House Guests

From the Onion, here are some tips on how to be a good house guest:

Always help your hosts after dinner: Offer to clear the table, wash the dishes, or teach them to cook.
Ensure that you do not overstay your welcome by asking your host if you are overstaying your welcome every couple of minutes.
Avoid an awkward [...]

March 31st, 2005 | Category: Nervous Laughter | 2 comments

Picasa

I recommend this free software download from Google:Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You [...]

March 26th, 2005 | Category: Technology | 3 comments

The Agency

This just in from The Onion…

EPA To Drop ‘E,’ ‘P’ From Name
WASHINGTON, DC—Days after unveiling new power-plant pollution regulations that rely on an industry-favored market-trading approach to cutting mercury emissions, EPA Acting Administrator Stephen Johnson announced that the agency will remove the “E” and “P” from its name. “We’re not really ‘environmental’ anymore, and we certainly [...]

March 23rd, 2005 | Category: Nervous Laughter | Leave a comment

U.S. Memory Championship

From Slate.com:

To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes.

Wow.  [...]

March 18th, 2005 | Category: Science | One comment

Wikipedia Explained

Wired has a good article about the largest encyclopedia on [...]

March 16th, 2005 | Category: Technology | 2 comments