Monthly Archives: July 2008
Trouble in Boston? Or Manny Being Manny?
As the Yankees and Red Sox prepare for the final game of their three game set, Manny Ramirez addressed the possibility of a trade from the Boston Red Sox. Check out Manny’s quote as reported by ESPN: I don’t have any preferences: I could choose a team that offers me the best conditions or one [...]
Cash or Credit at the Gas Station
Amid the high prices of gasoline in the US, the gas stations are charging an additional fee to use a credit card on top of the cash price once again.
Posted in Current Events, Energy Tagged cash, credit cards, fuel costs, gas prices, gas stations 11 Comments
Bring Nuclear Energy Back to its Atomic Roots
BOOM! We’ve all seen it. Dreamt it. Imagined it. Feared it even. The kind of nuclear holocaust that kept Sarah Conor up at night. Being raised in the fallout of the Cold War, we grew up with Orwellian conditioning riddled with visions of mushroom clouds and nuclear destruction. Mutual annihilation was what we were assured, [...]
Posted in Energy, Society, Technology Tagged atomic energy, atoms, cold war, energy crises, humanity, labels, nuclear energy 25 Comments
Excel Pivot Table Tutorial: Wizard Usage and Basic Manipulation
Excel Pivot Table Tutorial for Microsoft Office 2003: Tips for creating and manipulating pivot tables in Excel. Using the pivot table wizard to work with data.
The Olympics – Elitist Nonsense, Then and Now
In ancient Greece, the Olympics was an athletic competition between city states that only free men who spoke Greek were allowed to participate in. Furthermore, athletes had to qualify, have their name in the lists and take an oath before Zeus that they had been training for 10 months or more. Also, only the most [...]
Udvar-Hazy: The Smithsonian’s Newest National Air & Space Museum
The past two days I was in Washington D.C. visiting my grandmother and she said we were getting a personal guide at a museum called Udvar-Hazy (pronounced: ood-var-ha-z). I didn’t find out until later that this museum was named after aviation businessman, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, who donated $60 million of his own money to build [...]
Monmouth Park Horse Racing in HDR