Archive for January, 2006Police Computers Clash With Dunkin’ Donuts System For Keene, New Hampshire police officers, getting through the drive-through at Dunkin’ Donuts can be quite a nuisance. Now this is funny. Here’s the link ot the progess reports for the cave studies out West. Umm, well, while it appears to be a novelty at first glance, it works, and, it seems as though it makes it through China’s National Firewall even though the real Google.com doesn’t. Score one for weirdness. Many people in their twenties do not think much about their retirement or savings in general, but I guess I’m strange and do. My favorite line in this article is… “Have a $3,000 plasma TV, but you haven’t funded a Roth IRA”? Seriously though, I hope everyone around me learns sooner than later to manage their money, debt and make good financial decisions in their life. You may have that nice TV, Prada purse or PSP now, but is any of that really going to matter in five, ten or thirty years? I have a simple theory on purchasing material things that has worked nicely for me over the past years. “Don’t buy anything over $100 that does not appreciate in value, does not fufill a need or will not last a lifetime”. Granted, do treat yourself every once in a while All of which I could easily have paid for with my fully funded Roth IRA, but didn’t. Get it?… Good.
It may not be the last laugh, but on Friday afternoon, after the close of the stock market, Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple Computer, shared an e-mail chuckle with his employees at the expense of Dell, a big rival. The message was prompted by the 12 percent surge in Apple’s stock price last week, which pushed the company’s market capitalization to $72.13 billion, passing Dell’s value of $71.97 billion. In 1997, shortly after Jobs returned to Apple, the company he helped start in 1976, Dell’s founder and chairman, Michael Dell, was asked at a technology conference what might be done to fix Apple, then deeply troubled financially. “What would I do?” Dell said to an audience of several thousand information technology managers. “I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.” On Friday, apparently savoring the moment, Jobs sent a brief e-mail message to Apple employees, which read: “Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn’t perfect at predicting the future. Based on today’s stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. Steve.” Article at The New York Times By John Markoff C/Net reports that” at the International Rubik’s Cube competition held at the Exploratorium here, Lo took just 11.13 seconds to set the world record for solving of one of the iconic red, white, blue, green and yellow cubes.” Anyone on this list finish a Rubics cube in less than a minute? Not me…… From the Ohio State University and World Science staff: Scientists have long thought coyotes intently avoid cities, but a new study has found the opposite. Global warming, love it or hate it, has impacts that have a cascading effect on everything around us.
Not sure if any of this is real or not, but I found interesting, or a very well done hoax. Enjoy. Direct Link to the movie. One more follow up link. I have reposted this article to the top of the site because of a GREAT comment posted to this article by our very own Zogel. It is a must read. This is a good starter list, but I have a few extra.
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