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Random Acts of Blogging

One more post on that shoe thing…

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

I guess we should have seen this coming, too.

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NeoBush

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

OK, by now, everyone’s seen the video of the Iraqi reporter throwing his shoes at President Bush. But BoingBoing

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Bursting your Bubble(wrap)

Monday, December 15th, 2008

As my three loyal readers are aware, we recently completed a major home renovation (the last set of pictures coming really soon now, I promise). Anyway, this weekend’s project, hanging up all of the artwork, framed photos, etc. around the new house, was the last of the “get rid of this pile of stuff stuck in the corner” jobs that we’ve been at for so long. With it, I officially feel “moved in.”

Anyway, the side-effect of this particular job is a smallish mountain of used bubble-wrap, which now needs to be thrown away. Simply stuffing all into hefty bags would require enough hefty bags to justify another home equity loan. And given the current state of the financial markets, we were forced to look for another solution.

The first few batches were taken care of by me and my sons, each patiently popping the bubbles until the plastic was flat enough to be thrown away like normal trash (OK, I popped patiently; my kids put theirs on the ground and “danced” (read: stomped) on them until they were pulverized flat). By the end, though, there was so much of it (and my hands were legitimately getting tired), that I was in search of a new solution. Then, it hit me: THE CAR!. “Honey,” I said to my wife, “I’ll get the car keys, you get the video camera. This is exactly the kind of thing that always winds up on YouTube…”

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The Best Bad Food Revue Ever…

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Matthew Baldwin over at Defective Yeti is one of the funniest writers I’ve come across. In a recent post, he described his opinion of Nabisco brand Cracked Pepper and Olive Oil Triscuits

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A penny saved is a penny blogged…

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Still putting away some final items from the big House Renovation, and I came upon this, which seemed oddly appropriate these days:

When I was a kid, my grandfather gave me coin collecting books. Basically, nicely bound pieces of cardboard with circles cut out on the inside and years printed below them – one the size of pennies, one for nickels, one for dimes and one for quarters. I don’t know what happened to the nickels, dimes and quarters, but the penny book survived until we packed up to move out of the house, which means I still have it today, now that we’re back in.

Of course, once my grandfather gave me the books, he had to start giving me coins. I remember holding coins up to the light to read the years on them, so I could put them in my book (much like my kids go through their grandparents’ quarters to collect all fifty state quarters & put them in a similar book, also given to them by their grandparents, but I digress…)

Anyway, one of the oldest pennies in the book is this one from 1930. That’s a penny from The Great Depression, folks. Forget everything you know about interest rates and the time value of money. I can promise you that when this penny was minted, it was more valuable to the owner(s) than it is today.

I gotta say, Honest Abe’s holding up pretty well after 78 years. If only he could talk, huh? That would be . . . . . . well, exceedingly frightening, I suppose. Better he just sit there and stare to his left. Yes, yes – that’s better. That way, I won’t have nightmares when I go to sleep just after posting this to the blog. Definitely better. Definitely…

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When Film is Free: 11 Things To Do With Your Digital Camera

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Via Glenn Reynolds, a link to eleven cool things you can do with your digital camera that you may not have thought about before:

• Tip #1: Photograph a note with your name, address, blood type, allergies, etc. in case you lose your camera or are found unconscious
• Tip #2: Photograph floorplans, mall layouts or subway maps so you can refer to them as you wander about
• Tip #3: Photograph parking lot signs so you remember where you parked
• Tip #4: Photograph something before you take it apart to fix it, in case you want to remember what it looked like before you started
• Tip #5: Photograph license plates of cars parked next to you in case your car gets dinged while you’re away
• Tip #6: Photograph a particular page in the yellow pages so you can keep the addresses & phone numbers with you
• Tip #7: Photograph potentially illegal situations for use as evidence later on
• Tip #8: Photograph Chinese food menus or complex SKU#’s for on-the-go reference(not quite sure how these wound up together, btw…)
• Tip #9: Photograph a recipe before going shopping for ingredients
• Tip #10: Photograph your rental car to document pre-existing dents, dings, etc.
• Tip #11: Photograph yourself when there’s no mirror available

Each link provides a sample picture and some more detail, so by all means – click around.

For the record, I think some of these are cooler than others. The “photograph some data and zoom in on the picture to read it” suggestions (#2, #6, #8, and #9) seem better served by having an iPhone, Blackberry, or some such device. But if you don’t already own one of those, a camera can make due as described above.

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Happy Linksgiving!

Friday, November 28th, 2008

On this festive holiday, we here at I Should Be Sleeping present a series of cool links for your clicking pleasure…

• The Visual Dictionary – JPEG images of common words, allowing you to create graphical representations of words & phrases. The header of this post is a quick example of what it can do.
• The Motivator– An oldie but a goodie. Create one of those motivational posters you see popping up every once in a while…
• The Best Card Trick in the World – Some guy on YouTube who believes he has invented a simple, but impressive, card trick that anyone can do
• The Best Card Trick in the World – Revealed – Some other guy who has figured out how to do the card trick and explains it to you. Slowly. While smoking a pipe.

And especially for those of you who will be traveling this holiday season, a series of airport/airline related links, brought to you by an e-mail I got from CNET.COM:

• Flightstats.com– Type in an airline and a flight number, and get a consolidated page of data about the flight, including real-time map, and information about it’s originating airport and destination airport.
• Security Wait Times– A useful site from our friends at the Transportation Safety Administration. Who knew? As advertised, I thought this was going to provide me real-time updates on how long the security wait was at each terminal in each airport throughout the country. As it turns out, it provides historical averages based on day of the week and time of day. Not quite as useful, but still pretty handy if you’re not a frequent flier.
• Free Wifi Wiki– A wiki containing lists of airports with free wifi. I can’t vouch for the completeness or accuracy of this, but it’s a good idea. Know of one that’s not on there? Add it!
• Jeffs & Quist’s Air Power Wiki – Another wiki, this time listing where to find power outlets at each major airport. Again, don’t know how complete/accurate it is, but if we all pitch in, it’ll only get better

So, there you have it – some links for the holidays. Happy Turkey, everybody!

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Obama Enshrined on the Gridiron

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Hat tip to Kushol Gupta, source of all marching band-related info, for this picture of the mighty Bethune Cookman Marching Band (motto: “Who?”)

Kind of random, but you’ve gotta admit – kind of cool…

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Not Dead Yet

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

From a comment by michaelh on the excellent blog, Indexed:

Son left home at age 10 for a week at computer camp, called 0 times, came home to mom

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Meme if I must…

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Well, I filled out the first “all about me” meme, so I might as well do this one too (I’m all about the completeness thing, ya know…) Kudos (or blame) go to Ilya and Jason…

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