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Pick a card . . .

February 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

It’s about a thirty-minute drive from our house to my parents’. Getting to Lisa’s parents’ takes twice as long. For a 5-year-old, this is an excruciatingly long time to be strapped into a car seat with nothing to do. In fact, in a 5-year-old’s universe, this is roughly equivalent to what an […]

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Tags: Fun Stuff · mysteries

Unconfirmed Language Trivia

February 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Let me just say, for the record, that I hate trivia games. I’m terrible at them. My mind just doesn’t roll that way. I am in awe of people whose minds do. This includes, “Name That Tune” types of games.
That said, I got an email this morning that was jam-packed with […]

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Word Play

January 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Alert and loyal reader, Jake Wisse, noticed that I’ve been “phoning it in lately with non-Chris content,” and was good enough to continue enabling my personal mediocrity by sending along the following interesting content (thanks Jake!):
Here is the Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational, which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter […]

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Remember your first time?

January 4th, 2008 · 6 Comments

I know my timing may be a little off here, but is it ever too early to start talking about this?

. . .What?
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Tags: Humor · Fun Stuff

Brain Power

January 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I was scanning through educational articles this evening (because I’m a complete nerd) and found these interesting brain facts. Use them as you wish. But remember, with great knowledge comes great responsibility.

Billions of bits of information pass through your brain every second of your life.
Messages in your brain travel through trillions of neural […]

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Old National Geographic Magazines: Trash or Time Capsule?

November 24th, 2007 · 10 Comments

One of the joys of caring for aging parents (or in-laws) is that often as the inevitable downsizing begins, you get their stuff. This might be cool if 99% of it weren’t junk. Ancient tools, stacks of picture frames, geological surveys from 1950–you get the picture.
But then, every so often something interesting […]

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Tags: Learning · Fun Stuff

Volvo’s Overseas Delivery Program Means Travel To, From, and Within Europe is (almost) ABSOLUTELY FREE!

October 20th, 2007 · 6 Comments

“A mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes
This summer, my family and I had the opportunity to take a trip of a lifetime. The 1st of July, we packed the whole gang, along with Lisa’s parents, into a Scandinavia Airlines 747 and traveled for three and a half […]

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Tags: Learning · Money · Fun Stuff · Growth

The Superhero Quiz: Finally, a personality test that’s real.

October 17th, 2007 · 6 Comments

As we move forward in this age of rapid communication, personality testing and identification becomes more and more critical. In order to better communicate with others we need first to understand what type of people we are. To meet this need, there seems to be a dramatic increase in the number of personality […]

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How to kill a house wasp-like a ninja

October 14th, 2007 · 24 Comments

Periodically we’ll get a wasp in the house. You know how it is.
One moment, you’re snacking on toast with peanut butter and chocolate chips, and the next, all hell breaks loose because a wasp starts dive-bombing random targets around the room.
The toast? Fuggetaboutit. One eye’s on the wasp, the other, frantically […]

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Tags: Humor · Fun Stuff · Around the house · Creativity

Ask Jud: Evil Spirit or Scary Prank? The Answer is Magic

October 10th, 2007 · 9 Comments

Like a potent virus, Jud swept into the computer lab and quickly infected over half my computers–not to mention the kids using them.
“NO WAY!! How did it know that?”
“Ask Jud who is standing behind you!”
“THAT IS FREAKY!!!”
“Ask Jud what the name of my dog is!”
“JUD GETS IT RIGHT EVERY TIME!!!”
Ask Jud: Supernatural Psychic, Computer Virus, […]

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Tags: Learning · Humor · Fun Stuff · mysteries · Puzzles