Durham NC...

Well, I lift from work @ 7.15 am on Friday to drive to Durham to visit my Brother for the weekend. I got to his house around 10.30 am and we proceeded to go and eat and talk about lots of things. He drove me around the Duke campus and I was Totally BLOWN away!!! It looked like a campus from an Ivy League school instead of a southern university. I was very tired, but I did not fall asleep until 8.30 pm and I had been up since Thursday @ 3.30pm…What a stretch!! So I woke up the next morning at 7.20 am and we proceeded with our day!!! Cliff my brother is in Duke Divinity School to become a Methodist Preacher!! He is very wise and a very brilliant young man at 26 years old. I do so enjoy debating with him on cretin subjects!! We took a walking tour of Duke and IT was amazing. The main Cathedral was built in 1932 and it is in the old English Gothic style of Notre Dame!! I was so sad that I forgot my camera, but next time, I will have it and have pics of the stained glass!! There is over 1 million pieces of class in the cathedral. The campus is really interesting and I would have loved to have had the opportunity to have gone to Duke. After we walked around the main campus, we took a walk through Duke Gardens. We went home after the walk and got some food. At around 12.30pm, Cliff and I went on a bike ride for over 2 hours! WE got kicked off a gold course as we did not know that it was a private one!!! A munchkin as it was, was the greens keeper and this PAT came and asked us to leave the course with our bikes, we complied, and found another way around to get where we wanted to go. We then came home and watched movies and stuff like, just chilled out!! We got up this morning and we went to the church where Chill is a member and an assistant preacher. It was a very interesting service as it was multi lingual, Spanish ad English. IT was a good service and sermon, Cliff was the Liturgist and lead some prayers and stuff like that. After the service, we had a “Pot Luck” lunch in the fellowship hall. I left Durham having had a good weekend and a needed break from Midlothian and my job. I will have 3 pics to post with my camera phone, but I will do them l8ter.

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System breaks down just when I thought that I had it made a message to you how ideal Nothing stays the same

Hunt out misguided angels search in vain amongst the ruins a message do you know how I feel Nothing stays the same stays the same

Search in vain silent dreams starting again wake up out of sleep far from far from your crowds shattered halls covered in squander

A message to you how ideal nothing stays the same the same the same a message do you know how I feel Nothing stays the same Nothing Stays - Cyberaktif

You have no conscience and it seems you never will - Cyberaktif

iPods In Space...

As many of you know, I am not a BIG fan of the IPOD or any Apple products. This is really funny to me that it made news. I had 2 of them and they were both trash. I looked for online support and finally bought a Creative Zen Touch and I have had no problems with it.

It seams that even NASA is not immune to the IPOD craze… The people I have an IPOD velcored to a part of the shuttle. At least NASA did not have to inspect it for re-entry to the earth’s atmosphere. The caption said on www.Fark.com “What device was just spotted on this shuttle mission that has 400 times the CPU power and 80 times the memory of the avionics computers and can even survive a year date rollover?” A freaking IPOD!! WOW, I wonder if Apple got and endorsement for this one?? Perhaps we will get a revamp of the shuttles systems that only accepts firewire…no pun intended!! That is just SAD folks, a music player with more computing power than the shuttle?? I wonder if the astronauts would feel better flying an IPOD? “Now New and Improved IPOD shuttle by Apple and NASA. A joint operation that benefits all of mankind!!!

Here is the URL: IPOD “Editor's update: If you look at the left hand side of this image taken on Monday, 11 December, you will see an iPod and a Belkin external battery pack velcored to a panel next to the Discovery's toilet located in the Shuttle's middeck. The iPod is connected to a set of external speakers. It can also be seen in this image.” Well at least they did not use Duct Tape to put it on and being an Apple product, they knew where to place it…Near the crapper.


There is Even the have one on the Space station!! Apple must have paid lots for all this advertising!! I can see it now, International Space Station powered by IPOD!!!



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Body Art, Modification...

We all know that the culture of today revolves around getting body modifications to an EXTREME nature to one up your buddy, BUT this is just STUPID to the Nth degree!!! That girl should have her ass beat by EVERYONE that walks by her!!! If I saw her, I would kick her ever-loving ass for doing something SOOOO STUPID as to disfigure her back like that. I have a Tattoo, and I have had it for over 12 years, this pic is just too much for the revolution of 20 somethings to be their own culture. I am Gen X, they are Gen F**K UPX!! Could you believe the pain that she must have endured to have this operation done?? HAVE WE AS A WHOLE LOST our Freaking MINDS or what little we have left??? DO they shun humanity SOOOO much that they need to be an animal or something else??? I for one am glad that I am a human and not some freak like them. I can go to the mall or to church and not be a freakshow on display all the time. DO they have no self worth as a human or person?? I guess not!! And for all of you Body Mod peoples, they even have a .ORG for yall! I tell you what, it would have to be a COLD DAY IN HELL for me to EVER!!! EVER!!!! do any Scarification to myself!!!!!!!

Well enough from me on this issue!! "AND CUT"
Caio...





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Invader Zim...

Well Kiddies, Invader Zim is finally out on DVD!! Not just one DVD, but a # DVD set with all of the episodes and "lost" stuff from the show. I purchased it at Wal Mart last week for $18!!! Crazy!! I cant wait to be able to watch some of them. Several years ago, a friend gave them to me from ones that he a downloaded off the net. They were good quality, but not DVD quality. Just an Update...

I go to Durham on Friday morning to spend the weekend with my brother!! I cant wait! It will be nice to get out of the house. I also go to day shift on Monday, I am not too excited about this, but I have to for a bit.
L8ters...
Zim and Ger!!!










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School Bus Drivers and Safety...

How come is it that the god ole USA requires that EVERY Car and Truck have a Seat Belt; but that a Bus or more to the point, a School Bus does not have to have a seal belt??  DO they no drive on the road with all the other crazy people?  Why just today, I went and picked up my daughter early at school and we drove down a very curvy and hill laden road called Old Hundred Road.  On this road was Swiftcreek Middle School.  They got out early because our school district is so big they have to stagger the bus schedule.  We I followed Bus 369 doing 55mph down this road that is a 35mph road and I called into the school district transportation office and reported the driver for going 55mph.  Shouldn't the buses be required to have seatbelts in them as all other vehicles do??  I think that I read that in California, where most things cause cancer, they are going top require their buses to have seatbelts!! In this one instance, I congratulate them!! Perhaps they should take this step and apply their fore thinking to other areas of their economy and power industries…

 

All you hear about are school bus accidents and children getting hurt. Will seatbelts help this? Perhaps. Only time will tell.

 

RMStringer

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Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood

over questions of reality and illusion.

I know this: if life is an illusion, then I

am no less an illusion, and being thus, the

illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I

love, I slay, and I am content.

(Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast, Weird Tales, May 1934)

 

This is all Useless imformation...

A very few of these i have heard of, but not many. I saw this while reading Fark and thought some of you might like useless imformation like i do sometimes. So, here you go!!


33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names

1. AGLET
The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.
2. ARMSAYE
The armhole in clothing.
3. CHANKING
Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.
4. COLUMELLA NASI
The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.
5. DRAGÉES
small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes.
6. FEAT
A Dangling curl of hair.
7. FERRULE
The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place.
8. HARP
The small metal hoop that supports a lampshade.
9. HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER
A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.)
10-13. JARNS, NITTLES, GRAWLIX and QUIMP
Various squiggles used to denote cussing in comic books.
14. KEEPER
The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.
15. KICK or PUNT
The indentation at the bottom of some wine bottles. It gives added strength to the bottle but lessens its holding capacity.
16. LIRIPIPE
The long tail on a graduate's academic hood.
17. MINIMUS
The little finger or toe.
18. NEF
An ornamental stand in the shape of a ship.
19. OBDORMITION
The numbness caused by pressure on a nerve; when a limb is `asleep'.
20. OCTOTHORPE
The symbol `#' on a telephone handset. Bell Labs' engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe.
21. OPHRYON
The space between the eyebrows on a line with the top of the eye sockets.
22. PEEN
The end of a hammer head opposite the striking face.
23. PHOSPHENES
The lights you see when you close your eyes hard. Technically the luminous impressions are due to the excitation of the retina caused by pressure on the eyeball.
24. PURLICUE
The space between the thumb and extended forefinger.
25. RASCETA
Creases on the inside of the wrist.
26. ROWEL
The revolving star on the back of a cowboy's spurs.
27. SADDLE
The rounded part on the top of a matchbook.
28. SCROOP
The rustle of silk.
29. SNORKEL BOX
A mailbox with a protruding receiver to allow people to deposit mail without leaving their cars.
30. SPRAINTS
Otter dung.
31. TANG
The projecting prong on a tool or instrument.
32. WAMBLE
Stomach rumbling.
33. ZARF
A holder for a handleless coffee cup.
- S.B., D.W. & N.R.
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Chesterfield Flasher...Ohhhh My!!!

Well kiddies, it looks like we have ourselvs a flasher in the county of Chesterfield, City of Midlothian. We all go to a stripmall in Midlo where the Commonwealth 20 Theater is located as well as Target, TJMax and other stores to numerous to mention. we have had over 30 confirmed flasher moments reported to the police and I think that this should be the new sign in the parking lots showing us all to be ware of a flasher!!
The police caught one flasher that hit several Stop-n-Robs around Chesterfield, but they have not been able to find this person. He likes to be in this area as he has flashed over 40 people this season alone!!! There are lots of cops that patorl that area as many kids hang out there due to the theater and a Barns&Noble on the property as well. Also, they patrol because Chesterfield has a 10pm curfew unless you are with an adult. More on this story as events occure!!
Caio...

Scientists criticize bird flu search

"Unlike our entertainment, bird flu will arrive from our southern border. Latin American birds are willing to take the bird flu jobs that our Northern birds refuse to do" www.fark.com

This makes as much sence to me as any other misguided scientific exploit. Birds dont like cold weather, or at least most migratory birds go south for the winter. If they come from Asia to Canada via Alaska, that would to me be even colder. Hey, why not import the BIrd Flu from Mexico with all the cheep labor and illegal people as well. Sound like a good ole Democratic plan to me.
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Very Funny Pics...

I found these at work and i thought that they were very funny!!!
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Our China Buffet

Here is our new China Buffet Case that we just placed my set of dishes in. They are over 35 years old and I have wanted to get a buffet for a log time. So, we went out and purchased a new dinning room set a few weeks ago. we just had time to place the dish set in their this weekend.

Definitions of precipitation

I found this interesting due to the bad weather that we have been haveing across the USA.
Many know that i am avid weather person.

Rain: Falling drops of water larger than 0.02 inch in diameter. In forecasts, "rain" usually implies that the rain will fall steadily over a period of time. (See "showers" below).

Light rain: Falls at the rate of 0.10 inch or less an hour.

Moderate rain: Falls at the rate of 0.11 to 0.30 inch an hour.

Heavy rain: Falls at the rate of 0.30 inch an hour or more.

Drizzle: Falling drops of water smaller than 0.02 inch in diameter. They appear to float in air currents, but unlike fog, do fall to the ground.

Light drizzle: Drizzle with visibility of more than 5/8 of a mile.

Moderate drizzle: Drizzle with visibility from 5/16 to 5/8 of a mile.

Heavy drizzle: Drizzle with visibility of less than 5/16 of a mile.

Showers: Rain that falls intermittently over a small area. The rain from an individual shower can be heavy or light, but doesn't cover a large area or last more than an hour or so.

Snow: Falling ice composed of crystals in complex hexagonal forms. Snow forms mainly when water vapor turns directly to ice without going through the liquid stage, a process called sublimation.

Snowflakes: Aggregations of snow crystals.

Snow flurries: Light showers of snow that do not cover large areas and do not fall steadily for long periods of time.

Snow grains: Very small snow crystals. The ice equivalent of drizzle.

Snow pellets: White, opaque ice particles that form as ice crystals fall through cloud droplets that are below freezing but still liquid (supercooled). The cloud droplets freeze to the crystals forming a lumpy mass. Scientists call snow pellets "graupel." Such pellets falling from thunderstorms are often called "soft hail."

Sleet: Drops of rain or drizzle that freeze into ice as they fall. They are usually smaller than 0.30 inch in diameter. Official weather observations list sleet as "ice pellets." In some parts of the country "sleet" refers to a mixture of ice pellets and freezing rain.

Freezing rain or drizzle: Falling rain or drizzle that cools below 32°F, but does not turn to ice in the air. The water is "supercooled." When the drops hit anything they instantly turn into ice.
Ice storm: A storm with large amounts of freezing rain that coats trees, power lines and roadways with ice. Often the ice is heavy enough to pull down trees and power lines.

Hail: Falling ice in roughly round shapes at least 0.20 inch in diameter. Hail comes from thunderstorms and is larger than sleet. Hailstones form when upward moving air -- updrafts -- in a thunderstorm keep pieces of graupel from falling. Drops of supercooled water hit and freeze to the graupel, causing it to grow. When the balls of ice become too heavy for the updrafts to continue supporting them, they fall as hailstones. Sleet, in contrast, consists of raindrops that freeze on the way down.

Thunderstorm: A rain or snow shower in which there is lightning. Thunder is always caused by lightning. In general, the upward and downward winds, updrafts and downdrafts, in thunderstorms are more violent than those in ordinary showers.

Thundersnow: A thunderstorm with snow instead of rain falling on the ground.
Severe thunderstorm: A thunderstorm with winds of 57 mph or faster or hail more than 3/4 inch in diameter reaching the ground. Severe thunderstorms can also produce tornadoes


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Our Personal Website...

Well I have worked on it all day!!!  It is up and RUNNING!!!

The address is  www.Thermstringers.com

Go and look at it.

 

RMStringer

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Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood

over questions of reality and illusion.

I know this: if life is an illusion, then I

am no less an illusion, and being thus, the

illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I

love, I slay, and I am content.

(Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast, Weird Tales, May 1934)

 

Missing woman found dead behind bookcase

HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE???????????????????????????????????

November 25, 2006
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. --A woman's body was found wedged upside-down behind a bookcase in the home she shared with relatives who had spent nearly two weeks looking for her.

A spokesman for the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said Mariesa Weber's death was not suspicious. Family members said they believe she fell over as she tried to adjust the plug of a television behind the bookshelf.
Weber, 38, returned home Oct. 28 and greeted her mother, then wasn't seen again. Her family thought she had been kidnapped and contacted authorities. Family members scoured her room for clues but found nothing, though they did notice a strange smell.
On Nov. 9, Weber's sister went into her bedroom and looked behind a bookcase, where she saw the woman's foot. Using a flashlight the family saw Weber was wedged upside-down behind the unit.
"I'm sleeping in the same house as her for 11 days, looking for her," her mother, Connie Weber, told the St. Petersburg Times. "And she's right in the bedroom."
Both Weber and her sister had previously adjusted the television plug by standing on a bureau next to the shelf and leaning over the top. Her family believes Weber, who was 5-foot-3 and barely 100 pounds, may have fallen headfirst into the space.
"She's a little thing," her mother said. "And the bookcase is 6 feet tall and solid. And she couldn't get out."
The sheriff's office said Weber appeared to have died because she was unable to breathe in the position she was in.


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Our Family Website

Just a quick heads up, out family website will be up and running by next week!!!
www.thermstringers.com is going to be redone this week and place up be next weekend. i just purchased server space and i will get new pics and stuff up on it.




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Public Breast Feeding...

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I find this really disturbing. We were in Wal Mart the other week doing our shopping for our food and there was this man and woman with their kids, 3 walking and one sucking! They were just walking around the store doing their shopping and the mother had her breast hanging out and the baby was feeding on it. I mean, come on, in freaking Wal Mart!! How white trash or tree hugger can you get? it was probably the latter being in Virginia, but That is just horrific! I think that there is a time and a place(like HOME) or in the bathroom, but WALKING around the store for public display? I think there should be a law against this like public indecent or something. Go to the bathroom and do that. Most people do not change messy diapers in the middle of the store! Sucking on a bottle is OK, breast feeding, NOT OK! It is just as bad a sitting in the airport or mall for God's sake!! It is just WRONG!! Have a little modesty and regard for your fellow persons!! The picture is just a representation and not the actual person in Wal Mart.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!

From all of us to all of you, Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

The World according to America...

Very funny pic I found on the Web.

Inspirational Phrases You Will Never Hear At Work...

These are soo funny. I thought that i would place them here for all to read!!
1. There is no "I" in "teamwork." But there is in "management kiss-up."
2. If you do a good job and work hard, you may get a job with a better company someday.
3. The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget cuts.
4. Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG 14 times gives you job security.
5. If you think we're a bad company, you should see the competition.
6. Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who oppose them.
7. 2 days without a human rights violation.
8. Your job is STILL better than asking, "You want fries with that?"
9. If at first you don't succeed, try management.
10. Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.
11. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
12. Pride, Commitment, Teamwork. Words we use to get you to work for free.
13. If at first you don't succeed, delegate it.
14. Plagiarism saves time.
15. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Moutain Bike'n...

A friend and I went to Pocahontas State Park on Saturday morning and went moutain bike ridding. It was about 43 degrees and sunny. We did not go to Chippingham Park as it was in a bottom and with all the rain, we were afarid thatr it would be flooded out. It was a great Cardio Workout!!! We rode about 4-5 miles down the main trails and totally missed the single track hard stuff. We have planed another time to go and do that stuff. We were not really sure where it was either!~ I really want to get into this more. it is better for me health wise and great fun to boot.


Here is a link to a map of the park: Map of Park

The 'Evolution of Math Instruction' over the past half century.

Teaching Math in 1950:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is
4/5 of the price. What is his profit?

Teaching Math in 1960:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for a set "M" of money. The
cardinality of set "M" is 100. Each element is worth one dollar. Make 100 dots
representing the elements of the set "M". The set "C", the cost of
production, contains 20 fewer points than set "M". Represent the set "C"
as the subset of set "M" and answer this question: What is the cardinality of
the set "P" of profits?

Teaching Math in 1980:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is
$80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

Teaching Math in 1990:
By cutting down beautiful trees, the logger makes $20. What do you think
of  this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering
the question: How did the forest birds and squirrels "feel" as the logger
cut down the trees? There are no wrong answers.

Teaching Math in 2000:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is
$120. How does Arthur Anderson determine that his profit margin is $60?

Teaching Math in 2010:
El hachero vende un camion carga por $100. La cuesta de productiones......

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Teaching Math...

The 'Evolution of Math Instruction' over the past half century.

Teaching Math in 1950:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is
4/5 of the price. What is his profit?

Teaching Math in 1960:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for a set "M" of money. The
cardinality of set "M" is 100. Each element is worth one dollar. Make 100 dots
representing the elements of the set "M". The set "C", the cost of
production, contains 20 fewer points than set "M". Represent the set "C"
as the subset of set "M" and answer this question: What is the cardinality of
the set "P" of profits?

Teaching Math in 1980:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is
$80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

Teaching Math in 1990:
By cutting down beautiful trees, the logger makes $20. What do you think
of  this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering
the question: How did the forest birds and squirrels "feel" as the logger
cut down the trees? There are no wrong answers.

Teaching Math in 2000:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is
$120. How does Arthur Anderson determine that his profit margin is $60?

Teaching Math in 2010:
El hachero vende un camion carga por $100. La cuesta de productiones......
 
 
 

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Richmond VA Drivers...

These people CAN NOT Dirve here!!!! It is freaking AMAZING!!! I have been driving to work for close to 4 months at this job and out of the 4 months, there has been a wreck on the Shaco Bottom bridge on IH64 east and west for 5 out of the 7 days of the week!!! It does not matter if it is raining, sunny, snowing, or what kind of weather we are having. There is ALWAYS A WRECK!! It reminds me of Austin and MOPAC 1 and the water testing that they did for an extended period by the Texas DOT. There was wrecks on that stretch or road every morning and afternoon and drivers knew about the water testing!!! Same Bat time, Same Bat channel every freaking day!! I contacted the Virginia DOT and i hope to post some stats on this soon. I will keep you informed.
CAIO!!


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If Operating Systems Were Beers ...

I saw this and thought tht it was funny.

DOS Beer: Requires you to use your own can opener, and requires you to read the directions carefully before opening the can. Originally only came in an 8-oz. can, but now comes in a 16-oz. can. However, the can is divided into 8 compartments of 2 oz. each, which have to be accessed separately. Soon to be discontinued, although a lot of people are going to keep drinking it after it's no longer available.

Mac Beer: At first, came only in a 16-oz can, but now comes in a 32-oz can. Considered by many to be a "light" beer. All the cans look identical. When you take one from the fridge, it opens itself. The ingredients list is not on the can. If you call to ask about the ingredients, you are told that "you don't need to know." A notice on the side reminds you to drag your empties to the trashcan.

Windows 3.1 Beer: The world's most popular. Comes in a 16-oz can that looks a lot like Mac Beer. Requires that you already own a DOS Beer. Claims that it allows you to drink several DOS Beers simultaneously, but in reality you can only drink a few of them, very slowly, especially slowly if you are drinking the Windows Beer at the same time. Sometimes, for apparently no reason, a can of Windows Beer will explode when you open it.

OS/2 Beer: Comes in a 32-oz can. Does allow you to drink several DOS Beers simultaneously. Allows you to drink Windows 3.1 Beer simultaneously too, but somewhat slower. Advertises that its cans won't explode when you open them, even if you shake them up. You never really see anyone drinking OS/2 Beer, but the manufacturer (International Beer Manufacturing) claims that 9 million six-packs have been sold.

Windows 95 Beer: The can looks a lot like Mac Beer's can, but tastes more like Windows 3.1 Beer. It comes in 32-oz. cans, but when you look inside, the cans only have 16 oz of beer in them. Most people will probably keep drinking Windows 3.1 eer until their friends try Windows 95 Beer and say they like it. The ingredients list, when you look at the small print, has some of the same ingredients that come in DOS beer, even though the manufacturer claims that this is an entirely new brew.

Windows NT Beer: Comes in 32-oz. cans, but you can only buy it by the truckload. This causes ost people to have to go out and buy bigger refrigerators. The can looks just like Windows 3.1 Beer, but the company promises to change the can to look just like Windows 95 Beer's - after Windows 95 beer starts shipping. Touted as an "industrial strength" beer, and suggested only for use in bars.

Unix Beer: Comes in several different brands, in cans ranging from 8 oz. to 64 oz. rinkers of Unix Beer display fierce brand loyalty, even though they claim that all the different brands taste almost identical. Sometimes the pop-tops break off when you try to open them, so you have to have your own can opener around for those occasions, in which case you either need a complete set of instructions or a friend who has been drinking Unix Beer for several years.

AmigaDOS Beer: The company has gone out of business, but their recipe has been picked up by some weird German company, so now this beer will be an import. This beer never really sold very well because the original manufacturer didn't understand marketing. Like Unix Beer, AmigaDOS Beer fans are an extremely loyal and loud group. It originally came in a 16-oz. can, but now comes in 32-oz. cans too. When this can was originally introduced, it appeared lashy and colorful, but the design hasn't changed much over the years, so it appears dated now. Critics of this beer claim that it is only meant for watching TV anyway.

VMS Beer: Requires minimal user interaction, except for popping the top and sipping. However cans have been known on occasion to explode, or contain extremely un-beer-like contents. Best drunk in high pressure development environments. When you call the manufacturer for the list of ingredients, you're told that it is proprietary and referred to an unknown listing in the manuals published by the FDA. Rumors are that this was once listed in the Physicians' Desk Reference as a tranquilizer, but no one can claim to have actually seen it.

Toy Story...

Capitalism - He who dies with the most toys, wins.
Hari Krishna - He who plays with the most toys, wins.
Catholicism - He who denies himself the most toys, wins.
Anglican - They were our toys first.
Greek Orthodox - No, they were OURS first.
Branch Davidians - He who dies playing with the biggest toys, wins.
Atheism - There is no toy maker.
Polytheism - There are many toy makers.
Evolutionism - The toys made themselves.
Church of Christ, Scientist - We are the toys.
Communism - Everyone gets the same number of toys, and you go straight to hell if we catch you selling yours.
B'Hai - All toys are just fine with us.
Amish - Toys with batteries are surely a sin.
Taoism - The doll is as important as the dumptruck.
Mormonism - Every boy can have as many toys as he wants.
Voodoo - Let me borrow that doll for a second.
Hedonism - To heck with the rule book!? Let's play!
Hinduism - He who plays with bags of plastic farm animals, loses.
7th Day Adventist - He who plays with his toys on Saturday, loses.
Church of Christ - He whose toys make music, loses.
Baptist - Once played, always played.
Jehovah's Witnesses - He who sells the most toys door-to-door, wins.
Pentecostalism - He whose toys can talk, wins.
Existentialism - Toys are a figment of your imagination.
Confucianism - Once a toy is dipped in the water, it is no longer dry.
Non-denominationalism - We don't care where the toys came from, let's just play with them.
Agnosticism - It is not possible to know whether toys make a bit of difference.

Relatives...

Tomorrow, my sister-n-law, Sondra's sister and two children are moving in with us. They are coming from Texas to start a new life and make a new beginning here in Virginia. I hope that it works out for the best and that they find what they are looking for. I on the other hand, am picking up several shifts this month due to the lack of people working that are trained. It is Thanks Giving month...
I have also posted for several jobs with Qimonda that will be with the company and not a contractor like I am now. More to come as events occur on this. Just all wish me luck!! It would be nice to be an employee instead of a contractor. On the flip side for that, the old company that I worked for, Sun Control Systems, I am a contractor for them and I worked up in Culpepper at a project that I had been on before. It is nice as I can pick up some extra work from time to time.Well, I need to go and get some sleep.
L8terz...

Smartest States ranking for 2006 - 2007

For those of you that wonder where your state ranks...

2006-2007 Smartest State Award
	RANK	STATE	SMART RATING	2005-2006 RANK	CHANGE
1	Vermont	18.57	1	0
2	Massachusetts	16.09	3	1
3	Connecticut	14.46	2	-1
4	New Jersey	14.35	4	0
5	Maine	10.79	5	0
6	Virginia	10.07	7	1
7	Montana	9.55	9	2
8	Wisconsin	9.04	8	0
9	Iowa	8.82	14	5
10	Pennsylvania	8.69	11	1
11	Nebraska	6.40	12	1
12	New Hampshire	5.90	15	3
13	Minnesota	5.33	6	-7
14	Rhode Island	4.31	16	2
15	Kansas	4.27	13	-2
16	New York	3.66	10	-6
17	South Dakota	3.25	18	1
18	Maryland	2.27	19	1
19	Wyoming	1.35	17	-2
20	Idaho	1.29	28	8
21	North Dakota	0.95	20	-1
22	Missouri	0.94	21	-1
23	North Carolina	0.84	22	-1
24	Indiana	0.06	26	2
25	Texas	-0.11	24	-1
26	South Carolina	-1.19	29	3
27	Colorado	-1.32	23	-4
28	Delaware	-2.47	25	-3
29	Florida	-2.90	36	7
30	Tennessee	-3.01	41	11
31	Kentucky	-3.24	35	4
32	Arkansas	-3.44	37	5
33	Washington	-3.85	30	-3
34	Ohio	-4.00	31	-3
35	Illinois	-4.32	32	-3
36	Oklahoma	-5.81	39	3
37	West Virginia	-5.82	34	-3
38	Utah	-6.30	33	-5
39	Michigan	-6.43	27	-12
40	Oregon	-6.87	38	-2
41	Georgia	-6.92	40	-1
42	Hawaii	-9.31	42	0
43	New Mexico	-10.60	48	5
44	Louisiana	-10.95	45	1
45	Alabama	-11.00	43	-2
46	Alaska	-11.91	44	-2
47	California	-13.10	46	-1
48	Mississippi	-14.78	49	1
49	Nevada	-15.81	47	-2
50	Arizona	-17.61	50	0
For more details about methodology, visit Morgan Quitno Press online.

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This week...

It has been a hectic week for me. I worked at Qimonda Monday and Tuesday night and then went to Culpepper Virginia on Wednesday and worked with Sun Controll Systems for that evening and the next day. Then I came home and I am now at work in the FAB for the next 3 nights on my regular work schedule. The weather is crappy with lots of rain and people here in Richmond do not know how to drive in ANY kind of weather!!! Oh well, more l8terz.

The EU has some energy trouble as well...

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Im not saying that we are not as wasteful, but this is very interesting!! At lest we know that we are not the only ones that are wasteful!!

A poll of 5,000 Europeans by the Energy Saving Trust found the average Briton admitted to 32 bad habits such as leaving lights on in empty rooms, more than twice as many as the most energy conscious nation.
In interviews last month released for the start of Energy Efficiency Week today, Germans admitted to having 14 energy wasting habits, the Spanish 16, the French 19 and the Italians 25.
Britain's bad habits
* 71 per cent leave appliances on standby
* 67 per cent boil more water than needed in kettles
* 65 per cent leave chargers plugged in
* 63 per cent don't turn off lights in empty rooms
* 48 per cent use the car for short journeys
* 44 per cent wash clothes at 60F
* 32 per cent leave the engine running while the car is stationary
* 32 per cent use the tumble dryer when the washing line could be used
* 28 per cent have the central heating on in an empty house
* 22 per cent turn up the thermostat instead of reaching for a jumper

Estimations of what would happen if humans just vanished from the earth

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Television: The Hidden Picture

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This is a VERY interesting article...


Rixon Stewart

The old line about British television being the best in the world is a debateable one. What is beyond dispute though is the fact that Britons are a nation of TV addicts and with the advent of cable and satellite TV that trend is likely to continue. Whether or not that is a good thing is another matter entirely. For its influence could literally be described as deadening, as a growing amount of scientific evidence would seem to indicate. But don’t expect to hear that from the mainstream media, particularly television; there is simply too much at stake here, politically and economically, for what follows to become more widely known. According to Daniel Reid, writing in the Tao of Health Sex and Longevity, the rays from a TV flicker erratically, causing uneven and irregular stimulation of the retina. “This choppy stimulus is transferred directly into the brain via the optic nerve, which in turn irritates the hypothalamus.
In scientific experiments conducted in the US but ignored by both the government and the television industry, rats exposed to colour TV for six hours a day became hyperactive and extremely aggressive for about a week. Thereafter they suddenly became totally lethargic and stopped breeding entirely.” In effect their endocrine systems had been ‘burnt out;’ equally significant was the fact that during the experiment the TV screens were kept covered in thick black paper so that only the invisible rays came through. Thus the damage was done, not by the visible rays, but by the invisible radiation.
These findings were echoed by Dr H.D. Youmans of the U.S. Bureau of Radiological Health, quoted by Associated Press in 1970: “We found rays escaping from the vacuum tubes to be harder and of higher average energy than we expected. They penetrated the first few inches of the body as deeply as 100-kilowatt diagnostic X-rays. You get a uniform dose to the eyes, testes and bone marrow.” The same year Dr Robert Elder, director of the BRH, testified before Congress that even very minute doses of radiation, which fall below the legal limit cause damage and that the damage is cumulative.
In fact the evidence is beginning to mount to the point where it can no longer be ignored, unless you happen to watch a lot of TV, in which case you may not have noticed the results of a study by Sally Ward. One of Britain’s leading authority’s on children’s speech development, she completed a ten year study which showed that the background noise in the average two year olds day can delay his or her acquisition of a language by up to a year. Almost invariably the background noise came from television. Amongst other things she found that: · Children learn to speak from their parents and parents don’t play or talk enough with their children when the TV is on. ·
Background noise from TV or radio, confuses infants. In response they learn to ignore all noise and then they ignore speech. · Children of two years or older should not be exposed to more than two hours of TV a day. · Children of one year old or younger should not be exposed to television at all.. Sally Ward is currently preparing to focus on television and the way it affects our attention. In particular she will be looking at Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). “. . . a lot of people think it’s chemical,” she says, but in her view . . . “it’s very peculiar that at the onset of children’s television it got a lot more prevalent, and at the onset of children’s video’s it got a lot more prevalent.”
Her concern is being reiterated in America where child psychologist John Rosemond has stirred some controversy by suggesting that ADHD is environmentally created; a suggestion that is completely at odds with the pharmaceutical industry, which maintains that the disorder is genetically inherited and makes considerable profit as a result. “Ritalin may work, temporarily,” says Rosemond, “But pharmaceutical intervention won’t change behavioural and motivational problems.” And these he blames on television – “the endlessly changing images, flickering like the attention spans of ADHD children.”
Interestingly, Rosemond began questioning the role of TV after his own son began displaying symptoms of ADHD. In response he got rid of his television and within six weeks the boy’s behaviour was transformed. Today he is a commercial airline pilot, a job which requires some concentration. Still, there may well be a place for television in modern society: in our prisons. No seriously. At a time when its budget is being cut by over 15% you may ask why the prisons service is spending an estimated £5 million on television sets for a third of its inmates? Why? Well, according to David Roddan, general secretary of the prison governors association: “It’s the best control mechanism you can think of.”

Sodoku...

A fellow coworker showed me this interesting game tonight at work. Sodoku live is the main website. i thought that some of you might like it, So, i placed a game at the end of the BLOG for everyone to try.
Enjoy!!!

Winter...

Well it seams that we are going to get our first real blast of cold air this weekend. It is going to be into the upper 30s on Saturday morning and only in the 60s during the weekend. I cant wait because, cold means snow skiing this season. Wintergreen here I come!!!

 

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Virginia State Fair.

Well, we got to go today after a failed attempt yesterday due to weather.  We had over 5.5 inches of rain since Thursday night!!!  My yard is looking GOOD!!!  The fair was good, but I did not think that it was as good as the South Texas State Fair in Beaumont or the Star of Texas Fair/Rodeo in Austin. I figured for a state fair, it should have been better and bigger. I start back on shift tomorrow night…

 

More l8ter.

 

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The Constitution of the United States 2.0

I just saw this on a web article. I thought that some of yall might enjoy this...


The Constitution of the United States 2.0
By Devilstower 09/30/2006 10:06:13 PM EST

As there have lately been so many changes to the basic functioning of the United States -- a shift of powers here, a whittling away of rights there, it seems a good time to issue a revised version of the basic operating document. This is the real Republican Contract with America.
We the Republicans of the United States, in Order to prevent any challenge to our continued Supremacy, free ourselves from the Confines of Justice, placate the Tranquil masses, degrade the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of War Profiteering for ourselves and our Friends, do ordain and establish Constitution 2.0 for the United States of America.

ARTICLE ISection 1
All legislative Powers are hereby ceded to the Executive branch, though the Congress will still make a Grand Noise and wave their arms as if they give a Damn.

Section 2
The House of Representatives will consist of those best able to Lick the Boots of the Lobbyists and Corporations lining their pockets.
No one can be a Representative unless Fox News says that he is a Patriotic American,
Representation shall be apportioned based on numbers of people willing to Pay for the Privilege. The actual Enumeration shall be made whenever it is of benefit to Republicans.
Representatives will choose a Speaker and other Officers by how willing these Officers are to turn a blind eye to the Crimes of Republicans and how Loudly they will Declare the Daily Talking Points.

Section 3
The Senate shall... oh hell, just see Section 1.
The Vice President shall be President of the Senate and can use any Four Letter Word he wants in talking to Senators, so F-You, Leahy.

Section 4
Elections will be held whenever Diebold is prepared to provide the Right Results.

Section 5
Each House shall make a mockery of policing itself and shall be free to throw out all the Democrats they want, but Republicans who engage in Pederasty shall be protected.

Section 6
Republican Senators and Representatives will enjoy a Revolving Door of organizations who pay for votes, and give them jobs any time they are taking a break.

Section 7
The House and Senate shall apply a large Rubber Stamp to every suggestion issued by the President.

Section 8
The House shall raise all the taxes they want on the poor and middle-class so long as they leave the Rich alone.
The Congress will dodge all responsibility for decisions on War.

Section 9
The rules of Immigration shall be set in a way that protects Republican majorities.

Section 2
The President can wear any uniform he wants and pretend to fly planes.

Section 3
The President and the Congress should split some beers now and then, but he doesn't have to invite any Democrats.

Section 4
Having sex is a good Reason to get rid of a President. Lying, being Incompetent, Wasting Billions, and getting Thousands of Americans Killed, is fine.

ARTICLE III
This Article was full of that Judge stuff, so we just took it out.

ARTICLE IV
We can declare any place we want part of the United States so they can call their stuff "Made in the USA," but don't go thinking they get representation.

ARTICLE V
Amendments to the Constitution will only be for Really Important Stuff, like how scared we are of Homos and Foreign People.

ARTICLE VI
You can ignore any part of this Constitution if it gets in the way of Profit or something that gets Republicans elected.

ARTICLE VII
People are supposed to be afraid all the Time, otherwise they do too damn much Thinking.