March 18, 2006
The Vac Shop. Vacuums and a free bible.
The Vac Shop. Vacuums and a free bible.
- Review of: Vac Shop the
- By: Michelle Goldberg
- Rating:
- Read review on Judy's Book.
If you don't mind a little religion with your vacuum cleaners, then this is the place to purchase or service one. Dave is the authorized Miele dealer in the Seattle area. He has everything possible in stock and encyclopedic knowledge of the industry for the past 40 years. He gave me a great deal, was willing to pull the machines out of the boxes and mix and match the parts to get me what I need and didn't try to oversell me. He is also very competitive with internet pricing. He is going to take my old vac in a decent trade.
This is the place to go for new, used or service for your Miele or other high end vacuums if you can get beyond the quirky outdoor decor of old vacuum cleaners made into zoo animals (think mostly elephants) and religious references.
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March 8, 2006
Mpire Researcher
Mpire has a great new tool to use if you are a buyer or seller of anything! Researcher will tell you the history of any item selling for the last 30 days- average sale price, % sold and show the items that have sold. This is an invaluable tool, don't overpay or undersell again.
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June 24, 2005
Mpire- eBay Live
Here we are at eBay live in San Jose for the launch of another great Ignition company, Mpire. What have we done today? We made buttons, signed the eBay banner, we bypassed the bingo and watched the next great software company launch thier service. Bright orange is the new black- they are cool. They are also easy to use and provide everything a seller needs to manage an eBay auction.
Happy 10 years eBay! Good luck on your first Mpire!
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March 10, 2005
Vail parking inside info
If you are not ski in ski out in Vail, here is a great insiders parking tip (we only discovered this on our last day). Valet parking. Drive to the Golden Peak Hotel, valet the car and take Riva Bahn Express lift all the way up the mountain. This is all the way over on the left side of the mountain, so the Riva Bahn is not as crowded in the morning and you can't beat valet parking as parking in the Village is pretty well spaced out. Tip- act like a local, the hard core will make sure you keep moving at the Valet- "This is not a park and get dressed, it is a car drop off."
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February 20, 2005
Home appliance etc. chat forums
Great chat forum for home appliances and other things- Garden Web This has helped immensely re. decisions about which steam oven and cappuccino maker to buy. Hotly debated are the relative merits of Wolf vs. Viking. I don't really know all this first hand, but my husband has spent hours on the forums getting good advice (cross referenced many different ways) on his way to building his dream kitchen. Unfortunately we can't fit the Gaggeneau Steam/Convection Oven but can put in the Miele one. The site has some real aficionados but does not seem to be infiltrated by professional product people. I am currently on trying to figure out if California Closets is really worth the 30%+ premium they charge.
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January 27, 2005
Miraval Life In Balence Resort
We had a great family trip to Miraval (no kids). This was a return trip for my husband and I and we liked it so much we went back over the holiday with our extended family. We do love the "mind/body" experience- this trip proved there was something for everyone.
There are a number of tracks you can follow at Miraval- you are not locked into any one program, and there are always more classes at any one time than you can actually sign up for (although my family did a great job of trying) Trying to simlutaneously relax and schedule yourself into every possible yoga, mindfulness, massage, or wilderness challange class sends a mixed message for your vacation, but everyone does it. Here is the best way to enjoy Miraval:
Pick your overall vision of what you want out of your experience, keep it simple, and don't worry if it doesn't all fit perfectly.
For the truely anal. Go to the website and print off the current schedule. for the time you will be there They send you a sample schedule in the mail, this is of no help. Once you have the actual schedule for your time use a highlighter and three different color pens to decide what you want to do hour by hour of your vacation. Yes, this sounds counter-vacation, but if you don't do it now you will be doing it while you are lying on a matt in the desert meditating. Also, this is a great chance to get really exicted about your experience and possibly get your husband to agree to attend an "Creating with Clay" class beause it shows up highlighted.
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November 2, 2004
The Bitch in the House- October book group book
This is our October bookgroup book. I didn't love the premise- a group of women writers "bitching" about thier lives. That said, the essays were actually interesting and brutally honest (they didn't all use thier real names). Next month we are going to read "The Bastard on the Couch" which are rebuttle essays edited by her husband.
JB pick
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Good HTML cheat sheet
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/
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October 21, 2004
Mena's Corner
Mena's Corner: October 2004 Archives
This is from the woman who founded Moveable Type.
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Daddy Types- blog for new dads
Daddy Types, the weblog for new dads: Stokke Xplory at Buy Buy Baby NYC
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October 5, 2004
re:invention
re:invention blog - for women entrepreneurs
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Save photostamps!
PhotoStamps trial has ended! Here is the info from the site to save PhotoStamps:
"The USPS has informed us that they plan to make a decision on the future of the PhotoStamps program within the next 90 days. If you wish to express your interest in seeing the program continue, it would be extremely helpful. You may write to the following person:
Nick Barranca, VP Product Development
United States Postal Service
475 L'Enfant Plaza, SW, Room 5012
Washington, DC 20260-5012
Also, if you wish, a letter to your representative in Congress could be very effective. In your letters, be sure to explain how you used the postage and what it meant to you or your friends and family to be able to include your own photo on valid US postage."
So write the USPS and your Congressperson (seems like an odd campaign to bother our reps with given everything else going on this season) may be best just to bother the post office.
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Making HTML without learning it
Its a big pain to learn HTML. Fortunately, MovableType has a plugin that makes it easy. We are using Textile which is a simplified markup language.
The markup is documented on the Textile site
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September 23, 2004
Big Pink Cookie
Big Pink Cookie
Send me women who blog links when you find them. Here is ground zero for women who blog- we all wish to be so big and so pink.
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Broken as Things Are
Amazon.com: Books: Broken as Things Are
A great first novel. Beautifully written, amazing command of language and uses it to great effect. Like my pet peeve with most first novelists feels like she was too tightly edited and the story within a story wanting to push through was probably held at bay- I am going to meet the author next week- so I'll ask. Otherwise, really beautiful and heartbreaking.
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September 13, 2004
Doormat
Dr. Doormat: Doormat supports healthy home environment, as seen on NBC & CNBC.
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September 12, 2004
PhotoStamps
PhotoStamps: Learn-More This is a very cool site- make US mail stamps with any image you want on them- just upload a digital pic. Cost is about $1 per stamp. You can't do this on Ofoto.
Eek! Photostamps may go away! Apparantly this is just a market test and according to the SJMN http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/9741890.htm?1c the product is being abused- pics of Monica Lewinsky etc, and stamps.com stock fell, so they are thinking of shutting it down. So order before Sept 30.
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Book group books
Here is my list of book group books we have read
BG V.1.0
Memoirs of a Geisha
Angelas Ashes
Tis
The Hours (Pulitzer Prize winner nobody liked, now a movie)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (my favorite book, everyone hated)
BoBos in Paradise
Barbara Kingslover I forget which one bc I didn’t read- the family in the Amazon
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
The one about the hmoung child with epilepsy- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. This was written by the woman who is married to the author of the Big House- see Book Group V3
Tipping Point
The Wallace Stegner- not Angle of Repose
The Feminist Mystique
Katherine Graham autobiography
Doris Kearns Godwin on the Roosevelt Whitehouse- No Ordinary Time
Girlfriends Guide to Hunting and Fishing
The one from your favorite author
The one where we went to hear the author at Elliot Bay- your friend and Marla’s friend published the book about a girl with AIDS
I feel like we had a Hemmingway or something that nobody read- A Moveable Feast
BG V.2.0
Galileo’s Daughter
Smith President- Road to Corain
Correlli's Mandolin
The one where a woman goes out west, period piece, starts with a guy in a wheelchair at a lighthouse?
The Corrections
The Red Tent
Bel Canto
White Oleander
Good to Great
The Tea Rose
The Little Friend- Donna Tart
My Girlfriend Kristin's book- The Good Patient
Book Group V3
The Big House
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September 10, 2004
The Big House
Amazon.com: Books: The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
I liked The Big House. My bookgroup didn't. If you have a family vacation house in Cape Cod, this is the book for you. I could relate to the content even if not much happened and what did happen the author was too protective of the family secrets to really make interesting (you either write a true story or not- writing fact cloaked as fiction but still not wanting to step on anybody's toes is obvious).
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