Entries Tagged as 'living'
Wow, this is exactly the kind of thing that crosses my mind occassionaly but I never get around to doing. The process of learning what to do, what to buy, where to by it, and deciding which of the options in each case is better is in itself enough to keep from doing it.
Jeffrey Yago [...]
Tags: living · routine-order
Upscale restaurants are up in arms against bottled water. It is easy to see why – it takes the equivalent of seven bottles of pure water to make one bottle of bottled water – bottled water costs more per gallon that gasoline at you gas station, and the environmental cost associated with the plastic bottle [...]
Tags: business · living · routine-order
For the last two to three months, I have been having headaches every day – almost at the same time. Come 8 PM and the pain starts – usually around the temple, though sometimes it is like a ring around my head. It is a slow, throbbing, constant pain, and when it starts I cannot [...]
Tags: esoteria · living · routine-order
Some people are willing to walk the line to walk the walk. Increasing number of women are resorting to surgery to be able to wear those fashionable stiletto shoes. According to this NY Times article, more than 50% of the doctors who are members of the American Orthopedic Foot & Ankle Society report having conducted [...]
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Earlier, I had written about how to use USPS’ online service to send regular snail mail from your computer.
Now a private enterprise is trying to make it even easier – the idea is, when you have to send someone a regular letter, you pay $0.99 and send an email. The service, Postful, prints the [...]
Tags: business · living · routine-order
April 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment
One of the privileges of blogging anonymously, like I do, is that you can blog about cheap date just before you head out on one over the weekend
So yeah, Cupid has been kind and I have the opportunity to take a lady out this Saturday. So what does a geek do when he’s [...]
Tags: economics · esoteria · lists · living · routine-order
So I bought a couple of yoga mats today. I bought the one shown in the picture here, as well as a thinner travel mat. I figured, if I am going to do my yoga right, I might as well get the mats. Also, I have noticed that when I spend even a little [...]
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Okay, this is the last post for today – looks like I am overdosing on blogging to make up for the lost week. I’ll try and keep this one short, too. So, like you know, Egypt is beckoning me and I am thinking do points garnered at places like leisuretime promotions count anywhere you want [...]
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There is this michigan drug rehabilitation center called Narconon stone hawk – don’t even ask me how I ended up on that website – I blame it on Britney Spears and the general trend to resort to drug rehab as a pseudo-publicity stunt. So, then I started reading about how in the hell these centers [...]
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I did a lot of searching on the subject of whether or not to get a personal trainer, and what to do find the right one. I have a lot of things buzzing in my mind, and before I forget, I thought I’d summarize what I learnt for future reference, if nothing else.
So here’s [...]
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