Travel Nooks

Summer time is get-crazy in the beach time.
Does anyone here use Google Earth? It’s a really wonderful tool, and we could talk about the implications of such a tool being used to spy on different sights of the world, but hey, it only makes me want to see the places on earth myself.
I’m [...]

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I’ve been asked by many people who I like random trivia so much. Why do I strive to learn random and useless facts? I even ask myself that sometimes. Certainly they can’t be used to advance through the corporate ladder? Perhaps for small talk, but not much else.
I can vaguely remember when it started. I [...]

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With gas prices already at four bucks a gallon, many people are panicking and less people are driving. But for me, this isn’t a bad thing. Think about it. What does more expensive gas really mean? If man is faced with a problem, he works his way around it. I’m not saying more cost is [...]

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Food prices are indeed rising. This is something most of us hear on the news or read in the paper (or the paper’s website). The reality, for me and for some people I know, only really set in just recently.
Like any good ol’ American, I wanted to grill some burgers and hotdogs this weekend since [...]

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I know I just wrote something about Mother’s Day facts, but I want to extend this a little further. You see, for me, that day is just another holiday. It’s a holiday for our special and beloved mothers, sure, but how is that different from every day? It doesn’t take one Sunday a year to [...]

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I want to take a break from the trivia to tell a story. I know a young man. He was 21 years old, had a stable job, and recently got married to the girl of his dreams. They weren’t rich, but they were very happy. He was going to get their own place once he [...]

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I was surfing the net yesterday when I saw this article on North America’s shark beaches. I will be the first to say that sharks normally do not attack people. I was impressed by the article’s view on that, citing research and evidence. As you remember, I have written informative shark posts on my blog [...]

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US Airways is going to begin charging $5 extra for aisle or window seats in some planes, according to CNN. The program starts on May 7, with Preferred members getting the seats with no extra charge. Fuel costs are rising, and they have to find a workaround.

A part of me thinks that it is yet [...]

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Sumo wrestling – Japan, this is a contact sport where one competitor tries to force out his competitor out of a circular ring. This is Japan’s official national sport, and often simply made out to be “just two men in diapers trying to push each other,” when in reality, this is a serious sport where [...]

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