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* In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders
(I just gave up sleeping!)
* Cat’s urine glows under a black-light
(WHY does someone know this??)
* Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

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Have you ever wanted to visit Rome? Me neither. I don’t speak Italian, they drive on the wrong side of the road, and I suspect that real Italian food is nothing like what you get here in the central United States.
However, if, for some reason, I found myself being forced to travel to Italy, I’d […]

While it sure is convenient to be able to pull out a laptop and go to yahoo.com to check your email even when you’re out of town, it presents an awful security risk, as I hinted in a post earlier today.
I’ll take my good old POP3 client anytime. I don’t have to worry about someone […]

Anyone who operates a small online business is going to learn in a hurry that it will cost you sales if you aren’t set up to accept credit cards.While I personally don’t use credit cards, I do know that there are many many people who would be utterly lost without them. (I’ll save that rant […]

The following is based on actual events as related to me by one of the parties in the story. If my facts are incorrect then please contact me and I will publish a correction or edit this entry accordingly. All names have been changed to protect both the innocent and the shameless.

There has always been something about buying any form of insurance that bothered me. I guess its just the idea of paying good money for something that you hope never to use. I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way.
Recently I’ve been hospitalized enough to realize that maybe some life insurance […]

I don’t know if this is a nationwide trend or if my kids just happened to get “lucky”, but almost every day I get more and more disgusted with what the schools are doing because of this “No Child Left Behind” crap.

* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match
* Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married
* 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
Now there’s a picture I didn’t need…nyuk nyuk nyuk

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Since I got my first computer back in 1982 (64K of RAM, 1 MHz CPU and cassette tapes for data storage! Those were the days!) I’ve wanted to find a way to make a little cash with one. Well, I’ve run across Blogsvertise - an organization that will actually pay me for writing about a […]

* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
* If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for US citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials […]