Archive for February, 2011


A Church, A Tavern And Foreign Oil – Rationalization and Procrastination

It looks like it’s just icy enough to procrastinate on the church-going, but with a little care and a bit of rationalization, the Woodster thinks he can make it to the tavern just fine. That’s a good one and I think it defines two requirements for being human – rationalization and procrastination.  Have you ever [...]

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You Just Never Know

  You just never really never know what’s going to happen next.  And sometimes it’s a good thing. I was reminded of that fact twice this week as I overstressed about some project deadlines of mine.  Honestly, I am old enough to know better than this, to remember that it’s not so much the situation as it [...]

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National Margarita Day Late Dollar Short

I’m not exactly sure how it happened but Monday, February 22, was National Margarita Day and I missed it.  I hope this isn’t some latent manifestation of procrastinational tendencies of mine coming to the fore – because, while procrastination can truly be an art form, applying it to national margarita day is, well, simply irresponsible. [...]

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Free Calendars From The WoodChips

Todays post is all about our free 2011 WoodChips calendars.  They’ve been quite a hit around the office.  And no wonder.  Besides having all the conventional holidays, they have the really COOL holidays, like Talk Like A Pirate Day, Belly Laugh Day, Fat Tuesday (of course) and even International WoodChips Day – which just happens to [...]

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Natalie Munroe Teachers Blog: It’s About Leadership

Yesterday a big news item was about Natalie Munroe, a teacher, who posted comments on her blog about some of her students.  The posts were anonymous, that is to say, the students were not named.  None the less, some of her comments were considered rather mean, and this has created quite a stir. Natalie, who [...]

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Hey, We Had Text Messaging Back In The Day Too

So everyone is all hip with technology and texting messages to each other these days and feeling like they’re doing something new. But there are few new ideas under the sun, really.  A little known fact is the older generation had message texting too.  It was called the teletype, and current texting messages remind me [...]

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Jeopardy Watson Foretelling The Future

Recently I watched an excellent public broadcasting show on artificial intelligence.  No, I’m not talking about the intelligence you run into in a singles bar, but the real deal that computer scientist have been working at for decades. The latest milestone in this endeavor is a computer to compete in the popular television show Jeopardy.  [...]

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Valentines Day Cards

Soooo … you’re getting down to the wire on getting a Valentines Day card.  Actually, if you were planning on mailing it, I’m sad to say, you may be too late. No worries, mate.  You can send our free WoodChips TreeCard (e-card) pictured above and it will arrive instantly.  Outside of showing a fun, forest [...]

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Chicken Feathers Will Save the World

In a recent scientific breakthrough chicken feathers have been discovered to have important properties to help solve our energy crisis and other big problems we face. It turns out that chicken feathers can absorb a great deal of hydrogen.  Hydrogen has long been considered the ideal fuel of the future because it is pollution free [...]

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Diet Sodas, Risk Of Stroke And UFO’s

I’ve been concerned about artificial sweeteners and in particular, diet soda for some time. My reasons are that I drink at least one diet soda a day and I’ve always heard there are some health effects, although I can never get to real solid science that seems to totally pin this down. I’ve also liked [...]

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