Learning French-Well, Not Learning French

I want to learn to speak French-just in case I happen to win the Lotto and live there for part of the year one day. But I want this learning to be the kind that Neo and Mr Data do-press a button and Whamo! you can speak perfect French. As it is I have tried a number of less successful methods to learn this rather pretty sounding language. I have used Rosetta Stone, and found it to be pretty good, except that I didn’t actually learn much French. Though it certainly is fun to watch the little slide shows and…

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The Lure of The Lottery

One of my favorite places to look for ideas is Google Trends. Maybe I just haven’t been paying attention, but there are a lot of results today for lotteries of one sort or another. Seems the Powerball had three winners of $800,000-not a bad return on an invest of a dollar or two. According to MarketWatch Powerball players spent $16,281,896 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night. Which means that somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 million people didn’t win $800,000. The desire to get something for nothing is a pretty strong one. Gambling has always…

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