Monday, April 7, 2008

Free Yellow Pages Listing

You can list your business for free at YellowPages.com, whether it's a brass musical instrument repair shop or whatever. Yes, that was a shameless plug.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Pinnacle Mint Football Brass Coins

Sadly, not too many people are interested in Pinnacle Mint football brass coins from 1997 -- not even when the related sports card is offered with a given coin. There's only a little interest in Brett Favre and Barry Sanders. No one seems to care for Dan Marino, John Elway, Steve Young, Mark Brunell, Emmitt Smith, or a host of others.

Music DVD

My son who is part of Emily's Fault might make a DVD from the band's latest performance. They've already got some video up on YouTube.com.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Quiet Alarms

If I decide to take a quick nap before game night because I'm really tired, it's not enough to set my cell phone alarm and the microwave timer in order to wake me up when I want to leave for the evening. I need a person to do the honors.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Making Money in Puerto Rico


There is a great way to make money in Puerto Rico. You gather coffee and trade it in for cash using an office and a large market.

Oh, did I mention that this is in the game of Puerto Rico?

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

How Global Warming Is Measured

How is global warming (aka climate change) measured? What techniques and instruments are used? Where are the places on earth that are measured? Where does the data come from?

You might at first think a quick Google search would bring up at least a few, if not tons, of pages with the answer, or at least a partial answer. But go ahead...try it. I didn't dig for a long time, but I was disappointed in the results I got. I even tried ask.com too. Really, try it, and tell me what you found, or didn't find.

I still don't know the answer.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Hacienda for 3


In a 3-player game of Hacienda, it is possible for each of the participants to score 239, 238, and 235 points. I had the measly 235. sigh