Atari Beakout

Throwback Thursday:

Can't remember where you put that old Atari and have a hankering for a 1970's game?  Atari Breakout is a few web browser clicks away.  Just do a Google Image search for "Atari Breakout", or click the link below, and test your eye-hand-mouse coordination.

https://www.google.com/search?q=atari+breakout&tbm=isch

Not My Monkeys

Hump Day Humor:

I may have been the last person on this planet to hear this saying.  An amazing six words that fits work, family drama, the PTA and many other situations.

Unsubscribe in Gmail

Gmail Users Only:

Have you noticed the "Unsubscribe" link to the right of the sender's address in some of your emails, as I've highlighted in the picture below?  If the sender has included an unsubscribe link in the email, which is usually buried at the bottom somewhere, and Gmail recognizes it, you will see the handy link front and center.

Read more at this blog post:

https://plus.google.com/%2BGmail/posts/euJxGkND1Ao

Stone Spray Paint

I needed to create a surface to cover the uneven top of plastic shelving in my garage.  The solution was a thin sheet of plywood painted with Valspar Stone Spray Paint.  Looks and feels like stone.  Truly remarkable!

http://www.valsparpaint.com/en/find-the-right-product/interior/spray-paint/stone.html

Water Bottles

A couple years ago my wife and I took a long weekend trip to Charleston, SC.  As we were having a pre-dinner cocktail at The Bar at Husk we noticed people coming down from the second floor holding empty whiskey bottles and amazed they could navigate the stairs so well.  After seeing this occur a few times, we asked the bartender what was going on.  He explained that they serve water in old whiskey bottles stored in a small refrigerator.  We thought that was a great idea and have been doing the same ever since.

http://www.huskrestaurant.com/about/bar/

Trek Up Everest

Experience the trek up Mount Everest, 29,029 feet above sea level, with a stop at The Khumbu Icefall, the site of a deadly avalanche.  Then at the top hold and drag your mouse to see the 360 degree views.

http://everestavalanchetragedy.com/mt-everest-journey.html

Thanks to Tom Anderson for passing this along.

Five O'Clock Somewhere

Hump Day Humor:

I saw this on the back of a T-shirt at the Alan Jackson concert last Friday night at The Fraze.

Gotta get me one.

DraftSight

Computer-Aided Design Lovers Only:

DraftSight is a computer-aided design package similar to the pricey AutoCad software, and while there are a number of other free (I love free) CAD options, DraftSight can read and write .dwg and .dxf (i.e. AutoCad's) file formats. The software has to be registered periodically, a small inconvenience for "libre software".

Available on Windows, Mac, Ubuntu Linux and Fedora Linux.

http://www.3ds.com/products-services/draftsight/overview/

Android Two-Finger Swipe Down

Android Only:

Somewhere along the tasty path of Android versions (i.e. Jelly Bean, Kit Kat), a two finger swipe down from the top of the screen started bringing up a handy "Quick Settings" menu with many of the most often used toggles like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Do Not Disturb.  It's also a quick way to get to Settings.

And see a picture of your smiling self.

Fuzzy Lookup Excel Add-In

The Fuzzy Lookup Add-In for Excel performs fuzzy matching of textual data in Microsoft Excel. It can be used to identify fuzzy duplicate rows within a single table or to "fuzzy join" similar rows between two different tables.  I used it yesterday to match two lists, each with a person's name, but not exact matches.  Worked very well and was a BIG time saver.

The download package can be found at:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15011