Friday, November 24, 2006

A new sport for Paris Hilton

While shopping at the local mall on Black Friday, I noticed a young man wearing a sweatshirt with
Varsity Hurling
on the front. I immediately thought that Paris Hilton would be well qualified to be on that team.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

After reading/skimming some of the ideas presented in this article, Lessons from Project Management: 101 ways to organize your life, I decided that I should try harder to post more stuff to this blog.

Items #56 through #59 (in the Personal Organization section) suggests keeping a daily journal to jot down the day's hi- and lo-points. After a few days/entries I should pause to reflect upon what I had written and to rate my performance on the accomplishments or failures. I need to use a daily list of tasks/to do items. Once I complete a tasks, I should cross it off the list. With practice, I should improve the task completion percentage.

Thanksgiving -- a co-worker sent this to me ...

What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving.
– Erma Bombeck

Friday, November 03, 2006

Photo Published Via Mobile Phone


Here is a photo I took last May during a trip to southern Utah and northern Arizona.


I sent it from a mobile phone using the new (to me) interface that Google recently made available.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

think again!

After a three month absence, one of my favorite sites, think again! has returned. The site contains many
"seductive math problems for the modern mind"
.