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Household Tips, Photography, Blackjack, Games, Movies, Humor



=== Tips and Links

How to get rid of ants
DVD Players little known features for music and photos
Links to MANY Cool Sites


=== Photo Naming

A file naming convention for those of us who collect digital photos
is long overdue. This convention makes it easy to locate photos even
years after you've saved them.

1. Syntax - file names for your photo files
2. Rename files you've scanned or dumped from your digital camera (coming soon)
3. Add simple or detailed captions (coming soon)


=== All things YaleSafe

Surgery without a Scalpel
YaleSafe Software Testing Methodology (coming soon)
Yale's Resume
YaleSafe PC Tips
Job Search websites

Yale's Basic Blackjack Strategy
The Search for an Odd Perfect Number Is Over
The SPHERES problem
The SPHERES solution


=== Yale's Game and Quizes

NameGame ... visual puzzles
Will Shortz puzzles
SoundsLike Quiz
What Time Is Midnight

=== Movies

Index of home movies
Favorite Movies - sorted by rating
Favorite Movies - sorted by title

=== Humor

Accident Descriptions
These reports are purported to be statements found on insurance forms where car drivers attempted to summarize the details of an accident in the fewest words possible.

Amusing Analogies
According to someone, these are winners of the "worst analogies ever written in a high school essay" contest. Of course, somewhere along the line, some other pretty silly analogies got thrown in there, too. But it's still a great list.

Better News
God foretells the end of the world

Big Brother
"T h e y ' r e . . . h e r e."

Bricks
This is a bricklayer's accident report that was printed in the newsletter of the English equivalent of the Worker's Compensation Board.

Church Announcements
Church Announcements purportedly taken from actual bulletins across the USA.

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy
Very different humor - dark, absurd, inane- but very funny. A cross between Steven Wright and Steven King.

Engineers vs. Mathematicians
Academic solutions challenge practical solutions.

One Liners
(part 1)

More One Liners
(part 2)

Say What?
These observations come from real life – mine... Yale Schwartz

School Excuses
The following is purported to be a collection of "actual excuse notes from parents (including spelling)" from the Office of Educational Assessment at the University of Washington.

Steven Wright
Some of Steven Wright's best - straight faced, understatements.

ZEN - the Jewish adaptation
Budda, Schmudda - here's some good advice.



The International Symbol for STRESS!



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