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Circuit Board Clip Board

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clipboard-circuitboardMy day job started out simple enough. I just kept to myself and did my job the best that I could. Before my first year was up, the people higher up took notice and gave me a promotion (I think). And before I knew it, I was doing more things that I would rather not do, really. One of these is interviewing potential employees.

I do not like talking to people face to face, especially if I do not know them. I do not like spending at least 30 minutes asking questions that people will not give the right answers to. I do not like having to smile and be sociable. But I have to do it. It’s part of the job (although I didn’t know that till I had both feet inside the door).

Anyhow, in an effort to make things a bit more interesting for me, I think I shall get this cute little thing called the Circuit Board Clip Board. You know those boards which you use to put paper in so that you can write easily without having to put the paper on a desk?

The ones we have in the office are the usual black or gray vinyl boards. With this board that ThinkGeek has, however, I would actually be using a real motherboard that has seen the best of its life. At least it is being used for some other purpose and not gathering dust somewhere, right? Only $13.99 folks. That’s worth having something interesting to look at while interviewing.

What Can We Find on Recipe Finder?

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OK so wow, Recipe Finder! It’s a brand new site that helps people sift through the many recipes available on the Internet — over 1,121,131 recipes and counting as of this writing. Actually if you do some poking around, Recipe Finder is an actual search engine specifically designed to crawl the web for food items. Like in Google where you can customize search by images or timeliness, Recipe Finder can sift through the web using length of time prepared, serving size and calorie count. But today that’s not important — we’re here to see whether this baby can scour the web for the odd stuff. You know how the oddest of things can be found on the Internet — so let’s see what the deepest recesses of the web can bring forth to the dining table

I wonder if they have recipes for cannibals.

With over 1 million recipes, there’s probably something out there that’s really obscure. Let’s do a quick search for “people.”

Ah OK. Figures. Gingerbread people, meals for two “people” .. but wait a minute. What’s this on the sidebar under “suggested.” [Read more…]

Are You a Sucker for Hi-Tech Phones?

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Cellular Phones

Mobile phones have made its mark as a necessity nowadays and with companies such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola continuously tried to create alluring and innovative enhancements to their mobile units and try to outdo each other.

Unlike in the early days, all that was required was a means of being able to communicate wherever they are. Then came the size of a unit after which the boom of text messaging made its mark. The capability of a phone to take pictures with built-in cameras followed suit and so on, until today where technology has totally taken its stand with regards to ideal phones by the masses.

Today, the enhancements, features and different capabilities of cellular phones have made their mark to distinguish each phone from another. Flip phones, video capturing and colored screens with specific resolutions have been the talk of the town anywhere in the world. But one thing that has been totally overlooked is for a phone to be able to help in communication by anyone in the world especially when the need to be far from the people they love.

So the next time you consider buying a cellular phone, think about it. Do you really need all these features or simply because people are falling for them for no apparent reason? The answer lies on how a person needs such devices, but if not, why go for such phones that are simply the same for mobile communication all the same.

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