Reading Incentives - Paying Off
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in kids | 1 Comment »Â Apparently the reading incentives we (mostly my wife) have implemented are really paying off. Today my son, who's in kindergarten, started going to the 1st grade class for reading. Only 2 other kids went up to the first grade level ...
Shoot’n guns on the farm
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »This weekend my brother took me out to the farm where he frequently hunts. The family of a friend of his has a bunch of land a couple hours from here and they hunt it regularly. My brother's benefited from ...
Trash Tech
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I wonder why I find the technology related to trash so fascinating. Here's another awesome technology that deals with trash: Awesome Trash Tech Part of the article states this: The machine is a microwave emitter that extracts the petroleum and ...
I don’t need to know
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Today, someone asked me if they could contact my friend that's a cop. When someone does that (or something else like it), I don't ask why. If they want me to know, they'll tell me. In this ...
Happy Birthday To Me!
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 9 Comments »Today is my birthday! As a birthday present to me, I'd like whoever reads this post (and whenever you read it) to respond with a small comment. Any comment will do - I just want to know who's ...
Christmas Creep
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »When I was a kid, I remember that the Christmas season started a day or so AFTER Thanksgiving. It seems that it has creeped it's way past Thanksgiving, past the week of Thanksgiving and has settled, for the moment, ...
Thieving Monkeys - I wonder how this will get resolved
Monday, November 19th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I just read a news article titled "Thieving monkeys 'out of control' in northeast India". Apparently, the monkeys are stealing people's cell phones and breaking into their houses to dig in their refrigerators and steal cokes. I ...
$100 Laptop - One Laptop Per Child
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »I've read a few articles about the $100 laptop aka "One Laptop Per Child" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC) and am interested in it. It is basically a laptop specifically engineered to be used in 3rd world countries by underprivileged kids. I can't find anything ...
The use of photo technology that un-ages people
Friday, November 2nd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »There's a couple cool applications that take photos of people and show what they might/would look like several years down the line. They're mainly used to show what missing persons might look like when people are still looking for the ...