I recently learned the 50-50-90 Rule, which states:

"You have a 50% chance of being right, but you'll be wrong 90% of the time."

This morning I had to take a dose of Benadryl allergy/sinus relief medication because my sinuses were draining and I couldn't stop coughing. Usually medicine takes about 20 minutes to kick in for me, but this kicked in around 5-7 minutes. I noticed immediately that I could breath and I wasn't coughing. This was a good thing ( Read more... )

Today's, Sunday July 10, 2005, Dilbert newspaper comic strip was a great one. It's a lesson on how to avoid unnecessary work in the office.

[The set-up:
Wally is explaining to Asok the intern how to get out of doing work that co-workers want to dump on you.]

Wally
Asok, the move that I am about to teach you called the "Wally Reflector."Throughout ( Read more... )

Reposted from Modern Drunkard Magazine

Everything I ever needed to know about life, I learned from the Rat Pack: Life lessons from the Kings of Swing

“It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don’t want that to die with me.”
-Frank SinatraPundits often speculate why the Rat Pack remains so deeply embedded in popular culture ( Read more... )

Recently I got a lesson in Dumpster Diving, and that is this: “Foreign students throw away the best stuff ( Read more... )

GRRRR...I just spent all morning updating my e-mail contact addresses for various web based services I subscribe to. My ISP officially made the switch to the new owner company's e-mail address conventions and I had to go in and update many accounts so the "@whatever.whatever" reflects the new address. What a time consuming effort it was ( Read more... )