In no particular order: A couple of weeks on a catamaran in the British Virgin Islands A week on a catamaran in the Seychelles Hmm. Maybe my own catamaran with crew that I could just send around the world. A little robot that would sit on our seven year old’s ear and remind him to […]
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Remember the spinning girl? If she spun one way, you were left-brained, if she spun the other way, she was right-brained. I thought it was a trick because she kept changing directions. A friend came over and actually watched it with me and he swore it kept going the same way all the time even
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Reading America’s Atheists, Believe it or not, the fact that surprised me wasn’t that 30 million Americans claimed "no religion," but rather that Catholicism is America’s largest Christian denomination. Growing up Catholic, I never felt like I was in the majority (except when we lived in Spain,) and I’m still surprised to find out that
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This article slams baby boomers for being selfish because they are (supposedly) rich and not planning on leaving it to their kids. They are planning on spending their money in retirement. I don’t understand why people are expected to leave things to their kids. I understand that once upon a time you left your farm,
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I knew we lived a disposable society the time Jacob and I broke a wine glass and he said, "it’s ok, we can buy another one." That’s his answer to most problems: we can always buy a solution. Makes you wonder what our society will be like when all our kids are adults. They have
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I have two credit cards from the same bank and I noticed that they were almost all the same number. That seemed strange to me since I got them at very different times. Turns out that you can tell a lot just from your credit card number. For example, the first number tells you what
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If you like stupid comedies and bad horror movies, Planet Terror might be the movie for you. I don’t like stupid comedies nor any kind of horror movie, so I agreed to watch it for Bruce Willis. If, like me, you watch it for Bruce Willis, here’s a tip: watch the movie until you see
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This guy spent a week in the Mall of Americas in Minneapolis – all open hours and one night. It’s an interesting read just for the people he met and the things he tried. He met one woman who claimed to be a stay-at-home mom who shopped at the mall six days a week and
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This study shows an amazing correlation between the age you retire and how long you live. Retire by 50 and live to be 86. Retire at 65 and you’ll only live another year. The study was based on data from Boeing so we should probably do a few more studies before we advise everyone to
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According to Optimum Strategies for Creativity and Longevity, Nobel prize winners made their discoveries and innovations at an average age of 32. So I figure I better hurry up and get with it, if it’s not too late already!
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