Julie Kenner's Blog, page 120

Burning Star Trek question of the day

So this is what's keeping me up tonight (not really–that would be revisions). I recently saw the new Star Trek film for the second time (and, yes, I think it is absolutely awesome). But here's the thing……

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Spock and Nero come backwards in time through a black hole. Clearly they survive or else, hey, we wouldn't have a movie.

But then the entire climax of the movie is that the Enterprise is about to get sucked into a...

Dead Simple Task Management with Evernote — Brett Kelly Dot Org

I've mentioned my Evernote lust in my blog before…and this awesome article shows why Evernote really is uber-cool!

As I've been alluding to pretty heavily over the last couple of days, I'm taking my Evernote-fu up a notch. After pretty careful deliberation, I've decided to take a pretty major leap and put all of my tasks, action lists, etc. into Evernote. This post will detail how I exactly I make this work (and it's pretty damn simple). If you want to follow along, you'll need to have an...

Tweetfriend my alter ego!

So, I'm finally getting around to breathing life into my alter ego (who is, of course, ten pounds thinner and with much better hair). I've set up a Twitter account and a Facebook account, and I'm going to take the website live this coming Monday! Whoo hoo!

So, track me — aka J.K. Beck — down on Twitter and Facebook … and stay tuned for the announcement for the new website going live!

The Boredom Problem

Great article on entertaining (or not entertaining!) your kids, and a perspective I'm behind one hundred billion percent.

I have found that as long as our children expect us to entertain them –if we put them off with the prospect of "maybe," — they will never quit pestering. "Are we going?" "When are we going?" "Can we go now?" "When will you know?"

But if, on the other hand, we are very clear that the desired activity is not going to happen, that we really are too busy, they will go off and...

Small towning it today

Found market days in Belton. Girls loving the antiques, the ice cream….and the alpaquas (hmmm. Is that how you spell that?)

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Guest blog at MamaWriters…and a contest!

Come join me at MamaWriters today!

I've learned a lot from my two girls, Catherine (8) and Isabella (6).

I've learned that there really is a limit on how many times you can listen to the Very Same Song over and over and over without tossing your sanity out with the trash. I've learned that rolling down the window and howling can be fun. I've learned that monsters can be banished with two squirts of lavender perfume (aka Go Away Monster Spray) in the closet, one under the bed, and one on the...

Donate to the Ronald McDonald House in honor of Kathleen Givens

Over at the Whine Sisters, we're going to be reposting some of Kathleen Givens' blog posts.  On the site, we have a link to her favorite charity, The Ronald McDonald House.

Kathleen Givens will always be a Whine Sister. She lives on in our memories, and in her own words. We've decided to repost some of our favorite Kathleen Givens blog entries on her day for the next few months (starting next week), as well as to ask you to remember her by donating to her favorite cause, Ronald McDonald House...

Book Giveaway through The Trades

Lily Carlyle's life got a lot more complicated after she died. Now serving as an assassin for the forces of light as a double-agent inside the forces of evil, Lily must choose to think for herself, and gathers her own army of humans, angels and demons for the side she believes is right.The-Trades is happy to make available five copies of Turned, signed by author Julie Kenner author of Tainted and Torn. Sign in today for your chance at winning one of these autographed volumes.

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No regretting the iTouch

Yes, my kid is only 8, but we got her an iTouch for her birthday and recently let her add a highly supervised email account. And, yes, she texts and emails me during my writing time (we've been lax abt the screentime rules over the holiday) .., but how can I regret it when I get emails like this?

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Ain't it sweet?

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A dialogue on public domain

I recently added an RSS feed to my iPhone, and as I was laying in bed reading through posts, I ran across a post from The Rejector about public domain and the copyright law. At the end, she asked if anyone else had a different take. I do.

I'm actually against the extension of copyright laws to the point that it has now reached for the written word. Works in the public domain are more published and better-read as a result, and if an estate is large then children are likely to squabble over...