New Years Superstitions
Over the years I have seen and heard a few superstitious things that you are supposed to do either New Years Eve or on New Years Day. A quick search on the ‘net brought me to Snopes.com (my favorite urban legends site) and their long list which I have reproduced below:

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101 Versions of Stairway to Heaven!
BoingBoing has a list of music sites this morning and one of them really stands out for me. A link takes you to page which then links to 101 different covers/versions of the classic rock ballad Stairway To Heaven. It looks like these covers range from versions by […]

Feeling Better, Posting Now.
I was feeling poorly all week. Caught some kind of stomach virus thing on Christmas day. I’m back.

A real Christmas story
The Chinese don’t donate organs! Only 4.2 in each million people end up being organ donors (very low by American standards). This, for the most part, is due to superstitious beliefs. The mother of 14 year old Miu Chi-ho went against the protests of friends and family and donated […]

UK Newspaper Picks Top 100 Most Useful Sites!
For almost one quarter of my adult life I lived and worked in Italy. During that time I came to realize that not all of the world thinks like Americans. In fact, many of the Italians, Germans and English people with whom I worked didn’t have […]

McDonald’s Outsources the Drive-Thru Workers in Hawaii!!!As some of you know, I recently decided that I need to take a firmer stand on certain social issues. I’m not famous yet, there are no paparazzi or reporters hounding me for pics or quotes, so there’s only a limited scope available to display my displeasure. […]

The Espresso from On Demand Books brews you up a copy right fresh
So, you’re sitting in an airport and you realize you’ve only got 10 pages left in the book you’re reading and your ‘backup’ book is in your luggage. What to do, what to do??? It seems like you now have two […]

Another bLaugh.com Classic!

Top 10 Most Dangerous Toys - EVER!
A post over at Gear Factor, a blog at Wired Magazine, had a link to the 10 most dangerous toys ever. Featuring Jarts, Cabbage Patch dolls that ate fingers and an Atomic Energy Lab, we get to see the line-up of toys that caused deaths, […]

Power Restored
As I guessed, we lost power last night sometime after we went to bed. We got it back about 10 minutes ago. I called at 6:30 this morning to report the outage. Since then I heard on the radio that 1.5 million people were without power due to the winds. […]

Heavy Rain
That’s what the Weather Channel calls it. I’m calling it a big frickin’ storm! There is lightening flashing outside and I hear the wind whipping the rain against the windows. A real tempest. Let’s just see if I lose power again tonight.

Power Outage - The Day After
When we got home after the gym yesterday evening we found the power restored to our home. I just wanted to go on record to say that this is the second time this has happened. Let’s set the scene because it’s kind of odd.
The Sunday after Thanksgiving when […]

Power Outage - Greenwood, Seattle, WA
So, there I was, speaking with my daughter (who lives in Sardinia, Italy) for the first time in a couple of months when the power went out. I had just started using Vonage YESTERDAY, and was making my first real call when the lights went out. What a […]

Dobbs: A tree grows in SeattleWow, I wish I could write like this. To see so clearly into the heart of the matter……
By Lou Dobbs CNN
Editor’s note: Lou Dobbs’ commentary appears every Wednesday on CNN.com

NEW YORK (CNN) — Merry Christmas! That’s right, Merry Christmas. Whether you’re Christian, Jewish, Muslim, agnostic, pagan, barbarian or whatever, […]

Christmas trees return to Sea-Tac Airport
The trees are back, and yet again, the Grinch didn’t win in his effort to kill the Holiday Spirit. In a surprising move (to me!) the rabbi and his legal council communicated to the Port of Seattle that the threatened legal actions would not be forthcoming this year […]

Oh, but this one is rich! I really love these comics from bLaugh.com.

‘Tis not the season at Sea-Tac Airport
What a sad commentary on the religious partisanship we now enjoy here in America.
Due to the hurtful actions of one rabbi and his lawyer, traveling children will not be able to enjoy the holiday decorations that normally grace the public areas of Sea-Tac International Airport in Seattle, Washington.
The holiday […]

When I consider just how much more my children know about computers, the web and game consoles; despite the fact that I consider myself to be mostly geeky, This isn’t as funny as it appears at first blush!

You too can get this kind of quality humor in your e-mail every day. Just sing up […]

No one shot on Cheney’s quail hunt
Oh, but this one is rich. Our VP manages to go hunting and NOT shoot someone. And it becomes news! I guess it had to happen.
Cheney will live with this over his head for the rest of his life. But hey, he could become a CIA […]

RIAA moves to reduce artist royalty payments
One of the more interesting bits of news this week is the RIAA’s move to REDUCE the payments to artists for music sold as ringtones. When you thought that they couldn’t stoop any lower, they jump out from behind a bush and shout boo.
Notice that the word ARTIST […]