Monday Madness 2-19-07

This week’s questions come from 3 of our fellow MM participants. Thanks to you all for your faithful participation in my meme! =)

From sleeping mermaid:
If you could rewrite one pivotal moment in history, good or bad, to make a change, which moment would that be AND what are some of the consequences that you believe might come from that change?

This is in regards to the Children’s Blizzard, which took place on January 12, 1888.  The day started out warm and cooped-up kids begged to go to school.  Then the blizzard started and they didn’t have warm coats on and buildings were wrecked and kids that tried to go home, ended up freezing to death.  It’s very sad.

 I would like to be able to go back and warn those parents to keep their children home, because they would have been safer there.  They didn’t know the blizzard was coming.  They lived on the plains of South Dakota and there just wasn’t that much communication going on, to have warned people of the bad weather on the way.  Maybe some of those young kids would have lived longer lives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Blizzard

From beth:
What’s the most unusual hobby you have? How did you get started with it?
I don’t have any weird hobbies, although, my less computer-literate friends might think the whole web-page thing would be weird.  I can’t even talk to them about it, because their eyes glaze over!  So, it’s not weird to me, just weird to other people. We got the internet right after Christmas of 1996.  In early 1997, we bought a new modem and got internet access.  I was always going to a message board at what used to be Parent’s Place, but is now iVillage.  People were always posting pictures and showing the rest of us how to do it.  I realized that if I had a website, I could store pictures there and be able to show off pictures of my kids on the message board.  I was already learning html, from the message board people.  At first, I did the quick start page, at Geocities, but eventually learned to code my own pages and got quite good at making webpages.  Then Yahoo bought out Geocities and started taking all the perks away, like FTP and Front Page extensions.  They wanted you to pay to get all that stuff.  Well, that’s when I got my own domain, so I could have FTP and Front Page extensions and all that stuff.  Well, http://www.christianwebhost.com  had much better deals, than Yahoo Geocities, so I went with them!  Now, I don’t even use Front Page anymore, because we got Dreamweaver a few years ago!  So, even though I know html, I don’t have to code my pages, anymore!  Also, with my own domain, I can play with php, perl, and host my own blog and my own tagboard and not have ads.  It’s a wonderful thing!  I just wish I had more TIME to tinker!  I never did get Valentine’s Day graphics on my website, because I never had time.

From shelly:
Name one thing for each of the following:

Favorite smell: Bread baking in the oven or a freshly-bathed baby
Texture:  The feel of a hand-knit sweater 
View:  This is hard!  The view from Eagle Tower, in Door County, WI.  You can see Ephraim, WI, Green Bay, several islands and a little sliver of Michigan.  I also loved the view of standing right by Niagara Falls, and the view of the Black Hills on the Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway.  From someone who lives in relatively flat WI, it was quite an experience to be dwarfed by the Black Hills!
Sound: Well-played symphonic music and a baby’s giggle
Taste: A bratwurst cooked on a charcoal grill, Christmas Eve lasagna, homemade chicken soup, and a Dove Bar ice cream treat!