An interesting article over at CNNMoney.com has found that only 27% of Twitter users are active. Their definition of active is people who have at least 10 followers, follow 10 people and have posted at least 10 times. Well with those criteria I’m a verbose barely active user with my 11 followers, 13 followings, and 250+ tweets. Continue reading
Recently while at a nearby tavern, I saw Guinness 250 on the draft imports list. I asked the waitress what it was and she had no idea but went off to ask the bartender. She came back and told me that it was a lighter stout and tastes more like Guinness does over in Ireland.
James over at “Under a Gibbous Moon” sent this too me. “Study: Rumors of Written-Word Greatly Exaggerated“ finds that the amount of reading we do each day has increased since the 1960′s.
Recently my father loaned me a guide book on skiing- the book is Skiing Skills by Rüdiger Jahn and it was written in 1980. While this normally would seem a rather random attempt to refresh my memory on skiing, since Katie and I are planning on slipping in a few trips this year it was actually a very nice gesture. The first thing I noticed was how well the book was built. It’s held together very well for nearly 30 years. The second thing I noticed was how wordy it was. This made me think about how so many trainings and how-to guides that have been created lately rely heavily on images and videos with minimal words.
Earlier this week Katie went in to the doctor with most of the symptoms of H1N1. Thankfully it turned out to just be a run of the mill upper respiratory viral thing. What floored me was what the doctor said off offhandedly. H1N1 has peaked and is already on the way out. I guess I must have missed the memo. Continue reading
Well here I am still in the single digit posts and I’m already breaking one of the rules I set for my blog. I was not going to talk about religion, politics, and marsupials. Here I go writting a whole post on the wombat*.
I just watched the whole extended Lou Dobbs interview from the Daily Show, and I have to say it is one of the most reasonable discussions between two men who have differing views that I have ever seen. I strongly encourage everyone to watch the three clips I’ve embedded. I believe if we’re lucky as a country we will finally stop being polarized. George Washington in his farewell address cautioned against a party system I have to say he had the right idea…
Part 1
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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Part 2
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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Part 3
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Exclusive – Lou Dobbs Extended Interview Pt. 3 | ||||
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*I know there’s nothing in this post about wombats, I lied.
In downtown Elmhurst IL they have been working on a fountain off of York. You’d swear it was a city of Chicago project for how long it felt like it took to complete. I don’t think I ever got to see it with water this year. I’m glad to see a city putting a “winterscape” in so the plaza can have something instead just a big empty fountain during the winter months.
Today, I purchased a Venustus Cichlid for a secondary tank I’ve had dormant since I set up my angel tank. While I’m sure I’ll post more about the Venustus later that’s not my goal for this post. What made me enjoy this more was that I found a locally owned fish store to buy from. I went to Tropi-Quatics in Lombard IL. It’s set back on Main St. in the old business district of Lombard instead of down towards the south end of town near the major strip malls. As soon as I walked in I was reminded of being back in college where we had the benefit of another great “Mom & Pop” fish store Marine Aquatics down in Normal IL. Continue reading
Katie brought this one to my attention.
Bank of America Limits Overdraft Fees
First of all I want to say I appreciate a major bank taking this step towards not squeezing their customers for every penny they have. To quote their website (above link).
