But can it find my mind?

Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women mentions a product for which I've wished (often in obscene terms). Women, rejoice: Finally, no more "Where's the hoozit?" from the men we live with. Forget the tv remote: Now we can all fight for the transmitter.

Which he will lose.
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SmartFinder, by Evan on devices

"The average amount of time that a person spends looking
for misplaced things over the course of a lifetime is one year."
-- Harpers Index

...The SmartFinder comes with four color coded receivers which can be attached to things like keys, wallets, purses, mobile phones, and TV remotes. They even suggest adhering one to the kids; they're kidding about that (I think). With a remote control transmitter that can send a radio signal through walls and floors to activate the 85 decibel alarm on the receiver, locating items up to 25 meters away, you may never lose your keys again. It doesn't say anything about refrigerator doors, so "Uncle" Rog, who left his keys in the fridge one time, may still be out of luck.

Unlike the "clapper" system I had before, the SmartFinder has a low battery warning. Comes with 2 keyrings and 2 double-sided adhesive pads provided for attaching the receivers to anything.

£29.95 at Girls Shop UK

And the nominee for best tatoo issss...

"Grass don't grow on a busy street," so they say. Then again, it doesn't grow where there's no fertile soil, either. But I digress.

I found this image here, thrown in rather randomly among little factoids that debunk "lies your mother told you." (If you can't make it out, the tattoo is of a little guy with a lawnmower, mowing...well, you get the idea.) At that site, you will learn that we've given lemmings and elephants too much credit, birds don't cry at weddings, neither Mussolini nor Van Gogh was a true patron of public utilities, 10% is all most of us have, and lots more. Go see :-).

Can I use "wow"?

From the World Wide Words Newsletter:
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"Did you hear about the new world record score in Scrabble? Michael Cresta scored 830 points during a game at the Lexington Scrabble Club in Massachusetts on 12 October 2006. His words included quixotry, which itself claims a record as the highest recorded single turn, scoring 365 points. Quixotry: the state or condition of being extremely idealistic, unrealistic and impractical."
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I love Scrabble -- always have, ever since my mom hooked me on the game with all-night sessions when I was about nine. I'm a pretty traditional player and think the use of bizarre two-letter words that only pro players know kind of ruins the fun -- but still, no one in my house will play with me. So I've grown rusty...and completely wowed by a 365-pointer, let alone an 830-point game that apparently used words with some meat to them.

Or maybe I'm just being quixotic?

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