February 20, 2005
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Live and Learn
I don't know if I've mentioned it before ... when the kids and I were travelling over Christmas, my CD wallet was stolen from my car. That's a loss that still hurts. There were over 72 disks in that wallet and because I've been all ethical about copying music, I didn't have back-ups, those were all the original disks.
SO I have a stack of blank cd's and I'm copying all my remaining music. Keep the originals on the shelf and take the copies in the car. Now ... I'm wondering whether it would be a bad thing to borrow from my friends (or the library) cd's that were among those stolen and make copies to replace the ones I lost. I mean I DID pay for them, I still have all the sad empty jewel cases.
Dontcha hate these ethical quandries?
Okay ... I saw this over at ItsOnlyC's site and I'm going to borrow it (with adaptation of course) because I really like the possibility for where it can go. Wanna play? Reach over to a book, whatever book is close by. Don't try for a "cool" one. And open it to page 123. Then leave in the comments section the third sentence on the page.
I'll start ...
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It isn't even hers but came to her in the rain or the soft wind, which is a gate through which her life keeps walking...
Going into the forest as a little boy,I can remember worshiping a tree, a great big old tree, thinking "My, my, what you've known and been."
You saw mine already
I feel that if I already own it, but something happened to it, ie.. stolen... then it isn't stealing by downloading or making a copy. If I already paid for it then I feel justified in doing that
I thought I would try a different book, I think I need to have NON school books around me, I keep getting notes:
From the Oresteia by Aeschylus:
"The Euripus has conflicting, irregular, and audible currents; at Sophocles, Antigone, they "groan." - talking about Chalcis - and how the sea makes such awful noises...
copy away. this kid at work has been bringing me copies of cds he has in exchange for keeping my candy dish full of chocolate so he can feed his need.
I'm sorry that was stolen! That's so sad! But Jesus loves you anyways. That's all that matters. Don't let it get to you, cuz always member that God has something better in mind for us than we have for ourselves. Much love.
KT
"But it seems there is some cursed law against killing guardsmen, and the boy and his girl fled away." From The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, by Robert E. Howard.
"The soldiers said they were slightly wounded."
They put in my hands a form to be filled up, to all appearances like other forms I had filled up in other passport offices.
That was from The Man Who Was Chesterton.
From the book I read last night: "It saved lives." Robert Ludlum's Janson Directive
And from the book I read this afternoon: "She was perhaps our of his reach now, but she wasn't out of the reach of her own countrymen."
And from the book I have next on the top of my pile, "I startled a weasel who startled me, and we exhanged a long glance."
RYC: Don't get me wrong - I'm scared too! LOL... I just had to decide which I was more scared of, being in love, or being without him. Being without him sounds much worse, to me!
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened ok ok so i am surrounded by Recipe Books!!
I must admitt my entry sounds a bit lame compared to the others that have been left. Hi I am Gloria i am new to your site...i have really enjoyed reading about your life!!! Will be stopping back often
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'Without Timothy's eyes, I was finding that in my world, everything had to be very precise, an exact place for everything." The Cay by Theodore Taylor
I don't copy music because I feel like it's stealing from the artist. But when people steal from my friends I want to help. How about a list of what was lost so that we can help you replace them?
I'd die without my music and wouldn't want my friends being without theirs.
Well, page 123 was a bibliography page so here is page 124 (and the full sentence to):
"The most famous of these revolts were those of the Tepehuanes in Durango between 1616 and 1618, the Tarahumaras of Chihuahua in the mid- and late seventeenth century, the New Mexicao Pueblos in 1680 and 1696, and the Yaquis of Sonora in the 1740s (for brief overviews of these revolts, see Spicer 1962)."
from: "Cultural Creativity and Reading Bands in Eighteenth-Century Northern New Spain" By William L. Merrill from the book Violence Resistance, and Survival in the Americas
It really makes me sound much more smart than I actually am. I just finished a paper on Alternative Histories and the National Museum of the American Indian. The two closest books were this and the Concise OED (or the GMU catalog, Roget's Thesaurus, Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms, or A Writer's Resource which are on my desk and I didn't think of reaaching there). You know I really am quite boring.
That's what I have done. I made copies of some of my CD's and down loaded the music to my work computer so that I didn't have to keep the originals where they could get stolen. I figure once I have paid for the music, it is mine (that does not include making copies for all of my friends though.)
"Maps of Duke Forest are available from the School of the Environment for a small fee."
rofl
(No, it's not a book I actually have read, or ever would)
I love that exercise!
And I'm so sorry about your music 
, but perhaps those who also have music (this would not be me) will help. 
Oh, I'm sorry about your CDs. I think you should copy - after all, you already paid for them once, right?
I have never commented but I stop by from time to time. I'm commenting this time because I wanted to leave my 3rd sentence on p. 123: "The leg on the floor seemed to guarding a worn leather bag that was jammed under the cot." - Forever by Pete Hamill.
I'm wondering what book the weasel sentence was from?
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