Archive for September 2004

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Hands-free Web Surfing

How would you feel about using your nose and eyes to surf the web? It could be a reality, via the “nouse.” Your nose would move the cursor, and your left or right eye would control a left or right mouse click.
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How Many In the Family?

Jane has twice as many sisters as she has brothers.
Her brother James has five more sisters than he has brothers.
How many boys and girls in the family?
(Hint: There are no more than 10.)

My Next “Extreme” Adventure?

Yahoo has an article about an airplane ride that allows you to experience weightlessness like an astronaut. Sounds like fun! Way too expensive, though, so I won’t be doing it anytime soon…

Quiz - What’s Your Animal Personality?

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I was a Horse:

Ken Jennings’ Jeopardy Run Over?

As some of you may know, and as I wrote about before, Ken Jennings has been on quite a run on Jeopardy. I think he’s up to 43 wins or so now, nearing $1.5 million in winnings.
Ah, but the rumors are spreading of his defeat. If you don’t like spoilers, don’t read any [...]

Paintball

Well, it’s that time of year again - paintball tournament time! Team Horseshoes and Hand Grenades is participating in the Fall Challenge Series at Diehard Paintball tomorrow (Sep 12th). This will be our second tournament. Previously, we competed in the Spring Challenge Series, also at Diehard Paintball, and came in a very [...]

Poll - Favorite Meal

Vote for your favorite meal:
What’s Your Favorite Meal?

Story Discussion

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Old School!!!

Wow, I had some awesome old school fun tonight. Dodgeball! Boone County Community Education is offering a 10 week dodgeball session that I just couldn’t pass up. We played for hour and a half tonight and I am wiped out. It’s quite a bit more intense than I remember it [...]

Two Muppets named top scientists

Get a load of this…
“Muppets Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker defeated Dr. Strangelove, Dana Scully of “X Files” fame and Star Trek’s Mr. Spock to be voted Britain’s favorite screen scientists.”
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