They've gotten rid of the money in monopoly...

... and replace it with debit cards: http://www.google.com/gwt/i?i=0C63AA571_95E828F2_E4981AB9

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Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays from our family to yours!

WOTD: stevedoring

http://www.google.com/xhtml?q=stevedoring&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search&site=search&mrestrict=xhtml

- found in amny.com while riding the M31 bus
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Words

Word of the day: rejectionist
<http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861699907/rejectionist.html>

Word of the year: truthiness
<http://www.americandialect.org/Words_of_the_Year_2005.pdf>

LizzyBoo the Carpenter

Our cat LizzyBoo (>>) is helping with the renovations at the Cape; drop me a line if you'd like the details.

You can publish your blog from now. I just tried it.

Here's our "rip-off of the week": The Wine Enhancer

Replacing the case on your Blackberry

This article describes how to replace the case on your blackberry, it was very interesting to see how the insides are assembled.

Maps of America and the World

This is a great map to set as your desktop:
http://www.ehabich.info/images/synchro/northamerica_f.jpg It gets
updated with the Sun's position, objects in orbit and natural disasters.

More cat videos: Expensive cat toy, daring leap.

Blogging the Bible

An interesting read: http://www.slate.com/id/2150150/

Today's Anniversaries
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries>

Terminator $200k

Samsung has a new Terminator model:

http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/samsung_develops_machine_gun_sentry_robot_costs_200k.php

Unfortunately, this may not be a joke.

Video; Random Questions

<< Checkout this video, it's hilarious!

Anyone know how to: Steer google adwords to specific sites? Get pay per view of video news. Pay per view for old books.

Anyone going to see Denis Leary at Avery Fisher Hall?

Did you know that The Who's Pete Townsend is a reference in the OED.

"Betting on layaway is just a bad idea. " -Mark

This week: Pay-It-Forward; Ship graveyard on 60 minutes; Gettys-Blog

[ROuGH DRAFT]

It's "Be nice to people week"

1) In Bangledesh or Bhutan, they run ships aground to junk them and harvest their metal for construction materials. It was featured on 60 Minutes.

2) Idea for a travel book based on a civil war route: "The Gettys-blog"

[My articles are usually very rough since I force myself to "post first and then ask questions later.". If I put something up raw it motivates me to fix it instead of never posting it at all out of hesitation (like wikipedia). Get it up and then we'll get it right in Rev 2.0. - I should find a way of keeping the chaff on a separate page so that the main page becomes the "best of" pate -Mark]
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Random questions

Can anyone recommend someone to change out our printer cartridge 1x per week.
?

Is anyone hiring for IT operations, both hi-levels and mid-level?

1) Anyone have a graphic family tree of the Christian religions?

2) Songs: "Free ride" vs "slow ride"?

3) Study shows 69% of data involves sexual innuendo;

4) How to save flv files from IE cache.

5) Can anyone suggest good civil war tours/hikes?
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Bunny letter opener

other videos: disk drop, disk drive, cats