Archive for July, 2009

This Graduate Study Is For The Birds

I am finishing up my master’s degree in ornithology. That’s the study of birds in case you didn’t know or the title didn’t clue you in. The last step in this long process is to come up with and complete a graduate study. Mine is to determine weather feather structure has changed over the last [...]

Icy Things I’d Like to See

I’m originally from the desert. I’ve only been in snow a few times in my life and it was always on vacation. I’m not really comfortable in the cold. Still, there are some snowy and icy things that I would really like to experience sometime in my life.
Icy things on my list of stuff to [...]

Wedding Gift Dilemma

I’m having a hard time deciding what to get my sister for a wedding gift.  Part of the problem is that she really isn’t talking to me — we haven’t spoken much since she pushed me out of her wedding last summer.
So what do you get as a gift for someone who forced you out [...]

How to Email Pictures to a Cell Phone

You have a photo on your computer that you want to send to someone. You want them to receive it immediately. Your best option is to send it to their cell phone.
Here are some of the choices that you have for doing that:

Email the photo to their email account. Many people today are using smartphones [...]

Taking Care of Your Shuffleboard

Interested in buying a shuffleboard table?  There’s more to it than you might think.  Just like the importance of the surface in games like ping pong, bowling and billiards or pool, the importance of the shuffleboard table surface cannot be underestimated.
Firstly, you should take a look at a shuffleboard buying guide.  It tells you more [...]