A little background. HeliOS has a foundation that takes abandoned and computers donated to it, and installs linux and other open source software on them and donates them to people who need computers. They operate in the black via donations and using such free software. (Yes Linux and other FOSS software are free as in [...]
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The Chicago Tribune posted a story about a local girl who decided to find out how tolerant supporters of Obama who was preaching tolerance was. Click to read the story by John Kass (Click read more in case it gets wiped after a short time… ie. not archived)
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Catherine never told us which candidate she would [...]
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n. Vulgar Slang
An inept, foolish, or contemptible person.
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Though the Collegiate gives the first appearance of “dickhead” as 1964, the OED only provides a 1969 quotation. I don’t need to go to the mat on this one, however, since both dates are well within our defined period. Interesting about dickhead, however, is that [...]
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I found a site that supposedly interprets who I am by my first name. And in most cases (like horoscopes) I blow them off. But This one hit fairly close, so I thought I’d share and have you see what you think.
What Patrick Means
You are influential and persuasive. You tend to have a [...]
Encarta prides itself on being a good one stop source of knowledge for families. And as one of the Microsoft products it has been used quite a bit, but never really caught on. As such, I never really used it and when doing searches I can’t think of a time that the answer [...]
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Earlier (about 6 months ago) I had written about a famous picture in which shows the earth, our huge home as no more then a little dot. A tiny blue dot…
Well here is a look that really brings that home.
Earlier when talking to a friend we had come across a list of rarely used words. And in most cases I could think of another more widely used word, that was used in its stead. But there was a word used to explain “being aroused by the study of knowledge” that we both [...]
They’d either go bankrupt or like this video mentioned, they’d never bother advertising.
And forgive me to embedding a college humor video. They tend to put too many Ads in, but this was humorous.
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This questions you wonder but never really ask…
Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?
Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat?
And if we move to right in front of the TV, why don’t we ever bow down and push the button?
Why do banks charge a fee on “insufficient [...]
I consider Joseph smart. In fact most parents will think their kid is very smart. But this little girl (2 year old) amazes me.
