Every once in a while I come across one of those annoyingly addicting flash games.
Heres one! 
By the way – definitely write down the ‘passwords’ you get at the end of every level.
If you register you can see a bunch of the different passwords cheats codes to get to higher levels. With that said …it’s lame to cheat.
Jan. 18, 2008 — A new study using satellite measurements of Arctic sea ice have revealed that thinner ice that’s only two or three years old now accounts for 58 percent of the ice cover — up from 35 percent in the mid-1980s.
Meanwhile, ice older than nine years had all but disappeared by 2007.
The extinction of the older, thicker ice is effectively melting away the Arctic Ocean’s hedge against complete summer meltdowns, say researchers.
The thinner ice that’s now dominating the Arctic is more vulnerable to ridging — the crumpling into ridged rafts of ice — or melting. Either way you get more open water which can absorb summer sunlight and warm up the Arctic even further.
Hmmm. I wonder how much the water will rise … and what Manhattan will do. No New Orleans, The Netherlands will have a major problem … interesting. At least a “significant” rise in the ocean’s height will be good for the construction industry!
Had the opportunity to fly out to Hawaii this week… for work.
It’s interesting to work in Hawaii. No, people don’t go to work in grass skirts – by and large people there dress like most people in California. There is one rather large difference though – some men where “Aloha” shirts – aka Hawaiian shirts.
I’m learning that some are more “permissible” than others. Give me a nice pair of slacks, shoes, and a short sleeve button down and I’m good. With that said … it might be nice to try an Aloha shirt at some point.
While it rained here in San Jose all week, I enjoyed 80-85 degree weather. Thursday I even went down to the beach and enjoyed the water for a while (I got down there around 5:15 … so it wasn’t real warm). It’s certainly not every work day that you can end up on the sands of Waikiki in the water!
I’ll u/l some pictures at some point…. I didn’t take all that many though.
So, my Evangelical Christian father was just told by a different member of his church that he’s the co-star of the funniest video she’s ever seen.
Don’t ask me:
But describing ‘the funniest video’ … yeah – that I can get.
First of all, for you that don’t know, some ‘hacking’ is fine. For example this one found at Metacafe.com. [adsense:]
Wireless antennas are cool… and expensive if you need to upgrade to a long range antenna – increasing the power, reception, and creating superior preformance.
I’m going to try it one of these days … I’ll need to find my soldering iron.
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[adsense:]
I juggle. I can do the waterfall. The standard juggle toss. Bounce the balls while juggling off the wall. I can juggle one, two and three balls. I can juggle butter knives okay.
I have tossed PJ and Kyle as high as possible (but not at the same time).
So I was showing PJ some cool juggling videos… and came across one that seemed Way Cool! But before you watch ALL OF THIS FIRST ONE … just get a glimpse or two …. Then go to the second one posted today.
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Unreal things that people can do. Make sure you watch the last 7 seconds or so.
Amazing.
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I don’t know what to say. As someone slightly off the grid, I’ve no idea if the evening news made a huge deal out of the Texas UFO sightings -which was apparently seen by the county cop, as well as other non-rednecks.
Finally some people which have something to loose by talking about UFOs have said they have seen them. Does that make it real? I have no clue. I’ve never seen one – and truthfully don’t think I want to. (We kill less intelligent species for fun… would they?)
But it set me off on a course, of course. I’ve meandered around the web – in both English & Chinese (thanks Charlene)
UFO – Cylinder Chased by Soviet MIG-21
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This is interesting – from Nanjing, China
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Never heard of this one near the World Trade Towers
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Some interesting names – especially if you’ve got what I don’t … 94minutes to watch this
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Of course, here is the problem with technology… this author does a great job of ‘flying the Millenium Falcon’ around a downtown city area.
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So many people think I’m insane. Well, I think that’s a farce.
Insanity is waiting for the your retirement to enjoy yourself. It’s not playing as hard as you work. It’s not working. It’s defining a comfortable little box, and then living your entire life inside of it.
Here is my first attempt at using the YouTube.com functionality of my blogsite.
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From 1999 to 2004, the actor Wesley Snipes earned $38 million appearing in more than half a dozen movies, including two sequels to his popular vampire thriller “Blade.”
The taxes he paid in the same period? Zero.
Why would we want to pay our income taxes? Great question.
However, income taxes haven’t always been required.
The crazy thing is that wouldn’t it be a great coup if the jury found him innocent?
Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and Stanford’s business school have directly seen that the sensation of pleasantness that people experience when tasting wine is linked directly to its price. And that’s true even when, unbeknownst to the test subjects, it’s exactly the same Cabernet Sauvignon with a dramatically different price tag.
Specifically, the researchers found that with the higher priced wines, more blood and oxygen is sent to a part of the brain called the medial orbitofrontal cortex, whose activity reflects pleasure. Brain scanning using a method called functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) showed evidence for the researchers’ hypothesis that “changes in the price of a product can influence neural computations associated with experienced pleasantness,” they said.
One can only imagine the glee in the average marketing department. Our product will be better received if we raise the price.
Apparently, quite right.
One wonders if there are any people who are able to ‘overcome’ the price differentiation.