Busy Day – Quick Links

Birding in uniform,
Tired of those boring Minnesota birds, here's a National Guard guy who's "Birding Babylon".

Lileks on printers:

Bought a new printer the other day. Ah, once that was a great moment in a geek’s life, back when the improvements in printers were substantial. My first printer I remember well – an Apple ImageWriter II that used the paper with the holes in the margin. The big advance was Microperforations! that allowed you to rip off the margins and leave a clean edge. Coff. Right. All my early manuscripts were as jagged as well-used hacksaws.

Forehead – ticket trick,

So, you’re going to a ticketed event, like a concert or a ball game. It’s out of town. You’re carpooling with four other people. How do you ensure that everyone in the car has their ticket with them?
The car doesn't move until each person takes out their ticket and holds it to their forehead.
Been doing it for 20 years, and you’d be amazed how often it saves the day.

And finally—Some days even the Beatles didn’t do much, from Today in Beatles History,

1965 -Visit at Neil and Mal's flat (16 Montagu Mews West, Marylebone, London).