childhood friend of mine, a retired school teacher who had moved out of state, joined FB because her daughter had a baby and I guess she wanted to show off her new granddaughter's pics. And righfully so. I still didn't join FB with her invite. Well sorry to say my friend died suddenly of a heart attack this past March at the age of 59 and it made me realize that perhaps I should have shared in her FB joy, especially because my friend did not particularly enjoy responding to e-mails. In fact she never did. She was one of the most joyful, outgoing, positive woman I ever knew. I had sent her a card to congratulate her on her grandadughter back in Dec 2009 and she sent me an actual photo of her beautiful grandchild, but my FB comments might have been nice also. So sometimes joining FB has a deeper meaning than you realize so please don't be so quick to judge or joke about everything. :victory:

Well said Enna. FB is just another social meeting place. It can be misused by the usual suspects that meander thru the internet seeking to reject any form of enjoyement much as the ever present bully in the school environment. But they are easily avoided. As you said, I find it increasingly convenient to remain in contact with hitherto lost friends and former compadres from my work places. I enjoy the public banter that other folks have with my friends of which I had been totally unaware prior to this interesting vehicle. I enjoy reading what friends of my friends are doing in their lives all over the world. It is very convenient for a news freak (me) to get up to the minute news headlines, interspersed on my wall with my friends comments, from the main news medias that now also publish on FB. I like the announcements from my favorite groups (like Taiko Project) that keep me informed of their planned appearances long before any other method of communication. And because it has become a daily ritual to participate it is so much simpler to arrange lunch dates with my family members with just a short sentence rather than individual emails.
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Enna wrote:Since some of you were jokingly patting yourselves on the back for not joining Faceboook or FB maybe sometimes you should consider why people join. Several of my family and friends invited me for quite some time and I ignored their requests. At the end of last year a childhood friend of mine, a retired school teacher who had moved out of state, joined FB because her daughter had a baby and I guess she wanted to show off her new granddaughter's pics. And righfully so. I still didn't join FB with her invite. Well sorry to say my friend died suddenly of a heart attack this past March at the age of 59 and it made me realize that perhaps I should have shared in her FB joy, especially because my friend did not particularly enjoy responding to e-mails. In fact she never did. She was one of the most joyful, outgoing, positive woman I ever knew. I had sent her a card to congratulate her on her granddaughter back in Dec 2009 and she sent me an actual photo of her beautiful grandchild, but my FB comments might have been nice also. So sometimes joining FB has a deeper meaning than you realize so please don't be so quick to judge or joke about everything. :victory:

I'm with GM on this one, and this is after I already had an account. I joined FB around 3-4 years ago when it was first coming around. It was exactly as you described it, with such a convenient way to see friends and communicate with people you wouldn't otherwise have a means to do so.

But it became dangerous for my job, since I'm a teacher and students were starting to find me. I never posted anything bad, it's just a matter of maintaining the fine line. So I deactivated it. I do know that from experience it's quite a beneficial tool.

As for whoever was teasing or joking about FB, if you meant mine and Eve's jokes, then you've completely misunderstood. In my case, my comments about FB usually refer to the fact that people are on FB and not here, therefore I feel left out. That's all. It wasn't an attack on FB users. After all, I was one.

So please don't take offense.

gaijinmark wrote:^ I dunno, I just don't have any interest in it. Like Twitter of Live Journal or any of that other stuff. Just doesn't have any attraction for me.

Although many people enjoy the heck out of twitter, I can't seem to get into it... probably because I'm too wordy and feel frustrated to have my comments cut short before I can even make a preamble to what I want to say. :doh:

As for Live Journal, I only find it useful for downloading J/K dramas without stupid BT.

But FB has definitely evolved into something extremely useful for different folks... take for instance if I were still active in extra work, the new FB announcements from Central Casting and other casting agencies regarding their coming casting bookings for movies/tv in preparation... this was the kind of information that we paid lots of money for to the two Hollywood mags that published that same information, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. Now we get it daily and for free. (Not to mention the 3 free meals that iHop is offering FB users....) :mrgreen:

Wyn chan I totally understand your conumdrum in not being able to maintain your teacher/student separation on this kind of public platform. That is too bad. :grumble:

Enna wrote:Since some of you were jokingly patting yourselves on the back for not joining Faceboook or FB maybe sometimes you should consider why people join. Several of my family and friends invited me for quite some time and I ignored their requests. At the end of last year a childhood friend of mine, a retired school teacher who had moved out of state, joined FB because her daughter had a baby and I guess she wanted to show off her new granddaughter's pics. And righfully so. I still didn't join FB with her invite. Well sorry to say my friend died suddenly of a heart attack this past March at the age of 59 and it made me realize that perhaps I should have shared in her FB joy, especially because my friend did not particularly enjoy responding to e-mails. In fact she never did. She was one of the most joyful, outgoing, positive woman I ever knew. I had sent her a card to congratulate her on her granddaughter back in Dec 2009 and she sent me an actual photo of her beautiful grandchild, but my FB comments might have been nice also. So sometimes joining FB has a deeper meaning than you realize so please don't be so quick to judge or joke about everything. :victory:

Enna, I wasnt joking about those who are on it at all. I use my husbands page often. I was joking about Wyn-chan's, Tu's and my paranoia about it.
Honestly I dont have time for another forum. But I love looking at peoples pics on FB. :victory:

^ Uh, we have a Facebook discussion thread, BTW: http://jdorama.com/viewtopic.9756.htm

Eve wrote:

Endeavors?

Sounds intriguing.

There are never enough hours in the day to do all the things i'd like. :sweat:

NIce to see you dear. :hug:

I just realized. I miss doing the following things
1) Watch dramas
2) Hoard music and update my ipod weekly
3) Work out


:(

ralphm1999 wrote:
Although many people enjoy the heck out of twitter, I can't seem to get into it... probably because I'm too wordy and feel frustrated to have my comments cut short before I can even make a preamble to what I want to say. :doh:

It's the "open book" attitude of youths today. Twitter is about telling what you're doing at any moment. As it was explained to me, it's a generational thing(though that makes little sense since the "twitter/myspace/facebook" generation is all of 6-7years younger than me) and that's why we don't understand it. These same young people are the ones being taken advantage of, bullied, fooled, and complaining of loss of privacy because of their very own use of such a medium. So in an odd twist of irony, the "twitter/myspace/facebook" savvy generation is the one that misunderstands the technology the most. You don't "get" it because you're born of a different attitude where your private life is kept, well...private. Same here. And I won't even get started on the whole "text messaging/instant messaging" vocabulary. :banghead:

YATTA! I can now add genres to the drama profile pages when I update. :woot:

@Eve, gaijinmark & Wynter: Sorry if I misinterpreted the FB comments made in another thread. :say_oops: It is sometimes hard to read the intent behind comments on a message board.


Ralph I am impressed you really have found the best that FB has to offer! :applaud:


OK back OT - Hope everyone had a good weekend. :)

I thought there was an earthquake in the wee hours, but maybe I was dreaming... :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:I thought there was an earthquake in the wee hours, but maybe I was dreaming... :sweat:

There was an earthquake centered in Santa Monica Bay...

http://laist.com/2010/06/07/36_earthquake_strikes_santa_monica.php

Tu_triky wrote:There was an earthquake centered in Santa Monica Bay...

http://laist.com/2010/06/07/36_earthquake_strikes_santa_monica.php

Ah, maybe that was it... It was a quick jolt, though it seemed stronger than a 3.6... :sweat: