Last Friday there was a pretty strong wind storm that knocked out power a lot of places across Upstate New York. Fortunately my power only went out for about 15 seconds. However, check out how far the lawn chair on my front porch traveled (red circle): The winds reached 64mph (103 km/h) at the Syracuse’s…
Month: February 2006
Valentine’s Day is Nothing but Christmas II
Think about it… Take Christmas, change green to pink (keep the red and white), replace Santa Claus with chocolate, and you get Valentine’s Day. Working at Target has shown me that holidays are nothing but different color crayons shading in stencils. We have a section called “Mini-Seasonal,” which contains all the food products and other…
Why Complete Idiot’s Guides are Simply Better
My chemistry textbook: “A catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of reaction without being consumed in the overall reaction.” The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Chemistry: “Catalysts can be compared to my friend Erika (not that you know her). When I was in college, Erika was roommates with a woman named Ingrid. Erika helped…
Distaste for Your Professor? Better Keep it to Yourself
Let’s say you don’t like one of your professors this semester. Shouldn’t you be able to give him or her a review online? Apparently Syracuse University doesn’t think so. The Daily Orange‘s big story yesterday was about four SU freshmen, who, after apparently feeling their writing instructor didn’t “know what she’s doing ever,” started a…
Homicide
Last Friday night (actually Saturday morning), I was driving home from Fayetteville, the Syracuse suburb where I work. I had worked until about 10:15 and then went to Pizzeria Uno across the parking lot. I left there around 12:35, and around 12:55 I was standing at the traffic light at the corner of Coumbus Ave….
January Shatters Records on newkai.com
Unique Visitors: 5625 (New Record) Number of Visits: 8840 (New Record) Pages: 39065 (2nd Place) Hits: 160085 (2nd Place) Bandwidth: 3.11 GB (New Record) Top Photo: DSC02637 from “New Year’s Eve” (52 Views, Pictured) Top Countries: United States, Austria, Great Britain, Australia, Switzerland January was a extremely successful month for newkai.com, fueled by the addition…