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.
This is [...]
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 pavement on [...]
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 a malaria-risk area, [...]
No trip to Seattle is complete without a visit to Dick’s!
Since 1954, Dick’s has been clogging Seattleites’ arteries with their delicious cheeseburgers, smooth shakes, and soggy fries. At UW, it was much better late-night dining choice than Jack-in-the-Box or Pizza Ragazzi although a location closer to the Ave would have been clutch.
We would always stop [...]
