Part of my list of Life Goals is to travel the world extensively, visiting as many places as I can. The map and checklist below show where I’ve already been within the United States and where I have left to go. The hover-over dates indicate the year of my first visit. Darker states indicate ones [...]
A million dollars is at stake in AOL’s Gold Rush game. Here are the questions and answers to the first two challenges in this final million-dollar round released today.
Challenge #1
Jackson: “Fave 5″ allows unlimited calling to your 5 favorite people, which might include which former member of The Jackson 5? Michael
Bill: Admitted to affair with [...]
I wrote a new Perl script last night with which I can automatically look up and (just as importantly) archive a month’s worth of hostnames and whois information for every non-spamming, non-spider visitor that views an unspecified number of web pages here on my ramblings — which, of course, is preserved in a PDF file. [...]
I sent a letter via certified mail to Day & Night Furnace Co (Contractor License #747061; owner Apollo Ray Johnson, aka Dennis Ray Johnson) today after realizing that we’d been completely taken for a ride.
According to the California Voter Foundation, the chief purposes of voter registration are to both prevent voter fraud and to facilitate election administration. An equally important but less well-known purpose is to provide political campaigns with contact and personal information about voters and their history of election participation.
One way campaigns ensure that their message reaches [...]
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the action that ended the war between the United States and Mexico, was signed on February 2, 1848.
Not only did it give the still fledgling United States a new border that extended to the Pacific Ocean and granted 525,000 square miles of territory that included present-day Arizona, California, western Colorado, [...]
It is an unfortunate sign of the dismal state of education in the United States when you see rampant misspellings and grammatical errors every day in commerce, advertising, and the mainstream media.
Drive along any downtown street or business district and you will see errors left and right. In my own recent wanderings I noticed a [...]
This response to my original letter came in two parts, the first an unsigned, error-riddled missive from an unknown service representative. It is fortunate for them (and not out of character) that the second letter arrived first.
As I mentioned last month, the tropical paradise of Wake Atoll is claimed both by the United States and the Marshall Islands, and has also been decreed as an independent sovereignty first conceived in 1987 in the name of the Kingdom of EnenKio. This article relates to the claims put forth by the people representing [...]
I was perusing eBay earlier this evening when I came across a listing selling 102 acres of land in New York for somewhere in the financial vicinity of $60,000. Out of curiosity, I clicked the Display Map link which generally opens up a map of the parcel, or the town or at least something nearby [...]
