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Chat Roulette: A Live Review of ChatRoulette.Com

Richard CummingsDaily Dalliances, Entertainment, Featured Posts, My A-Musings Leave a Comment

I am just reading in the entertainment section of the newspaper about this website called ChatRoulette.com. It´s a website where everybody is LIVE on webcams.  No doctored photos or photos of people from 10 years before.  It is all apparently live, pimples and all. So, I´m gonna pop on the computer and see what all the fuss is about — …

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Fiverr Review: What Would You Do For Five Dollars?

Richard CummingsMy A-Musings Leave a Comment

What would you do for five dollars? Over the weekend, I had a boring technical task that I needed to accomplish and I searched the Internet to see if there were people out there who did it.  Maybe they like to do it; I didn’t. This search led me to a website called Fiverr.com: “The place for people to share …

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The 27 Year Old Virgin Man

Richard CummingsDaily Dalliances, My A-Musings, Relationships 6 Comments

I just accidentally stumbled upon a story of the 27 year old virgin man. I noticed that a post that I had written about the sexual consent form was getting a lot of hits from a certain webpage and I decided to check it out.  The webpage was titled “I’m got tired of waiting until marriage so I started having …

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How To Focus…Or Not

Richard CummingsEssays, My A-Musings 1 Comment

This morning I lost focus which happens with regularity. Fortunately, I can control it because I am aware of it.  If you are aware of losing focus, does that by definition make you focused? My intention was to create a page on my how to video site about how to copy a DVD to a DVD because a lot of …

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The Movie 21, Variable Change, and Monty Hall

Richard CummingsEntertainment, Featured Posts, Movies, My A-Musings 102 Comments

The movie 21 introduced many to the concept of variable change. But what is variable change? Stay tuned for a lively discussion! During the movie 21 (read my 21 movie review here), we are introduced to a seemingly simple example of probability often referred to by three different names: Variable change, the Monty Hall Problem, and/or conditional probability.  The scenario …

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What Do You Think of This Man?

Richard CummingsMovies, My A-Musings 4 Comments

I am going to describe a man to you and I just want to know what your thoughts of him are. This man is 38 years old, has a terrific job, and many friends.  On top of all that, he has an attractive loving wife who has faithfully been by his side for the last 11 years.  Together, they have …

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Like, You Know

Richard CummingsDaily Dalliances, My A-Musings Leave a Comment

I am, like, sitting in the café, you know, next to two girls, who use “Like” and “You Know” every other word. They are, like, surprised, you know, that they are unable to, like, get the job that they want…you know. And, like, I just don’t understand it.  You know. It’s like employers don’t understand brevity.

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Put Your Face on a Dancing Body

Richard CummingsMy A-Musings 4 Comments

I was recently adding some how to videos to the home page of my site when I came across a web page that allows you to Put Your Face on a Dancing Body. This site is called JibJab and they not only allow you to put your face on a dancing body but you can also put your face on …

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The Usefulness of Useless Information

Richard CummingsFeatured Posts, My A-Musings 1 Comment

I was searching for information today and discovered that people prefer useless information to useful information. Huh? Yes, that’s right.  There are more searches on the Internet everyday for the term “useless information” than for the term “useful information“.  Don’t believe me?  Check out this chart.