One point Twenty-One JigaWatts!
Mark spent this past weekend in California, where he visited Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood. A couple of his pictures got me thinking about the classic blunder of Doc Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, where he refers to the amount of electricity needed to power the DeLorean for time travel – 1.21…
Fail
abort, backslide, be defeated, be demoted, be ruined, blunder, break down, decline, deteriorate, fall, fall flat, fall short, fall through, fizzle, flop, flounder, fold, founder, go astray, go down, go downhill, go wrong, hit bottom, lose control, lose out, lose status, miscarry, miss, play into, run aground, slip, TANK All of these words describe 1…
This Valentine’s Day has been brought to you by the letters F and U
I hate Valentine’s Day. Of course, I’m biased. In my nearly 27 years on this planet, I have gotten to spend 2 Valentine’s Days with a “significant other.” The last one was 3 years ago. Not that I am complaining that my checkbook hasn’t bounced due to outrageous V-Day spending, just that I would enjoy…
I’m checking my Gmail…
Gmail, Google’s forray into free email, is potentially a Yahoo and Hotmail killer. I currently have over 2.5GB of storage space for email and attachments alone, whereas the free services offered by those other companies is less than a Gig. Granted, 1GB is a lot of text and HTML email, but add in attachments and…
Internet Goodies…
My brother, in the past, has written about the wonders of YouTube. You can find some great videos (and some terrible ones) on there, all for free viewing. Recently, I found that you can integrate their videos into your own personal website. The only “quirky” behavior that these videos have is dependent on where you…
