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Step 1: Buy a fire extinguisher.
Step 2: Stay away from the fireplace.
Step 3: Trust your Inner Tube instincts and confidently inform your father that everything is under control.
Step 4: Pray because you don’t have anything under control yet. (Philippians 4:6-7)
Step 5: Consider Anchor in the event that efficiency is a factor of setting up this podcast.
Step 6: Listen to Episode 05 of Sarah Iddings’ podcast “Photosynthesis” where she and Matthew Bird talk about some of the basics of setting up a podcast.
Step 7: E-mail Sarah with any further questions, because she will actually answer them in a timely fashion.
Step 8: Report back here with how progress is coming along.

Those are the steps to follow if you don’t know where to start.

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Ohio

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Yes, Franklin, you are very creative.

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Top

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I am curious to see if Dawn’s project when it is complete. It sounds very creative.

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Thanks for answering my question, Brooke!
I enjoy your rhymes, even though it took
Some time for you to compose so neatly
(And not all the rhymes are finished completely).
I prepped in advance for such a situation station
When my e-mail appeared close to an elimination station.
I changed it, but first I saved my avatar
So I could re-upload it on Gravatar
That’s why for a moment, Masøn was confused
At why my profile picture was suddenly new.
Hopefully this issue never happens again
So Brooke can always visit with her internet friends. 😀

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Ah. I can understand how uncomfortable that must have felt. One time I was locked out of my house and the mailman showed up, so I awkwardly explained my predicament and told him who I was waiting for. He just handed me the mail in-person and I had something to read while I waited for my parents to come home. 😀

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F.A.C.E.

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Oh, so if you hadn’t received a package, he would have just put mail in the box and driven off, allowing you to emerge inconspicuously after his departure, right? Am I following what happened correctly? But since he had a package, you had to “pop” out because otherwise he would have seen you hiding and gotten suspicious?

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Innerside Joke

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#thatmomentwhen I accept Masøn’s apology because I always accept Masøn’s apologies, even if there’s no need for him to apologize.

Also

#thatmomentwhen You’re not sure everyone knows what “Acrostic” means…

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BROOKE-ING NEWS, LITERALLY: I responded to a poem of Brooke’s on the “Poem” thread, in hopes that it inspires Brooke to express more of her creativity here on the Not-Forum.

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On page two of this thread, Brooke left an interesting poem. It has a certain melodic an imaginative feel to it, such that it’s hard for my mind to fully understand it reading straight through. Therefore, I took the liberty of re-writing it with rhyme, repetition, and homophones so that I could understand it better and respond to it. I was able to transcribe almost line for line, although there are two lines that I either omitted or merged in order to make my interpretation flow better. [Any text in brackets is my original response.]

Ocean of clouds
Shore of wooden beads
Stars amongst the clouds
Swim with pulsing beams

Above clouds, books fly
Softly & steadily their pages crinkle
Autumn leaves like sunbeams fly
Burning like fire, yet remaining fragile

The books they illuminate
While on the clouds landing
Toward shore they gently relocate
The leaves filling the beach upon landing

If one were to step foot there
What would be the sound?
[Come on, Brooke, we know their
Screams of pain would abound.]

The beads sliding under the leaves
The ground moves upon contact
The fiery yet fragile leaves
Produce noise when they interact

If one were to venture into the sea,
What would be the feeling?
[Come on, Brooke, it’s plain to see
Such heat would be unappealing.]

The calmness in each cloud
As it rolls gently past
Does not completely shroud
The heat from the leaves or stars it passed

Does more dwell below?
[Below the clouds or the beads?
Come on, Brooke, must we bellow?
We need a clarification station please!]

Thankfully Brooke said that she might add more later, so I hope that she is able to respond with a part two of the poem.

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I wrote this poem some time back when I made a certain discovery, but I did not post it because I thought it might reveal that I knew said information, which I wasn’t supposed to know. However, I received a certain notice within the past day or so that has given me unlikely confidence to expose my unexpected knowledge. So without further adieu, here is the poem:

“Awkward Potato,” today I wondered aloud,
“Like, Who are you really? Do you look like a cloud?
I can tell that you are ‘clever’, ‘Christian’, and ‘kind’;
‘Creative’ and ‘supportive’ also come to mind.
I’m struggling to picture how actual potatoes
Acquire the ability to write thoughts in prose…

Mysteries thrive on the internet, I suppose.”

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(It worked! Thanks for the tip!)

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Is

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(It wouldn’t let me post “Is” all by itself for some reason.)

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Faithful

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It’s probably easier in programming somehow to not restrict a poster from liking his own post. I say that because YouTube isn’t the only website that allows it. Some people see it as unethical, but the nice thing is that liking your own post can counter one dissenting view, so your comment isn’t buried right away by a lone troll. However, a quick google search suggested to me that liking your own comment doesn’t always count toward the number that the public can see, so I’m not sure about how effective the technique really is.

Perhaps it’s a programming question that Matthew Bird would be able to answer since he’s a web developer.

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Sorry
(Hey, that’s my line…)

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I just looked up the meme and read the backstory. Apparently someone posted an excerpt of an old cartoon from 1939 and the internet loved it. The cartoon is a rendition of Goldilocks and the three bears, only the bears were Italian and they ate spaghetti instead of porridge. In this clip that AP shared, someone took the meme and made it sync with the music from the mii plaza on the wii. (Perhaps other Nintendo consoles use it too, I don’t know. The most recent one I’ve played is the wii.)

So it’s a remix of an excerpt of a remix of a fable.

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Circle

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I feel like there’s some backstory that I’m missing as to why that video was worth watching.

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Embrace

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Should we all comb through the Not-Forum and find our favorite threads or portions of those threads? Maybe each make a “Top 5” or “Top 10” or “Top 16” list or something like that? Then we can discuss which to utilize in the promotional material and how to go about it.

So there’s something we could do.

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Fan

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…but with fun names like those, I bet attendance is normally 100%. 😀

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Also, if you’d like help with editing, Franklin, I may be able to oblige. I can cut and splice just fine, but I’m not comfortable yet with adjusting “audio quality” factors much. So if you thought it best, the audio files could be rerouted to me, I could edit them together, and then I’d send the rough edit to you for a final polishing.

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#IStandWithMasøn

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