Google has 12 billion searches per
month. Many people try too hard and become frustrated. Using a few
tricks makes it much easier to quickly find what you want. For
all of these tips, do not type the quote marks.
This is very useful for finding one thing, while eliminating
something related - to find a sunbird that is not a car, type
"sunbird -car" and Google will eliminate car references or try
"beatle -beatles" to get bug info and eliminate the singing group.
Type in a holiday name and it will give you the day and date for
the current year.
Put ".." between two numbers and Google will search within that
range, as “camera $200..$300” to show cameras within that price
range.
To find a definition, type "define:" followed by the word.
If you do not remember a complete headline, book title, song
title, etc., fill in the blanks of any search with asterisks (*)
and Google will try to complete your search for you.
Search for "Books by" and the name of an author, Google will
display all of their works.
If you hit "I'm feeling lucky" without actually typing anything
into the search box, you will get a catalog of all the Google
doodles.
Sep 5, 2014
Aug 30, 2014
Happy Friday
Make your smile change the world, don't let the world change your
smile.
My smile gets wider when I celebrate a Happy Friday!
My smile gets wider when I celebrate a Happy Friday!
International Bacon Day
August 30th, 2014 is International
Bacon Day. (Homer Simpson: I’ll have the smiley face breakfast
special. Uhh, but could you add a bacon nose? Plus bacon hair, bacon
mustache, five o’clock shadow made of bacon bits and a bacon body.
Waitress: How about I just shove a pig down your throat? (Homer
looks excited) Waitress: I was kidding. Homer: Fine, but the bacon
man lives in a bacon house.) Enjoy!
More Egg Facts
Since it is the day before International
Bacon Day, thought it would be appropriate to discuss eggs. Hens lay
eggs whether they have mated with a rooster or not. Eggs produced
without help from a rooster will never become a chicken. These
become our breakfast eggs.
A hen must mate with a rooster in order for her egg to contain both the male and female genetic material necessary to create an embryo inside the egg. An egg laid after mating may or may not become a chicken.
Chickens develop only from eggs that have been incubated (heated). When a fertile egg is incubated under precise, steady temperatures and humidity levels for 21 days, a chick may be developed.
A fertile egg that is never incubated will never contain an embryo and will never look like anything other than common breakfast food. In fact, we all likely have eaten fertilized eggs. There is no harm and we cannot tell the difference between fertilized and unfertilized eggs, unless the fertilized eggs have been properly incubated. There is no difference in look, taste, or nutritional value between fertilized and unfertilized eggs. All foods, including eggs go well with bacon.
A hen must mate with a rooster in order for her egg to contain both the male and female genetic material necessary to create an embryo inside the egg. An egg laid after mating may or may not become a chicken.
Chickens develop only from eggs that have been incubated (heated). When a fertile egg is incubated under precise, steady temperatures and humidity levels for 21 days, a chick may be developed.
A fertile egg that is never incubated will never contain an embryo and will never look like anything other than common breakfast food. In fact, we all likely have eaten fertilized eggs. There is no harm and we cannot tell the difference between fertilized and unfertilized eggs, unless the fertilized eggs have been properly incubated. There is no difference in look, taste, or nutritional value between fertilized and unfertilized eggs. All foods, including eggs go well with bacon.
Email Tip
One way to reduce marketing emails is to create a
filter. Filter for the word 'unsubscribe' in the body of the email
and send the email directly to trash.
Wordology, Napkin
When eating bacon with your fingers, you
need a napkin. The word comes from Middle English, borrowing the
French nappe, a cloth covering for a table and adding kin, the
diminutive suffix. The English word napkin means, “A usually square
piece of cloth, paper, etc., used at a meal to wipe the fingers and
lips and to protect the clothes”
That same “nappe,” led to the English “apron,” which was originally “napron.” Through a linguistic process the initial “n” of “napron” in the phrase “a napron” shifted and produced “an apron.”
The use of paper napkins is documented in ancient China, where paper was invented in the 2nd century BC. In Roman times, each guest supplied his own mappa and, on departure it was filled with delicacies leftover from the feast. German-speaking people were reputed to be such neat diners that they seldom used a napkin.
In the United Kingdom and Canada both terms, serviette and napkin, are used. In Australia, 'serviette' generally refers to the paper variety and napkin refers to the cloth variety.
There is no relation to taking a nap or snooze during the day, that 'nap' comes from the Old English word 'hnappian', meaning “to doze or sleep lightly.”
That same “nappe,” led to the English “apron,” which was originally “napron.” Through a linguistic process the initial “n” of “napron” in the phrase “a napron” shifted and produced “an apron.”
The use of paper napkins is documented in ancient China, where paper was invented in the 2nd century BC. In Roman times, each guest supplied his own mappa and, on departure it was filled with delicacies leftover from the feast. German-speaking people were reputed to be such neat diners that they seldom used a napkin.
In the United Kingdom and Canada both terms, serviette and napkin, are used. In Australia, 'serviette' generally refers to the paper variety and napkin refers to the cloth variety.
There is no relation to taking a nap or snooze during the day, that 'nap' comes from the Old English word 'hnappian', meaning “to doze or sleep lightly.”
Interesting Thought
Think about it, the oldest person in the world was born with
a completely different set of humans than now are alive.
Smart Cards Coming
Beginning in October 2015 in the US,
liability for credit card fraud will sit with whichever entity, the
issuer or the merchant is using the less secure equipment. A
merchant would be penalized if it doesn't have the equipment to
accept chip cards and suffers an unauthorized purchase with a card
that had a chip in it. The bank would be liable if it doesn't issue
chip cards and one of its customers makes an unauthorized
transaction with a traditional card at a store that accepts chip
cards. Finally the US is beginning to catch up to the many
countries that have had this technology for years.
Salt Tips
If you do not use milk for a while, it goes bad.
Add a pinch of salt to a gallon of milk to keep it from spoiling as
fast.
Salt reduces bitterness. It is the sodium ion that interferes with the transduction mechanism of bitter taste. Add a pinch of salt to coffee grounds before brewing and it will reduce the bitter flavor. Add a small pinch of salt to tonic and it will reduce the bitterness.
Apples, pears, and potatoes dropped in cold, lightly salted water after they are peeled will not brown.
Salt can deodorize thermos bottles and jugs, decanters and other closed containers.
Sprinkle a little salt in the pan before frying fish to prevent sticking.
To prevent mold on cheese, wrap it in a cloth dampened with saltwater before refrigerating.
Spread salt between patio bricks, then sprinkle with water to kill and prevent weeds.
Salt reduces bitterness. It is the sodium ion that interferes with the transduction mechanism of bitter taste. Add a pinch of salt to coffee grounds before brewing and it will reduce the bitter flavor. Add a small pinch of salt to tonic and it will reduce the bitterness.
Apples, pears, and potatoes dropped in cold, lightly salted water after they are peeled will not brown.
Salt can deodorize thermos bottles and jugs, decanters and other closed containers.
Sprinkle a little salt in the pan before frying fish to prevent sticking.
To prevent mold on cheese, wrap it in a cloth dampened with saltwater before refrigerating.
Spread salt between patio bricks, then sprinkle with water to kill and prevent weeds.
Super Computer TrueNorth
This month, August 2014, IBM
unveiled "TrueNorth". It is the most advanced and powerful computer
chip of its kind ever built. This neurosynaptic processor is the
first to achieve one million individually programmable neurons,
sixteen times more than the current largest neuromorphic chip. It is
designed to mimic the structure of the human brain and is uniquely
different from other computer architectures.
TrueNorth is the largest IBM chip ever fabricated, with 5.4 billion transistors at 28 nanometers (A human hair is approximately 80,000- 100,000 nanometers wide) and it consumes orders of magnitude less power than a typical modern processor. IBM hopes this combination of ultra-efficient power consumption and entirely new system architecture will allow computers to far more accurately emulate the brain.
TrueNorth is composed of 4,096 cores, with each of these modules integrating memory, computation and communication. The cores are able to continue operating when individual cores fail, similar to a biological system.
TrueNorth is the largest IBM chip ever fabricated, with 5.4 billion transistors at 28 nanometers (A human hair is approximately 80,000- 100,000 nanometers wide) and it consumes orders of magnitude less power than a typical modern processor. IBM hopes this combination of ultra-efficient power consumption and entirely new system architecture will allow computers to far more accurately emulate the brain.
TrueNorth is composed of 4,096 cores, with each of these modules integrating memory, computation and communication. The cores are able to continue operating when individual cores fail, similar to a biological system.
Free Hearing Test
Here is a site that offers a free minimal
hearing test. Came across it while reading about free smartphone
apps that are said to deter mosquitoes by putting out a high pitched
sound from your phone that humans cannot hear. Further reading
debunked those apps as useless.
Turn up your speakers. LINK
Turn up your speakers. LINK
Labor Day
Labor Day is annually held on the first Monday of
September in the US, Canada. The first Labor Day was celebrated in
1882. In many countries, it is celebrated around May 1 and called
May Day. It was originally organized to celebrate various labor
associations' contributions. It is a mostly day of rest in modern
times.
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