What was your name...?

6 Tips To Help You Remember Her Name At A Bar

The hot chick you just met at the bar has already told you her name twice, and if you ask her again she’s going to quickly turn cold. Your choices include calling her “babe” the rest of the night, hoping you’ll hear one of her pals will call her by name, or stealing her wallet to peek at her driver’s license. Since none of the options sound particularly attractive, you can instead learn to remember her name using memory tricks called mnemonic devices.

Pick a physical characteristic to jog your memory. Go for an obvious trait like funky glasses Frieda, puffy hair Penelope or maroon lips Martha. Just make sure you don’t start focusing on a single trait and start calling every gal big-boobs Betty. And remember that funky glasses Frieda will probably not be wearing her glasses if she wakes up next to you in the morning—and you’d better have her name memorized by then.
Visualize images associated with her name. If her name is, in fact, Frieda, but she does not, in fact, wear funky glasses, associate other images that relate to Frieda. Frieda kind of sounds like freedom, for instance, and perhaps you want the freedom to give her a kiss. It can also sound a bit like deep freeze, if you go for the kiss uninvited.
Play word games with her name. This technique lets you create an entire sentence using the first letters of the woman’s name. Yes, the process can sound more difficult that just memorizing her name in the first place, but at least you could have some fun. Take good ole Frieda again. Fun Runs In Everyone’s Day Again. That’s because everyone has fun when they meet Frieda-get it?
Use rhyme. Rhyming her name can work especially well because it’s fun and pretty goofy, the same way you usually act in a bar to begin with. Frieda rhymes with Rita rhymes with meter (kind of) rhymes with Jeter. Just don’t call her Derek or Rita when using this device.
Use alliteration. As you may recall from that long-forgotten English One class, alliteration involves repeating the same initial sound in a group of words. Fine, fresh, fun-loving Frieda. Fantastic, foxy, fabulous Frieda.
Write her name on a bar napkin.  Pretend you are so enamored with her name that you just had to write it down on the nearest bar napkin. Tell her how jazzy it looks in print. Then shove the napkin in your pocket so you can pull it out for a glance when necessary or tell her the name would look even jazzier if she would put her phone number beneath. Bingo—a pickup line and mnemonic device all in one.

New long-range USB adapters

Amped Wireless releases two new USB adapters to cure internet blackspots (video)

By Daniel Cooper posted Apr 23rd 2012 at 12:00PM

Is your computer positioned just that little bit too far away from your home router to get consistent internet access? Amped Wireless is here for you with a pair of USB adapters that promise you'll never have to tilt your machine to maintain signal again. The UA1000 pushes out 500mW of power over the 2.4GHz band, will clip to your laptop screen and, if you connect it to two USB ports instead of one it'll be even more powerful. Meanwhile, the UA2000 can switch between its high-range 2.4GHz and low-interference 5.0GHz radios to ensure the best reception in the darkest corners of your home or office. The former will set you back $80 while its dual-band cousin retails at $100 and you can pre-order both from today.

'Cause I'm busted. Yeah I'm broke.

5 Budget Tips While Being Broke

by Emily Guy Birken

One of my favorite illogical money refrains is when someone living paycheck-to-paycheck exclaims “I don’t make enough money to have a budget!”
Nothing could be further from the truth. Budgets, money tracking, and careful thought about your spending are most important when you have very little money. Thinking you’re too poor for a budget is a way of avoiding tough decisions. But making those difficult choices will actually help you feel more in control and happier about your finances.
If you’re living on the financial edge, try these budgeting strategies to make sure that you control your money, rather than vice versa:
1. Make friends with your calendar. It doesn’t matter whether you use the kitten-themed wall calendar you got for Christmas, a web-based calendar, or the calendar on your phone—but you must begin to organize your money according to time. Record when you receive your paycheck, when bills are due and when automatic payments are made. This can help you to find the thin spots in your finances during the month.
From there, you can often request changes to due dates in order to make certain that you have the money when you need it. For example, if you know that having “extra” cash in your checking account will be too much of a temptation, move your bill due dates to coincide with your paychecks, so that any money leftover after bills are paid isn’t needed for the next round of expenses.
2. Track your spending for a month. Your next step is ridiculously simple, and yet it can be very difficult to do. For an entire month, record every single cent that you spend. Whether you go low-tech with pen and notebook in hand, or high-tech by using a free money-tracking program on the internet or your smart phone, a month of tracking will give you a much better idea of where your money goes.
Another positive side effect of tracking your spending is that it gives you a moment to think about your purchases before you make them. You might just walk on by the coffee shop when you realize you don’t really want to write down the cost of $4 coffee on your tracking sheet.
3. Cut judiciously. Once you know why there’s too much month left at the end of your money, you’ll know what to cut out of your monthly expenditures to get back to living within your means. Some cuts will be easy. Restaurant meals and snacks can be cut out in favor of cooking at home. Insurance costs can be made more manageable by raising your deductibles. Services you don’t use—like that gym membership or the extra data plan on your phone—should also be on the chopping block.
But don’t forget about cutting costs in basic areas, as well. You can often lower your utility payments by making sure you turn off lights and unplugging power vampires, for example.
4. Don’t worry about saving—for now. Having an emergency fund is an essential part of being financially healthy. But it’s ridiculous to have money set aside when bills are piling up and you’re missing payments. So wait until your budget is balanced before you start saving some of every paycheck.
5. Increase your income. If you have cut your spending to the bone and are still having trouble making ends meet, then it’s time to consider other sources of income. That could mean asking for overtime at work, starting a second job, selling off some of your possessions, or looking for more lucrative work.
If you want to live within your means, you need to be mindful of your income and spending. Otherwise, it’s impossible to get off the cycle of living from one paycheck to the next.

Amped Wireless gives your WiFi 1.5-mile range: never lose signal in the garden again

By Daniel Cooper posted Oct 24th 2011 3:36PM

Those of us stationed inside the Engadget compound are always wishing we had better WiFi signal at the outer reaches of the battlements. Thank heavens for Amped Wireless' range of professional networking tools. With a 600mW amplifier and a high-gain bi-directional antenna, its SR600EX Pro Smart Repeater can expand the range of your internet transmissions by up to 1.5 miles. The device also has two extra network ports for other devices and is designed for large buildings, boats, RVs or, you know... massive gadget labs. On the other hand, the AP600EX Pro Access Point can sit on the end of a wired network and do the same job for building-to-building connections. Both devices come with a 30-foot power-over-ethernet cable and are available today for $180.

 

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/24/amped-wireless-gives-your-wifi-1-5-mile-range-never-lose-signal/