!!! Hello World - Hello RedGage !!! Many RedGagers know me because shortly after their arrival in the RG community I greeted them. Quite literally "greeted" them by proclaiming on their profile wall - "Greetings" - and welcomed them to the community. Greeting people is not limited to those folks that you come in contact with in-real-life, but extends to online, or cyber, life as well. In fact, the act of greeting has a long history ... well, long history within the short hist

Ferris Wheels have always drawn a crowd. In fact, they were specifically conceived to be spectacles. The original Ferris Wheel was designed and constructed by the American civil engineer George Ferris, hence its name. The Ferris Wheel was conceived as the centerpiece of the Columbian Exposition (World’s Fair) held in Chicago, Illinois during 1893. The promoters of the Columbian Exposition desperately sought an engineering marvel to rival the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle’s iron girder to

  MrBill's Top 10 Ways   to Stave Off Boredom   this weekend: 10. Take a nap.   9. Daydream.   8. Lie still and pretend to be dead.   7. Listen to some good music (if using your iPod, this can be combined with #8 ... just be sure you don't lay there twitching in time to the music, otherwise people won't think you're dead ... they'll just think you're having a seizure!)   6. Laugh. (laugh at something, laugh at anything, or laugh at nothing-at-all!)   5. Read books

  Make Your Own Peanut Butter and other Nut Butters at Home If you have access to peanuts, then you can make your own peanut butter at home. It would help greatly to have an electric food processor/chopper like a Cuisinart or other similar brand. You can use an electric blender, but you have to do it in small batches as the butter will be too thick for the blender blades to chop except right around the blade area. Basically you can make "butter" out of almost any type of nut and also