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1. First Edition
CftB
Collection:
2009
Aaron Maurer aka Coffeechug
www.coffeeforthebrain.com

2. CftB Collection:
2009
Welcome to first collection
of the best links, ideas,
resources, and more
gathered from the last five
years on my blog. I hope
you enjoy these collections
as I go back in time to read
and pull out the best
materials.

3. Welcome
The year 2009 I was just in the process of starting
out. Posts were not very frequent and many of them
were more about the day to day activities of my
classroom.
However, along the way some links and ideas still
hold true today.
Many of these in this collection are more fun, but
you can see where I was five years ago.
Enjoy
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Introduction
I don’t expect anyone to go back and read through the thou-sands
of blog posts that I have shared over the course of the
last five years since I started blogging. My blog has changed fo-cus
and perspective over the years depending on what I am in-spired
by and what moves me to remain a life long learner.
I am in the process of writing two books and for part of my writ-ing
journey I have started to go back from the start to check out
what I have shared to learn about myself and how I have
changed. While reading the beginning posts I felt the need to
click links and see what still holds true today.
This collection are some of my favorite links and ideas shared
from the year 2009. I did not post as frequent back then and
was really trying to find a voice. I was in a completely different
frame of mind. I am not the best blogger now, but I was not very
good back then. However, some posts are quite fun and addict-ing.
As a thank you for subscribing to my newsletter I wanted to
compile the best links and ideas from the blog from the year
2009. In case you have forgotten moments from 2009 go ahead
and read quick recap of current events.
http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/2009
Section 1
2009

4. 3
Here is a collection of links and ideas I shared in the first
months of my blog when I first started out. Funny how times
have changed, but still not really changed. I hope you enjoy
these like I enjoyed going back in time to see what I was shar-ing.
I hope you enjoy this and I hope to push out Volume 2:
2010 in the next month.
Feel free to reach out and let me know what you found fun or
addicting or useful from this volume.
Sites of Major Time Wasting
“Once again as I was wasting time on the computer this morn-ing
trying to motivate myself to run when I came across two
more websites to waste time. The one website will make you
feel stupid. At least it made me feel stupid. Have fun!” (Cof-feechug)
! •! Make your own Sand Picture
! •! Human Endurance: A little quiz on Human Endur-ance.
Limits of Human Endurance Quiz
! •! Don’t say I did not warn you! I will never get any work
done ever again.
Quotes
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist
once he grows up.“ Pablo Picasso

5. 4
CREATE YOUR DEBUT YA COVER
1 – Go to “Fake Name Generator” or click
http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
The name that appears is your author name.
2 – Go to “Random Word Generator” or
clickhttp://www.websitestyle.com/parser/randomword.shtml
The word listed under “Random Verb” is your title.
3 – Go to “FlickrCC” or click
https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Type your title into the search box. The first photo that contains
a person is your cover.
4 – Use Photoshop, Picnik, or similar to put it all together. Be
sure to crop and/or zoom in.
5 – Email me your finished product and I will post to the blog if
you wish. Aarmau@gmail.com
Riddle
There was once a wicked queen who lived in a wonderful pal-ace
in the mountains. She decided one day to build another pal-ace
so she sent her guards to the villages and told them to
bring back all the young men to build it. Of course the young
men didn’t want to leave their homes, and one demanded to
speak to the queen, to complain about how unfairly she was
treating them all. Impressed by his spirit the queen decided to
give him a chance.
“Come with me,” she said and he followed her out to the castle
garden.
She held up a small bag. “Into this bag my servant will put two
stones, a black one and white one. You will draw from the bag
one stone. If it is black you will work for me, if it is white you will
go home.”
The young man agreed, but not fully trusting the queen he
watched the servant closely. To his horror his keen eyes saw
the servant place two black stones in the bag.
“Draw,” commanded the queen.
The young man was able to go home.
If you cannot solve it, then do a a little Google search

6. 5
ArtPaint Challenge
Simply paint me a picture and send it my way. I will post the
paintings and have a contest to see whose painting receives
the most votes. Here is the link. I will post my painting later this
week.
TBR Pile Challenge
So…here are the rules. Please add your own if you wish or com-ment
as you please.
* Grab your current read.
* Let the book fall open to a random page.
* Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page,
somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
* You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting
your “teaser” from…that way people can have some great book
recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given.
* Please avoid spoilers!
Guess Your Number
http://www.quizyourprofile.com/guessyournumber.swf This was
sent to me by my dad
Are you good at Tic-Tac-Toe?
If so, then see if you can beat the computer. The game has
been revised to be extra cool. Be sure to turn the sound on to
hear the computer talking to you.
It did take me a few times to win. If you beat the computer, then
post a comment to tell me how many tries it took you to be him/
her/monster
Try it out! Hold on tight!
This is REALLY Cool!!!
Click on the Tic-Tac-Toe link (below) to play.
See if you can beat the computer…
CLICK HERE:
TicTacToe

7. 6
What did you think? I would for you to let me know your
thoughts? If you have been reading my blog for a while now
you can how things have changed. A majority of this is just links
to fun things.
If you do any of the challenges please share with me either on
my site, Twitter, or email. I would love to hear your
thoughts(good and bad) so I can improve the 2010 edition.
Each edition will take longer to produce due to the amount of
posts that share over time.
Thanks for reading!
Aaron Maurer aka Coffeechug
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