HILLMAN WEB TRIVIA ZINE
Volume 26
A Fun Site created by
Professor William Hillman culled from a daily motivational series
compiled for his BU Education Classes 2000-2009
The daily tech news items have been omitted since many of the stories are now "old news."
 

An eclectic collection of oddities, humorous anecdotes, weird photos, funny headlines, cartoons, puzzles, inspirational items, jokes, and more. . .  gathered here as a reference repository for speakers, lecturers, teachers, students, writers, or Web travellers just looking for diversion and a bit of levity. 
CONTENTS
The puzzling popularity of Su Doku
How To Survive A Heart Attack
We were the lucky ones
Roger Ebert's List of Almost 100 Great Movies
Good Ways to Avoid Getting a Traffic Ticket
Trivia
New Words
A Parable of Political Correctness
How To Get Rid Of Telemarketers
Video games 'good for you' 
Tips For A Great Job Interview

 

The puzzling popularity of Su Doku
BBC News ~ By Paula Dear 

It's the latest craze in games but there isn't a computer graphic in sight.  Su Doku began its gentle attack on the nation last year, and versions can now be found in four national newspapers. Addicts are as obsessed as 1980s teenagers fixated on the Rubik's cube. So what's the big deal about these little rows of boxes on a page?

For anyone who doesn't know, it's a puzzle found in newspapers, books and online. A simple-looking grid of nine rows by nine, split into nine boxes, each containing nine squares, it looks like just another numbers game. To be pure Su Doku each of the unique puzzles - which come in varying levels of difficulty - must have only one solution. The aim? To fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every box contains the digits one to nine. This simple game has spawned a complex industry, according to the man who brought Su Doku to UK newspapers. Plans are afoot to add the game to mobile phones, and a board game and television show could soon leap on the bandwagon. Su means number in Japanese. Doku translates as singular or solitary, or can mean bachelor.


How To Survive A Heart Attack
Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home; unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. What can you do? You've been trained in CPR but the guy that taught the course neglected to tell you how to perform it on yourself. Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed to be in order.

Without help, the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough. The cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. And a cough must be repeated about every 2 seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives! From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc.publication, Heart Response)
 


We were the lucky ones

Congratulations!
Congratulations.



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    Roger Ebert's List of Almost 100 Great Movies
    How many have you seen? Count 'em.
    AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD 
     ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL 
     THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN 
     BELLE DE JOUR 
     THE BICYCLE THIEF 
     BLOWUP 
     BODY HEAT 
     BEING THERE 
     THE BIG SLEEP 
     BONNIE AND CLYDE 
     THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN 
     THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI 
     CASABLANCA 
     CITIZEN KANE 
     CITY LIGHTS 
     DAY FOR NIGHT 
     DAYS OF HEAVEN 
     DETOUR 
     DR. STRANGELOVE 
     DOUBLE INDEMNITY
     DRACULA 
     DOUBLE INDEMNITY
     E.T -- THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 
     THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL 
     FLOATING WEEDS 
     THE 400 BLOWS 
     GATES OF HEAVEN 
     THE GENERAL 
     THE GODFATHER 
     GOLDFINGER 
     GONE WITH THE WIND 
     GRAND ILLUSION 
     GREAT EXPECTATIONS 
     A HARD DAY'S NIGHT 
     IKIRU 
     HOUSE OF GAMES 
     IKIRU 
     IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE 
     L'AVVENTURA 
     LA DOLCE VITA 
     THE LADY EVE 
     LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD 
     LE SAMOURAI 
     M 
     MEAN STREETS 
     METROPOLIS 
     MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY 
     THE MUSIC ROOM 
     MY DARLING CLEMENTINE 
     MY DINNER WITH ANDRE 
     NIGHT OF THE HUNTER 
     NIGHTS OF CABIRIA 
     NOSFERATU 
     NOTORIOUS 
     ON THE WATERFRONT 
     PANDORA'S BOX 
     THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC 
     PEEPING TOM 
     PICKPOCKET 
     PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK 
     PINOCCHIO 
     PSYCHO 
     RAGING BULL 
     RED RIVER 
     SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER 
     SINGIN' IN THE RAIN 
     THE SEVENTH SEAL 
     THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION 
     STAR WARS 
     STAR WARS TRILOGY 
     SUNSET BOULEVARD 
     SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS 
     SWING TIME 
     TAXI DRIVER 
     THE THIRD MAN 
     TOUCH OF EVIL 
     TROUBLE IN PARADISE 
     2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 
     THE 'UP' DOCUMENTARIES 
     VERTIGO 
     WALKABOUT 
     WINGS OF DESIRE 
     THE WIZARD OF OZ 
     WOMAN IN THE DUNES 
     A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE 
     WRITTEN ON THE WIND 
     YANKEE DOODLE DANDY 

    Good Ways to Avoid Getting a Traffic Ticket

    1. I can't reach my license unless you hold my beer.  (OK in Texas)
    2. Sorry, Officer, I didn't realise my radar detector wasn't plugged in.
    3. Aren't you the guy from the Village People?
    4. Hey, you must've been doin' about 125 mph to keep up with me.  Good job!
    5. Are You Andy or Barney?
    6. I thought you had to be in relatively good physical condition to be a police officer.
    7. You're not gonna check the trunk, are you?
    8. I pay your salary!
    9. Gee, Officer! That's terrific.   The last officer only gave me a warning, too!
    10. Do you know why you pulled me over?   Okay, just so one of us does.
    11. I was trying to keep up with traffic.  Yes, I know there are  no other cars around. That's how far ahead of me they are.
    12. When the Officer says "Gee Son....Your eyes look red, have you been drinking?" You probably shouldn't respond with,"Gee Officer your eyes look glazed, have you been eating doughnuts?"


    TRIVIA

    What is the fastest time someone has climbed the 102 flights of stairs?

    The fastest time is 10 minutes, 15 seconds (a new world record) established in 1999. (The person who made that record was participating in a contest sponsored by the Empire State Building). He had to climb a total of 1,860 steps to make it from street level to the 102nd floor. The average person climbing one stair every 2 seconds would take 1 hour and 2 minutes.


    NEW WORDS
    Each year the Washington Post asks its readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it either by adding, subtracting or changing only one letter and supply a new definition. Enjoy the 2002 winners.


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