An American icon helps to save another very important American icon.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/fashion/2008-11-18-ralph-lauren-flag_N.htm

Ralph Lauren donated $13 million dollars 10 years ago to help preserve a 195-year old US flag. In the past, Lauren has used the American flag as a theme for several of his clothing lines. He ( Read more... )

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What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish ( Read more... )

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks ( Read more... )

1. Where is your cell phone ( Read more... )

I've been reading Around the World in 80 Days via email. The website www.dailylit.com offers almost 400 books for free that will be sent to you via email. Sometimes I don't think I have the time to read a book but with the size of the segments sent to me via email it only takes 5 minutes of my day.

Biking - As in bicycling not motorbiking. I used to bike a lot up until I turned 30. I did a two week bike trip of Ireland in 1994. Wonderful way to see that country. I also biked from Hartford, CT to Montreal, QC. That took about 7 days. It rained quite a bit so my friend and I were a lot slower than usual. I really want to get into biking ( Read more... )

I took on the unread challenge. Some of the books I know I've read I really couldn't tell you the plot. I should probably go and reread some of them.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One hundred years of solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)The Silmarillion (104 ( Read more... )

Work has been incredibly busy lately. I work for a small biotech company that is trying to hit it big by finding a new antiviral drug. So lately our VP has been holding us accountable for our time. My normal to do list is set up in my calendar. What it doesn't account for is changes that occur during the day. This is particularly true when the ( Read more... )

1. What time did you get up this morning ( Read more... )