• Back⋅ward [bak-werd]
–adverb Also, backwards.
1. toward the back or rear.
• For⋅ward [fawr-werd]
–adverb Also, forwards.
1. toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
They are not the same.
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Mark
P.S. Thanks to the fine folks at Dictionary.com for helping me help Devin.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
That Darned Sammy!
While watching us watching the Bears watch Gus Frerotte throw a 99-yard pass past Charles "Toasted and Dry Roasted Peanuts" Tillman, Sammy crawled into the last remaining nook and/or cranny that he has yet to explore.
For the record, the hit on Frerotte from behind was just as clean as the hit out of bounds Kyle Orton sustained when he got his ankle sprain. Neither play resulted in a flag...
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Mark
Friday, November 28, 2008
How I Spent The Day After Thanksgiving
With the help of mother-in-law Grace, we transformed our mod house into a cool yule abode.
This year's decorating lessons: I learned how to use a masonry drill bit, how not to buy a wreath at Lowes and how not to throw a fit in Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts because no one thought to put the bows near the wreaths that you were forced to buy because the Lowes wreath was stupid.
Instead of making you imagine how the house will look during a fierce Ohio snow storm, I have taken the liberty to augment the photo below:
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Mark
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Turkey Day Steals and Deals!
Happy Thanksgiving!
I am busy today helping crafty shoppers prepare for the big Black Friday shopping day tomorrow over at my blog at The Vindicator's web site. You can find it here:
Holiday Steals and Deals
Hope this finds you and yours enjoying a bountiful holiday feast!
More later,
Mark
I am busy today helping crafty shoppers prepare for the big Black Friday shopping day tomorrow over at my blog at The Vindicator's web site. You can find it here:
Holiday Steals and Deals
Hope this finds you and yours enjoying a bountiful holiday feast!
More later,
Mark
Monday, November 24, 2008
Go Yearbook Yourself!
Ah, yearbooks...
Those handy reference guides to our most awkward eras.
Someplace in my vast collection of useless stuff, I have all of my old high school, yearbooks. Since the senior one is 30 years old, I don't see any reason to drag it out and get all depressed about wasted youth.
And hair. My long, lost, beautiful hair...
Sigh...
However, one funny Web site is allowing you to take any current picture of yourself or a friend (or enemy) and transform that picture into a very realistic (not to mention scary) yearbook photo from different eras.
Check it out:
ME IN THE 1950'S
I think I would have fit in with Wally and the Beaver.
ME IN 1976
I was a sophomore in high school in 1976 and I think my hair was a lot like this.
ME IN 1978
This was the year I graduated. My hair was not anything like this. It was more like Peter Brady's.
ME IN THE 1990'S
Skip and I were totally yuppies, for sure.
You can find the Web site here:
Yearbook Yourself
Have some fun!
More later,
Mark
Those handy reference guides to our most awkward eras.
Someplace in my vast collection of useless stuff, I have all of my old high school, yearbooks. Since the senior one is 30 years old, I don't see any reason to drag it out and get all depressed about wasted youth.
And hair. My long, lost, beautiful hair...
Sigh...
However, one funny Web site is allowing you to take any current picture of yourself or a friend (or enemy) and transform that picture into a very realistic (not to mention scary) yearbook photo from different eras.
Check it out:
ME IN THE 1950'S
I think I would have fit in with Wally and the Beaver.
ME IN 1976
I was a sophomore in high school in 1976 and I think my hair was a lot like this.
ME IN 1978
This was the year I graduated. My hair was not anything like this. It was more like Peter Brady's.
ME IN THE 1990'S
Skip and I were totally yuppies, for sure.
You can find the Web site here:
Yearbook Yourself
Have some fun!
More later,
Mark
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Weekend in Ottawa
Our weekend spanned about 900 miles and four generations.
We traveled to visit family in Ottawa, Ill. where I grew up from 1969 until I left for college in 1978 (though I did a stint there after college from 1982 to 1984, too).
My parents had flown in from Florida to visit their great-grandson Kaleb Nimke, the five-month-old son of my niece Angela and her husband Fred. So, my brother Eric and his friend, Jen, came up from Normal, Ill. and Mary and I gave the Kia Sportage a 900-mile workout to join the family.
It was quite the whirl-wind trip: We departed at about 6 p.m. Friday and arrived at our hotel about seven hours later. Saturday we got to meet Kaleb in person and Saturday night my sister Karen and my brother-in-law Bud fed us a delicious ham dinner.
Like all families, we have a lot of fun whenever we get together and we laughed a lot. My sister, who demanded I take down the picture of her in cat-glasses that adorned this site a couple of weeks ago, is such a sweet person, and she always makes me laugh (usually, quite by accident).
It turns out, she still owned those cat-glasses! Though, because of the many, many years that have gone by since her youth, they were crumbling. That made us all laugh even harder.
Kaleb is pure joy. He is a happy little guy and full of smiles and hugs. And we finally got to see Angela and Fred's house that they are refurbishing. It is an amazing project and just as impressive as the sweat equity are the many wonderful pictures of both Kaleb and his older brother, Hunter throughout their home.
We got up early Sunday morning and shot back across Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to arrive at Jillian's in just five hours and 50 minutes. We missed just a bit of the first quarter of the Bears-Packers game, although it would have been fine if we had missed the whole thing, as it turned out.
Anyway, here are some pictures from our great weekend:
HERE ARE ANGELA, FRED AND KALEB.
THE ENTIRE GANG, SANS MARY THE PHOTOGRAPHER, GET READY TO DEVOUR HAM.
ANGELA AND KAELB...
...GREAT UNCLE MARK AND KALEB...
...GREAT-GRANDMA AND KALEB...
...GREAT GRANDPA AND KAELB...
...GREAT UNCLE ERIC AND KALEB...
...KAREN AND KALEB...
...MARK, MARY AND KALEB.
As it turned out, we took a lot of photos of Kaleb... It was a fun-but-exhausting weekend!
More later,
Mark
We traveled to visit family in Ottawa, Ill. where I grew up from 1969 until I left for college in 1978 (though I did a stint there after college from 1982 to 1984, too).
My parents had flown in from Florida to visit their great-grandson Kaleb Nimke, the five-month-old son of my niece Angela and her husband Fred. So, my brother Eric and his friend, Jen, came up from Normal, Ill. and Mary and I gave the Kia Sportage a 900-mile workout to join the family.
It was quite the whirl-wind trip: We departed at about 6 p.m. Friday and arrived at our hotel about seven hours later. Saturday we got to meet Kaleb in person and Saturday night my sister Karen and my brother-in-law Bud fed us a delicious ham dinner.
Like all families, we have a lot of fun whenever we get together and we laughed a lot. My sister, who demanded I take down the picture of her in cat-glasses that adorned this site a couple of weeks ago, is such a sweet person, and she always makes me laugh (usually, quite by accident).
It turns out, she still owned those cat-glasses! Though, because of the many, many years that have gone by since her youth, they were crumbling. That made us all laugh even harder.
Kaleb is pure joy. He is a happy little guy and full of smiles and hugs. And we finally got to see Angela and Fred's house that they are refurbishing. It is an amazing project and just as impressive as the sweat equity are the many wonderful pictures of both Kaleb and his older brother, Hunter throughout their home.
We got up early Sunday morning and shot back across Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to arrive at Jillian's in just five hours and 50 minutes. We missed just a bit of the first quarter of the Bears-Packers game, although it would have been fine if we had missed the whole thing, as it turned out.
Anyway, here are some pictures from our great weekend:
HERE ARE ANGELA, FRED AND KALEB.
THE ENTIRE GANG, SANS MARY THE PHOTOGRAPHER, GET READY TO DEVOUR HAM.
ANGELA AND KAELB...
...GREAT UNCLE MARK AND KALEB...
...GREAT-GRANDMA AND KALEB...
...GREAT GRANDPA AND KAELB...
...GREAT UNCLE ERIC AND KALEB...
...KAREN AND KALEB...
...MARK, MARY AND KALEB.
As it turned out, we took a lot of photos of Kaleb... It was a fun-but-exhausting weekend!
More later,
Mark
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Goodbye Rex!
Yes, I have finally been driven over the edge.
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Mark
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Please visit and add your comments.
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Mark
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Holy Bat-Traffic, Batman!
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One more clip from Batman as my way to boast that between The Adam West/Batman event and politics, Mark's World has never had more visitors!
Plus, those old WWF(E) wrestlers are apparently on a world tour and every time someone googles "Honky Tonk Man" in Germany or China, they are showing up here to view the pics shot by yours truly.
October was a record month and the first week in November was equally impressive.
Thanks for stopping by! And a special shout out to those who return!
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Mark
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Maybe Sarah was Right? You Betcha!
Well, those crazy, liberal hacks at Fox News wasted no time in unleashing another partisan attack on their favorite punching bag: Sarah Palin:
Sheesh...
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Mark
Sheesh...
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Mark
How Election Night Looked
Editor Todd Franko used one of our nifty video cams to capture Election Night '08 behind the scenes in The Vindicator newsroom. Here's what it kinda looked like...
Our talented Designer Dan edited the video down to about six minutes (which still contains way too much of me). In watching it, I was struck once again by how many smart people work at the Vindy. A lot of talented people contribute to the print and online news efforts.
More later,
Mark
Our talented Designer Dan edited the video down to about six minutes (which still contains way too much of me). In watching it, I was struck once again by how many smart people work at the Vindy. A lot of talented people contribute to the print and online news efforts.
More later,
Mark
Thanks, But No Thanks...
... to your offer to help bring credibility to journalists. Perhaps you should begin bringing credibility to politicians with a zeal for designer clothes.
This does make me laugh, however...
Please, Sarah, understand that you only served as a 60-odd-day joke that began "Two old miserable, conservatives named Limbaugh and Dobson walked into John McCain's campaign and warned him that if he picked Lieberman, Pawlenty or Ridge as his running mate there would be a floor fight at the Republican convention and that fracas would extend deep into the election season and end with conservatives staying home on election day..."
Ba-dum-bah.
Now, go back to Alaska and let us never hear from you again...
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Mark
This does make me laugh, however...
Please, Sarah, understand that you only served as a 60-odd-day joke that began "Two old miserable, conservatives named Limbaugh and Dobson walked into John McCain's campaign and warned him that if he picked Lieberman, Pawlenty or Ridge as his running mate there would be a floor fight at the Republican convention and that fracas would extend deep into the election season and end with conservatives staying home on election day..."
Ba-dum-bah.
Now, go back to Alaska and let us never hear from you again...
More later,
Mark
'Change Has Come'
It was an exciting night in the newsroom as U.S. Sen. Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States.
The Vindicator team was busy on both Web and print fronts and the results of our ambitious plan were pretty amazing. The night for the editors ended when we set and e-mailed the news assignments for the Wednesday day shift at about 2 a.m.
I went home, got caught up on some TV coverage, had a beer and am about to go to bed.
Check out our lead story here:
Change has come
Our election page with our moment-by-moment ticker of the race in Ohio is here:
www.Vindy.com
More later (maybe a lot later),
Mark
The Vindicator team was busy on both Web and print fronts and the results of our ambitious plan were pretty amazing. The night for the editors ended when we set and e-mailed the news assignments for the Wednesday day shift at about 2 a.m.
I went home, got caught up on some TV coverage, had a beer and am about to go to bed.
Check out our lead story here:
Change has come
Our election page with our moment-by-moment ticker of the race in Ohio is here:
www.Vindy.com
More later (maybe a lot later),
Mark
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
VOTE!!!
Finally: Election Day!
I am going in to work at about noon and I told Mary that I had no idea when on Wednesday morning I'd be home. The Vindicator has an ambitious game plan for print and Web featuring a couple of late press runs and video stand ups in the newsroom on top of the typical election fare. If you want to know how Ohio is going, check out:
WWW.VINDY.COM
Meanwhile, I do have some early election results for the great state of Ohio:
As you can see, it is too early to call...
Mary and I voted a couple of weeks ago. After hearing there could be problems for new voters in Ohio, we decided it was best to vote early. I'd rather try and resolve any issues 10-days out then on Election Day. As it turns out, it was a breeze.
So, regardless of how you vote today, just get out there and demonstrate that democracy works and vote!
More later,
Mark
I am going in to work at about noon and I told Mary that I had no idea when on Wednesday morning I'd be home. The Vindicator has an ambitious game plan for print and Web featuring a couple of late press runs and video stand ups in the newsroom on top of the typical election fare. If you want to know how Ohio is going, check out:
WWW.VINDY.COM
Meanwhile, I do have some early election results for the great state of Ohio:
As you can see, it is too early to call...
Mary and I voted a couple of weeks ago. After hearing there could be problems for new voters in Ohio, we decided it was best to vote early. I'd rather try and resolve any issues 10-days out then on Election Day. As it turns out, it was a breeze.
So, regardless of how you vote today, just get out there and demonstrate that democracy works and vote!
More later,
Mark
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Some Ads Just Confuse Me...
I am sure John McCain knows what he's doing, but this ad seems very odd...
Make your own Attack Ad
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Mark
Make your own Attack Ad
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Mark
Today is Her Birthday!
If you see Karen Roth in the next day or two, ask her: What is 51 minus 48?
Three!
My three-year older sister hit the big 5-1 Sunday and she doesn't look at day over ... well, YOU be the judge:
It hardly seems like it was an entire year ago that we all conspired to surprise her as she celebrated her 50th birthday. This year, for her 51st, she celebrated it quietly with her daughter, Angela and the new grandbaby, Kaleb. It was not as grandiose as a year ago, but something tells me she enjoyed it just as much...
Me? I still remember her as a mixed up kid back in Kankakee, Ill.
Happy Birthday, Karen!
More later,
Mark
Three!
My three-year older sister hit the big 5-1 Sunday and she doesn't look at day over ... well, YOU be the judge:
It hardly seems like it was an entire year ago that we all conspired to surprise her as she celebrated her 50th birthday. This year, for her 51st, she celebrated it quietly with her daughter, Angela and the new grandbaby, Kaleb. It was not as grandiose as a year ago, but something tells me she enjoyed it just as much...
Me? I still remember her as a mixed up kid back in Kankakee, Ill.
Happy Birthday, Karen!
More later,
Mark
The Youngstown Effect
Shameless plug: The Vindicator gives readers a taste today of how other media has portrayed the importance of Youngstown area voters in terms of the Campaign Trail '08 and you can find it right here:
The Youngstown Effect
It's been a wild ride and it is kind of hard to process that it will all soon be over...
First, of course, we must survive election night and a very ambitious print/Web project...
More later,
Mark
The Youngstown Effect
It's been a wild ride and it is kind of hard to process that it will all soon be over...
First, of course, we must survive election night and a very ambitious print/Web project...
More later,
Mark
Saturday, November 01, 2008
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