By phil on February 7, 2008
My Daughter came home with a riddle today and I thought it was cute enough to deserve a post. See if you can guess the correct answer to it?
The first person who posts the correct answer will win a free 125×125 button ad here on my blog for one month.
No cheating please, don’t Google it [...]
Posted in Alicia, Fun, Thoughts
By phil on February 7, 2008
Who would ever have thought that Science and Popcorn could go together? Or they could be so much fun (at least eating the popcorn was fun).
My Daughter had to do a science project for school so instead of the usual “potato makes electricity” we decided to do something more fun.
How does temperature affect popcorn?
We took [...]
Posted in Alicia, Cooking, Kids, Projects, School
By phil on February 7, 2008
Happy Chinese New Year, this is the year of the Rat. Other Rat years have been: 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996 and now 2008.
People born [...]
Posted in Fun, Holidays
By phil on February 6, 2008
Now I feel real old… After visiting the day counter page I found that I am 15,222 Days  — or –  2,174 Weeks and 4 Days old.
:(
That puts things into perspective no?
How many days old are you?
~Phil
Posted in Fun, Me
By phil on February 5, 2008
This is a great idea that was sent to me via email today. I thought it would be good to pass it on to everyone else that may be reading this.
If you have a car with an alarm that has a panic button on the keyfob, put your car keys beside your bed at night. [...]
Posted in Home, Security, Tips
By phil on February 4, 2008
Anyone that knows me will tell you that I am a true animal lover and go out of my way to protect and serve them. I have created several sites that help rescue groups get out the word like my friends at NorCal GSP Rescue who use my GSP Blogs site to list all their [...]
Posted in Pets, Thoughts
By phil on February 4, 2008
Well it is official! According to this test I am 71% addicted to blogging.
71%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?
Thanks to www.memyselfandiblog.com for posting her score and making me aware of such a geeky, cool test.
~Phil
Posted in Fun, Thoughts
By phil on February 3, 2008
I am sure you are all surprised that I am even posting something like this since you know I am no where near a sports fan. However there is something about the BIG games like the World Series or the Super Bowl that makes me want to be a fan.
Anyway enough of that, let me [...]
Posted in Fun, Thoughts
By phil on February 1, 2008
Today February 1, 2008 is my 20th anniversary with my employer. I can hardly believe it has been 20 years since I started working for Verizon. I have been through 4 company name changes since I started, New York Telephone, Nynex, Bell Atlantic and now Verizon.
I was going to write a rant about not being [...]
Posted in Job, Me
By phil on January 31, 2008
Just like the post I made about Bank Phishing, today I received an email supposedly from eBay requesting to change my registration information. Well of course if you read my post from the other day you already know that I am very aware of spoofed emails that are phishing for personal login information.
Guess what? [...]
Posted in Phishing, Security, Tech, Warnings