I did it... I bought the supa sweet Sony

Nice camera, according to my research the best one on the market for the price. Has double the resolution of many cameras that are similar price. I'll let ya know how it works out! Marcela and I will be havin' lots of fun with it... we are already making silly videos with it... 8-)

New Year's Hangover Cures.... 8-)

I know most of us will be needing some of these ideas... basically, drink lots of water, 1 glass of water to each drink, eat an ibuprofen or asprin BEFORE bed, (NOT tylenol, as acetiminophen is bad with alcohol) and take a nap the next day... 8-)

From ‘hair of the dog’ to vitamins, methods to minimize your hangover

Anyone have any other cures?

Good luck,
Charlie

Happy Monday...

Hope you all had a great weekend... a fun link to start the week!

Time lapsed movies... the balloon is great!

This is so difficult to argue with... Why Women Live Longer Than Men.

Have a great day!
Charlie

Oh, this could be a sweeeeet new hobby!

GeoCaching. This looks so super fun. Anybody know anyone doing this? I so wanna buy a GPS and start! Doing it around Austin, would be a fun start, but when we go on our honeymoon, and go down to Buenos Aires etc. We'll be able to do this too and find some great stuff! it's in over 200 countries now! supa kool!

Who wants to start with me!?
Charlie

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What is Geocaching?

Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache.

The main site... GeoCaching.com

Other Geocaching sites I'm investigating:
http://www.geocacher-u.com
http://www.brillig.com/geocaching
http://www.cheaperthandirt.com

A rough map of the amount of caches around Austin and San Antonio.

Interesting, I didn't know you could get health insurance quotes outside of a company

I found this health insurance quote site, so you can get affordable health insurance, not as part of a company.

Charlie

GreenZones.org - interesting site

Looks like GreenZones.org is a shopping and general information portal to finding products and ideas that are earth friendly. Nice.

I'll send an email in and get more information... let you all know what I find out.

Charlie

Engineer buys battle tank instead of water tank!

I'm guess that very few of us have bosses this kool... hilarious!

[World News]: London, Dec 17 : Ben Nicholson, an apprentice engineer was told to order a water tank, but he went ahead and purchased a three million pound Challenger battle tank instead.

Ben, 24, was very scared after he realised his mistake and feared that he might lose his job.

In reality, however, Ben had been set up by his manager Nik Smith.

Smith had told Ben to order a bitumen-coated tank and gave him a list of phone numbers, including one for defence contractor BAE Systems.

However, the BAE staff soon found out that it was a 'fun plan' and they played along and sent him the invoice.

So why do people still write checks in grocery stores?

I guess this has been discussed alot in several blogs, but I just don't get it.
How come people still feel the need to delay the people behind them, take the effort to fill out all the fields on a check and the check register... when they could use a check card and be done with it? Quicker, easier, and actually costs less?

Adding up the time and printing costs of checks... they don't make sense anymore.
ATM/check cards don't charge a fee, although "credit" cards do, in interest and in "processing fees" to the merchant. But ATM/check cards are free... what's the deal? nostalgia? Anybody have any insights here?

Charlie

The Hassidic reggae stylings of Matusyahu.

On Jimmy Kimmel's show... they had a Hassidic rapper/reggae on the show... here's the video... it's really good, a little bizarre and fun too!

"The Hassidic reggae stylings of Matusyahu."

Link to iTunes Album of his... (spelled differently, Matisyahu)