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Entering WOW
It has been over a year since I first blogged about creating a game as enveloping as WOW. Well, I finally made the plunge! Recently, a student sent me a “Recruit a Friend” trial membership. I am going to attempt to blog my adventures. First, I had to create a character. My WOW mentor, Dave,…
Rosy the Robot – the Roomba Robot, That is…
I have had a recommendation from three of my friends who have a Roomba that they are well worth the money and work great. I finally broke down and bought one at our local Menards. I got a basic model — no base unit and one "wall." I charged the unit overnight, and set it…
Go Green with Cleaning
I guess I have always been a “green gal.” I believe in preserving the environment — I take a bag along on walks to pick up trash along the way, I recycle, I reuse… Recently, I have been experimenting with making my own cleaning products. I found a book (yes, at the library in the…
Get Unstuck!
The Hourglass Solution is about getting out of your stuck state and learning that you do have the power to make choices. One of those choices is attitude. As I am “stuck” in an extreme version of the “Sandwich Generation,” I am finding it difficult to care for two small children and an aging mother….
Summer Reading — Lifelong Learning
How do I use a library? Well, I first locate the children’s section followed by the “NEW” non-fiction books. Hopefully, they are in a close proximity of each other so that I can keep an eye on my children and browse the new books at the same time. Although this is my method whenever I…
Lemonade???
After taking my mother to the doctor on the wrong day and having her walker break when it fell out of the van when I got her home, I was not looking for my day to go any better when I returned to the AT&T Store to try to get my iPhone issues resolved. With…
OnStar to the Rescue!
Trying to be “green,” I reached over my seat to get the canvas bags I had for grocery shopping. Somehow, while I was doing this, my car keys ended up in the front seat now behind a locked car door! Never fear, OnStar is here! Now, what was that number? I dialed 800-4OnStar. Got a…
Alice 3.0 Beta Tester
I am very excited that our new class CIS 159 Programming in Alice will be beta testing Alice 3.0 software. You may have been following my earlier post: https://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=156 We made the final cut, and I’m heading out to Carnegie Mellon University in January to prepare for the testing. I am very thankful and excited…
JRuler and JRuler Pro
Check out JRuler and JRuler Pro http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jruler.htm. These is a wonderful little tools I use for web design. Sometimes you just need to measure what is on the screen, and these will do that very easily for you! The JRuler Pro even lets you set the ruler at an angle to measure. I give this…