Book ribbons continued

Last month I wrote about how to add ribbons to a cherished hardcover book.

Some places will sell you ribbon for a buck a yard.

But if you head down to Michael’s, you can buy a 12-yard roll of 3/8" ribbon for $4.

Yay - Latin part 1 done

Rejoice with me! In my quest to learn Latin, I have finished typing out the Nouns table 200 times, using my Dowling's Wheel webapp. Evidently if I memorize this and five other tables, I'll be well on my way to reading Latin fluently, according to the article Latin by the Dowling Method.

Memorizing the first table was a fun way to spend a half hour in the evening for the past couple of months. If you've ever thought about learning Latin, check out the above article.

Safety Tip: Add the hot chocolate powder to the milk after, not before, putting it in the microwave

Otherwise this will happen.

Favorite author, poet, composer: Austen, Eliot, Chopin

I have not read a ton of works of fiction. I don't get a chance to read as much poetry as I’d like. I rarely listen to music (surprising, as I enjoyed playing a lot of music in school).

but

I have derived much pleasure from the works of the following artists. I hope to delve more deeply into their works throughout my lifetime.

• Favorite author: Jane Austen. Every time I read one of her books, I fall in love with the heroine.
• Favorite poet: T.S. Eliot. The Waste Land. Four Quartets. Love it.
• Favorite composer: Frédéric Chopin. Growing up, we had a Chopin cassette tape that I listened to over and over.

The highly reviewed 99 Most Essential Chopin Masterpieces (MP3s) can be downloaded from Amazon for six bucks (US residents only, alas).

I heart the PrintWhatYouLike bookmarklet

The PrintWhatYouLike bookmarklet is cool. It lets you take stuff out from the current webpage, to make it print better.

For example, I was trying to print out a webpage, but it was a little bigger than one page. I wanted to get it down to one page. Using this bookmarklet, I easily took out some useless stuff from the middle of the page, and voila: it printed out to less than a page.