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Added FreeFind SiteSearch to TheRestlessMouse

powered by FreeFind ...We just added the FreeFind SiteSearch to this site (TheRestlessMouse.com); The search results aren't all prettied up and citified, but like the workhorse, it gets the job done with a minimum of fuss; Gets you to the products you came to see quickly, and generated keyword reports so I can see what the fickle folks out there in web-browser-land are looking for today. Google makes a similar free product, but it it doesn't tell what people are looking for. Give freefind a try, I think you will agree, it's a good tool.

Jing not Jenga

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It's quick and easy to use this new Jing.com picture sharing thingie. Here we have some men looking for missing sewer workers in St. Paul Minn. after recent torrential rains. But, aren't they technically storm-drain workers? OH, apparently it doesn't put the image on the PC clipboard, just a link to it. Shoot, what good is that? Back to using Picasa and HELLO I guess.

Chris likes to mess with telemarketers.

Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes Chris notes that "This has to be illegal in some states" - That would not surprise me at all, that some states would make it illegal to mess with intrusive salespeople.

Not impressed with WinCo

Just my opinion dept. I'm not buying into the "Groceries are so much cheaper here" myth. The new WinCo foods apparently is trying to give that impression. Cereal is shoved on the shelf in turned-over cases, with one box stood up for display, guess which box customers throw in their carts. I spent five minutes replacing display boxes until Teresa made me stop. The floors and lighting are purposely hideous. There is no muzak. It even smells funny, like something was spilled on aisle 9 but there was no one to call. Many items are packaged in completely illogical amounts. Who wants ten pounds of carrots? I'm not kidding, ten pounds! Even if they were priced the same as the other store's regular size bag, what am I going to do with ten pounds? Rabbits would follow me home. They even make you bag your own groceries! I've got a bit of advice; When people get wise to the fact that the prices aren't much cheaper than Safeway, they will avoid your store in d...

A lulu of a loo - CNN.com

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"We are spreading toilet culture. People can listen to gentle music and watch TV" - 1000 toilets, it's like the Disneyland of defecating! Look how dirty the floor is already! Ick!

How the rich get concussions! Good times

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The Hoverscooter; "To accelerate you lean back while gripping the handlebar" - What do you grip when you DON'T want to accelerate? It takes 20 feet to stop the thing! I suspect most people using this thing spend much of the time sitting on the pavement gripping their heads and wondering what happened. I guess if you can slap down 17 grand for this goofy thing, you can hire people to chase you with big pillows or something. (From Hammacher.com - used here for parody and education.)

It's Better in Bellingham

I took the family up to Bellingham on Thursday, Frank wanted to see some comic/trading card shop up there, we ended up at this really neat Railroading Museum, with typical museum stuff, plus several model trains you can run, and a train operator computer simulation- Plus a geocache inside the museum! Kind of funky, some well detailed models, then some off the wall things, like Barney the Purple dinosaur tied to the track. And it's all right downtown! You wouldn't see that in Seattle. We ate at an old restaurant called the Horseshoe, I knew the food would be good when I saw the waitress had a huge tattoo. That's one of my rules of thumb for fine dining. We didn't get to go everywhere we wanted to, plan to return soon to see the Antique Radio Museum in the same area, the Science museum, and more. Bellingham has a sort of Bohemian feel to it, I know it's a college town but the downtown isn't full of starbucks and mcdonalds on every corner, I wonder if they set old ...