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• OMG. I recorded three chapters of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland today and I was reading from an abridged version! ARGHHHH! #
• Also I held down BOTH buttons for a long time and my iPhone came back to life! #
• "The Secret of Kells" was absolutely lovely. Parents, it's the antidote to Disney crap. Some scary wolves and Vikings, so pre-screen. #
• huh. my iphone won't turn on :( #

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I’ve had such a hard time picking a book to record next. I’m still in the middle of the giant kids’ US history book, but I wanted to do some fiction at the same time. I finally decided on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (in English this time), and I’d like to do Through the Looking-Glass as well, and then maybe Tom Sawyer after that. Yes, we already have a few versions of each in the librivox catalog, but none of them are read by me, plus I love all three books and would just really enjoy recording them! :)

So today I got my Alice project set up (well not quite all the way, but it’s in the database anyway) and downloaded a copy of Alice into Stanza on my iPhone. And then I recorded the first three chapters. And just now I sat down to start editing them and got to the part where Alice doesn’t want to drop the empty marmalade jar for fear of killing someone underneath her… except the part about not wanting to kill someone wasn’t in my recording. So I double-checked against the text — had I imagined that part? No, there it was in the version I had been looking at on the web. But it seems that I had put an abridged version on my iPhone! It doesn’t SAY that it’s abridged anywhere, but it clearly is. Sigh. So that’s three chapters wasted. I thought they seemed kinda short…

Now I’ve got the proper unabridged version in Stanza so I’ll start over tomorrow.

• Yay, muting! RT @brizzly we released Brizzly for iPhone! It's free and has fancy features like news, lists, etc. http://bit.ly/ctfoA9 #
• Cramps. Also, we did the taxes. I hate you, IRS. #

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19 Bacon’s Rebellion – 00:19:01

• I just saw "American Idol" written somewhere and thought it said "American Idiot" #
• At Fairmount Diner, my favorite sandwich place in SD (across from Home Depot, only open weekdays) http://twitpic.com/17m06g #
• Working. It's nice to be feeling better. #
• Yay!! RT @hughmcguire #LibriVox funding drive reached its target, now closed. Thanks to all our supporters: http://bit.ly/c8fFj6 #

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Hooray! In only about two weeks we at LibriVox.org achieved our goal and can now shut down our fundraising campaign.
http://librivox.org/2010/03/09/funding-goal-achieved-thank-you/

We raised $23,000 from 433 donors, in 13 days, averaging $1,769 in donations from 33 people every day. We had a couple of big donors, who gave a few thousand dollars each, and many more smaller donations which all add up to: everything we asked for.

A big thank you to everyone who donated!

• The census wasted a sheet of paper, envelope, stamp, to tell me that next week they're sending out census forms. My tax dollars at work. #
• Wondering why the BBC's "A History of the World in 100 Objects" podcast feed hasn't been updated since February. #
• Excellent comparison of Avatar and District 9: http://bit.ly/9H408L #
• RT @DrSamuelJohnson Avatar (n.) whereby Mister Jas. CAMERON employs great Buckets of WOAD to cover great Holes of PLOT #

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Our own Adrian Praetzellis was just the subject of a very nice article in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat:
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100306/LIFESTYLE/100309770/

Way to go, Adrian!

19 The Coming of the Cavaliers – 00:11:30

18 – How Englishmen Fought a Duel with Tyranny 00:07:41

• Words With Friends has broken again. I'll try the double-reboot trick tomorrow. #
• I guess we'd better watch The Hurt Locker, eh? #
• BARBER Streisand? #
• Rofl!!! RT @apelad What's with the testimonials? Do the losers die? #
• me: and the point of this dance number is what? @danparsons : to delay the inevitable? #
• who's responsible for all the stupid flat "jokes"? #
• RT @KevinBaird: RT @davidstripinis: Holy Shit! Ferris Bueller has a full head of GREY HAIR??? I"M SO OLD! #
• Loved the tribute to John Hughes. Also, LOL at Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr. #
• Listening to the new OK Go album courtesy of @zinny #
• I had a dream that @emoontx joined librivox.org as a volunteer reader! #

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• Lovely little late-night walk in the drizzle with @danparsons :) #
• I have a pretty good appetite today #
• Watching "When Harry Met Sally". #
• By "west" I meant "east". I hope a storm blows in. #
• Dark clouds to the west http://twitpic.com/170w11 #
• RT @hughmcguire: #LibriVox is getting close to its $20k fundraising goal (we're at $14k). Help us get to 20! http://bit.ly/bcYcUF #

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Some of our very artistic volunteers have been creating beautiful album art/cd inserts for our books. Some are so appealing, it makes me want to listen to the books even though I don’t know anything at all about them.

Here are two collections:
http://www.archive.org/details/librivox_cd_covers
http://www.archive.org/details/LibrivoxCdCoverArt

And here is the art for some of my solo books. Clicking an image will take you to the catalog page for the book, where you can get the audio files, the album art, and a printable CD case insert! Aren’t they pretty?

I think KathyrnD made most if not all of these. Thank you, Kathryn!!

• FInally watched "Up in the Air" and really liked it! #
• Obsolete Jobs article w/ photos & a few short interviews: http://bit.ly/dxkdf1 Milkman, iceman, telegrapher… #
• Just helped someone from London, UK with a question about *classical music* …on Aardvark! http://vark.com/t/a67252 #
• Just discovered that npr.org works great on my iPhone. Listening to a Morning Edition playlist! #

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• YAY! RT @chaddimmack: Same sex marriage in DC! – http://bit.ly/bYmZ1K #
• lol, Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology http://onion.com/bAWM6Z #
• I seem to have fixed my Words With Friends. (uninstall, reboot, reinstall, reboot). Did you miss me, word-friends? #

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17 How the Redmen Fought Against Their White Brothers – 00:10:24

• Dear internet, please stop losing my packets. #

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• NOVA, about Pluto, was incredibly stupid tonight. Switched to BBC's "Chemistry – A Volatile History". Ahh real science. #
• Words with friends keeps crashing tonight, and it started a game with a random stanger for no reason. #
• Have just discovered a whole new batch of beautiful CD covers/album art for LibriVox audiobooks: http://bit.ly/bX7JCB #
• RT @DrSamuelJohnson SOPRANOS (n.) Clan of Italianate Cut-Purses, hiding a profound Tract on th'American Family 'twixt the Profanity & MURDER #

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Sorry no proper posts in such a long time. I’ve been feeling quite rotten in one way or another for so long. Saw doctor and he’s running tests. I’ll let you know.

• HAH! "why the internet will fail" from 1995: http://bit.ly/cyRumV #
• Dan entered us in the Antiques Roadshow ticket lottery! We don't have any antiques, but it would be fun to go anyway when they come to town. #
• Lol! RT @greenmtngirl YEAH! RT @dthorson: Saying Fox is the most popular news source is like saying Coke is the most popular juice. #
• (trying again) Loving, just loving, my scratchy old Benny Goodman record. Look, here it is on ebay! http://is.gd/9uuOD #
• HA!!! "One day, when Nielsen finds a way to monitor Twitter snark, shows like MARRIAGE REF will get canceled WHILE IN PROGRESS." #
• RT @DrSamuelJohnson Can Brimstone-ting'd Loon Pat ROBERTSON explain how the Catholick subjects of General PINOCHET have so anger'd the LORD? #

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