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I replaced this video with one having more depth and perspective in CNBC on Detroit's bankruptcy, ten years later.

This was too much like a Today Show video that I used in Hurricane Andrew 30 years later, so I didn't use it there.

I began my involvement with Coffee Party USA in February 2010, when my wife showed me "The Snowy Video," which showed Coffee Party co-founder Annabel Park explaining why and how she started the Coffee Party on Facebook the previous month, along her vision for it as she stood holding a covered coffee cup as snow fell around her. I was hooked. Within the month, my wife and I followed the Coffee Party USA Facebook page, then called Join the Coffee Party Movement, participated in organizing calls, and organized and co-led the inaugural meeting of the Ann Arbor Coffee Party as part of the Coffee Party Kick-off on March 13, 2010, one of hundreds of meetings with thousands of participants that day. That day, I created the Ann Arbor Coffee Party Facebook page (now Coffee Party USA-Pennsylvania; I created the Ann Arbor Coffee Party Facebook group to replace it) to communicate with members of the local chapter. I then created the Coffee Party USA community on LiveJournal on March 20, 2010. My wife and I returned two weeks later for the second in-person meeting of the Ann Arbor Coffee Party on March 27, 2010 as part of the National Coffee Party Summit, which featured nearly 500 meetings nationwide. At that meeting, we handed over leadership of the Ann Arbor Coffee Party meetings to another member, as we were moving out of the area. However, I am still the administrator of the Coffee Party USA-Pennsylvania page and the Ann Arbor Coffee Party Facebook group, so my involvement continues.

I wasn't the only person hooked, as "The Snowy Video" helped draw national attention to the Coffee Party. 90,000 people followed the Coffee Party Facebook page by the first week of March and the Washington Post, New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, and C-SPAN all covered the Coffee Party during February and March 2010, including CNN reports on the meetings of the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., chapters and C-SPAN coverage of the National Coffee Party Summit.

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Happy National Fast Food Day! I'm celebrating with Company Man's video about White Castle, the first fast food chain, which turns 100 this year.

I decided against using the following video in Apollo 14 50 years later for Moon Day 2021 as it was more about Amy Shira Teitel's tweets than about the mission.

I decided I wouldn't use the following video for Women's Equality Day 2020 celebrates the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote in the U.S. because it wasn't as comprehensive as the one I did, even though it had no narration.


It has now been 100 years since women gained the right to vote. Today in 1920 was when the 19th amendment was officially proclaimed law.

A conversation with my dentist about the distinction between Internet Natives and Internet Immigrants made me recall that I've been on the Internet 30 years this month. That's half my life and 75% of my adult life. I guess that makes me an Internet Native, albeit an old-fashioned one.