Tom McMahon

Hosanna! Free World Recognizing Large Clever Actor

If you re-arrange the letters in "California Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger" you get "Hosanna! Free World Recognizing Large Clever Actor" Something for a slow news day . . .

Power Utility Pack to the Rescue

I had to get rid of hundreds of blank lines in an Excel spreadsheet at work the other day. Lucky for me I had already purchased J-Walk's Power Utility Pack v5. I just used PUP's "Select by Value" feature to select the blank rows. Before you could say "Schwarzenegger!", my work was done. Thanks to PUP, I'm now livin' large!

Nightingale-Conant $9.95 Blowout Sale

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The Cracker Jack Man

A nice little story over at daxmontana

Duodecimal: The Base 12 Number System

The Dozenal Society of America and Dozenal Society of Great Britain promote that a base 12 system is better than the decimal system mathematically and in many other ways. Since 2, 3, 4, 6 are factors of 12, it is a convenient number in doing fractions. Compared to factor 2 and 5 in the decimal system, duodecimal seems to be more versatile. (from Wikipedia)

Why New Amsterdam Became New York . . .

. . .because otherwise we'd have the New Amsterdam Yankees!

He DOES Have a Point, Even If You're Not A Fan of His

Bill O'Reilly's recent appearance on NPR's Fresh Air.

2003 Rock Paper Scissors International World Championships

The World Rock Paper Scissors Society is pleased to announce that Toronto, Canada will play host to the 2003 Rock Paper Scissors International World Championships. The Championships will bring the world's premier RPS players, together with unranked amateurs, to Toronto on October 25th to compete for the Championship Trophy and a total of $7,500 CDN, the largest purse in professional RPS history. Pete Lovering the reigning World Champion of RPS will be back to defend his title. Today, RPS is one of the most popular games in the world. Players of the sport from New Zealand to Japan to Great Britain carry their World RPS Society membership cards with pride. Officially, the sport is known as Rock Paper Scissors or RPS. However, the informal name differs across the Globe, with variations such as: - Jenken or Jan Ken Pon (Japan) - Roshambo (Southwestern U.S.) - Shnik Shnak Shnuk (Germany) - Ching Chong Chow (South Africa) - Farggling (U.S.) - Scissors Paper Stone (United Kingdom)

Black Jack, Beemans and Clove Gum

Every 5 years or so the Adams Company whips up a batch and this is your chance. A box of 20 packs is $14.99.

And Did You Know That Frank Sinatra Lent Him the $10,000 to Pay His Fine?

He began his political life as a liberal Democrat and ended it as a law-and-order Republican who pleaded no contest to charges of tax fraud. He once called the media "nattering nabobs of negativism" and found a political base with both social conservatives and what would later be called Reagan Democrats. Richard Nixon selected him as his running-mate in both 1968 and 1972. On October 10, 1973, following months of pressure and scandal, Spiro Agnew turned in his letter of resignation to President Nixon, who was soon to follow him. Michigan representative Gerald R. Ford took his place as vice president on December 6, 1973. After resigning his post and paying his fines, Agnew wrote two forgettable novels and worked as a lobbyist before disappearing into complete obscurity. Spiro Theodore Agnew died on September 18, 1996 at the age of 77.