"Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Overdoing"
Greetings from Greekgeek, storyteller and scholar. Here are most of my Squidoo lenses, for your delectation and bewilderment. For newcomers to Squidoo, a "lens" is a web page focusing on one topic, combining original information with hand-picked links to the best pictures, videos, books and sites on the web about that topic.
I discovered Squidoo in May 2007 while tweaking a CafePress shop, and quickly realized its versatility would allow me to teach, entertain, and share my eclectic interests. It's also helping me keep food in the cat dish and support causes from large (I Help Greece) to small (The Lord of the Rings Plaza).
Below you'll find a list of the lenses I've done. Some are educational, some are topics and hobbies I'm passionate about, and some are just plain funny!
Note: "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing" was the motto of Richard Wagner, founder of Hyperstudio -- a kind of software that educational/storyteller folks like me used before the web ate us.
Table of Contents
- 3 Lenses I'd Most Like You to Visit :: Interesting and Cool Topics
- Squidoo-Related Lenses :: How-to and Tips Lenses
- Causes Close to My Heart :: Classical Studies Lenses
- People, Biographies, Who's Who :: Pet-Related Lenses
- Customer Reviews :: Humor Lenses
- CafePress Lenses :: Lenses Under Construction
- My Other Web Pages
My Best Lens: Ancient Greece Odyssey
This is my labor of love, a lyrical journey through ancient Greece blending my photos, diary excerpts, and notes about the art, mythology, and history of the classical world. I include recommended books and links for armchair travellers, students, and serious scholars.
I'm constantly adding to the Odyssey, and it spans multiple lenses:
- Arrival in Greece
- Athens: Acropolis and Museums
- Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries
- Delphi, Oracle of Apollo
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Answers to Questions About Ancient Greece
- Ancient Greece Odyssey Index
Ancient Greece Odyssey has been chosen as Lens of the Day and was voted 5th-best among all lenses in 2007.
The Lens I'd Most Like You to Visit
Most of you have seen Ancient Greece Odyssey already. This one gets a lot less traffic, but is my most meaningful and important lens. All proceeds from it go to charity!-
Jackie Robinson: An American Hero
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Sixty years ago, on April 15th, 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson stepped onto a baseball diamond in Brooklyn, New York. That was a few years after African-American soldiers came home from defending America and freedom in World War II, only to discover...
My Professional Blog
This lens introduces my mythology blog through a discussion of Joseph Campbell's ideas about what myth is, and why we need it. Or do we?-
MYTHPHILE: The Blog for Mythology Lovers
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Remember Joseph Campbell, that learned yet charismatic storyteller who never met a myth he didn't like? What if there were a blog for sharing mythology, telling old myths afresh, exploring the origins of seasonal holidays, and posting in-depth profile...
"Some scholars beat
the ancient world to death,
when it's already dead.
I try to bring it to life."
~ My homepage motto, 1994
Interesting and Cool Topics
I'm interested in everything from volcanoes and astronomy to art and mythology!-
The Blizzard of '78
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If you're old enough to remember Star Wars' first run in the theaters, if you lived in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, or New England, you remember the Blizzard of '78. People were snowed in for days. Cities were paralyzed. The National Guard was mobilize...
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Thoth
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Thoth, Tehuti or Djehuty in ancient Egyptian, is the god of wisdom, writing, speech, measurement, the moon, and magic. He serves as the vizier (prime minister) to Re, King of the gods. He's also the gods' official record-keeper. He's Mr. Science, the...
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WindFire Cursor™ Kite: The Best Kite Ever
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I've seen and flown some beautiful kites, but if I could get my hands on this baby, even my two-masted full-rigged ship kite would never leave the house. No, these images aren't Photoshopped! This off-the-wall kite is the creation of Tim Elverston o...
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Henry The Hexapus
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It's not every day an invertebrate steals the headlines on the BBC and CNN! Henry the Hexapus is a six-legged octopus rescued from a lobster pot off the coast of Wales and given a happy home in the Blackpool Sea Life Centre in northwest England. At...
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Volcanoes Are Hot Stuff
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A mountain roars. Rivers of molten rock race to the sea. Towers of ash and smoke billow into the sky. Volcanoes are some of the most terrifying and magnificent wonders of our restless planet. Scientists have learned a great deal about volcano...
How-to and Tips Lenses
Helping You Because That's What I Do
I love teaching. I haven't taught that many classes, but I enjoy seeing people learn something they didn't know before.-
Aligning Graphics on Web Pages
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Want to place a picture on a web page or lens? Need side-by-side graphics and text? Or are just trying to align an image left, right or center? First, I'll review Squidoo's built-in ways of uploading pictures onto your lenses. Then I'll show you how...
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Boost Your Self-Confidence With a Magic Cloak
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Some people are born confident, and then there's the rest of us. Public speaking, interviews, and even social mixers can feel like the Inquisition. I've heard of various psychological techniques for boosting self-confidence and quashing stage fright...
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How-to Photoshop Trick: 3-D Picture Frame for Photo
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Plopping a web graphic directly on a web page is fine, but plain. Here is a way to make it look 3-D, like a photograph lying on a flat surface. You will need Photoshop CS, Photoshop Elements, or a full version of Photoshop (one that uses Layers). In the...
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How to Build a Pyramid Kite
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Alexander Graham Bell is well-known as the inventor of the telephone, but few people realize he also invented an early form of airplane! Well, not quite. It wasn't a plane -- a flat wing -- but a tetrahedron, a pyramid-like* structure with four sides...
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The Care and Feeding of Apostrophes
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I'm here today to talk to you about a terrible tragedy that's sweeping our planet. It's not the disappearance of your favorite brands from the store courtesy of those dastardly Brand Police, nor is it the scented kitty litter that...
Squidoo-Related Lenses
Helping newbie Squidoo lensmasters learn how to Squidoo.-
SquidU Lensmaster Lounge: Help for Newbies
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The SquidU Lensmaster Lounge is a great place to learn new Squidoo techniques, ask questions, and get to know your fellow Lensmasters. But what if you've never used an online discussion forum before? Are you trying to get links to work? Wonder how to...
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Squidoo Modules List
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Modules are the building blocks of Squidoo, like widgets in blogs. Each module has certain settings you can change and customize to fit your lens (web page). For example, there's modules for photo galleries, displaying a Youtube video, polls, lists...
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Advanced CSS: Layout Tricks and Lab Experiments
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Columns! Images! Colored boxes! This lens is my CSS sandbox, where I'm testing fancy layout tricks to make Squidoo lenses look great. As I figure out new CSS techniques, I'll share them with you, so you can use them on your lenses! This lens assumes...
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GreekGeek's Squidoo Tips: How to Get Your Lens Found
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So, you want to learn how to build good Squidoo lenses (or any kind of webpage) and attract lots of visitors! Here's ten quick steps to help bring web traffic your way. Credentials: I came here with zero web marketing experience, but my first lens was...
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Greekgeek's Lensography
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Greetings from Greekgeek, storyteller and scholar. Here are most of my Squidoo lenses, for your delectation and bewilderment. For newcomers to Squidoo, a "lens" is a web page focusing on one topic, combining original information with...
Travel Threads: My Wearable Scrapbook
While aspiring to become a Giant Squid, I decided to create another travel diary of sorts, using the patches on the jacket I wore as a young teen to share mini-stories about some of the places and things that mattered to me.-
Travel Threads: Canada
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Many summers, we'd camp for two weeks in the wilderness of Ontario north of New York State. I loved Canada. As a kid, I thought I needed a patch for each trip, and I agonzied over selecting the most interesting shape or most appropriate picture. Th...
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Travel Threads: My Patch Jacket
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It's been about twenty years since I last put on this old windbreaker, which I wore into my late teens in the late 1980s. I was never a Girl Scout, but I collected patches wherever my family travelled. So this jacket has a lot of memories sewn onto i...
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Travel Threads: Space
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My father was an aerospace engineer and my grandmother a planetarium director. So I've always had a personal relationship with the space program -- never as my career, but as something I followed avidly, the way children of military families are more...
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Travel Threads: American West
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When I wasn't paddling the rivers of eastern Canada, I was usually on the back of a horse out west. The big skies, looming mountains, dark forests and lonely plains of the American West were dramatic indeed for someone raised at the edge of Amish cou...
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
~ Emily Dickenson
Causes Close to My Heart
Yes, I'm a bleeding-heart liberal. An oddly pragmatic one, though. With me it all boils down to: protect the environment, because future generations can work on poverty, disease, etc as long as they still have a place to live.-
War in the 21st Century: A New (and costly) Paradigm
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After 9/11, the atmosphere of America -- indeed, our whole lives, and that of many other nations drawn into the mess -- changed forever. We now live in a society where leaders speak the language of Terror instead of Progress, shifting the emphasis in...
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Unicorn Fans, Support Author Peter S. Beagle!
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Have you read any books by award-winning author Peter S. Beagle? Do you remember The Last Unicorn? Have you ever seen a child's wonder while watching the animated movie adaptation of that book? Or do you remember the animated (Bakshi-directed) Lord...
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Yes, I Love My Hybrid Car
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Yep, I am a rabid Prius owner. I got it for the environment. I love it for the mileage, especially after the gas prices here jumped over $3! When hybrid cars first came out in Japan, I thought I'd wait a few years until they'd worked out all the kinks...
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Convert Your Prius to a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV): Even More Gas-Efficient!
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As a Prius owner, I was recently invited to be part of a focus group for Hymotion Hybrid Plug-in Conversion Kits. We weren't told what the focus group was for until near the end of the meeting -- I and the other Toyota Prius owners assumed it was a c...
A Few of My CafePress Designs
T-shirts, mugs, magnets and other unique gifts
Classical Studies Lenses
Before embarking on a mythology PhD I earned a degree in classical studies, the study of ancient Greece and Rome. Hence my username and main niche.-
Aeschylus
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Aeschylus is hailed as the father of Greek tragedy; his plays are among the oldest surviving western literature. They are gripping, stately, troubling, and raise issues that are still pertinent today. They show a stern regard for justice, civil duty...
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Olympias: Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Trireme
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The trireme, trieres in ancient Greek, was the formidable warship that hamstrung the second Persian invasion of Greece and changed the course of European history. It helped Athens build an empire and the wealth needed to sustain a civilization whose...
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Sappho
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Sappho, born around 630 BCE on the Greek-settled island of Lesbos off the coast of Turkey, is one of the earliest writers in the western world. Only fragments of her poetry have survived, preserved by later writers quoting her or on badly-damaged p...
People, Biographies, Who's Who
Most of these were built for SquidWho, the Who's Who section of Squidoo.-
Sister Unity
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Storyteller, nun, drag queen, and kind-hearted nut -- Sister Unity is one of the web's more unique and colorful personalities. I stumbled across her while searching YouTube for videos on Hindu mythology. Sister Unity Divine has a gift for storytelli...
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Director Alex de Campi: Video Showcase
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Here's a brief selection of the extremely creative music videos and indie film shorts directed by American-born British alien Alex de Campi, who "believes that the pen is mightier than the sword (and much easier to get through airport security)." He...
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Ginette Paris
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Dr. Ginette Paris is a French Canadian psychologist, therapist, writer, and Core Faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she teaches Archetypal and Depth Psychology and serves as Research Coordinator for students embarking on their disse...
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Dar Williams
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Dar Williams has an adaptable voice that can dance from lyrical and etherial to playful and gritty. Her lyrics are funny, sharp, lively, fresh, like the best 80s pop, yet she's got a style all her own. She weaves word-poems with a catchy beat and a c...
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Russell Martin of the LA Dodgers
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Less than a year after settling behind the plate at Dodger Stadium on May 5th, 2006, Russell Martin had become the face of the Dodger franchise. True Blue fans pray he will remain so for many years. This Russell Martin fan page was originally create...
Le Chat
Je souhaite dans ma maison:
Une femme ayant sa raison,
Un chat passant parmi les livres,
Des amis en toute saison
Sans lesquels je ne peux pas vivre.
I desire in my house:
A woman of strong mind,
A cat strolling among the books,
The friends for all seasons
Without whom I cannot live.
~ Apollinaire
Pet-Related Lenses
Thank goodness for digital cameras, saving the environment from thousands of pet photos by obsessed pet owners (or is that pet-owned humans?)-
Feline Frequent Flyer Tips: Pets on a Plane!
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Airplanes. Cat carriers. Airport security. Oh, the indignity of it all! Well, if we must board those infernal contraptions, the least our owners can do is let us travel in style. I won't say "in comfort," but a good under-the-seat pet carrier lets us...
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Samhain the Cat
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My owner has neglected to make a shrine to the house god, so I have threatened to yark on her Dance Dance Revolution pad every day until she submits. (Could be worse-- at least it's easy to clean.) My name is Samhain, and I was adopted from a shelte...
Customer Reviews
Things I use a lot.-
Cast Iron Cookware
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Cookware drives me nuts. Nonstick pans never are, and the teflon-coated ones always seem to scratch when I scrub vigorously. Flecks of teflon in the tummy can't be a good thing! Whereas well-seasoned cast iron heats more evenly than modern pans, and...
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Qassia: Next Facebook/Wikipedia, or Next Bust?
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Qassia combines two popular trends of Web 2.0 -- social networking and user-submitted content. Qassia has two goals: to provide a platform for getting quality backlinks that search engines will like, and to compile a huge library of user-submitted in...
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Dance Dance Revolution
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"You'll need different shoes." I glanced down at my ugly gym shoes and back at the gleaming warehouse-sized room full of chrome and mirrors, alien technology exercise machines, and skinny well-toned folks who'd just stepped off the bus from...
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The BBC Dramatization of the Lord of the Rings
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Millions have been captivated by JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the magnificent sequel to The Hobbit. Animators, movie directors, and sound studios have attempted to bring Tolkien's work to life, some more or less successfully. Peter Jackson's...
Boom-Boom
Ain't It Great To Be Crazy
Aliquando et insanire iucundum est.
But sometimes it's pleasant to be insane!
~ Seneca
Humor Lenses
Warped, Weird, and Funny Stuff... when you need a good laugh.
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Student Bloopers: A Connoisseur's Collection
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I took a page from Anguished English and kept a file of howlers and mistakes whenever I was grading student essays or exams. Oh, the things students say! I've created this lens as a showcase of malaprops, misunderstanding and muddy thinking. Teacher...
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Web Flotsam: The Best Funny Videos, Web Humor and Weird Stuff!
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"The internet is a funny place. Some people spill their guts; other people just want to show you their fish." ~ Moi, back in 1993, in the heyday of Fishcams Memes, viral videos, web humor, email jokes: when are they spam, and when are...
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Funny Signs
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Ever seen an unintentionally funny sign that made you go "What?!!" Perhaps you remember the infamous "Cruise Ships Use Airport Exit" freeway sign outside of San Diego? This lens is dedicated to the weird phrases that people t...
CafePress Lenses
Unique gifts, t-shirts, mugs and more
I get a $1-2 commission on items sold through Cafepress. They handle printing, shipping, and secure payment. I create the images. It helps me keep food in the cat's dish.-
Not Your Garden Variety Orchid: Flower with 'Tude
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This is a totally silly lens without much redeeming value, but... well... anyway. I saw this little guy in a greenhouse in Carpinteria, California, and just had to take his portrait. Worse, I had to put him on a T-shirt and a few other items. I don't...
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"It's All Greek to Me!" Gift Shop
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Welcome to the Squidoo lens for my "It's All Greek to Me" Gift Shop, selling unique gifts with an ancient Greek twist! Many of you have visited my Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal travel diary with photos, stories, and...
More of My Designs For Sale on CafePress
Totally Miscellaneous Lenses
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The Hardest Homebuying Experience Ever
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It seemed so simple. The market was down, my rent was climbing: why keep pouring money down the drain? Thanks to a good agent, Josef Szigeti, I'd found a condo that felt like home. There was a beautiful park right outside, it was nestled in a neighbo...
Lenses Under Construction
... a sneak preview of future lenses from yours truly.
Pardon the drop cloths and exposed wiring.-
The Golden Key by George MacDonald
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"For my part, I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, fifty, or seventy-five." — George MacDonald: The Complete Fairy Tales You have stumbled upon a free e-book of a little-known children's short story from...
~ Founding Member ~
Graphic © 2003, by me. Sorry, you can't have it;
you have to be awarded it by the society members.
My Other Web Pages
I actually have had web pages going back to the dawn of the net. Here's a few I'm not too embarrassed to show you.- The Perseus Project
- Back in 1993, I was one of several graduate student lackeys working at this unique project which had created a CD-ROM digital library of major ancient Greek texts and English translations, language tools for students and scholars, and in-depth descriptions and photos of Greek art, architecture, archaelogy and museum collections around the world. Then the web started coalescing, and we moved Perseus online. We uploaded thousands of pages and photos to the internet before Yahoo even got off the ground. Perseus is still growing!
- Updates Blog for my Greece Lens
- Every time I add new photos or a new section to Ancient Greece Odyssey, I post an excerpt and link to the appropriate section here. If you RSS this blog, it makes it easier to track my updates.
- Pacifica Graduate Institute
- Graduate school where I just earned an MA in comparative mythology and depth psychology. I'm just beginning work on my PhD dissertation.
- Personal Web Site
- Nowadays I use this website mostly as a repository for graphics, but I've got some old creative projects there, largely related to my hobbies.
- WayBack Machine: My Second-Oldest Webpage
- It's lost some of the graphics, but here's my second-oldest homepage on the Internet Archive. Now if I could just find the one I had in 1993!
Scribble Pad for Visitors
Drop a note! Say hello! Don't spam! :)
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McMick
Hello and thank you Posted May 06, 2008 |
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Susan52
What a beautiful lensography, just what I would expect from you. :) Lensrolling yours to mine. Posted May 04, 2008 |
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tplus
Welcome to the Lensography-ography Group! Posted March 31, 2008 |
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Paroshep
Yes, great job. This lens gives me something to aspire to. Posted March 16, 2008 |
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Graceonline
Impressive lensography page, not just for the variety of lenses and content, thought they're mighty fine, but also the way you added Cafe Press and pointed us to your other web pages, too. Posted February 17, 2008 |
