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Writing actual real letters with postage

Snail mail gets such a bad and unmerited reputation.  The firstness (yes I can make up words, it is my blog) of it is that it really isn't all that slow... As cited by the screen scrape below, letters sent locally arrive within one day 96% of the time and letters sent nationwide arrive within three days 94% of the time. That's a better success rate on trip time than I have when Wife sends me to the store to pick up milk! The secondness (and really more importantly) of the matter is Read more [...]

Secret underground military bunker filled with history

This is every kid's dream. It sure is!  The title is enough to wet anyone's appetite for adventure.  Cue imagination and hold on tight, this real life secret underground military bunker was stumbled upon in France. Now for the best part. Not only are you having a blast pretending to be Indiana Jones exploring a once-secret military bunker, you come across abandoned military equipment! You first come across a rusting pair of German 77-mm cannons from World War I. It gets even better, as you Read more [...]

Universal Google Identity

I absolutely love Google.  When I get to work in the morning, no kidding, the first things that open in my FireFox web browser are... Google Finance Google News Gmail And soon after there is sure to be a Google search that occurs. What I want to discuss, more specifically, is Google News.  My favorite thing about Google News is the amount of information provided in one place.  On the front page I have my major headlines broken into different categories (including one that is personalized Read more [...]

Goldfish, the new soap!

Have you heard?  Apparently, a goldfish (yes, your child time pet that eventually ended up swimming through the sewers) is the new soap.  According to recent and credible studies, using a goldfish for hand and body soap can kill up to 175% more germs than any leading off-the-shelf soap!  Also noted, was that during a hidden smell panel, the scent of a man using a goldfish as soap was selected as 'better smelling' over off-the-shelf soap 7 out of 10 times. So this is how it works...  The chemicals Read more [...]