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Happy New Year 2021

Posted on January 5, 2021 by kristina

Besides spending hours discussing our New Year’s goals, we worked and played. The kids are enjoying a school break. Tom and I worked through Wednesday. Joshua’s girlfriend Ellie came to visit for the week. We enjoyed New Year’s Eve by running 5 miles in the rain, working out in our garage gym, and doing yoga….

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Learning Watercolors

Posted on November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 by kristina

A couple of months ago, I decided to do a couple of watercolor painting projects. I quickly learned how deficient my skills and supplies are, so I signed up for an online watercolor class by Shayda Campbell. I have 3 tutorials left to go. Here are some of the results of my lessons:

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Weekend Campout near Albert Pike

Posted on May 10, 2020May 11, 2020 by kristina

One hundred and seventy steps off from forest road 512, there is a campsite at the confluence of the Little Missouri River & Long Creek. The campsite is at a turn and river crossing on the Eagle Rock Loop trail so hikers frequently walk through camp. Some of them need directions. Most of them say…

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this is a string

Posted on December 7, 2018December 12, 2018 by kristina

You can’t cut these apron strings. A string is simply text. That’s it. I don’t know why programmers don’t just say text, but they don’t. They call it strings.

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this is a path

Posted on December 7, 2018 by kristina

A path in programming is not a treelined trail through a park. A path is the “address” to a file on your computer. The address is made of folder names until the very last one which may be a file name. It doesn’t have to be a file name. It could also be the name…

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This is a pipe.

Posted on December 7, 2018December 7, 2018 by kristina

This is not an l , or an i, or a 1, or a capital I. It’s called a pipe. It’s a character on a keyboard that is simply a vertical bar. You find it on the backslash key on a QWERTY  keyboard. What does it do? OR If you put two of them together,…

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Bluehost Facebook Ad Analysis

Posted on November 29, 2018 by kristina

Audience The target audience is people with manage websites and who are likely to buy Christmas presents. . I think this showed up on my facebook feed because the internet algorithms know that I have many websites at various hosting companies. Seascape Principles Least Resistance It’s the Christmas season and everyone needs gift ideas. This…

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Nike Tells a Story

Posted on November 16, 2018April 11, 2020 by kristina

I apologize in advance for making you cry, but I love this video. Since this is a school assignment to analyze a video, I wanted it to be something I don’t mind watching again and again. I hope you like it too. You’re welcome! Audience This human interest story appeals to anyone with an ounce…

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Reverse Engineer a News Feed Post

Posted on November 1, 2018November 3, 2018 by kristina

This post from Medium:  What I Learned About My Adult Self by Rereading My Childhood Favorites was published as a news feed article on Facebook. Seascape Principles The Value  Principle: the value a user gets from a channel . This post gives the reader an idea about what to read, I mean, re-read next. That is…

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Aha! PHP File Structure

Posted on October 30, 2018October 30, 2018 by kristina

My struggle with php is with understanding the overall structure of how everything works together. Googling for troubleshooting help is only really useful once you’re in the detailed mechanics of a php error. It doesn’t really help when the problem (like mine). I’ve spent way too many hours trying to figure these things out, and I…

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