Changed my posterous URL to Zachary Partal – links and the occasional thought.

Welcome to LucyPhone.com – The Customer Switchboard.

I made this and it works really well. It’s also really easy to make!

Altoids Tin 1/8″ Stereo Mixer.

The Burger Lab: How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries | A Hamburger Today.

School starts in a week. Summer has flown by and its time to get back in the routine of school. I am actually looking forward to going back to school believe it or not. I’m tired of not doing anything and want to start learning new stuff again. This semester I’m taking Calculus, Chemistry II, Business Principles, and Kinesiology. I got a couple of hard classes and my schedule is broken up across the week. On a side note, last week I took the CLEP(College Level Examination Program) test for Spanish and I got credit for 2 years of Spanish just like that. It was pretty sweet.

New Google Search

Google has secretly been updating their search algorithms to improve the speed and accuracy of their results. Try it out!

Facebook Buys Friendfeed

A very important acquisition in the world of Social Web has been made. Facebook announced that it has acquired Friendfeed. A big deal is being made about the fact that it’s not so much as the actual website itself that facebook wants but the developers who work on Friendfeed.

Redbox Getting Attacked by Major Movie Studios

Who would’ve guessed that movie studios don’t like $1 DVD rentals. For some reason $1 rentals are starting to cut into DVD sales and effecting the movie studios. I don’t know about you but I’d say its better to have people paying something for a movie at least then pirating. Hmm let’s see how this one plays out.

I’m gonna try to make a new frequent post series where I post up interesting links I find while I surf the web. I’m always finding interesting articles, videos, pictures, and games that I would like to share with people.

Where are your taxes going?

First link is to a website that has an interactive poster that visually shows you the distribution of where the money is going in this years Federal budget. It’s really interesting to see it all graphically represented.

“100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About”

I found this list interesting because while there are many things I do know about there are several tings on this list I’ve only either heard of  I have no idea about.

So I did a search on “Partal” the other day and found that I am now number 5 on Google results! Much improved over a month ago when I was somewhere on the second page! It shouldn’t be to hard to get to number 1. I just need to start posting more often and get people to link to my site. Lets see if I can beat Wikipedia!

In other news I started using Windows 7 again. I really am looking forward  to the final release. I also installed the beta of Office 2010 which is pretty sweet. Hopefully a more updated beta will come out soon that has the integration with the online office.

So I found this crazy site today. It’s awesome in a creepy way. I was laughing so hard looking at these and almost want to make my own of when I was a baby. I’m sure there are plenty of good pictures of me and my dad I could use. I need to put this on my todo list. Definitely go check it out.

[Manbabies]

The other day I was at Target perusing the electronics department. I walked passed the aisle end cap where they have all the clearance items and saw a external Western Digital 320 GB hard drive sitting there. When I picked it up and looked it at there was a 75% off sticker! I couldn’t believe my luck. I ended up getting a 320 GB external hard drive for $20! Can’t get much better then that. Here’s a pic of it in action.