Friday 8/12/22
Celebrate:
Baseball Fans Day
IBM PC Day
International Youth Day
National Julienne Fries Day - Julienne is a cutting technique used especially with vegetables, where they are cut into long, thin strips that resemble matchsticks. (think your big fast food restaurant fries)
National Middle Child Day
National Sewing Machine Day
Truck Driver Day
Vinyl Record Day
World Elephant Day
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A new board game version of WORDLE is coming. "The New York Times" owns the rights and partnered with Hasbro for it.
It's called Wordle: The Party Game, and it's basically the same as the one you play online. But you're competing against other people.
One person knows what the five-letter word is, and everyone else has six chances to guess it. It comes with dry-erase boards to write on, and little green-and-yellow tiles to cover the letters with.
There are four ways to play: Classic mode . . . fast mode, where it's a race . . . timed mode, where you have to beat the clock . . . and team mode, where you're grouped up.
You can pre-order it on Amazon for $20, and it ships in October. Target will also have it eventually.
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We get used to things and when they are gone...we notice - Until recently, one of the most convenient ways to set a timer was to simply search for one on Google. Punch in a query like “10 minute timer,” and, hey presto, you’d get a ten-minute timer. But last month, reports started to emerge that this feature had disappeared from Google without warning. Search Engine Roundtable was among the first to cover the missing timer on July 20th, citing tweets from around July 18th. The feature is still missing today.
It turns out that Google hasn’t decided to remove the handy feature without warning. In a tweet, the company’s public search liaison Danny Sullivan confirmed that the feature is temporarily unavailable because of an unspecified problem. “We have an issue that we’ve been looking [into],” Sullivan tweeted in response to this story, “we expect to have it back fairly soon.”
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Wouldn't it be great if there was a place to take naps at work? This might be the least comfortable way to accomplish that goal . . .
A company in Japan has a new product called "nap boxes" to give workers a place to take power naps. But you have to sleep standing up.
They're big cylinders with a door on the front that only fit one person at a time. They basically look like a water heater with a door on the front.
Each one has three small shelves inside, strategically placed to support your knees, head, and butt. So you're partially supported, but still vertical.
They claim it's comfortable, but it's hard to tell. It's in the early stages, so they haven't even demonstrated it yet. They just have a rendering.
A spokesperson for the company claimed that in Japan, it's common for workers to take naps in the bathroom. So they wanted to give them a better option.
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By thinking one positive thought every morning you can psychologically trick your brain into being a happier person.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Coffee loses 70% of its flavor within two minutes of being brewed.
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