A Stranger is in the House...

Yes, there is. A presence not seen in our household before. Shiny. Silver. And way cool. (At least to me...) What is it?

As you may well know, I am just your basic neighborhood computer geek. AW can attest to that. My kids will agree. And as a bona-fide geek, I lust after all things electronic. The object of my desire? A Macintosh. Yup, an Apple computer.

And to help me on my journey, I've created a new blog. You can read my first official post here. There will be many others. I even have a link to it on my sidebar. Go take a look occasionally. Whether you're a "switcher" or not...

This is a test, this is only a test...

I just wanted to see if anchors work in blogger. Click the following link. If it works, you should end up where my sitemeter is on the sidebar.

I'm going to MIT...

Well, okay, not really.

However, I will be able to take every one of their classes online because by the end of the year, MIT will have all 1,800 of their classes available for free.

So what, you say? So What?!? I'll tell you what. I just love learning new things. 1,800 classes should keep me busy for at least a few years. Hek, i mae evn lern 2 spel gud.

Three new airports...

A while back, alisonwonderland blogged about the airports she's been in. I don't really know exactly how many airports I've been in myself (I'll have to count them one of these days...), but I did just return from six days on the road, err, in the air, and I can add three new airports to my own list:

• Washington DC - Reagan National (DCA)
• Richmond, VA (RIC)
• Philadelphia, PA (PHL)

Boy am I glad to be home!

Backstroke or Butterfly?

Those funny folks at Google...

Go to Google maps and get directions from New York, New York to Paris, France. It actually looks pretty reasonable (at least as reasonable as it could be) until you get to the end of America. Then it says... well, here's a snapshot of the directions...

Tanning Beds and Cancer

If you read my blog at all, you'll know that it's not very serious most of the time. However, this is one time I thought I would post a warning.

According to an article in Insurance Broadcasting, the International Journal of Cancer published an article about the relationship between tanning bed use before age 35 and skin cancer. Quoting the Working Group on artificial UV light and skin cancer of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), "Young adults should be discouraged from using indoor tanning equipment and restricted access to sunbeds by minors should be strongly considered."

The most disturbing statistics from the article says that "Men and women who ever used sunbeds were 15 percent more likely to develop melanoma, the researchers found, based on 19 studies they reviewed. A review of seven studies found that exposure to tanning beds before age 35 boosted melanoma risk by 75 percent."

75% more risk!! I mean, I know a lot of you young people think that having a golden bod is important, but do you really think it's worth the risk?

Good thing I'm old, flabby, and not worried about showing off my body...

I just KNEW I had healthy eating habits!

It says so right here...

"Boosting Brain Power -- With Chocolate"

So it was a special drink... and from dark chocolate... It's still chocolate!

Are you my type?

My wife, an INTP, had me take a quick quiz to see what type I was. Here is my result.

ENFJ - "Persuader". Outstanding leader of groups. Can be aggressive at helping others to be the best that they can be. 2.5% of total population.

Free Jung Word Choice Test (similar to MBTI)
personality tests by similarminds.com

What's yours? (Just click on the link above...)

Happy Easter everyone!

Hey, if I can't wish everyone a Happy Easter, who can? It's just about my favorite holiday, and it's not even for the chocolate eggs (although chocolate should have a holiday all to itself, in my opinion).

Yes, I AM a computer God Geek!

I went and took the Computer Geek test referred to at Patrick's Weekender blog (It's the Saturday Six - Episode 155). I am proud, yes proud, to say that I scored out as a 100% bona-fide Geek.

See, here's the proof, even.



Think you can live up to that? Go ahead, try the test. I dare you. Make my day.

By the way, my wife, who's a much better blogger than I, and apparently a much more normal human being, came out as middle-of-the-pack for geekiness (lucky for her).