Microsoft has a very cool site called Live Maps. You can look at your property or other sites from 4 different satellite angles! Google Earth is very nice, but with this you can view from 4 different angles—not just straight down.
Tip: Type in your city, in the upper right search window, or just zoom way in. Click “Bird’s Eye”, then rotate (Oooo!)
Here for your enjoyment, is Newberg Friends Church, and Friends Center (from the east):
Dundee’s famous Purple House (from the west):
And Dundee’s famous traffic bottleneck (from the east):
A few days ago I received a letter from Verizon, our internet service provider…
Thank you, Mr. Comfort, for being such a good customer. Effective next month we are raising your monthly DSL rate. It will be 47% higher than it is now. We really appreciate your business!”
Right after I read that letter (a few minutes), I got a phone call…from Verizon!
Hello, Mr. Comfort. Did you know that Verizon Fios is available in your area, and it is way better blah blah blah five times faster blah blah…”
I’m not interested. Thanks.
May I ask why, Mr. Comfort, when Fios is blah blah way better blah blah…?”
Yes. It costs more than I am paying now.
But, did you know that Fios uses less electricity than DSL? blah blah blah save the planet blah blah…”
I don’t care.
[Actually I do care about the earth, but I just wanted to get off the phone! I react negatively to people or companies using environmental guilt as a marketing tool to sell things, especially when it is such a HUGE stretch as this! Now I wish I would have quizzed him a bit more on his claim...]
Well, Mr. Comfort, if you change your mind, you can (speed reading, he rattled off an unintelligible 800 number and web address)…”
OK! [click.]
Now I know why they’re raising their rate for the cheap DSL plan. They’re having trouble stealing customers from themselves.
As I noted at the end of my “About” page, I used to have Phalacrophobia, but I don’t anymore.
This news is for guys who still have this phobia. Great! For 150 bucks you can:
- See if your future will be bright and shiny (or not)
- Know if you will continue living under cover, or come out on top
The test doesn’t fix anything. It supposedly just lets you know what the future holds. In my experience, the best cure for Phalacrophobia, is just to let nature take its course… it is impossible to have a “fear of going bald” when you are bald!
My favorite bald jokes:
- You don’t put a marble top on cheap furniture
- God only made a few perfect heads—the rest he covered up.
- I used to have wavy hair—until it waved good-bye!
Feel free to contribute your bald jokes and one-liners. I need some new ones!
This technology essentially would extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and, using a form of electrochemical separation, turn it into fuel. The goal is to create a fuel that will work with existing vehicle and aircraft infrastructure.
Cool! It solves two big problems at once!
- Too much CO2
- Not enough clean fuel
Here’s what I envision it looking like:
(Maybe we will be able to fuel our jet packs with these?)
Here’s where I first heard about it.
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