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That Makes Sense!

When Helen Adler accidently took the wrong pills, her life was in danger. Her granddaughter Deborah Adler was inspired. She came up with the new Clear Rx packaging being used by Target Pharmacies nation wide. It features a label that doesn't wrap around a curved surface, large easy-to-read writing of the prescriptions name, a handy info card stored on the bottle and a colored ring that you can coordinate to a member of the family or a specific medicine or type of medicine.

I'm lucky enough to only take Zyrtec, but I know this will be of much benefit to others who take a myriad of meds.

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Star Trek vs Star Wars

In case you hadn't noticed, we here at Jesser.org dig sci-fi. So naturally, when I came “The Top 25 Differences Between Starwars and Star Trek” at TopFive I had to share.

25. Star Trek: cardboard sets.
Star Wars: cardboard actors.

24. Star Trek fans sit in front of televisions watching reruns.
Star Wars fans sit in front of theaters that won't even be showing the film.

23. Darth Vader needs the Force to make people gag.
William Shatner merely acts.

22. Some Trekkies are now old enough to have moved from their parents' basement to the retirement home basement. Continue reading “Star Trek vs Star Wars”

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What's on that Wall?


Pictures of Walls has a very interesting collection of photos of … well … graffiti I guess, but not the big, bizarre block letter variety. Just stuff people have written on walls. Some of it even thought-provoking. Take a look.

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Haha. Funny Trick

I'm sure we've all felt the pointlessness of signing credit card recipts. I have “see ID” on my cards, and still, practically no-one asks to see ID, indicating that they haven't even looked at the signature panel. And if you've gotten fast food lately or maybe even groceries at the U-scans and definitely gas and paid with plastic, you probably haven't been required to sign.

Well someone decided to test the whole thing out and see just what the heck he could get away with. Here's his story.

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Harry Potter and the … Doh!

Amazon and Walmart both mistakenly issued emails to their pre-order customers telling them that they wouldn't be getting their books until 20 July (instead of 16 July as promised). They were, of course, inundated with phone calls and emails asking, “What gives?!”

An outrage fan had this to say on the Mugglenet boards: “I got one of those e-mails. I'm getting a second copy at midnight just in case, because if it doesn't arrive I'm canceling my transaction. I'm still furious.”

Well. Don't you know? Harry Potter is serious business.

Happy Almost Harry Potter Day!

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Cool Things

I've been running into a lot of cool things lately. Lots of them courtesy of Life Hacker and the balance courtesy of StumbleUpon,which is where I found Life Hacerk in the first place. Here's a quick summary of some new faves:

  • Google SMS –This is a demo of the Google SMS system that allows you to text GOOGL (46645) with queries like weather Denver, CO and it will text you back with the results. Damn cool.

  • Send to Phone, in sort of the same vein, is an extension for Firefox that allows you to highlight text in your web browser (say directions, or prices on an item) and send them to your phone as a text message.

  • DHTML Lemmings is a fantastic time-waster … the classic Lemmings game played right over your web browser … yowsa that's cool.

  • Adventure Quest is a cool, free, online RPG that you play in your browser. It's not exactly complicated, but it is entertaining.

  • BackPackIt is sort of a web-scrap book where you can keep lists, notes, and if you're willing to shell out some $$, photos and files.

  • Sims 2 for your phone is showing up this September and from the looks of it, I think it will be very cool

  • The Hipster PDA organizes you in simplicity and style

Share some of your own favorite links!

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Life Poster

In my travels around the web, I surfed onto the Mike Matas blog. As a tech aficionado, Mike has been in my periphery for some time. He's been designing user-interfaces that are awesome for some time now and he's exceptionally remarkable since he's so young … 18 now I believe. Anyhow, I ran into his blog and saw a tutorial he posted on making a life poster and it caught my eye. A very cool idea, especially for summing up a year. Not being a mac user, I set out on my PC quest to make a life poster. I decided the only reasonable medium was Picasa. Picasa is a very cool free photo cataloging system for the PC, from those geniuses over at Google. I started playing with the collaging features of Picasa. While it's an excellent program, they made it a little too user friendly (i.e. cut out a lot of options that would have been nice) so you have to sort of work within its confines. Here's how I did mine:

1. Start by gathering images that you like or that go together for some reason into a folder. You'll need 54 of these for the size I made. These should be pretty good quality images. 1000×1000 dimension minimum. Try to vary your images. You don't want all people or all landscapes. Choose your best images, most colorful, most special. Try to get some outdoors ones … these tend to not be so white/bright. Continue reading “Life Poster”

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Happiness is a Green Kitchen


Well, it may have taken us a whole week, but it was definitely worth it. We started last Sunday by stripping the wallpaper. That took four of us (thanks Mom and Kell) the whole day. Monday, Kelly, Matt and I primed and painted the first coat. Wednesday, Matt and I managed to get the second coat on and Saturday, Matt and I (more Matt than I) did some touch-up.

I thought I had a photo of what it looked like before with me, but I don't. I'll see if I can find one when I get home and post it, but if not, you'll have to use your imagination. It was a very light greeny tan burlappy sort of paper. Pretty really, though the whole house is earth-tones which doesn't quite fit what Matt and I like. The real problem though, was that the wall-paper was totally un-suitable for the kitchen. It absorbed …. everything. We had a few grease spots even and we're not really messy people (or people who fry things). It is good to get it gone and it makes us smile everytime we look towards the kitchen. We LOVE IT!!!!