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, …
Category Archive: Fun Stuff
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29
Jan
04
Remember your first time?
I know my timing may be a little off here, but is it ever too early to start talking about this? . . .What?
Jan
04
Brain Power
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 …
Nov
24
Old National Geographic Magazines: Trash or Time Capsule?
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 pops up. …
Oct
20
Volvo’s Overseas Delivery Program Means Travel To, From, and Within Europe is (almost) ABSOLUTELY FREE!
“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 …
Oct
17
The Superhero Quiz: Finally, a personality test that’s real.
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 tests available. …
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