I don’t know if you’ve tried Dragon Naturally Speaking before – it’s come a long way since it’s inception. It used to be that you’d have to train it and retrain it and then you’d finally get a semi-working program. But by the time you got it working right, you could have just typed it…
Unusual Holiday Gift Idea: Cryo-Cell Gift Certificate
The holiday season is fast approaching, many people shopped early and already have their Christmas shopping done, and most of us are waiting till the last minute to figure out what to get everyone. If you’re looking for something unusual or special to give to someone who is expecting a new baby, there’s a really…
No Costume, DIY Skills, or Time?
Halloween is coming up on us, it’s just this Friday! You have 4 days and counting left to make sure you have secured yourself some sort of Halloween candy. Whether you’re going out on the town, going trick-or-treating with little ones, or staying at home and giving out candy, it’s always fun to dress up…
My New Car Needs a Name
Thursday night after work I rolled out to a car dealership because some ad I got with a scratch-off number said I’d won something. They wouldn’t tell me what it was over the phone. I went out, and they made me sit through a spiel about my current car and what kind of other cars…
I’m Freakin’ Nostradamas Over Here
So, a little while ago I posted about how it might be okay if and when my mom started to date again, and lo and behold, she’s going on a date on Friday night. That’s so weird to say. I called her up because I was suspicious based on her Facebook status messages, and this…
Can You Call Obama a Socialist? Socialists say “No.”
Digg had a good article today (surprisingly not at all technology related) from the Chicago Tribune where they actually talked to legitimate Socialists in the USA about McCain’s calling Obama a “Socialist” after his comment about “spreading the wealth around” being good for everybody. I’ve had several friends post really hateful comments on my Facebook…
Online Matchmaking: Not Just for Unnaturally Beautiful People
If you’ve ever been on MySpace or Facebook or any number of other popular web sites with a demographic consisting of young, lonely, or otherwise non-family oriented people, you’ve probably run across True.com ads featuring some crazy attractive woman trying to talk to you in a chat window in front of her web cam, or…
Go Green With Charter and Win a Honda Civic Hybrid
Charter, the company that brings thousands of people internet, television, and phone services has a contest going on now where if you live in one of their service areas and purchase any of their services, you are automatically entered to win a new Honda Civic Hybrid worth almost $24,000. It looks to be pretty loaded:…
Light at the End of the Tunnel
The financial crisis in the economy has some light at the end of the tunnel, at least for me. I realized today as I started to get a knot in my stomach about how tight things had become in my budget, that there’s plenty of hope and I’m not at all in a bad situation.…
Is It Still Safe to Invest in Stocks?
With the stock market as a whole plummeting to dire straits, you would think it would be time to bail out before you lose all your assets, right? Wrong. That’s the problem facing the market right now: a self-perpetuating failure. People see the market plummet, so they’re taking out their money and causing it to plummet more. …