Archive for the ‘life’ Category

The United States of Spain or Mexico!?

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

I just bought a refurbished printer/scanner from the Epson store online and with it came a quick start guide and manual, but the manual only came in Spanish! WTF!? Did I buy the device in Mexico or the US!? What’s the United States coming to!? Last time I looked, the United States’ national language was English! You can confirm that here too! Then, I got a motion detector light because at my house, the street lights aren’t directly across from my house, so I can’t see where to stick the key in at night. Going by my sense of touch just wasn’t enough, so I decided to get one of those. It’s the model E100WSB-C made by EML Technologies, LLC. Why the heck did it only include instructions in Spanish!? Do they assume that most installers are Mexicans or of South American descent? I can understand having both languages, but really can’t understand Spanish only. It makes no sense to me.

If you can guess, I’m totally against education of subjects other than foreign language in a foreign language as well. I don’t see why school systems need to teach mathematics in Spanish or history in Spanish in the United States. I think that if you come to this country, you should be learning the national language.

Also, when was the last time you dialed into an automated system and heard, “For English, press 1″? I don’t remember not hearing that!

I’m open to comments. :)

What’s the coolest stamp you have on your passport?

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Mine is Hungary. We drove from Austria to Hungary and they gave me a stamp of a little car.

It’s blown up a little bit here. Pretty cool, eh?

spirtuality

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Was a French Jesuit, scientist, and philosopher

I’ve heard this from Wayne Dyer as well.

Chains for driving in the snow …

Monday, February 11th, 2008

When putting on chains … or buying chains … make sure you get gloves too! It’s freezing! Also, turn the tire, so you have a little more reach to get to the back of the wheel. It makes it a lot easier!

Re: Ash Wednesday or Chinese New Year?

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Why should religion be more important than New Year’s day? We all know that the lunar calendar is more accurate compared to the roman calendar …

2001 Infiniti G20 – NOT a transmission problem!

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Strange problem, but it seems that it was reproduced by another car other than mine, so I would expect that it will happen to a lot of others as well. There’s an intermittent problem where car will just rev and not move very quickly as if it doesn’t get into gear or something. It won’t go past 60mph or so and it’s revved very high at that speed, so you’re wasting a ton of gas. If you stop and restart the car, it’ll run fine again. It’s really frustrating as you don’t know when you’ll run into this problem and when you won’t. It will get worse and worse as time goes on. Turns out, the problem is with the battery. If you just change the battery, it’ll run just fine again! Just $50 fixes the problem!

2 coins in my pocket = 35c. One of them is not a quarter…

Monday, January 21st, 2008

How’s this possible?

The other one is a quarter! :)

Speed Scrabble® – what an awesome game!

Monday, September 4th, 2006

I’ve been a Scrabble fan for a long time. Because I didn’t do well playing it as a kid, I figured, I’m a grown-up now – the same handicap I had back then no longer applies, so I’m going to learn and be the best I could at it. I think a lot of the skills I learned playing Boggle helped me in Scrabble as well.

Anyways, a good friend’s wife, Barbara, just introduced me to a game called Speed Scrabble. Here’s a link to the rules:

http://www.mrkland.com/games/spscrab.htm

We played pretty much that way except that we started with 4 tiles instead of 7.

I was instantly impressed after learning how much faster the game goes and how the flexibility of being able to rearrange tiles on the fly. There’s obviously a different strategy in playing the game and I’m probably going to play this game more often.

Living vs. Existing – Michael E. Gerber

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

“The difference between great people and everyone else is that

great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is

created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes

them next. The difference between the two is the difference between

living fully and just existing.”

- Michael E. Gerber