ants never sleepprevious
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
two strikes and you're out
John Smoleskis was looking through the jobs on monster.com. One was for a "literacy tutour", which rather confirms the need. It begins, "Our client who are a Training Provider ...". Which doubly confirms the need. - Sic! http://www.worldwidewords.org
wrong wrong wrong
Two medical students were walking along the street when they saw an old man walking with his legs spread apart. Hewas stiff-legged and walking slowly. One student said to his friend: "I'm sure that poor old man has Peltry Syndrome. Those people walk just like that." The other student says: "No, I don't think so. The old man surely has Zovitzki Syndrome. He walks slowly and his legs are apart just as we learned in class." Since they couldn't agree they decided to ask the old man. They approached him and one of the students said to him: "We're medical students and couldn't help but notice the way you walk, but we couldn't agree on the syndrome you might have. Could you tell us what it is?" The old man said, "I'll tell you, but first you tell me what you two fine medical students think." The first student said, "I think it's Peltry Syndrome." The old man said, "You thought........ But you are wrong." The other student said, "I think you have Zovitzki Syndrome." The old man said, "You thought....... But you are wrong." So they asked him, "Well, old timer, what do you have?" The old man said, "I thought it was GAS. But I was wrong, too!" - mhennigan HAWAII.RR.COM uga2009Jul25
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) essayist, philosopher, and statesman
The person who first introduced Okinawan Karate to Japan in a major way was Gichin Funakoshi. He developed a set of Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate or Ninju Kun. The second principle is generally listed in American Karate Schools as:
There is no first strike in karate (Karate ni sente nashi).
However that was translated to me as "In Karate the first strike is not there", so I figured it meant that the first defense was not to be in a situation that required the use of Karate in the first place. . I had friends who got in fights a lot because they frequented biker bars. I frequented yuppy restaurants with bars and never got in a fight. I always thought that meant my self-defense skills were better than theirs. Apparently Francis Bacon would agree. - frank.brown_travelport.com
rim shot - chew on this
President William Howard Taft was considered so unfunny that Senators were known to gnaw off their own limbs while listening to his "jokes". Thus giving rise to the term "Stump Speech." - q.marsha1945@AUSTIN.RR.COM uga2009Jul24
Sunday, July 26, 2009
I am trying to decide if this is stupider than
chasing Jack Burrell across the Turnpike after my wedding.
http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/07/24/-wedding-entrance-video-forever-ever/?icid=mainhtmlws-maindl2link3http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lemondrop.com%2F2009%2F07%2F24%2F-wedding-entrance-video-forever-ever%2F
yeah
http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/07/24/-wedding-entrance-video-forever-ever/?icid=mainhtmlws-maindl2link3http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lemondrop.com%2F2009%2F07%2F24%2F-wedding-entrance-video-forever-ever%2F
yeah
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
whiteboard B#1
the B series are a number of nameplates found on unoccupied cubes in our cube farm. e.g.
Phil de Cubenext
whiteboard A#1
the A series would make the whiteboard but never went there. they come from a computer used in the late 1960's to take data used to design the neutron bomb. the group who programmed and used it were in the Neutron Physics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, then part of the Atomic Energy Commision.
one of the programs on the computer would place a random thought on the screen. e.g.
one of the programs on the computer would place a random thought on the screen. e.g.
A wet bird never flies at night.next
Friday, July 10, 2009
yet another sloppy spellcheck
"The couple owned several local businesses, including a fiance company and a used car dealership."
I wonder if the fiances were new or used?
the source
Couple With 16 Children Found Slain
By MELISSA NELSON, AP
PENSACOLA, Fla. (July 10) - Investigators asked the public to be on the lookout Friday for a red van they believe carried three men involved in the deaths of a Florida Panhandle couple who were shot in their rural home while eight of their children slept.
Surveillance cameras showed the van at the home of Byrd and Melanie Billings in Beulah, a rural area west of Pensacola near the Alabama border, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said. The children were unharmed.
The sheriff's office released an enhanced but still grainy photograph of a red, 15-passenger van dating to the late 1970s or early '80s.
Morgan said investigators did not know who killed the wealthy couple known for adopting children with developmental disabilities, many born to drug-addicted mothers. But they said they wanted to question the three men suspected of involvement in the crime.
"It would be pure speculation. We see many random acts of violence now. We just don't know," he said.
Investigators are also awaiting autopsy results on the couple to learn more about the killings, he added.
Morgan said eight of the children, ages 8 to 14, were in the home when the couple was killed Thursday evening. A woman who lives in an outlying building and helps care for the children called emergency dispatchers from the home.
Deputies had to wake some of the children after they arrived, authorities said.
Investigators interviewed the children, who are now staying with other family members, Morgan said.
The Billings had 16 children, 12 of them adopted. They married 18 years ago and each had two children from previous marriages. The couple then began adopting children with developmental disabilities and other problems.
The couple owned several local businesses, including a fiance company and a used car dealership.
In a 2005 story in the Pensacola News Journal, the couple said they wanted to share their wealth with children in need, but didn't imagine their family would grow so large.
"It just happened," Melanie Byrd told the newspaper. "I just wanted to give them a better life."
I wonder if the fiances were new or used?
the source
Couple With 16 Children Found Slain
By MELISSA NELSON, AP
PENSACOLA, Fla. (July 10) - Investigators asked the public to be on the lookout Friday for a red van they believe carried three men involved in the deaths of a Florida Panhandle couple who were shot in their rural home while eight of their children slept.
Surveillance cameras showed the van at the home of Byrd and Melanie Billings in Beulah, a rural area west of Pensacola near the Alabama border, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said. The children were unharmed.
The sheriff's office released an enhanced but still grainy photograph of a red, 15-passenger van dating to the late 1970s or early '80s.
Morgan said investigators did not know who killed the wealthy couple known for adopting children with developmental disabilities, many born to drug-addicted mothers. But they said they wanted to question the three men suspected of involvement in the crime.
"It would be pure speculation. We see many random acts of violence now. We just don't know," he said.
Investigators are also awaiting autopsy results on the couple to learn more about the killings, he added.
Morgan said eight of the children, ages 8 to 14, were in the home when the couple was killed Thursday evening. A woman who lives in an outlying building and helps care for the children called emergency dispatchers from the home.
Deputies had to wake some of the children after they arrived, authorities said.
Investigators interviewed the children, who are now staying with other family members, Morgan said.
The Billings had 16 children, 12 of them adopted. They married 18 years ago and each had two children from previous marriages. The couple then began adopting children with developmental disabilities and other problems.
The couple owned several local businesses, including a fiance company and a used car dealership.
In a 2005 story in the Pensacola News Journal, the couple said they wanted to share their wealth with children in need, but didn't imagine their family would grow so large.
"It just happened," Melanie Byrd told the newspaper. "I just wanted to give them a better life."
hulla baloo konek konek
New Mexico license plates have USA after New Mexico. I assume they have to do that to let everyone know that New Mexico is in the United States. -
TFTD-L@TAMU.EDU
[tftd understands that a prominent TEXAS UNIVERSITY, not Texas A&M University, had someone from the admissions office send an applicant the international admission forms since 'New Mexico was a foreign country.']
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Sarah Palin, a modern Cincinnatus?
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/07/05/sarah-palin-a-modern-cincinnatus/
the pup's comments are #190 & #191 which reads
The message says “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” Is moderation allowed on the Internet? What kind of subversive site is this?
Palin's Speech Resigning as Governor
the pup's comments are #190 & #191 which reads
The message says “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” Is moderation allowed on the Internet? What kind of subversive site is this?
Palin's Speech Resigning as Governor
Monday, July 6, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Friday, July 3, 2009
keeping kosher
Morris Rabinowitz in the late 1930's fled his native land of Germany. He sold all his assets and converted it to gold and then had 5 sets of solid gold false teeth made. When he arrived in New York the customs official was perplexed as to why anybody would have 5 sets of gold teeth. So Morris explained. "We Jews have two separate sets of dishes for meat products and dairy products but I am so kosher and religious I also have separate sets of teeth." The customs official shook his head and said, "Well that accounts for two sets of teeth. What about the other three?" Morris then said "Vell, us very religious Jews use separate dishes for Passover, but I am so religious I have separate teeth, one for meat and one for dairy food. The customs official slapped his head and then said, "You must be a very religious man with separate teeth for food and dairy products and likewise for Passover. That accounts for four sets of teeth. What about the fifth set?"
"Vell, to tell you the truth, once in a while I like a ham sandwich." - PhilGlowatz@NYC.RR.COM uga2009Jun21
"Vell, to tell you the truth, once in a while I like a ham sandwich." - PhilGlowatz@NYC.RR.COM uga2009Jun21
thnking fast
An elderly man in Florida had owned a large farm for several years. He had a large pond in the back. It was properly shaped for swimming, so he fixed it up nice with picnic tables, horseshoe courts, and some orange and lime trees. One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond, as he hadn't been there for a while, and look it over. He grabbed a five- gallon bucket to bring back some fruit. As he neared the pond, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee. As he came closer, he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny-dipping in his pond. He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end. One of the women shouted to him, 'we're not coming out until you leave!' The old man frowned, 'I didn't come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the pond naked.' Holding the bucket up he said, 'I'm here to feed the alligator.' Some old men can still think fast. - mhennigan@HAWAII.RR.COM uga2009Jun20
how to plan for retirement
A Well-Planned Retirement
The London TimesOutside the Bristol Zoo, in England, there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses. It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars £1 (about $1.40) and coaches £5 (about $7). This parking attendant worked there for all of 25 years. Then, one day, he just didn't turn up for work. "Oh well", said Bristol Zoo Management - "we'd better phone up the City Council and get them to send a new parking attendant..."
"Er ... no", said the Council, "that parking lot is your responsibility."
"Er ... no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn't he?"
"Er ... NO!" insisted the Council.
Sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain, is a bloke who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at £400 (about $560) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over £3.6 million ($7 million). And no one even knows his name!
- Stan Kegel
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