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I could write about this in great detail.  It is something I believe strongly about, but there is just one point I would like to make right now.  I say this in full realization that such a statement could be considered self-referential.
Anyone who suggests that you are a victim of others, is trying to victimize [...]

I love optical illusions.  First of all, they are cool, secondly the good ones teach us something about the way our eyes and brains work.  One of the neet things about the internet is that it makes it really easy to share animated optical illusions.  Check this out out:

If you follow the pink dos with [...]

Advice for Girl Scouts

So I was leaving the grocery store last night when a Girl Scout asked me “Would you like to buy some Girl Scout Cookies?”  I bought a box, but I also offered her some advice on selling.  While, I have not used these techniques to sell cookies directly, I suspect they might would.  I thought [...]

This is something really cool that I have been meaning to blog about since before Thanksgiving. Denise pointed out that I haven’t been updating my blog near enough (ugh, I just meta-blogged!)
So we wanted to get our family a Nintendo Wii for Christmas. They run about $225 – $300, which is reasonable, [...]

You can take the test on BBC’s Leonardo Da Vinici page.
Here is my results:

You are an Interpersonal Thinker

 
Interpersonal thinkers:

Like to think about other people, and try to understand them
Recognise differences between individuals and appreciate that different people have different perspectives
Make an effort to cultivate effective relationships with family, friends and colleagues

Like interpersonal thinkers, Leonardo had [...]

With IQ being Intellectual Quotient (ability to understand and organize information), and EQ being Emotional Quotient (ability to understand and organize people).  If we were to assume that they are mutually exclusive so a person could only have one or the other, which would you want?
Why?
I would want a high EQ.  That would make it [...]

e to the pi times i

I like math, but might not know as much about it as some real math nuts.  I was reading the web comic XKCD, which has a lot of math jokes.  I read this comic titled e to the pi times i (language warning) which says if you take e to the power of π times [...]

I just finished reading the Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles. An amazing book. It was published about 100 years ago too. You can read the whole thing on WikiSource. That is where I got it from too. I formatted it all nice and printed it out.
Wallace has [...]

My wife just sent me this quote, which I really like.
“Practice until you get it right. Then practice until you can’t get it wrong.”
Don’t know who it is by though. I’ll research that. . .
I am also a fan of the differentiation that practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes permanent. Perfect practice makes [...]