This past Friday morning, Christin and I hit the road our first stop was Kingston for a visit with her parents over night. Then Saturday morning it was back into the car to Knowledge and Needles in Brighton for Ann’s annual open house, I think this was my 9th year in attendance. This year, Ann had her highest numbers ever, 45 stitchers came by throughout the day. We stitched, we ate, we
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Knowledge & Needles Annual Open House 2010
I had a wonderful trip to New York City recently and shared some of the places that I visited (see links at end of post), but there were plenty more places that I ate at, which didn’t get mentioned in previous posts. So here’s a round-up of them… Katz’s Most of the good delis are gone in New York City, but Katz’s is an institution and I like to believe it’s never going to let me down. I’ve had great meals there, but on this visit, my corned beef was tough and almost all of the meat inside my sandwich was inedible.
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New York City Dining and Travel Notes
If you are reading this right now and you are a PPV marketer, we need to come to an agreement on something. I know when it’s late and you are about to go to bed, it can be tempting to log on to TrafficVance and hit that shiny “Make My Bid Highest” button just to make sure that you are getting all of the traffic. Too bad. Every time you push that button, you are just handing money to TrafficVance or DirectCPV or whatever network you are using. See, it doesn’t just automatically figure out the least amount that you would need to bid to get the #1 spot, it overbids it. A lot. Like 5 times more than you could have been paying. It only takes $0.001 (that’s a tenth of a cent) to outbid someone. But when you hit the evil button, it raises your bid by $0.005. That makes TrafficVance happy, but it makes us pay too much money. So let’s all just agree right now to take the extra 30 seconds it takes to log on, check the rank for our top keywords and URLs, and add $0.001 instead. That is all.
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Don’t Push “Make My Bid Highest”. Ever.
FabJobs, an award-winning indie publisher of job guides, is seeking a virtual editorial assistant to begin work in mid-September.
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Work-at-Home: Virtual Editorial Assistant Needed at FabJobs
Sorry, but this post is nothing but shameless self-promotion! My first short feature article was published in Scientific American today, which discusses the neurobiology of the father-child bond. Give it a read! Last May, I took a trip to San Diego for my brother-in-law’s graduation from college, and to meet his 4-month old son, Landon, for the first time. Throughout the weekend, I couldn’t suppress my inner science nerd, and often found myself probing my nephew’s foot reflexes.
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My Scientific American Story on the Father-Child Bond
Swans on Tea » Politics and the Star Trek Effect “There are a couple of episodes of Star Trek that I can recall having some fundamental physics failures, which would lead one to believe that in the Star Trek universe, one cannot do an integral over time. The episodes that come to mind (and it’s been a while, so I may have some details wrong) are The Paradise Syndrome from ToS, and Déjà Q fom TNG. In both episodes, the Enterprise needs to transfer some energy a…
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This is embarrassing. In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Brian Berman from the University of Maryland argues why acupuncture should be recommended for patients with lower back pain. In the very same article he and his colleagues explain that the evidence shows that there is no difference between real acupuncture and sham acupuncture
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Acupuncture infiltrates the University of Maryland and NEJM
Time was when I’d fill each minute with sixty seconds’ distance run, but increasing age and infirmity have forced me to reconsider the virtues of doing nothing. This weekend past has been an ideal opportunity to put that into practice. Still sweltering from a week in London at the International Palaeontological Congress, a couple of whose many highlights I have already discussed, and before I jet train off to Paris tomorrow to the European Evolutionary Developmental Biology Meeting, I felt an…
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Busy Doing Nothing
There will be consequences if you don't understand the rules and the stakes of Facebook Places. Love it or hate it, you'll need to understand it, says guru B. L
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The Implications of Facebook Pages for you and your business: B.L. Ochman’s blog
StillWater2 shared the following tip for beginning stitchers recently: When I first started stitching, I had problems with what to do with thread ends on the back of my projects. I found the easiest way to fix this was to use the smallest crochet hook I could find and weave those ends under the backs of the stitches and then trim off the tiny ends that are left.
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Cross Stitch Tips for Beginners
This made me smile on a dreary Monday morning. Instore magazine' s tip of the day eblast was spreading optimism so I felt like contributing to the cause! Are you still bummed out
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Instore Magazine says: Snap Out of it! Post Recessionary Advice for Jewelers
As a parent, it is so easy to be rushed. It starts first thing in the morning if you’re anything like I am; brushing teeth, packing lunches, dressing multiple people, combing through snarls… by the time I get to dinner, I really just want to order take-out or have it delivered. I can’t do that
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What’s Cooking with YOUR Kids, Kitchen Confidence
On a recent trip to New York City, I was surprised (and delighted) to find many businesses are now offering free Wi-Fi, from department and electronics stores to the local coffee shops as well as national chains like Starbucks . Although the private businesses in Paris have been slow to catch on, the city of Paris hasn’t been and they offer complimentary Wi-Fi in 400 locations around the city, including public parks and municipal spaces. The Wi-Fi (pronounced wee-fee ) is available from 7am to 11pm, or during the hours the park or building is open
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How to Find and Use Free Wi-Fi in Paris
You know, I’d expect this kind of comment from some guido on Jersey Shore, not from one of the premier religious leaders in the country, son of a man who has counseled presidents through their darkest times, including President Obama. ( Obama and Evangelist Billy Graham Share a Prayer .
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We are better than this
Medtronic MiniMed has recently released a new educational game for kids and young adults that takes them through an educational tour to learn how to deal with foods when you have diabetes. A rep for the company tells Medgadget: Called Carb Counting with Lenny, it’s offered for free download on the Apple iTunes App Store for the iPhone, iTouch and iPad.
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Kids With Diabetes Can “Count Carbs With Lenny”
Garden designs, as it turns out, often take a break in the summer time, or at least mine is. My last assignment from the garden designer for the garden design was to mull over a list of suggestions she sent me for the backyard borders and give her some feedback. That was a month ago, and from then until now, we’ve had very little rain and it has been very very hot, so mulling has been difficult
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Garden Design Update: Need To Mull, Soon
Here’s how I improved my SERP ranking for my newest niche site from Google’s page 7 to page 3 in 18 hours. As in all my new micro niche adsense sites , the process I follow is pretty routine since I’ve now created 16 websites. A quick summary of what I do for each new site is this: 1
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How I Moved SERP Ranking 40 Positions In 18 Hrs
Last week, the anti-science crowd were touting a couple of statisticians who had launched a slashing cross-check on a small portion of the scientific research supporting our scientific understanding that current warming is very likely unprecedented in the last thousand years. As I discussed here, the McShane and Wyner analysis actually produced a Hockey Stick — and even as the climate science community ducked the blow, the Medieval Warm Period got hit in the head (see also Deltoid, who spruc…
Join Celine Turenne and Cookworks , 1548 West Broadway on South Granville , every Saturday for an in-store live cooking demonstration.
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French Cooking: In-Store Cooking Demo Saturday Aug 21, at Cookworks on South Granville
First, in Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World, it was a T-Rex rampaging through downtown San Diego munching on house pets. Now aliens have stealthily invaded the San Diego Air & Space Museum. This particular invasion, however, was invited–the Air & Space Museum is hosting the Science of Aliens traveling exhibit: a fun mix of science and science fiction
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First Dinosaurs, Now Aliens Invade San Diego! | Science Not Fiction