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RangerWickett
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reveal said:
This also works with Windows key + M.
The first recorded oil gusher was in Spindletop, TX, just outside of my home town of Beaumont, in early January 1901. Oil sprayed into the sky for three days from a hole drilled in the ground, until finally they invented a way to cap the spray. Apparently the smokers were a little nervous, what with thousands of gallons of oil just covering the ground.
Psionicist
Explorer
Please dont make this into a "worthless facts"-threat. OP said
CarlZog
Explorer
reveal said:
And you actually want the plateware itself, check out Fish's Eddy: http://www.fishseddy.com/
On a separate note, Lea and Perrin's Worcesterhire Sauce will polish bronze.
I also know a trick for making mercator projection lat/long grids from scratch. I don't how useful that is to most people, but it often impresses the hell out of other mariners.
Carl
WayneLigon
Adventurer
A Pilot Razor Point pen will write perfectly well over smooth correction fluid spots without fading or smearing.
haiiro
First Post
When someone asks if you want to do something, and you can't do it (for one reason or another), the natural instinct is to say, "I'd love to come to your party, but I have to work late that night." Apparently, what people remember is the part that comes after the "but" -- that they asked you, but you had some reason not to.
In these situations, flip the order around when you respond: "I have to work late that night, but I would have loved to be able to come to your party." Now that part after the "but" is what you want remembered -- that you wanted to go. They feel better, and they're more likely to ask you again the next time something comes up.
A friend of mine learned this in med school (in a seminar on delivering bad news to patients, I believe), and I've been making a conscious effort to do it for the past few months. I don't have a way to prove that it does what it's supposed to, but it seems like it does!
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In a similar vein, I used to be terrible with names -- or so I thought. Really, I just wasn't putting any effort into it, so I decided to get better at remembering names.
There are lots of tricks to doing this, but the one that has worked -- amazingly well -- for me is this: when someone tells you their name, use it right away ("Hi, Bob, it's good to meet you"), and then use it again at the end of the conversation ("It was great talking to you, Bob"). You'll be much more likely to remember it.
It sounds corny, but it works -- and I've been surprised at how much of a difference this makes in interacting with people in all sorts of contexts. Even silly things like calling to change your billing address -- where you'll probably never talk to the person on the phone again -- seem to go better.
In these situations, flip the order around when you respond: "I have to work late that night, but I would have loved to be able to come to your party." Now that part after the "but" is what you want remembered -- that you wanted to go. They feel better, and they're more likely to ask you again the next time something comes up.
A friend of mine learned this in med school (in a seminar on delivering bad news to patients, I believe), and I've been making a conscious effort to do it for the past few months. I don't have a way to prove that it does what it's supposed to, but it seems like it does!
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In a similar vein, I used to be terrible with names -- or so I thought. Really, I just wasn't putting any effort into it, so I decided to get better at remembering names.
There are lots of tricks to doing this, but the one that has worked -- amazingly well -- for me is this: when someone tells you their name, use it right away ("Hi, Bob, it's good to meet you"), and then use it again at the end of the conversation ("It was great talking to you, Bob"). You'll be much more likely to remember it.
It sounds corny, but it works -- and I've been surprised at how much of a difference this makes in interacting with people in all sorts of contexts. Even silly things like calling to change your billing address -- where you'll probably never talk to the person on the phone again -- seem to go better.
der_kluge
Adventurer
If you use dial-up for the internet, and have call-waiting, and are tired of missing phone calls, then don't!
Get Call Wave! Call Wave is software that runs on your computer. It detects incoming calls, answers the phone (with a message indicating to the caller that you're online) and then has the caller leave a message. Once they hang up, Callwave plays you their message so you can hear who just called.
I might be misremembering, it might play it as it's being recorded.
At any rate, it's really cool software. My Mom uses it.
Get Call Wave! Call Wave is software that runs on your computer. It detects incoming calls, answers the phone (with a message indicating to the caller that you're online) and then has the caller leave a message. Once they hang up, Callwave plays you their message so you can hear who just called.
I might be misremembering, it might play it as it's being recorded.
At any rate, it's really cool software. My Mom uses it.
Queen_Dopplepopolis
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der_kluge said:
I used Call Wave for a very long time (before I left for college). It was a great program that was really helpful and I loved it... there was a time when it was free (ahh, the good old days). Doesn't appear to be that way, now.
However, the charges show up on your phone bill and are not charged directly to your credit card which - I think is kind of cool. *shrugs*
This thread is absolutely awesome, guys!
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