Trivia
You know how everyone looks like a goof riding a Segway? Turns out they don’t care, because it’s awesome. We played tourist in SF last weekend, thanks to Bryn and her savvy Groupon-ing. Along the route we learned some interesting trivia, some of which was even new to semi-locals like us. In a period of [...]
Is Valentine’s Day just a corporate-created “holiday” designed to part us from money? No. While Hallmark has certainly capitalized on the popular holiday, Valentine’s traditions long predate the company’s 1910 founding. The origins of Valentine’s Day can be traced all the way back to the Roman empire, when two Christian priests named Valentine were martyred. [...]
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There’s no question, Thanksgiving is a great holiday. You get to down piles of food with friends and family and be thankful for all the opportunities that made it possible. But I wanted to address some common Thanksgiving “legends” to see if they were true or not. 1. The tryptophan in turkey makes you sleepy. [...]
We’re off to the Happiest Place on Earth, so here’s some trivia I found interesting about Disneyland. Disneyland opened in 1955, after a year of construction. The price tag for the entire project was $17 million. Opening day was somewhat of a disaster. Double the expected crowds showed up, water fountains didn’t work yet, the [...]
Location, location, location. On the Internet, a good domain name is the online equivalent of that corner lot in the neighborhood with good schools. The problem is, all the good names are taken and only “fixer-uppers” are left. That’s why you have companies called Flickr, Rowdii, Weebly, and Sedo — which auctions off domain names [...]
These numbers are adapted from the June issue of Fast Company. More than 2,190,000 couples got married in the US last year. The average cost of these weddings was $28,704, making the wedding business a $62,861,760,000 industry. Is that money better spent elsewhere? What else does $62 Billion buy? Bednets for literally everyone living in [...]
