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Greyhound Watch Out Here comes Megabus.Com

Posted on March 9th, 2007 by Merlin.
Categories: Anything Else, Pittsburgh, Travel, Web Service.

Megabus Bus Photo Just saw in this evenings Pittsburgh Post Gazette that Megabus.com is coming to Pittsburgh. I just found this interesting that after many many years of being the only bus company to offer bus rides across the country that there will be another popping up when gas prices are starting to rise again.

Well Megabus doesn't offer as many stops as greyhound but what really is nice is the cost of a bus ride. I can do a round trip bus trip Leaving Pittsburgh Thursday Night arriving in Chicago Friday Morning and Returning Sunday Morning from Chicago and arriving back in the burgh Sunday Night. That full round trip will only cost me $9.50 Yes you read that right - Only Nine Dollars and Fifty cents. No gimmick the further in advance you order the cheaper the trip - Some trips are only $1 each way. Plus this is being run by a reputable company CoachUSA - Who does quite a bit of tour buses and bus trip rentals to various places like New England for Fall Leave Tours or to different Casinos.

You may wonder how they do it - well from what I gathered is that the best prices are when you order in advance - if you need a trip for tomorrow then you will pay more. And the only Hub is in Chicago - Here in Pittsburgh - You wait on the street corner until the bus arrives to take you to your destination. And the last reason they are cheaper is you MUST order your tickets off of the web.

Megabus main hub is located in Chicago and from there you can catch a bus to (St Louis - Chicago, Ann Arbor, Louisville, Kansas City and more) See the Full Route Below.

Megabus Trip Map Guide

I only mention this as I would like to visit Chicago this summer and take in a few of the sites (The Navy Pier, The Magnificent Mile and The City in General) and I can not think of a better way to travel and see the country. I don't mind flying but if I can visit a city and return back for under $10 that is a deal or should I say STEAL.

Technorati Tags: Greyhound, Megabus, Travel, Bus+Trip, Cheap+Tickets, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Ann, Arbor, Milwaukee, Chicago, Kansas+City, St+Louis, Louisville, Round+Trip, Country

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What is For Lunch: Try the Wheel Of Food

Posted on March 5th, 2007 by Merlin.
Categories: Beer, Coffee, Food, Pittsburgh, Web Service.

Do you have a hankering for a hunk of cheese (Ah School House Rock) Or you have no idea where you want to go to lunch? - Well the Wheel of Food to the rescue. Just type in the Zip Code box where you want to eat some grub at and then type in what you want to eat - (Lunch, Dinner, Italian, Breakfast, Pizza, Hamburgers, Steak, Seafood, Ok You get the idea) Then you get to spin the wheel of Food and see where you are going to go - What is nice is this website pulls it data from Yahoo-Local and even gives you their ratings and website info in case you don't know where this place is located at.

What does the Wheel of Food
Have in store for you today??

Technorati Tags: Food, lunch, reviews, dinner, italian, hamburger, local, pittsburgh, yahoo, school+House+rock, random, fun+site, Cool+Site

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Relax Online for Free

Posted on February 28th, 2007 by Merlin.
Categories: Health, Web Service.

Mood Music Relaxation Zen Like I just had to share this website I was told about today - It is called Free Soothing Music - and i have been listening to it for the past couple of hours and it is wonderful. I feel my inner self being relaxed. I was able to get quite a bit accomplished as I was relaxed. I do feel music tames the beast and this music is like sitting in a hot tub for your mind. Make sure you check out the categories page as there is even more relaxing music available there as well. You have to choose from Exotica, Acapella, Easy Listening, Easy Pop, Instrumental Pop, Jazz, Lounge Music, Mood Music, Orchestral, Torch Songs and Vocal Pop. So far all the channels I have listened to are soft, easy to listen to and relaxing. I might go as far to say this music is Zen like to the soul. Give it a whirl and enjoy.

Peace

Merlin

Technorati Tags: Zen, soothing, jazz, easy+listening, Pop, lounge, mood+music, music, free, streaming, acapella, relaxation, hot+tub, mind+music, New+age

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Merlins Take on the Super Bowl Ads

Posted on February 5th, 2007 by Merlin.
Categories: Anything Else, Communication, NFL, Pittsburgh, Super Bowl, Video, Web Service.

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Online Tool: Visuword - Online Visual Dictionary

Posted on February 1st, 2007 by Merlin.
Categories: Communication, Freeware, GTD, Hack, Journaling, Notetaking, Office, Search Engine, Web Service.

Visual Word - Visual Dictionary Like a Mind Map Previously I wrote about the Visual Thesaurus and now I found another cool online word tool - VisuWord - They call it the online visual dictionary. I have to agree - I like how it interlinks the words and visually shows you which words are related and which ones are the same and which ones are opposite. This can be a fairly useful tool - Not something I will use everyday but can be quite useful to have in your arsenal of word tools. Like using a mind map but of words and their inter-relationship.

Technorati Tags: visuword, visual, word, words, dictionary, thesaurus, online, tool, online+tool, mind, map, mind+map, gtd, hack

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Google Apps Keyboard Shortcuts (Free Chart)

Posted on January 22nd, 2007 by Merlin.
Categories: Computing, Google, Hack, Web Service.

Google App Short Cuts Keys I love using the different Google Apps (Calendar, Gmail, Docs, Maps, Video, Reader) And I have found out that one of the things that makes working with all the different Google Apps that much easier is the use of the Keyboard Shortcuts. Well, Smallwire has a nicely formated chart of all the Keyboard Shortcuts.

Technorati Tags: Google, Apps, Doc, Writely, Gmail, Maps, Shortcut, Key, keys

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Mr Picasso Head - Make your own portrait

Posted on January 19th, 2007 by Merlin.
Categories: Art, Craft, Drawing, Game, Hack, Web Service.

Now with Mr Picasso Head Anyone (Yes ANYONE) can be an artist. With this very artistic webpage you can be your own artist. First you get to pick your head, eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows, abstract shapes, and you get to rotate them, resize them, place them anyway you want on the digital canvas and don't forget to sign your masterpiece. Have a Fun Picasso Friday!

Here is My Portrait.