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...computer guy who got bored and taught himself rocket science. Yet in aerospace circles, the gamer and head of id Software is respected for doing results-oriented rocketry work on little dime. His shop in a suburban Dallas business complex looks like something out of Star Wars--Watto's junk shop on Tatooine, to be precise. Carmack takes you first to see his graveyard of old projects to explain his philosophy: Fly a whole lot, and learn where the gotchas are. He admits that he would like to go to the moon someday, but he doesn't waste his time...
...It’s a precarious—and frightening—balance for many Harvard students. Alienating one’s parents is at best an unsavory prospect, but dealing with waves of political junk mail from them isn’t much more appealing. Some send angry responses, some ask their families to cut it out, and others simply ignore the e-mails entirely. I fit into the latter group. When I got tired of reading about “former president Jimmy Carter’s anti-Israel frenzy,” I put a spam filter...
...youwant tolearn why LaDainian Tomlinson, who is tearing up the National Football League's storied record book as if it were a piece of junk mail, is the best football player in the world? Let's step into his classroom. Lesson One: take a trip to the local variety store, where you can find a whirring fan and a deck of cards. "There's this trick where you throw a card up in the air when a fan is blowing and you try to catch it," Tomlinson, the San Diego Chargers running back, explains in his Texas drawl...
With pornography, sleazy offers and other unsolicited junk filling In boxes at record rates, revenge has blossomed into a righteous cause. But as Mark Mumma, an Internet-services provider and antispam crusader from Oklahoma City, Okla., will tell you, spats over spam can get messy. The recipient's privacy comes into play, but so does the sender's free speech. What states call spam the feds may consider innocuous commercial e-mail. And when spam rage takes over, you, like Mumma, can get sued for calling a spammer a spammer...
...grocery store if you add a pretty bow on top. Danny Seo, author of Simply Green Giving (he also blogs at http://dannyseo.typepad.com), recommends using old VHS and cassette tape (both curl nicely on a sharp scissors' edge), old Christmas lights, tape measures, shoelaces-really anything from the junk drawer that's long enough to tie around a box-for a vintage look. Instead of plastic bubble wrap to cushion the contents, try unshelled peanuts, dry pasta or polyester fill from old pillows. Seo also suggests using bandanas and other reusable cloths, and for bottles of wine, sleeves...