Brooklyn Blogs:21 Google Tricks
Everyone loves Google Tricks! Here’s 21 I’ve collected:
1. At google.com type: do a barrel roll and watch the screen as you type it
2. At google type: google gravity (choose first link)
3. At google type: tilt and then search. This also works for the word askew and search
4. At google type: google sphere – choose the first link. Then do a search for troll face.
5. Type: google underwater (choose the 4th or 5th link down with the Chinese symbols). After it loads, try doing a search for hotdog or the troll face….if you keep tapping ‘enter’ more and more items will enter the water.
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A Birthday Gift with Another Purpose
A friend gave me this ring sculpture. I absolutely love it. Several months ago, while we walked through Crate and Barrel, I admired it. I loved that it is made of metal and is so simple. My friend remembered how much I liked it and bought it for my birthday. I placed it on the sofa table and admired it.
When I came home from school today, Lee had the ring on the floor and was calling the dog with treats to jump through the ring.
So much for my elegant ring sitting on the sofa table!
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A Great Weekend
Mother’s Day was fantastic. We were going to go to brunch, but gave our reservations away to friends who really needed a day out. We had family over and the men cooked. Lee made meatballs stuffed with fresh mozzarella and pasta. OMG so good. It was a beautiful day and fun to celebrate with family.
The day before I celebrated my birthday. It was a really great day. Friends hung out here in the afternoon and Lee and I went to a great restaurant in the city – One If By Land, Two If By Sea. I didn’t cook all weekend!
I look forward to more beautiful and relaxing weekends!
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Having All You Need
I just celebrated another birthday. The week before my birthday, Lee kept asking me what I wanted for a present. I told him I would think about it. And although I thought about it, there just wasn’t anything I needed or wanted.
I have everything.
I saw on the deck on Saturday morning and I thought to myself…..this is what it feels like to have everything you want. Birds sang and the sun beamed on my face. I wanted to hold on to this moment. There’s been so many times in my life when I needed things and people too. But for now I have everything.
Later that day, I told Lee about my recent realization……he laughed and said, “you’ve always had everything…..you just realized it now!”
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Half Lifetime Friendships
I have a wonderful friend I met in college who sent me a package today. I didn’t open the package because the note that came with the package said not to open it until a certain date. Regardless of the contents, I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your friendship.
You often joke about Karen having ‘the title’ of my best friend or as you refer to her ‘bestie.’ Friendships that have lasted half a lifetime are definitely worth a couple of quarters. So I bestow on you a new title HLF – my friend for half a lifetime. It’s not as cute as bestie, but it’s better than nothing, right? :)
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Ditto Oprah
Oprah tweeted today:
Today’s challenge is to thank someone who taught you something.
A few minutes later Oprah tweeted:
I would like to thank the ppl who’ve brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers.
And then Oprah tweeted:
The greatest learning for me usually happens in times of distress, pain, suffering.
Yup. Ditto.
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Brunch in Bay Ridge
Mother’s Day is a great day to go out for brunch in Bay Ridge. The best restaurants for brunch in Bay Ridge are:
- Red Oak – 83rd and 5th Avenue (formerly Vela Tapas) *has the best brunch in Bay Ridge
- Cafe Remy – 7110 – 3rd Avenue menu
- Beebo
- Cebu - 88th and 3rd
- Greenhouse Cafe (2 seatings – 11am or 12pm) 77th and 3rd Ave $25 a person
- Hom - 88th and 3rd Avenue – I haven’t been but I heard good things
- Skinflints - 79th and 5th Avenue
- Casa Pepe - Bunch from 12-4 and then dinner from 4 on
- The Pearl Room - 82nd and 3rd Avenue ($55 a person) see menu
* Make sure to call ahead for reservations as everyone loves to go out on Mother’s Day!
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Wow!
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Sad Day
My friend’s husband died. So young. Pulled from the earth at an unexpected moment. They had it all – a beautiful family and life they worked hard to build – gorgeous home, cars and a summer vacation planned. And now he’s gone.
My mind fills with pictures – pictures that I just looked at three weeks ago. And their stories….her face would light up each time she told a story about her him. They were still in love, even after all these years.
My heart hurts for her…..for her children.
This is why people say to cherish life.
RIP Mike.
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Television Repair 101 – flashing lights
I love technology – computers, music players, televisions, etc. I don’t like when technology breaks because every repairman wants to make a lot of money to fix the expensive gadgets.
During the summer, my Samsung television would go off intermittently. The television would flash two lights on the display. I tried timing it to see if it was overheating, but sometimes it would the television turn off after 5 minutes and sometimes after 25 minutes or even 3 hours. I went online to research the problem. I thought the Samsung site would be helpful, but it wasn’t. What was helpful was users who shared what they did to fix the problem. I love that!
There are two problems that the Samsung can have. One involves:
The other involves changing the lamp. I read through how to change the lamp and decided it would be easy to do. I ordered the lamp from Amazon here . When it came I put it in the closet until this past weekend when the television had three flashing lights.
I will be back to finish this shortly and provide pics.
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Getting ready to be a pilot
Although I may be the worst driver in the world, I’m actually a decent driver in the air! I’ve been taking flying lessons for 16 months now. And I am getting ready to take the pilot’s test. I have almost 60 hours flying time and my instructor said I’m ready today.
Some people think that a 16 months is a short time to get a pilot’s license – it’s not. There are many people who learn to fly in a month or two. I didn’t have the time or money to pay for that many lessons in that short of a time. It’s an expensive hobby! I didn’t realize it was so expensive when I started, but I have wanted to be a pilot since 1999. I flew with a friend of mine who let me hold the controls for a minute made me realize that I wanted to do it.
Anyway, I am excited and nervous to take the test in the next few weeks. This summer we’ll be flying all over!
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Birds, Everywhere!
I love birds….any type of birds. The woman who owned this house before me and her daughter loved birds. Before living here, I didn’t even like birds or knick knacks. But now, I am obsessed with putting cute little birds everywhere.
My new obsession: these two PB sandpiper birds - too cute.
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