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Friday, February 20, 2004
Friday Fun - iTunes, Inventions, Insult, and Ice Skating -- A few diversions this week...
- How to improve your odds in Apple/Pepsi's "free music" promotion really free music and leave the Pepsi's without the free iTunes download codes for people who don't care about them. It's too bad I prefer Coke. On second thought, since I own shares of PEP, you really should buy the fizzy sugar water even without the winning caps.
- An invention timeline from a science fiction perspective. I'm still amazed at the prescience of Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon."
- A word that I'm waiting for an excuse to use, but I'm afraid I might be too polite.
- Last night, my wife and I had front row seats (actually on the ice at about the hockey blue line - cool both metaphorically and literally) for Smucker's Stars on Ice in Trenton. Other than merely appreciating the combination of art and athleticism from skaters like Yagudin, Sato, Eldredge, and the various pairs champions, with such a close seat, I could concentrate on the footwork involved, which blew my mind. Can anybody explain the physics of fast backwards skating? It sure looked to me like the feet are moving the wrong way.
Have a good weekend.
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