I really do feel bad for Duracel and Energizer; I’ll never go back to disposable batteries. Everything is rechargeable now. The problem with all these rechargable techno gadgets is the CHORDS!

I asked my sister-in-law Emily (sophomore in high school) if it’s normal that kids have cellphones. She made a face and said, “It’s weird not to have one.”

That pretty much means everyone has at least a cellphone cord. Most probably have an mp3 player or digital camera (OR BOTH) too.

I’d bet there’s a plug somewhere in your room, or on your kitchen counter, where there’s a rat’s nest of tangled chords. When my wife and I bought mp3 players, the collective jumble of cords was so hideous and confusing that it led to the brilliant (and easy) modernization of our dresser:

1) Select any dresser or night stand, preferably made of wood.

2) Remove a drawer. Drill, carve, or punch a hole in the back of the dresser.

3) Insert an extension cord through the hole. Reinsert the drawer.

1) Use the extension cord to plug in the various rechargers so you can juice up your electronic accesories conveniently in your dresser!

2) With the Drawer of Technology, you’ve eliminated the need for cord length. Use twisty ties to minimize excess cord.

3) Include a medium sized container to store all rechargeable components.

4) Here’s a perfect place to manage your credit cards, keys, and cash. This way, when you’re running out the door, everything you need to put in your pockets is in one place (and your phone is fully charged!)

5) Besides cords, there are other essential paraphernalia to rechargeable technologies, which are easily misplaced. Include a small container to store SD cards, memory sticks, and converters.

Modernize your dresser with a Drawer of Technology. You’ll feel noble for helping fight the growing problem of pollution: rechargeable cord pollution.

Our “vintage” 1949 house has many interesting rooms. Maybe the coolest is the wood-paneled room above the garage. It’s entirely disconnected from the rest of the house–it has it’s own wall mounted gas heater.

Working from home can be painful because of all the interruption. But this secret room isn’t even connected to my house. It’s not a “home” office, it’s a real office. Further, IT’S THE SWEETEST OFFICE ON EARTH. It’s my Command Center (Jesse gets credit for coming up with that–but I think he was making fun of me).

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Laugh all you want Jesse, but this is the future. I’ve been telling everyone that people will eventually connect their internet/computer straight to their TV. Why have two expensive pieces of hardware (Television and Computer), and two expensive subscriptions (Cable and Internet)??? Computers come with Televisions (i.e. the monitor), so now all you need is an internet connection.

* Clearplay (shown above) is awesome. You can rent a rated R movie from Redbox or Netflix and it will totally skip anything you find offensive (sex, profanity, violence). And lot’s of awesome Rated R movies are at Redbox.com right now: American Gangster, Michael Clayton, Gone Baby Gone.

I visited a chiropractor for the first time last week.  I thought I had truly seen everything!  After 4 completely bizarre treatments, I’m convinced that chiropractors totally ripped off executioners:

Inversion Therapy	Upside Down Crucifixion
Decompression Therapy	The Rack
Stim Therapy	Electric Chair
Crazy Chiropractor	Crazy Ninja

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Here’s one I remember specifically being taught in elementary:

We only use 10% of our brains

“The myth arose as early as 1907, propagated by multiple sources advocating the power of self-improvement and tapping into each person’s unrealised latent abilities,” say Vreeman and Carroll. “The many functions of the brain are highly localised, with different tasks allocated to different anatomical regions. Detailed probing of the brain has failed to identify the ‘non-functioning’ 90%.”

I’ve always been skeptical of this one.

Shaving causes hair to grow back faster or coarser

This theory may go some way toward sustaining the multimillion-pound waxing industry. But it, too, is an optical illusion: when hair first grows after being shaved, it has a blunt edge on top, which gets worn away over time and results in the fine taper of long hair. Also, the sun naturally bleaches hair over time so hair that is newly emerged may seem darker but is, in fact, no darker than any other new hair growth.

I was totally going to give Bill Gates the prize of his life and be the only human alive to praise Windows Vista. I’ve been operating with Vista for 6 months, and I haven’t had a SINGLE unwanted shutdown. I really thought the hatred was choriagraphed conspiracy.

But today I was browsing the news on my brother’s computer when I clicked on a link to an article and got the blue screen of death. Instant shutdown. I stared at my brother in disbelief, and he was like, “What? This is Vista, it happens all the time.”

I actually use quite a few programs — at once — big ones — and it has never shut down. So, I guess I love MY special version of Vista. All the rest of you suckers will have to keep it real with XP.