Here's a fun list of 50 things you should know by 50:

http://www.aarpmagazine.org/lifestyl...s_to_know.html

(How to find your keys . . . how to find a bathroom in 5 languages . . . the Jimmy Page law . . . )

Here's a list for geeks:

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07...lls-for-geeks/

(not sure what the cricket bat next to your bed is all about, but I'm sure there are enough geeks here . . . )

I think it is a Shawn of the Dead Ref.

oh. yeah.

[snip]

Thank you. If only they would listen.......Not the kids, the parents....... well, the kids too.......

Printed out @ 4 pages.......

I was going to send it to my kids -- for their kids, but then I realized that I didn't teach much of it myself.

So I slunk away from that impulse . . . ;)

It was entertaining going through the Popular Mechanics site.
I remember that magazine.

Their website is horrible though--way too many ads, and very slow.

hum I didn't notice.