My Uncle Bob bought my family growing up their first ever telescope, a telescope so big that at the time it stood taller than me. I can remember watching the stars with the neighbors on a few summers nights. He took us on a tour of StorageTek in 1988 showing off proudly the systems that [...]
My mother called me yesterday and told me that my sister had a mole removed from her leg and the doctors found it be cancerous. My sister has been known to lay out the in the sun a little too long, but at only age 30, the percentages were definitely on her side for this [...]
I will admit it; I am a lazy person at heart. But I’m not the typical lazy where I just prefer to do nothing. I am one of those people who perfers to put 10 hours up front to save 40 hours on the backend. I enjoy researching ways to automate my life. I once bought [...]
Update 2-21-2007 (Summary of article): So far, the most effective treatment for relieving your nasal spray withdrawl symptoms (e.g. stuffiness) appears to be a dose of prednisone along with antibiodic. This is just from what I gather from the feedback I receive and the comments below. You will need to see an ear, nose and [...]
How do you relate to a 60 year old grandma that being 50% overweight is a risk? Do you tell her that she’s twice at risk for heart disease, diabetes, or colon cancer? No, I don’t think the average individual can conceptualize the above diseases. Sure we’re all aware of the illnesses, but the actual [...]
My name is Jim Jones and I am a software engineer living in Lincoln, NE. I’m fascinated by the strange, the weird. I probably day dream too much. My goal is to create the next "Big" thing (for whatever that is). So far the only thing getting big is my waste line which leads me [...]
