Forum / new group: kaffe in katmandu

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  Marcus Speh

  Feb 26, 09:11am

  new fnaut group: the kaffe in katmandu.

  the front page this morning shows: a link to lyonel feiniger's groundbreaking 1904 comic "kin-der-kids"; a re-post about the irish banshee; a 33 min documentary film by frank hinton on his painful filling in of > kill author's 'Indie Lit Community Survey 2011'; a link to John Minichillo's article "The Electronic Writer" at Atticus Books; a video clip of Ben Mirov reading his poems via skype to an audience in Berlin, Germany; a guitar accompanied by federico garcia lorca's words; a photo of rilke with an excerpt from his "letters to a young poet"; bill yarrow's "autobibliography ..."; randal houle's "The View Out My Window"; Hamsun's "Hunger" as a book to remember ... and further 153 posts by 49 authors and artists, many of them on fictionaut.

  so: why exactly are you not there yet? to join, leave your email <a href="http://kaffeinkatmandu.tumblr.com/ask">here</a> or contact me directly. if you post a piece (published or unpublished) in the group, it is understood that you wish to become a member and post this (yourself!) at the kaffe for everybody and their uncle to see. cheers!

  maitre d'

  <img src="http://blog.marcusspeh.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/kaffe-in-katmandu_-Archive.jpg" alt="" />
  <small><em>part of the kaffe in katmandu archive, feb 2011</em></small>

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  Marcus Speh

  Feb 26, 09:17am

  ps. further justification for the madness that is the kaffe in katmandu is <a href="http://blog.marcusspeh.com/?p=2498>in this article</a> on my blogue. the path to the kaffe itself leads through mountainous area and ends <a href="http://kaffeinkatmandu.com">here</a>.

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  Susan Tepper

  Feb 26, 09:09pm

  Very very very very cool in katmandu..
  Or is it hot there?
  Very very very very hot & happening..

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  James Lloyd Davis

  Feb 26, 11:19pm

  How strange it is to me that every German I've ever met has either been to, or aspires to visit Nepal.

  Perhaps it's only coincidence, but there it is.

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  Christopher Allen

  Feb 27, 07:46am

  Ha. I don't think it's a coincidence. I live in Germany, and I have indeed been to Katmandu.

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  Marcus Speh

  Feb 27, 10:10am

  @susan thanks, i sure hope so. i like the breadth of the information & people there, i like that it touches completely different people, too.

  @james it is odd, isn't it...germans have always had this pull away from their land, perhaps because we suffer more from provinciality than other peoples? in goethe's time italy was far enough, these days it must be nepal or, to fans of tolkien and sheep farming, new zealand. i've lived in new zealand...

  @chris that makes you a true minority among the visitors/waiters at the kaffe - where you lead, we shall follow.

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  Marcus Speh

  Feb 27, 10:15am

  ... for those who now actually want to go to nepal: here's a great <a href="http://www.treknepal.org/about.html">resource</a> by a friend of mine.

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  Susan Tepper

  Feb 27, 11:23am

  Those bags of coffee (spices?) on the Group's logo are so aromatic they jump off the page.
  I'm a nose-sensory type, I like good smells so you pulled me right in with that photo. Also love the earthy colors in the rough burlap open sacks. You want to reach in and grab a handful

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  Marcus Speh

  Feb 27, 03:21pm

  the masthead photo is by cheryl marland. they're beans actually and chilis in the foreground. i think a proper life should be built on a lot of beans. beans are a great compromise between the sloppiness of meat and the frugality of vegetables (not everybody may agree. some may say beans are vegetables, which is objectively true but poetically wrong), just like the kaffe in katmandu is a wonderful compromise between true, dangerous travel and sitting at home doing nothing. or something like it. i hope you get my drift, which does lead me away from this thread momentarily... here is the original picture: http://bit.ly/g6hPPk

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  Marcus Speh

  Mar 03, 04:29pm

  ann bogle asked how i got the picture into the newsgroup. simple html as shown in the illustration below. if you type this into the post, you will get the picture "pic.jpg" that resides at the web address "http://yourspace.com/pictures/pic.jpg". you can also specify the width and height of the picture, of course, but i suggest you size it first and insert it then as-is.

  <img src="https://img.skitch.com/20110303-n3yndg3xhs29pukjxs3k3sui9u.jpg" alt="" />

  for a smidgen of HTML, teach yourself in 30 min at <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/html/">w3schools</a>. 21st century skills for the online writer! ;-)

  also, you can see any HTML (layout code) by finding the "source" button in your browser's "view" menu...

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  Lynn Beighley

  Mar 03, 05:01pm

  You can right click in Firefox and choose "Copy Image Location" to get the URL of the image.

  In IE, you can right click and choose Properties. Copy the URL of the image from the "Address" line in that dialog.

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  Ann Bogle

  Mar 03, 06:53pm

  Lynn, if I right click in Firefox and choose "copy image location" on a photo at Facebook then paste it into the notes section of my story at Fictionaut, will it paste in the image or the url to the image? I think the Facebook location will be shut off to non-listed viewers. Sam Rasnake, if you're reading this, what is your experience in copying a Facebook photo to a notes section of a story page at Fictionaut?

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  Lynn Beighley

  Mar 03, 07:32pm

  Ann, it will post the image URL text. It will be viewable to anyone.

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  Ann Bogle

  Mar 03, 07:53pm

  Lynn, I pasted in the url location at FN, mailed the link to myself as a test, signed out at FB, hit the link in the email, and it led to the FB sign in page.

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  Lynn Beighley

  Mar 03, 08:18pm

  Ann, I just messaged you.

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