Great googly moogly, I get so fed up trying to find owner’s manuals when I really need them. I mean, honestly, if I kept the owner’s manual for every gadget I buy, I’d probably have to, like, file them away. It probably wouldn’t take too much space, thinking about it. Just a small filing cabnet would do.
But I don’t! I always think, “Well, I can always find it online.” Wrong! Wronger! Wrongest!
You have be a Google-fu master just to find a blurry, tiny scan of the owner’s manual you are looking for most of the time. Thankfully I just found out about OwnerIQ.net. While I’m sure they don’t have every single manual ever made, they do have thousands which is a good starting point.
This post is more for myself in the future, when I’ll need to access owner’s manuals again. Because why should I store the darn things when it’s all online.
Stamp prices are expected to rise again on May 11. It’s been hard to keep up with the litany of stamp price increases lately, which is why the post office offers the Forever Stamps that will always cover the postage for first class letters. Forever Stamps cost the same as first class stamps online at $8.40 for a book, making them my new default stamp selection.
You know, for my frequent post office stamp purchases.
Jack Thompson was permanently disbarred a while ago, but I wanted to have a reference to some of the court transcripts from the hearings for my own reference. Jack is a very interesting case to me. He has the right motive, but executes in way the wrong way. For those who don’t know, Jack has been an outspoken critic of video games, especially violent video games, prosecuting cases where many people thought the link to video games was tenuous at best.
His tactics, however, were far from Christian (or even humane). He inserted pornography as evidence into cases that it had nothing to do with, would harass by letters and emails his “enemies,” and knowingly lie. But, still, the idea of keeping violent video games out of children’s hands is something that absolutely everyone believes in, especially those who play video games often. Even with a white knight agenda, hate and rhetoric are his legacy. Behold the case of the proud, violent man.
I said I’d update when there’s something interesting, and now there’s something interesting. The Consumerist reports on a new study by the University of Rochester shows that:
bisphenol-A (BPA), a potentially toxic chemical found in many plastics, can enter the body via non-food sources and lingers in the body longer than previously thought.
What is BPA? Since I have no clue either, let’s discover together. Reading the article(s), it turns out that BPA is in plastic everywhere, and more importantly can enter into tap water and household dust. Which means that you don’t even have to consume foods contaminated by BPA to be effected.
The good news is that there is an FDA ruling that BPA won’t kill you; however it doesn’t say that BPA won’t cause cancer, which is the primary concern of pretty much everyone. From what I can gather, this study will probably cause the FDA to reconsider their ruling.