Recently LifeHacker had a good article about someone’s experience buying eyeglasses online. I’ve always wanted to try this. Maybe I will now…
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Month: February 2009
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New mothers prefer hotels to hospitals
From Hotels Magazine:
Expectant mothers in Ireland are making the recession work for them by booking special deals in luxury hotels for their post-natal care, in preference to expensive stays in private maternity hospitals.
A growing number of pregnant women are avoiding the large bills associated with consultant-led private treatment by opting for free, communitybased midwifery services. Some are then using the savings to book into hotel suites within hours of giving birth, getting top-level after-care for far less than a stay in a private hospital due to the special deals on offer in the hospitality industry.
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Birthday Calculator
PaulSadowski.com has a neat page where you enter your birthday and it returns more information that you could ever want about that day. For instance, a person turning 50 today, would learn this and much more about their birthday:
Your date of conception was on or about 3 June 1958 which was a Tuesday.
You were born on a Tuesday
under the astrological sign Pisces.
Your Life path number is 5.Your fortune cookie reads:
Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded.Celebrities who share your birthday:
Billy Zane (1966) Kristin Davis (1965) Eddie Murray (1956)
Steven Jobs (1955) Alain Prost (1955) Edward James Olmos (1947)
Joe Lieberman (1942) James Farentino (1938) Michel Legrand (1932)
Abe Vigoda (1921) Chester W. Nimitz (1885) Enrico Caruso (1873)There are 365 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 51 candles.Those 51 candles produce 51 BTUs,
or 12,852 calories of heat (that’s only 12.8520 food Calories!) .
You can boil 5.83 US ounces of water with that many candles.
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GW’s Scribbles back up and running
After over 4 years, I’m actually doing another posting!
Of course, those of you who know me know that I’ve actually got 7 blogs going for different purposes. But I’ve had some random things I’ve wanted to blog about and so I figured I’d get this going again. Stay tuned for some sporadic posts in the coming days/weeks/months…