October 25, 2009
Quote of the Week --- October 26, 2009
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
– Napoleon Hill, author
Windows 7 Cavalry Riding To Microsoft's Rescue
"Everyone expected Vista to lead a massive upgrade cycle, and when that didn't happen, it was a disappointment," said Todd Swank, vice president of marketing at Nor-Tech, a Burnsville, Minn.-based system builder. "This time around, expectations for Windows 7 generally pretty low, especially among system builders. I expect Windows 7 to exceed these expectations."
Read The Full Article Here
Read The Full Article Here
The ACME Costume Company
A bald man with a wooden leg gets invited to a Halloween party.
He doesn't know what costume to wear to hide his head and his leg so he writes to a costume company to explain his problem. A few days later he received a parcel with the following note:
Dear Sir,
Please find enclosed a pirate's outfit. The spotted handkerchief will cover your bald head and, with your wooden leg, you will be just right as a pirate.
Very truly yours, Acme Costume Co.
The man thinks this is terrible because they have emphasized his wooden leg and so he writes a letter of complaint. A week goes by and he receives another parcel and a note, which says:
Dear Sir,
Please find enclosed a monk's costume The long robe will cover your wooden leg and, with your bald head, you will really look the part.
Very truly yours, Acme Costume Co.
Now the man is really upset since they have gone from emphasizing his wooden leg to emphasizing his bald head so again he writes the company another nasty letter of complaint. The next day he gets a small parcel and a note, which reads:
Dear Sir,
We have TRIED our very BEST .
Please find enclosed a bottle of molasses and a bag of crushed nuts. Pour the molasses over your bald head, pat on the crushed nuts, stick your wooden leg up your ass and go as a caramel apple!
Very truly yours, Acme Costume Co.
He doesn't know what costume to wear to hide his head and his leg so he writes to a costume company to explain his problem. A few days later he received a parcel with the following note:
Dear Sir,
Please find enclosed a pirate's outfit. The spotted handkerchief will cover your bald head and, with your wooden leg, you will be just right as a pirate.
Very truly yours, Acme Costume Co.
The man thinks this is terrible because they have emphasized his wooden leg and so he writes a letter of complaint. A week goes by and he receives another parcel and a note, which says:
Dear Sir,
Please find enclosed a monk's costume The long robe will cover your wooden leg and, with your bald head, you will really look the part.
Very truly yours, Acme Costume Co.
Now the man is really upset since they have gone from emphasizing his wooden leg to emphasizing his bald head so again he writes the company another nasty letter of complaint. The next day he gets a small parcel and a note, which reads:
Dear Sir,
We have TRIED our very BEST .
Please find enclosed a bottle of molasses and a bag of crushed nuts. Pour the molasses over your bald head, pat on the crushed nuts, stick your wooden leg up your ass and go as a caramel apple!
Very truly yours, Acme Costume Co.
The Real Three Bears
The Three Bears and Mummy..
A far more accurate account of the events of that fateful morning....
Baby bear goes downstairs, sits in his small chair at the table.
He looks into his small bowl. It is empty. 'Who's been eating my porridge?' he squeaks.
Daddy Bear arrives at the big table and sits in his big chair. He looks into his big bowl and it is also empty. 'Who's been eating my porridge?!?' he roars.
Mummy Bear puts her head through the serving hatch from the kitchen and yells, 'For God's sake, how many times do I have to go through this with you idiots? It was Mummy Bear who got up first. It was Mummy Bear who woke everyone in the house. It was Mummy Bear who made the coffee. It was Mummy Bear who unloaded the dishwasher from last night and put everything away. It was Mummy Bear who swept the floor in the kitchen. It was Mummy Bear who went out in the cold early morning air to fetch The newspaper and croissants. It was Mummy Bear who set the damn table.
'It was Mummy Bear who walked the bloody dog, cleaned the cat's litter tray,gave them their food, and refilled their water.
'And now that you've decided to drag your sorry bear-arses downstairs and grace Mummy Bear with your grumpy presence, listen carefully, because I'm only going to say this once....
'I HAVEN'T MADE THE **** PORRIDGE YET!!!!’
A far more accurate account of the events of that fateful morning....
Baby bear goes downstairs, sits in his small chair at the table.
He looks into his small bowl. It is empty. 'Who's been eating my porridge?' he squeaks.
Daddy Bear arrives at the big table and sits in his big chair. He looks into his big bowl and it is also empty. 'Who's been eating my porridge?!?' he roars.
Mummy Bear puts her head through the serving hatch from the kitchen and yells, 'For God's sake, how many times do I have to go through this with you idiots? It was Mummy Bear who got up first. It was Mummy Bear who woke everyone in the house. It was Mummy Bear who made the coffee. It was Mummy Bear who unloaded the dishwasher from last night and put everything away. It was Mummy Bear who swept the floor in the kitchen. It was Mummy Bear who went out in the cold early morning air to fetch The newspaper and croissants. It was Mummy Bear who set the damn table.
'It was Mummy Bear who walked the bloody dog, cleaned the cat's litter tray,gave them their food, and refilled their water.
'And now that you've decided to drag your sorry bear-arses downstairs and grace Mummy Bear with your grumpy presence, listen carefully, because I'm only going to say this once....
'I HAVEN'T MADE THE **** PORRIDGE YET!!!!’
October 20, 2009
Response to Two Trillion Tons Video
I received this email from a friend of mine who lives in Japan and wasn't particularly happy with this video I posted on Sunday:
http://shortarmguy.blogspot.com/2009/10/two-trillion-tons.html
Hi Todd,
Loved the dog playing basketball video. We have a little chihuahua and I'd love to teach him to do some amusing trick like that.
Have to admit I wasn't so crazy about the The Ghost of Tennessee Ernie Ford clip. Conservatives are now complaining about deficits? Did they have laryngitis for 8 years while Bush rang up the largest deficits in the history of the country?
If you follow some of the economists who have a decent track record, like Paul Krugman (if you've got a few minutes, this piece is quite illuminating http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html?_r=1, Dean Baker (http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press), Nouriel Roubini, etc., the Obama administration had no choice but to spend heavily to keep the economy from completely collapsing. The Bush administration also knew this and you can see this by looking at the increased spending (stimulus and bailouts) at the end of their term.
Another line in the lyrics (by the way, this was written by Lars Larson, a complete a#&hole who cut his teeth in Portland, Oregon when we lived there) says "No recovery but deeper in debt." Somebody might want to tell that to Wall St. (up about 55% last time I checked) and the statisticians that track the economy. There are still huge problems, but compared to where we were 6-12 months ago, it's hard to say there's been no recovery. I personally was scared enough of a collapse that I pulled almost all my investments out of the market.
As for the dollar being trash, part of the reason we're in the mess we're in is because both Democratic and Republican administrations have had a "strong dollar" policy. The dollar has been overvalued. An overvalued dollar makes imports cheap and exports expensive. That's why we've had ever-increasing trade deficits for many years. I'm sure you've heard the US complain about China manipulating its currency to keep it cheap. The US has done the opposite. If the currency markets were free, one of the basic rules of economics would take hold and the US dollar's value would sharply drop. That's what happens by nature when you have trade imbalances. That's not Obama's fault. That's a legacy he's inherited. If we think the Chinese gain an unfair advantage by having a cheap currency, why wouldn't we also want that?
Obama governing from the Left and playing from Marx's book? Oh, please! Most liberals are quite disappointed with how centrist he's been.
"I work hard for my money, this I don't deserve... " Right...Americans ran up enormous personal debt and have probably less financial discipline than politicians...maybe they really are getting what they deserve?
Sorry for the rant, but I just had to see mis-information being spread. Too many people buy into it too easily.
KBJ
The Ghost of Tennessee Ernie Ford
Lyrics by Jim Gossett and Lars Larson, Westwood Radio One
Obama got elected, now there is no end;
The Democrats wanna to tax and spend,
Tax and spend us into bankruptcy,
With a tax-cheat runnin' our Treasury.
You spend two trillion bucks...
what do you get?
No recovery but deeper in debt
St. Peter better call me fore its too late;
I owe my soul to the welfare state!
Obama is a leftist, as he can't deny;
Govern from the center, was a great big lie,
Karl Marx Manifest is his playbook,
And you and me soon will be on the hook.
You're spendin' two trillion bucks...
in unsecured cash,
Soon the dollar will be pure trash.
Our bondholders we have to appease;
We owe our soul to the Red Chinese.
Obama and his people are makin' a mess,
Bernanke's fired up the printin' press,
Printin' money that don't exist,
No wonder America is gettin' peeved!
You spend two trillion bucks,
They ain't done yet!
Obama and Pelosi (are) pilin' up the debt
I work hard for my money,
this I don't deserve...
We owe our souls...
to the Federal Reserve!
http://shortarmguy.blogspot.com/2009/10/two-trillion-tons.html
Hi Todd,
Loved the dog playing basketball video. We have a little chihuahua and I'd love to teach him to do some amusing trick like that.
Have to admit I wasn't so crazy about the The Ghost of Tennessee Ernie Ford clip. Conservatives are now complaining about deficits? Did they have laryngitis for 8 years while Bush rang up the largest deficits in the history of the country?
If you follow some of the economists who have a decent track record, like Paul Krugman (if you've got a few minutes, this piece is quite illuminating http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html?_r=1, Dean Baker (http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press), Nouriel Roubini, etc., the Obama administration had no choice but to spend heavily to keep the economy from completely collapsing. The Bush administration also knew this and you can see this by looking at the increased spending (stimulus and bailouts) at the end of their term.
Another line in the lyrics (by the way, this was written by Lars Larson, a complete a#&hole who cut his teeth in Portland, Oregon when we lived there) says "No recovery but deeper in debt." Somebody might want to tell that to Wall St. (up about 55% last time I checked) and the statisticians that track the economy. There are still huge problems, but compared to where we were 6-12 months ago, it's hard to say there's been no recovery. I personally was scared enough of a collapse that I pulled almost all my investments out of the market.
As for the dollar being trash, part of the reason we're in the mess we're in is because both Democratic and Republican administrations have had a "strong dollar" policy. The dollar has been overvalued. An overvalued dollar makes imports cheap and exports expensive. That's why we've had ever-increasing trade deficits for many years. I'm sure you've heard the US complain about China manipulating its currency to keep it cheap. The US has done the opposite. If the currency markets were free, one of the basic rules of economics would take hold and the US dollar's value would sharply drop. That's what happens by nature when you have trade imbalances. That's not Obama's fault. That's a legacy he's inherited. If we think the Chinese gain an unfair advantage by having a cheap currency, why wouldn't we also want that?
Obama governing from the Left and playing from Marx's book? Oh, please! Most liberals are quite disappointed with how centrist he's been.
"I work hard for my money, this I don't deserve... " Right...Americans ran up enormous personal debt and have probably less financial discipline than politicians...maybe they really are getting what they deserve?
Sorry for the rant, but I just had to see mis-information being spread. Too many people buy into it too easily.
KBJ
The Ghost of Tennessee Ernie Ford
Lyrics by Jim Gossett and Lars Larson, Westwood Radio One
Obama got elected, now there is no end;
The Democrats wanna to tax and spend,
Tax and spend us into bankruptcy,
With a tax-cheat runnin' our Treasury.
You spend two trillion bucks...
what do you get?
No recovery but deeper in debt
St. Peter better call me fore its too late;
I owe my soul to the welfare state!
Obama is a leftist, as he can't deny;
Govern from the center, was a great big lie,
Karl Marx Manifest is his playbook,
And you and me soon will be on the hook.
You're spendin' two trillion bucks...
in unsecured cash,
Soon the dollar will be pure trash.
Our bondholders we have to appease;
We owe our soul to the Red Chinese.
Obama and his people are makin' a mess,
Bernanke's fired up the printin' press,
Printin' money that don't exist,
No wonder America is gettin' peeved!
You spend two trillion bucks,
They ain't done yet!
Obama and Pelosi (are) pilin' up the debt
I work hard for my money,
this I don't deserve...
We owe our souls...
to the Federal Reserve!
The Largest Wolf Kill To Date
This Wolf was shot recently in Drayton Valley, Alberta..which is near Edmonton about 3 hours North of Calgary. The wolf weighs over 230lbs smashing the previous record of 175lbs. Wouldn't want to run into this puppy in the woods.
Apparently a bear hunter witnessed this wolf chase off a big black bear at his baiting station.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
