Geography quizzes! They even have a test of flags of countries visited, from seasons of The Amazing Race...bet you can't play just one! (...cause I sure can't...)
Travel Pod
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Inflatable self-assembled electric car can safely drive off cliffs
This…is cool. Hopefully it will be available by 2010:
Creators of the first roll manufactured vehicle. Proprietary aerospace engineering & novel power systems bring you the best priced, safest, longest-range-electric, most durable, vehicles on Earth!
(The above pic is from this website)
snippets from this website, and also from this article "Inflatable electric car can drive off cliffs"
“… maybe it's the fact that you buy the car online, it gets shipped to you in two cardboard boxes, and the estimated assembly time is less than two hours.
Perhaps it's that the car is made out of "airbags" - the same polymer materials used to cushion NASA's rovers when they landed on Mars.
Then again, it could be the company's claim that you can drive the car off a cliff without serious injury, and that it will float in a flood or tsunami.”
“The key advantages over competitors are that these are the safest, longest range, lowest cost vehicles which can be flat-pack shipped directly to users.”
Creators of the first roll manufactured vehicle. Proprietary aerospace engineering & novel power systems bring you the best priced, safest, longest-range-electric, most durable, vehicles on Earth!
(The above pic is from this website)
snippets from this website, and also from this article "Inflatable electric car can drive off cliffs"
“… maybe it's the fact that you buy the car online, it gets shipped to you in two cardboard boxes, and the estimated assembly time is less than two hours.
Perhaps it's that the car is made out of "airbags" - the same polymer materials used to cushion NASA's rovers when they landed on Mars.
Then again, it could be the company's claim that you can drive the car off a cliff without serious injury, and that it will float in a flood or tsunami.”
“The key advantages over competitors are that these are the safest, longest range, lowest cost vehicles which can be flat-pack shipped directly to users.”
Saturday, July 12, 2008
The Difference Between Cats and Dogs
I found the following explanation on the internet, unattributed. Obviously penned by someone with experience living with both cats and dogs. :-)
The difference between dogs and cats?
Dogs look up at their human and think, "They feed me. They pet me. They love me. They must be God."
Cats think, "They feed me. They pet me. They love me. I must be God."
Pic: Molly, Madeline (a.k.a. Catilla the Hun), Max
The difference between dogs and cats?
Dogs look up at their human and think, "They feed me. They pet me. They love me. They must be God."
Cats think, "They feed me. They pet me. They love me. I must be God."
Pic: Molly, Madeline (a.k.a. Catilla the Hun), Max
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Monday, June 30, 2008
In Which The Antiques Roadshow Comes to Dallas...and I have a Front Row Seat.
The PBS show The Antiques Roadshow came to Dallas on Saturday. KERA is Dallas' National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Station. I've been volunteering at KERA, answering the phones at pledge drives, for almost a year now. A couple of months ago, a call was sent out to their regular volunteers to work the Antiques Roadshow, and I got my response in early. Even though they needed 100 of us, I'm glad my response was quick, because they got all their volunteers quickly, and had a list of others waiting to take our places if we couldn't do it.
We had training on this past Friday afternoon, with the show to be on Saturday. Below is a part of a pic of my volunteer group from Friday's training. (I'm in the back row, to the very left of the pic). No pics were allowed to be taken on the Saturday, and even on Friday we had to get permission from the lighting people, and couldn't use a flash, to take this pic. Russell, the volunteer kneeling at the front of the our group, had the presence of mind to bring the camera and get the pic taken. Our ARS "boss", Justin, took the pic.
You can see the set being assembled behind us...the large panels are attached to make a circle, with the tables of appraisers at the inside perimeter, and the filming done in the center. We had a few spaces between panels to bring in our visitors.
Back to the Friday - we were given blue/gray polo shirts to wear, with the "Antiques Roadshow" emblem on the left breast. You can see, some of the volunteers are already wearing them in the pic. ARS employees wore black ones. The 100 volunteers were divvied up for different jobs - my group was "triage"; there were 20+ of us in that group.
The visitors to ARS start out in a huge room, in long lines, and in groups according to the time indicated on their ticket (11 different times, 7am to 5pm, on the hour). Mid-afternoon, I peeked into that area, and it was a veritable sea of humanity - I think there were about 5-6000 people there over the day, each with 2 items. I'm not sure how people got the tickets, but one couple I was chatting with, as I was walking with them to their first appraisal, said they paid $400 for theirs, and they were as happy as could be to have gotten them - I think they had more than 10,000 requests for tickets. And I think I'm lowballing, it might have been a 2 instead of a 1 in that number, I'm just can't remember all the producer said about it, during our training.
The next step is to enter the main room, where their items are seen by "generalist" appraisers, and they are given tickets for each item. The ticket indicates which category they are to go to. For example, at the end of the day, I had a book appraised (nothing exciting, I've sold my most interesting books!), and here is the ticket for it:
Clutching their treasures and their tickets, they come up to us, at the pink line taped on the floor, where we are standing, waiting to ferry them safely to the correct appraiser....or to the end of another line.
... and end of part 1, off to do life stuff. Everyone have a wonderful day!
We had training on this past Friday afternoon, with the show to be on Saturday. Below is a part of a pic of my volunteer group from Friday's training. (I'm in the back row, to the very left of the pic). No pics were allowed to be taken on the Saturday, and even on Friday we had to get permission from the lighting people, and couldn't use a flash, to take this pic. Russell, the volunteer kneeling at the front of the our group, had the presence of mind to bring the camera and get the pic taken. Our ARS "boss", Justin, took the pic.
You can see the set being assembled behind us...the large panels are attached to make a circle, with the tables of appraisers at the inside perimeter, and the filming done in the center. We had a few spaces between panels to bring in our visitors.
Back to the Friday - we were given blue/gray polo shirts to wear, with the "Antiques Roadshow" emblem on the left breast. You can see, some of the volunteers are already wearing them in the pic. ARS employees wore black ones. The 100 volunteers were divvied up for different jobs - my group was "triage"; there were 20+ of us in that group.
The visitors to ARS start out in a huge room, in long lines, and in groups according to the time indicated on their ticket (11 different times, 7am to 5pm, on the hour). Mid-afternoon, I peeked into that area, and it was a veritable sea of humanity - I think there were about 5-6000 people there over the day, each with 2 items. I'm not sure how people got the tickets, but one couple I was chatting with, as I was walking with them to their first appraisal, said they paid $400 for theirs, and they were as happy as could be to have gotten them - I think they had more than 10,000 requests for tickets. And I think I'm lowballing, it might have been a 2 instead of a 1 in that number, I'm just can't remember all the producer said about it, during our training.
The next step is to enter the main room, where their items are seen by "generalist" appraisers, and they are given tickets for each item. The ticket indicates which category they are to go to. For example, at the end of the day, I had a book appraised (nothing exciting, I've sold my most interesting books!), and here is the ticket for it:
Clutching their treasures and their tickets, they come up to us, at the pink line taped on the floor, where we are standing, waiting to ferry them safely to the correct appraiser....or to the end of another line.
... and end of part 1, off to do life stuff. Everyone have a wonderful day!
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Captions & Animal Pics Induce Smiles
Can't shake the blues, Calgon isn't taking you away (this from an old, OLD commercial), need some animal fun?
Here are some happy sites that should bring on a smile or two:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
http://www.cuteoverload.com/
Cuteoverload was originally sent to me by that Novel Woman, thanks again, Pammy!
http://www.dogfessions.com/
http://www.dogvice.com/
And here are some fun non-animal sites:
http://punditkitchen.com
Captions to pics of politicians - Warning: I liked some captions to these pics, but punditkitchen is WAY too hard on Hillary for my enjoyment.
http://graphjam.com
Graphjam has graphs about all sorts of things. For example, the amounts of different brands of beer imbibed in Springfield...hint: Duff's does well.
Here are some happy sites that should bring on a smile or two:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
http://www.cuteoverload.com/
Cuteoverload was originally sent to me by that Novel Woman, thanks again, Pammy!
http://www.dogfessions.com/
http://www.dogvice.com/
And here are some fun non-animal sites:
http://punditkitchen.com
Captions to pics of politicians - Warning: I liked some captions to these pics, but punditkitchen is WAY too hard on Hillary for my enjoyment.
http://graphjam.com
Graphjam has graphs about all sorts of things. For example, the amounts of different brands of beer imbibed in Springfield...hint: Duff's does well.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Grammar Quiz from mental floss
I'm embarrassed to say that the 40%, that's my score. Not so good, but then I didn't know what one of the questions even meant (this is probably not valid as a reason, though...I actually should probably have more points deducted...). The quiz is a challenge! Only 10 questions, so just touches on a few points. Click on "The mental_floss Grammar Quiz" in the box above, to take the test yourself.
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