while my mother has published a book or two, she is truly one of the pioneers of the interweb we all use and love...
just google "Patricia Weeg" and i think her CV will speak for itself... way back in like 1992 or 1993 she was doing this stuff... :) kids and teaching using the web (lynx and the Univ. of Maryland system to begin with) to have kids from diff cultural backgrounds, countries, etc... workign together. go mom! -- tony Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. -- siddhartha gautama On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Deanna Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, while we're posting books about our families, the front cover of > this book is a photo of my grandfather and uncle: > http://books.google.com/books?id=7E-soIKrX5kC&printsec=frontcover&dq=cats+to+kings > > They're also on page 82 and my grandpa's on page 155. A lot of the > book is about my grandfather and his buddies. > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Adam Churvis > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So yesterday I was talking on cf-community about my father and his days in >> television, and I thought I would share something pretty cool. >> >> >> >> I was trying to remember the exact day my father died (I watched Nixon >> resign on the funeral home TV while he was lying in state), so I went online >> to look it up. I came across a reference to him in a book, went to the >> site, and saw an old picture of him. So I ordered the book from Amazon. >> >> >> >> I get the book, and my father is in it a bunch of times. I'm flipping >> through the pages. and there's my mother, too! So I go back over the whole >> book carefully, and they're both in it multiple times, with one picture of >> them together. >> >> >> >> So I call the author and he's tickled pink. He had no idea they got >> married, which surprises him because they were both so well known back then. >> I gave him a bunch of hot gossip about the people in his book whose stories >> I remember my parents telling me, and we vow to get together next time he >> has a production in Atlanta (he had just finished one). >> >> >> >> Then I bring David the book to prove a point. When Men In Black II came >> out, there was a scene where Lara Flynn Boyle turns into a Victoria's Secret >> lingerie model, and the camera pans up her body to her face. She has a very >> serious look on her face, and she casts her eyes to the side in a >> scrutinizing fashion. I told David that at that exact moment, Lara Flynn >> Boyle - figure, hair, makeup, face, attitude, the whole nine yards - looked >> exactly like his grandmother when she was that age. Looking up at that >> angle was exactly what I saw when I was a little kid and something caught >> her attention. >> >> >> >> So I show David this one picture of her in the book where she's being >> serious. She was one of the world's first Weather Girls on TV, and she was >> the type to always be taken seriously, hence the serious look. It's >> freaking Lara Flynn Boyle from Men In Black II! She's in a black dress >> rather than black lingerie, but it's remarkable, really. >> >> >> >> Here's the book: >> >> >> >> http://www.amazon.com/Cincinnati-Television-Images-America-Ohio/dp/073855169 >> 4 >> >> >> >> My mother's name at the time was Ramona Burnett (from her first marriage), >> and my father's stage name was Bud Chase. I had almost forgotten that he >> once hosted the forerunner to American Bandstand. >> >> >> >> They got married a few years after the times when those photos were taken, >> she raised me and my two half-siblings (Bud's first wife was killed in a car >> accident), and my father went on to bigger and better things. >> >> >> >> Respectfully, >> >> >> >> Adam Phillip Churvis >> >> President >> >> Productivity Enhancement >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:281463 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
