Category: General
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MS 150 – First Day
Today I’m riding my bicycle to raise funds and awareness about Multiple Sclerosis. The route today starts at Proctor High School, continues along the Willard Munger Trail and ends in Hinckley, a distance of approximately 73 miles. If you’d like to sponsor me in this endeavor, follow the link on the sidebar of this page.
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Prevent Prostate Cancer
One of the RSS news feeds that I read this week pointed to an article from NewScientist.com which proclaims, “Masturbating may protect against prostate cancer.”I guess the kittens are safe…
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Alzheimers’ Eye Test
Count every “F” in the following text:FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS…How many?Wrong, there are six — no joke.Read it again!Really, go back and try to find the 6 F’s before you scroll down…The reasoning behind is further down.The brain cannot process “OF”.Incredible or what? …
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Tribology
Was just looking at job postings at Seagate and came across this word that I hadn’t heard before. From the sounds of it I was thinking that it was something to do with social (Tribal) engineering, but it really is a noun meaning:The study of friction, wear, lubrication, and the design of bearings; the science…
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The Jetta Report
There is a new online site, The Jetta Report, that lets you see how your opinions match that of a typical VW owner. Apparently, even though I own two VW‘s, a 1995 Passat, and a 2006 Jetta TDI; my attitude and lifestyle only match that of a typical VW owner by 44 percent.I guess there…