Friends, family and employees helped Clyde Lear celebrate his 60th birthday this week. Clyde used those years to make the world a better place (and continues to do so). A wonderful video clearly showed how much Clyde is loved and loves. I found myself wondering if such a video could be cobbled together for my 60th year (just four short years away). Might be tough. Note to self: try to make each day a highlight clip for the Final Video. I reminded Clyde that, in ancient times, Kings would grant pardons and make proclamations on their birthdays and asked if he cared to do so.
Godchecker’s Mythology Encyclopedia
More Gods than you can shake a stick at. Godchecker’s Mythology Encyclopedia currently features over 1,600 deities. Browse the pantheons of the world, explore ancient myths, and discover Gods of everything from Fertility to Fluff with the fully searchable Holy Database Of All Known Gods.
Gmail
I’m trying out the new, free email service from Google, Gmail. The big draw –in addition to “free”– is storage. A gigabyte. Which is a shit-load of email. The idea is you save ALL your email and use Googles great search tools to find stuff later. I’m not one of those that likes to save everything but I’ll reserve judgement.
Broadband Internet growing
The number of Americans with access to high-speed Internet connections either at home or work is growing. As of March 1, the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 68 million adult Americans log on via broadband either at home or work. Fully 48 million adult Americans have broadband connections at home. For the first time, more than half (52%) of a key demographic group college educated people age 35 and younger has broadband connections at home. But this trend will have absolutely no impact on time spent listening to your local radio station. Everything is fine. Go back to your homes.
Pet owners
According to a survey by the American Animal Hosptial Association, 73% of pet owners would go into debt in order to provide for their pet’s well being. Other findings:
20% include their pet in their will
62% celebrate their pet’s birthday. (Of that 62%, 51% sang “Happy Birthday.”)
52% include news about their pet or a photo of their pet in a holiday card
67% said they felt guilty leaving their pet home alone
47% said that when they leave their pet alone they leave on a TV or radio
–Source: AKC Family Dog Magazine
The Paomnnehal Pweor of the Hmuan Mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
DSL service
My local ISP buys ADSL service from Sprint and sells it to me for $50 per month (512K up/128K down). If I sign-up directly with Sprint, I can get 1.5M up/384K down, for $60 per month. This must change.
Blogs let you remember
“Blogs let you remember what you think, what you feel, what you say, how you say it, what you care about and how you live in this world actually matters. Blogs remind us we matter.”
–Halley Suitt (2004)
Why Mobile Phones are Annoying
Bystanders rated mobile-phone conversations as dramatically more noticeable, intrusive, and annoying than conversations conducted face-to-face. While volume was an issue, hearing only half a discussion also seemed to up the irritation factor. [Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, April 12, 2004]
Lucy: 13 weeks
Beautiful spring day. Barb’s 500 tulips are up and looking fine. Lucy and Ripley are old buddies now and play together just fine. Everything is a game to a Golden Retriever puppy, including a drink of water.
