I’m using PC as in the generic “personal computer.”
That milestone is that PCs are now smart enough to mess with you. They know you’re working late, maybe all alone, you’re tired and that extra beer didn’t really help — and then your PC grabs the opportunity.
A minor, insignificant, unobscured thing just to mess with your brain, but be gone just before you get the opportunity to show it to someone.
Like this one which got me the other night …
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This just sort of made me laugh when I found it, so I just thought I’d take a moment and share.
I sure do hope this didn’t cause you to miss your bus.
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I just found this, and it’s quite fascinating.
Peter Schiff virtually had a crystal ball to see the financial health of the U.S., and the other financial “experts” just laughed at him.
This includes financial news clips from 2006 and 2007.
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The following post falls directly into the category of shameless self-promotion.
This is a closely monitored category by the Special POC Police Force. The POC consists solely of police cadets who failed training in any other police program — this is a group you do not want to mess with.
Those who break the rules concerning self-promotional activities are usually snatched-up, without warning, as they walk out their door, exit their car, or are just taking care of business in a public rest room. They are immediately blind-folded, and taken to the special venue established for public humiliation. At that point, only the unspeakable remains.
So, to play it safe, I just checked the Big Book of Rules, sub-category Self-Promotion, sub-section Shameless or Flagrant, and there it was — it would appear that I am no where near my quota. Actually, I’m in a credit status, telling me that I need to do more of these.
In any event, you can comfortably breath a collective sigh of relief.
WAIT! Don’t go yet. We haven’t arrived at the start.
Sorry about all that — just taking care of business (not as in the way used above).
MSNBC.com has a sub-section in the Travel sub-category titled Picture of the Week.
A photo that was exposed in the camera I was holding, loaded with Kodachrome 64, back in 1983, while shooting a Honda commercial in Arches National Park, is in this week’s finalists for Picture of the Week. I would guess the idea now is to be the highest vote-getter.
So, to make it easier to find my photo on the MSNBC Web page, I created a focused version — simply click on the Web page thumbnail and you’ll see where my image is.
As it looks now, I don’t have a chance in hell of winning. But, if you take the time to look at the page, and feel just a bit of pity … that’s good enough, as I’ll gladly accept a vote of pity. And sharing this info with your closest friends (down to distant acquaintances) would be acceptable, too.
Just think how great you’ll feel as being part of a group that really made a difference — or, consider how you’ll feel if you don’t.
Lastly, please feel free to use any or all those little tiny buttons right there … see them? … just below these last few lines, for your added convenience.
Gracias … Thank you … Obrigado … Вы … 감사하십시오 … Merci
Dank u … 谢谢 … Σας ευχαριστούμε … ありがとう… Danke
This photograph is also available as a high-resolution, gicleé print, with many sizes to choose from. Custom framing is also available.
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From the time a baby is born, to sometime before they learn to speak, they still remember where they came from … and I’m not referring to the womb. I mean the place before that — that place we return to when we leave these cheap, humanoid housings behind.
And that’s why babies cry so much: they are totally bummed when they get here, and want to go back. But by the time they can speak, those memories have been overwritten by Tipsy-Aunt-In-Your-Face-Martha, Crazy-Uncle-Bad-Breath-Bob, and all the other Earth monsters.
Hell, maybe this is purgatory … uh?
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If a woman wants to drive the men wild, she might want to dress in red.
Men rated a woman shown in photographs as more sexually attractive if she was wearing red clothing or if she was shown in an image framed by a red border rather than some other color, U.S. researchers said Tuesday.
The study led by psychology professor Andrew Elliot of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, seemed to confirm red as the color of romance — as so many Valentine’s Day card makers and lipstick sellers have believed for years.
Although this “red alert” may be a product of human society associating red with love for eons, it also may arise from more primitive biological roots, Elliot said.
Noting the genetic similarity of humans to higher primates, he said scientists have shown that certain male primates are especially attracted to females of their species displaying red. For example, female baboons and chimpanzees show red coloring when nearing ovulation, sending a sexual signal that the males apparently find irresistible. continue reading >>
