Friday, September 24

Clickomania next generation
An addictive logic game.

Clickomania! is an exciting freeware game for young and old. When you start
the game, the board is filled with tiles. You are supposed to eliminate all
these stones by clicking on groups of stones with the same color.

Clickomania is an addictive game with more than 3 million players worldwide.
It offers several varied game modes, web scores and much more.

The game is suitable for kids and young players and a challenge for adults.

Available in the new version: http://www.clickomania.ch/click/index.html


Also available in the classic version: http://www.clickomania.ch/click/ClassicClick.html



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Thursday, September 23

Not sure I would go to the bother of doing all this but some of them might be fun to try. Andy Rooney's tips for telemarketers
Three Little Words That Work !!
(1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer !!!
(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right?
It costs them more than the regular 37 cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before! the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently
getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea !
If enough people follow these tips, it will work----
I have been doing this for years, and I get very little
junk mail anymore.

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Nostalgia Central

A friend sent this site to me and I thought it may interest others.
Nostalgia Central was started by Englishman David Turner in 1998 because he 'thought it would be "a good hobby".' Since that time when there was little nostalgia floating around the Web, 'Nostalgia Central now houses 2GB of information and receives over 1.5 million visits each month from people in the USA, UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.' What a testimony from us oldies-but-goodies seeking the familiar with which we grew up! The pages are divided into the 60's, 70's and 80's with year-to-year sections within those decades. Reminisce over the various 'Pop culture,' 'Television,' 'Movies, and 'Music,' as well as a synopsis of the important happenings of the period. Take a ride down Memory Lane in your Chevrolet Corvair or maybe for you racy folks, the Ford Mustang. For those of you who really want to capture the period, there is an online forum for contact with other nostalgia buffs!
For the cooks out there...this excellent site!
Cooks.com - Recipe Search and More

Monday, September 20

"Tiny decisions are the molders of destiny."

-- Dr. Michael Norwood, author in "The Path of the Wealthy Soul"

Question to Ponder

What decisions are molding my destiny today?

What decisions do I face in the coming days that will mold
my destiny?


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Sunday, September 19

Learn Spanish: A Free Online Tutorial
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Susan Brooker, friends and family celebrating her birthday at her favorite Mexican restaurant Mannys in downtown KC. Posted by Hello
The following article was sent to me by friends Ray & Phyllis Thompson of Atlantic IA. I thought it may be of interest to others too. We certainly have come a long way! Front page "Headlines" from the November 17, 1949
Eagle Grove Eagle Newspaper!
Yes! Television has come to Eagle Grove. That funny looking pole with all the points sticking out on top of Anderson's Radio Shop is a television receiving antenna.

Floyd Anderson, the proprietor of the radio shop is setup to receive television broadcasts and at certain hours of the day he is getting reception of sorts from four stations. Two stations in Minneapolis and two in Omaha come in equally well.
He has only had the setup working for five days so he does not know the hours at which these stations are broadcasting. he said that he has had a football game and a Prize fight program that were very satisfactory to watch. At other times he is able to bring in the audio part of the broadcast fairly well but the picture is so blurred with interference that it is impossible to recognize what it is.
Outside Fringe Territory, Eagle Grove is many miles outside of the fringe territory for good television reception and if Floyd didn't all kinds of boosters and extra accessories to aid the reception he probably wouldn't be able to get anything. As Gerhard "Gizy" Hanson puts it, the television was coming 50 miles on it's own power and Floyd was dragging it in the other 100 miles!
Television's extreme range is supposed to be in the neighborhood of 40 to 50 miles. Minneapolis and Omaha are both over 150 miles from Eagle Grove. There are no stations in Iowa as yet. Iowa State college at Ames is scheduled to have the first television broadcasting in the state and the go on air, Floyd will he able to get much better reception.
Floyd said he started to collect the necessary equipment to set up a television receiving set in order to understand more about the new type of broadcasting when and if it becomes popular here in this part of the state.
Television is new and someone is going to have to have the knowledge about it when and if it becomes popular.
Floyd said the big trouble now is that he enjoys working with his television so much and he has had so many people coming in to see if anything is on that he has had a hard time keeping up with his regular radio work.
Floyd's receiving set is a Skyrider made by Hallicrafter with a 10 inch picture tube. He has a Workshop antenna 64 feet in the air. He also has an antenna rotator and reception booster. The antenna will rotate in a complete 360 degree turn to face the receiving points broadside to tile direction from which the reception is coming. The antenna rotator will turn this antenna for him.
Did you ask about the cost of the equipment? That's where the rub comes and for that reason, it doesn't appear as if television in Eagle Grove would be popular for some time. The equipment Floyd has would cost about $500 and he wants to add one or two more items, one of which would be a second reception booster. The receiving set itself is not prohibitive in cost as it lists at $195. But the antenna, boosters, and rotator, not to mention the labor of installing, bring the cost up to over $500.
Local radio fans have already started to watch his antenna and when they see it rotating they flock into the shop to see what is on the air. Floyd says that so far evening reception has proved to be the best. So if you see a light on in Anderson's Radio Shop any evening you can be sure that Floyd is experimenting with Eagle Grove's first working television set and if you can crowd in to his shop he will be
glad to let you have a look.
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