Notes of Non-Interest

For those of you have a thirst for knowledge and beaucoup time on your hands, here are some items that I would like you to research:

1. How is Lucent doing as a technology company? Anything new on the horizon? Is it a healthy tech stock?
2. Who were the Visgoths?
3. How many people were killed in the December 2005 Indian Ocean Tsunami?
4. Can someone find me a large wooden bookcase that looks nice?
5. Why do they call it a "Tiger Team?"
6. Is indemic a word? According to spell check, the correct word is "endemic". So why does the professor pronounce it INdemic?

Side note: I like the phrase "From Lust to Dust"

7. What does TCP/IP stand for?
8. What keeps the glycol in antifreeze from coming out of solution with water. In general, why don't alcohol and water separate?
9. When will we see USB 3.0?
10. As much as 1.5% of United States power generation is consumed by servers. Can someone confirm this?
11. Cruise ships burn one gallon of fuel oil for every 29 feet of travel. That's 182 gallons per mile.

Side note: I also like the phrase "...high guts to brains ratio"

12. Space is only 80 miles away. That's like taking the train from Grand Central to Philly.
13. usability.gov It exists, now figure out what it is for.
14. According to Cisco systems, data usage by US cell phone users will double every year until 2013. What happens then? (Skynet becomes self-aware is not an acceptable answer)

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