Entries from March 23rd, 2009
Trees, Walls, and Ruins
March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Adirondack Life
A Pencil to the Past
March 18th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Adirondack Life
Silly me. Had a meeting on Saturday – typical blah, blah, blah. K. was nice enough to provide some meeting supplies. Always count on a schoolteacher to have plenty of pads and pencils. Of course, I immediately become fascinated with the pencils (sorry folks!). I gotta get out more, as some might say, because I had never seen these before.
The Blackfeet Indian Pencil
“Hey, what’s up with these pencils?” It seems that K’s father was also a schoolteacher who used to supply his kids with these pencils. “Really, is that the box?” The box was in prime, unopened condition. She mentioned something about 25 years ago…maybe that’s when her dad passed? Anyway, full-box, all nicely pointy.
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Adirondacks is all a’Twitter
March 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Destination Marketing
I’m going to blast through this post because it’s hard to think through something that is changing as I write.
A week ago I started Twittering. A fun learn. Check out this meta-search: tourpro – Google
Hey, a free #2 and #3 isn’t bad, unless you are “TourPro loading”. Some people would actually pay someone to achieve this result Sure, it’s just the Freshbot. But still. One week and look at the rankings for my handle. What is this thing? What can we do with it? How can we not ruin it?
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