Author Archives: Avish

Which is Easier: Detonating an H-Bomb or Talking it Out?

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Avish

Warning! This post contains some spoilers for this week’s Season 5 finale of Lost. Consider yourself warned! Lost is a great show, and the Season 5 finale was awesome. I loved it. But there was one bit of spurious logic … Continue reading →

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The Fine Art of “Grodining”

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Avish

GrodiningDefinition: To flat out deny someone by saying “no,” offering little or no explanation or alternativeEtymology: I don’t know what etymology exactly means, only that it has nothing to do with bugs. So I will say that this term comes … Continue reading →

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Ponce de Leon Should Have Smiled More…

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Avish

Here’s an article about an eight year study of 100,000 women that reports that the women who were optimists had a lower general death rate and a 30% power death rate from heart disease. The researchers didn’t know the exact … Continue reading →

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How Dare You Fall Asleep During My Favorite Movie!

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Avish

I have referred to my love of the movie “Jaws” more than once in this blog (Here and here for example). It is my favorite movie of all time, and it is awesome. And yet, not everyone thinks so… Over … Continue reading →

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Minor Irritations Can Become Major Pains!

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Avish

Holy cow, canker sores suck!! As you may have guessed from the title, I developed a canker sore this week. And I think I know how, and I have only myself to blame. I was brushing my teeth one day, … Continue reading →

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Does Greatness Just Happen?

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Avish

From some of my recent posts, you may know that I think that Rush is awesome! Rush is a three man rock trio from Canada (and the have nothing to do with Rush Limbaugh). Geddy Lee is the lead singer, … Continue reading →

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A Reader’s Response to “Customer Service and the Big Ding!”

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Avish

Here’s a comment a reader, Beverly Kurtin, posted on my blog in response to my Customer Service and the Big Ding! post. Beverly used to work for Microsoft, and has a great attitude and approach to customer service. Take a … Continue reading →

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Splling is Improtant!

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Avish

This is brilliant. A company that makes alphabet blocks for kids to help them learn spelling created their blocks with spelling errors on them! That’s right – the spelling blocks were misspelled! For “U” – “Umberlla.” For “Y” – “Yatch.” … Continue reading →

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5 Things You Can Learn From the Movie “Jaws”

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Avish

Jaws is my favorite movie of all time. As I was sitting there one day, I thought about how may simple success lessons we can all learn from Jaws. So of course, I just had to share them with you! … Continue reading →

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3 Success Lesson’s From Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Avish

I watch a lot of TV. While a lot of the TV I watch is good stuff (24, Lost, The Office), some is just ridiculous reality shows that I know I would be better off not watching and instead spending … Continue reading →

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