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Friday Friday Friday the 13th... Try to survive

2012-01-13T10:42:00.000-08:00

Aamir-a-Khan Movies Are Better

2012-01-11T08:37:00.000-08:00

This related to today's Q.

Give it a try.

Eternal Life May Mean 3 Consecutive Life Sentences

2012-01-09T17:04:00.001-08:00

If you haven't answered today's Q yet, you may not know about Rollen Stewart. Through the 80s and 90s, he was famous for holding up a John 3:16 sign at sports events. I was child then, so I was never exposed to the other side of Rollen Stewart. Researching the Q was quite a shock for me.

Timmy 316 says I just beat your ass

2012-01-09T01:48:00.000-08:00

Last night, Tim Tebow threw 316 yards of passing to grab a "miracle" victory over the Steelers.

316 has a long history with sports and entertainment.

Answer today's Q for more.

Can Your PC Do This?

2012-01-03T16:04:00.001-08:00

Celebrating Apple Day!

On this day in 1977, Apple Computers, Inc officially incorporated.

WHAT?????

Where's the hour glass while it "thinks" and then locks up? Where's the control alt delete?

Where's the Fatal Error or the Blue Screen of Death??

Lol, seriously, get a Mac!

Are You Getting It?

2012-01-03T04:54:00.000-08:00

I know people that still haven't figured it out.

And they're called Android users! Lol

iWill

2011-12-31T01:17:00.000-08:00

This is probably my favorite day of the year. I don't get the Christmas Spirit, and I rarely celebrate even my own birthday. But, today, is a day of retrospection and prospecting.

I call it Resolution Day.

I'm a futurist, and Resolution Day is all about the future!

A study in 2007 found that only 12% of New Year's Resolutions are actually achieved.

I wouldn't know. I've never achieved one, either.

But, I make them every year. Last year, I resolved 'to be more awesome' and I think
I almost achieved it. I quit my job. I enrolled back in school. And, I almost moved halfway across the country. My wife calls it a mid-life crisis, but I call it 'being more awesome.'

I almost did it all too. Almost.

This year, I will finish the job.

I will

Lose at least 1 lb per week
Run a 5k
Qualify for the NYC Marathon
Teach my son multiplication
Teach my daughter to read
Finish my new degree
Put Qanday in the App Store
Grow my business

Um.. what?

2011-12-30T16:37:00.000-08:00

You probably don't need any help finding today's Q. But, here's a hint. It's a song by Heywood Banks.

Here's another song, by Heywood Banks, that I like.

I can relate. One day, this past summer, I was sitting on the subway, and the couple across from me assumed that I couldn't understand Spanish. Well, my Spanish isn't very good, but I know she said "my dog likes to watch." When my eyebrows involuntarily contorted into a quizzical expression, they stopped talking, in total horror. And, they got off the train at the next stop.

Lewis Black has a comedy routine about the same thing. At a restaurant, he overheard a woman saying, "Well, if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college?" What?

And it just stays in your head, all day you're wondering about what it meant. How is it possible? Your imagination runs wild! Your brain can't even think about anything else.

Shoot, that's a sport, ain't it!

2011-12-29T16:22:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the real world.

Yep, you guessed it! The wacky word play suggests that today's Q has something to do with GUNS and SPORT and the REAL WORLD

Greecey Economics

2011-12-28T19:04:00.001-08:00

They have serious customer service issues.

I Can Be Your Hero, Baby!

2011-12-26T09:27:00.000-08:00

You can always find a hint to the day's Q on this blog.

Try it, it's easy and interesting!

Ho Ho Ho, you've been a naughty girl

2011-12-25T08:12:00.000-08:00

As you probably guessed, today's Q is about the real Santa Claus.

Or, at least one of the real ones.

Over the course of the holidays I made a Santa videos for my two children. They enjoyed them quite a bit. So, I applied to be an affiliate, and I got approved! Up on the top right, of this page, you can click the link and make a FREE video.

On Facebook, you can see the video I made for my wife. It's funny!

And, it's good for the whole year.

Create unique Santa Claus videos for free

Geeky Xmas from Qanday!

2011-12-24T17:53:00.001-08:00

The Reason for the Season

2011-12-24T09:48:00.001-08:00

In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And, the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

He is the reason for the season.

TRY TODAY'S Q

All I Want For Christmas is NINJA'S vs JEDI!!

2011-12-23T05:04:00.000-08:00

This reminds me of how my son and I play. He's six years old and his favorite toy is his light saber. He tries to flip and twirl, showing off the moves he's seen on The Clone Wars. "Daddy, watch this move!"

But sometimes, I have to say "Not now son, we're standing in the middle of Wal-Mart."

When we're at home, playing, I can usually imagine with him and see what's playing out in his mind. Trust me, it's not too far from this video!

Start the Clock

2011-12-21T11:29:00.000-08:00

Countdown to armageddon.

December 21, 2012

When the World Ends

Mark your calendar.

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No Goats, No Glory

2011-12-20T17:04:00.000-08:00

Today's Q is easy, but here's a hint anyway.

I love you. You love me. .. Won't you say you looove mee too.

Say It!

I'll make you say it!

Haha! No, I'm not on drug. That's your hint.

Click the link on the above left to try it out.

Kirk Cameron wants you to believe in Darwinism

2011-12-19T07:52:00.000-08:00

So that he can disprove it.

What's all this about? Answer the Q to find out.

No Q For You - Celebrity birthdays

2011-12-19T00:01:00.000-08:00

Slappy buttday to:

Alyssa Milano

Jake Gyllenhaal

Kristanna Loken

He looks so happy!

2011-12-18T23:39:00.000-08:00

This is Albert Porta.

He was a well respected meteorologist and seismologist.
He was, until he made a very bad prediction.

Answer today's Q for more information.

No Q for You! Celebrity Birthdays

2011-12-18T14:19:00.000-08:00

Today seemed like a significant day, in history and in birthdays. I had too many choices to make a Q from today. In the end, I chose something from yesterday.

Until then, here are some celebrity birthdays that I could have written about.

William Bradley Pitt

Steven James Williams

Christina María Aguilera

Robert Alexander Szatkowski

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

Keith Richards

Steven Allan Spielberg

Jew ain't gotta go home, but Jew can't stay here!

2011-12-17T08:12:00.000-08:00

Recognize him? This US President issued General Order #11 in 1862.Answer Today's Q to find out more!

Keep Your British Hands Out of My Earl Grey

2011-12-16T08:19:00.000-08:00

Contrary to popular belief, the original Tea Party was actually more about opposing tax cuts rather than wanting them. Parliament levied tax cuts in favor of the stuggling East India Company while passing them on to Britons and colonists.

Boston Tea Party

- December 16, 1773

After a rival English company challenged its monopoly in the late 17th century,
the two companies were merged in 1708 to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies,
commonly styled as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC).
HEIC was the largest corporation of its day.
It traded mainly in cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpetre, tea, and opium.
HEIC also came to rule large areas of India, even exercising military power.
In England, Parliament gave the East India Company a monopoly on the importation of tea in 1698. When tea became popular in the British colonies, Parliament sought to eliminate foreign competition by passing an act in 1721 that required colonists to import their tea only from Great Britain.

Britons and British Americans could buy smuggled Dutch tea at much cheaper prices.
In 1767, to help HEIC compete with smuggled Dutch tea,
Parliament passed the Indemnity Act, which lowered the tax on tea consumed in Great Britain, and gave HEIC a refund of the 25% duty on tea that was re-exported to the colonies.
To help offset this loss of government revenue,
Parliament also passed the Townshend Revenue Act of 1767, which levied new taxes, including one on tea, in the colonies.
Instead of solving the smuggling problem, however, the Townshend duties renewed a controversy about Parliament's right to tax the colonies.
Constitutionally, British subjects could not be taxed without the consent of their elected representatives. In Great Britain, this meant that taxes could only
be levied by Parliament. Colonists, however, did not elect members of Parliament. Colonists argued they could only be taxed by their own colonial assemblies.
Colonists again responded with protests and boycotts. Merchants organized a non-importation agreement, and many colonists pledged to abstain from drinking British tea.
Parliament finally responded to the protests by repealing the Townshend taxes in 1770, except for the tea duty.
Parliament passed a new act in 1772 that reduced this refund, effectively leaving a 10% duty on tea imported into Britain. The act also restored the tea taxes within Britain,
and left in place the three pence Townshend duty in the colonies. With this new tax burden driving up the price of British tea, sales plummeted. The company continued to import tea into Great Britain, however, amassing a huge surplus of product that no one would buy. For these and other reasons, by late 1772 the East India Company, one of Britain's most important commercial institutions, was in a serious financial crisis.
The North ministry's solution was the Tea Act of 1773.
This act restored HEIC's full refund on the duty for importing tea into Britain, and also permitted the company to export tea to the colonies on its own account. This would allow the company to reduce costs by eliminating the middlemen who bought the tea at wholesale auctions in London.
Even with the Townshend duty in effect, the Tea Act would allow the East India Company to sell tea more cheaply than before, undercutting the prices offered by to the boycotters by smugglers.

More importantly, the tax collected from the Townshend duty was used to pay the salaries of some colonial governors and judges (not elected assemblies).
When the tea ship Dartmouth arrived in the Boston Harbor, Whig leader Samuel Adams called for a mass meeting. Thousands of people arrived, so many that the meeting was moved to the larger Old South Meeting House. British law required the Dartmouth to unload and pay the duties within twenty days or customs officials could confiscate the cargo.
The mass meeting passed a resolution, introduced by Adams and based on a similar set of resolutions promulgated earlier in Philadelphia, urging the captain of the Dartmouth to send the ship back without paying the import duty. Meanwhile, the meeting assigned twenty-five men to watch the ship and prevent the tea from being unloaded.
Adams lost control of the meeting, and people poured out of the Old South Meeting House and headed to Boston Harbor. That evening, a group of 30 to 130 men, some of them thinly disguised as Mohawk Indians, boarded the three vessels and, over the course of three hours, dumped all 342 chests of tea into the water.
HEIC went on to lead Britian into the Opium Wars in China from 1839 to 1860.
In 1857, the British government nationalized HEIC, due to the Indian Mutiny. It lost all of its Indian property, administrative rights, and armed forces.

I'm not sure that they understand the whole story.

He gets it...

But I think the Founding Fathers would have a bone to pick with both parties for repeating the mistakes of British Parliament.

Program Complete. Enter When Ready.

2011-12-15T08:43:00.000-08:00

Here's a hint to today's Q, but I don't think you'll need it. It's quite easy.

Certain About Uncertainty

2011-12-14T12:34:00.000-08:00

Here's a hint to today's Q.

It's Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle