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By the way, I have described myself several times on this list, even though I may not have used the word, as an autodidactic computer user, but I assure you that what little I have taught myself about how to use a computer is one hell of a lot harder than my studies in history have ever been. In a message dated 8/9/2008 7:23:15 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, popularplace@xxxxxxxxx writes fun and in case you don't already have the information, please note:

 The Hunger site:http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1&link=ctg_ths_home_from_ths_home_sitenav

Here you can click on the rectangle and feed people, then after you get to the sale page look at the top and click on the Breast Cancer site and give free mammograms, free children's vaccinations, books, etc. The sponsors pay. All you have to do is click on the sites and on the rectangles, back and forth. I get a reminder and do this once a day.

Thanks for the information and continued good luck with the self education. I am still learning.

Amy
omsm

That sent me there, too. I've seen it and understood it in the context in which I was reading it, but I didn't really know it out of context.

There's a wonderful word game someone sent me the URL of: free rice: http://freerice.com/index.php The words start at an easy level and get more difficult as one proceeds, and "For each word you get right, we donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program." (Amy, was it you who sent it to me? Or my brother.) It's addictive, so if one wants to get any validating done one must set oneself a limit--time or number of word sets.

Cindy

***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS AVAILABLE AT 
http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm
http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm

A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html
http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/

Jake's site for useful links: http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html


--- On Sat, 8/9/08, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Autodidactic
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 7:12 PM
> No, I was not aware of those items of interest concerning
> auto didacticism. 
> Personally, I may be something of an autodidact, but I
> think I am far from 
> famous. Now, it was interesting that I sent you to the
> dictionary. The word that
>  I use that most frequently sends people running to the
> dictionary is
> recondite  and after they learn the word they often accuse
> me of having recondite 
> interests. In a message dated 8/9/2008 6:36:27 P.M. Pacific
> Daylight Time, 
> popularplace@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Very  interesting. I love all the different kinds of people
> who are bookshare
>  volunteers. And you just taught me a new word--rather, you
> caused me to look
>  it up online and learn it. Do you know that there is an
> Autodidactic Press
> and  also a list online of famous autodidactic people,
> though the list doesn't
> say  what their particular areas of interest were/are. One
> of them is Ezra
> Cornell,  which is interesting since he founded a
> university.
>
> Cindy
>
>
> --- On Sat, 8/9/08, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
> <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
> <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish  List
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Saturday, August  9, 2008, 6:22 PM
> > It is not for school. I am a student, but not
> formally.
> > Basically, I am a 
> > long-time autodidactic  student of the history,
> philosophy
> > and politics of 
> >  communism. I am especially partial to books written
> from
> > the communist  point of 
> > view, especially the Trotskyist and Cuban points of
> view.
> > Books from a non 
> > communist point of view are okay  as long as they are
> > objective, but I find most 
> > of those  books are basically anti-communist slander.
> Right
> > now I am trying  to 
> > learn as much as I can about James P. Cannon, the
> founder
> > of American 
> > Trotskyism. So, yes, I am a  student, but the only
> school I
> > attend is the one 
> >  administered and taught by myself for myself. In a
> message
> > dated  8/9/2008  5:35:41
> > P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  popularplace@xxxxxxxxx
> writes:
> >
> > Roger, 
> >
> >  I've added James P. Cannon and the Origins of the
> > American   Revolutionary 
> > Left, 1890-1928to the Wish List. Is it for school  or
> for
> > your pleasure. If
> > the former, we can ask Carrie  to get it with the
> grant
> > money and it probably
> > will get into  the collection  faster.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> >
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