Category: Off-topic
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Holiday Wishlist Ideas
Reading Time: 3 minutesI got an email from Linda Frost, a relative of mine, asking for gift ideas for the upcoming holiday season. This is always a challenge because my birthday is right after Thanksgiving, so I have to pick a number of things at once in order to keep my family happy. If you’re…
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“Living in Pink” Also Running a Wristband Program
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLiving in Pink Wristband:imprinted with Living in Pink are available directly fromLivingInPink.com,a non-profit that supports breastcancer research. Mark from the organization Living in Pink emailed earlier today and reported the following: Living in Pink is also selling Pink Wristbands and donates 100 percent of proceeds to breast cancer research and awareness…
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Go Vote, Then Go Workout
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday is Election Day in the United States. Although Operation Gadget is not about politics, I feel safe encouraging U.S. readers to vote today if you feel strongly about the candidates running in your district. I’m on safer ground when I urge you to get some exercise today. I think that exercise…
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Congratulations Red Sox
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, winning their first World Championship since 1918. In spite of the fact that I’ve been a Yankee fan since I was a kid, no team and no city deserved this victory more.
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Pink Breast Cancer Wristbands Available from Target.com and Amazon.com
Reading Time: 2 minutesPink Breast Cancer Wristbandimprinted with Share Beauty.Spread Hope. were available fromTarget.com and Amazon.com in 2004. Pink Breast Cancer Charm Braceletswere available in 2005 from Target.com and Amazon.com. They benefitted The Breast CancerResearch Foundation. A lot of people have been searching for information about pink wristbands that are similar to LiveStrong yellow wristbands,…
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Tyler Hamilton Deserves Swifter, Surer Anti-Doping Testing Than He Received
Reading Time: 2 minutesI learned last night that Tyler Hamilton’s performance in the 2004 Olympic Time Trial has been questioned as a result of an anti-doping test result that indicates that he may have received a homologous transfusion. The test Hamilton failed was administered at the time of the competition, nearly one month ago. He…
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Money from the LiveStrong Campaign Funds Adult Cancer Survivorship Center in Boston
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday’s Boston Globe had an article called You Survived Cancer. Now What? that focused on the difficulties that Shari Dicker and other survivors of adult-onset cancer face as a result of having the good fortune of being a long term cancer survivor. The article talks about the Lance Armstrong Foundation Adult…
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Readers Successfully Buying 10-Packs of LiveStrong Yellow Wristbands Directly from the Lance Armstrong Foundation
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently, two Operation Gadget readers commented that they have received LiveStrong yellow wristbands directly from the Lance Armstrong Foundation by placing an order for 10 wristbands and waiting for delivery. I will repeat their comments here so that more readers can see them: Just because the bands are backordered doesn’t mean you…
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Fixed My Email Problem
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter almost two days of trying, I’ve uncorrupted my email archive. The idea that I had to convert my archive from mbox to maildir didn’t work for reasons that are too technical to discuss here. I’m back on the job now….