Industrial Design Has It’s Uses - Somewhere
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Look up the back of the kitchen cupboard, or under the stairs in any house in Britain and you will find a product of industrial design that has been hidden away since its first use. Get someone in the house to admit is was useless and you’re on a losing streak.
If the husband bought [...]
Can You Take The “I” Out Of Traffic?
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My grandmother believed traffic was one of God’s ways to teach patience. Well, the next time you’re waiting for a red light to turn green you can think about William Potts. William Potts, a Detroit policeman, used red, amber and green railroad lights and about $37 worth of wire and electrical controls to invent the [...]
Technical Troubleshooting at ATT Yahoo for Fun, Profit and Sheer Adventure
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It’s not that AT&T is a small company. Neither is Yahoo. My webhosting says AT&T Yahoo, so that should make matters simple.
My monthly billings are exquisitely accurate as any charge possible anywhere throughout the AT&T Yahoo mega system finds its way to my invoice.
Be that as it may the [...]
Things To Do With Chauffeur Car Hire
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If you’ve gone to the expense of using chauffeur car hire, then you want to get your money’s worth. Drink the champagne provided, however cheap, try out all the seats, use the champagne bucket for throwing up in, wind the privacy partition up and down, up and down, up and down, hang out of the [...]
Does Anyone Study Studies?
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Today there are studies for just about everything. A study comparing smokers with non-smokers found that smokers are concerned primarily with the present and non-smokers are concerned more about the future. Professional dancers were given as an example. Because their careers are short, professional dancers are more concerned about the present - and professional dancers, [...]
How Do You Manage Home Management?
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I’m an in-house manager for a non-profit that’s dedicated to furthering the understanding of human development in the 21st century - or at least that’s what I tell strangers at social functions. It’s party-speak for saying I’m a wife and mother. If I’m asked, I explain I qualified for my position by getting a bachelor [...]
Does Success Make You Successful?
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The U.S. has more successes than any other country. That might sound like a broad generalization, but it’s not. Australia has one town named Success. The U.S. has three - one in Arkansas, one in Missouri and one in New Hampshire. Hopefully, they compensate for Why, Arizona; Last Chance, Colorado; and Hell, Michigan.
Los Angeles is [...]
What Did Your Mother Tell You?
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A mother’s work is never done. In fact, a study done by Ohio State University showed that married women with children feel more than twice as rushed in their daily lives than single women do. Their husbands, however, didn’t feel more rushed than their single counterparts. Is there something wrong with that or am I [...]
Give Me My Tooth
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Do YOU know anyone who loves going to the dentist, lying flat on their helpless back, relinquishing all control over to “The Mad Dentist?”
What joy to spit blood, have needles jabbed in our swollen sore gums, pink goop crammed in our mouth for impressions, suction devices, hard plastic forced in our mouth for x-rays, [...]
The Humble Ink Cartridge Is Often Mistaken
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You’d think with the advent of spell checker that mistakes would no longer be made but one rule of the typist and computer programmer is never to trust the spell checker. You would be amazed that one slip of the finger and you will write all manner of things which could be mis-construed and god [...]