How about dividing up the "Hollywood" sign into a million 1'x1' sections that can be sold as advertisements? 10 bucks a square per month.
Google "million dollar home page" for insight.
For any company that I can think of I can drop all of their expenditures into three buckets: labor to produce a product, 2) material to build the product and 3) energy for the production.
Given bucket 1 comes from the populous and 2 comes from Earth's resources what happens when energy is so cheap that it is no longer a limiting factor to production?
Regardless of cost it's still incredibly obnoxious having to listen to that crap. Particularly when someone either already has a long message or has gone out of his way to make a short one...
Then you would have hated my message around the time "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" was in its prime.
"Hi, this is Brian. Leave your name and number after the beep. If you would like me to return you call answer this question: What body of water has the longest shore line in the continental US?"
I rotated the question weekly and received many 8 second voice mails consisting of someone thinking out loud, hanging up in frustration and never leaving their intended message.
Remember that scene in Red October? "Give me a stopwatch and a map, and I'll fly the Alps in a plane with no windows". That was way cool.
I've spent many a trip figuring when (as in elapsed time, not distance) the next turn will come based on my speed, the mile marks and exit numbers on the map. I can usually get it within 15 seconds.
Cows like to eat grass but they are lazy. So they would prefer to graze where there is a lot of grass.
When vegetation grows on a hill, it is lusher on the sunny side of that hill. In the Northern hemisphere that side happens to face south.
Not only are cows always hungry and lazy, but they are also big. So big that keeping their center of gravity over their hooves is really important to them so they don't tip over. And the best way to do that on a hill is to face the top of the hill because it is easier to have your front legs above your back legs than it is to have at your lefts and rights at different heights.
So it's not that all cows face north, just the ones lucky enough to find the greener side of a hill.
Hope I make the lighting round. I've got some theories about mutilating aliens using Polaris to blind their victims on the approach.
Now if we could find something that kills off English sparrows and starlings in large numbers. Honeybees at least provide honey, but nobody can think of anything that those two kinds of birds are good for.
Men tend to know that they're beaten once they're on the ground,...
I think it is more likely that each of the contestants, on some level, is thinking that 'OK, we are both guys and are both capable of seriously injuring the other, so it is better that we both find a way to back off without coming to blows.'
This may be my once in a life time chance to share a quote someone that could appreciate it. It has been on my wall off and on for many years. While I've admired the hope it offers to anyone, you seem to have lived it.
"Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, is magnificent in that it turns the whole will toward effort and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty strips the material life entirely bare, and makes it hideous; from this arise inexpressible yearnings toward the ideal life. The rich young man has a hundred brilliant and coarse amusements, racing, hunting, dogs, cigars, gambling, banqueting, and the rest; busying the lower portions of the soul at the expense of its higher, more delicate ones. The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He enters God's theater free; he sees the sky, space, the stars, the flowers, the children, the humanity in which he suffers, the creation in which he shines. He looks at humanity so much that he sees the soul, he looks at creation so much that he sees God. He dreams, he feels that he is great; he dreams some more, and he feels that he is tender. From the egotism of the suffering man he passes to the compassion of the contemplating man. A wonderful feeling springs up within him, forgetfulness of self, and pity for all. In thinking of the countless enjoyments nature offers, gives, and gives lavishly to open souls, and refuses to closed souls, he, a millionare of intelligence, comes to grieve for the millionaires of money." -- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
I'd love to take a poll of all the folks that *never* liked SW. I would bet most of them were north of driving age when they first saw it.
There is something magical about a kid's imagination when they watch those old favorites. Lucas and Disney depend on it.
Prove it to yourself, if you are in your thirties watch "Stand by Me" again. It's not nearly as moving now. And you'll be able to do the same thing with "Braveheart" in ten years.
You bring up a good point that I've voiced many times. Whenever I hear a co-worker say "Live today as if it is your last," I have to reply that that is some of the worst advice ever. Because if it really was my last day, and I knew it, I would go to work for 1 hour to say goodbye to a few dear friends; drive to the airport; give my car to someone waiting for a taxi; buy a ticket on CitiBank's dime; and visit my family.
The problem is, it isn't my last day and now I'm further in debt, car-less and in Arizona.
A better version is "I will live today as if it is *your* last day".
Yes he is Hindu, but I still want them to remove his line to Homer on the 4th of July episode: "Celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it."
It never ceases to amaze me when people include venders in their disaster recover plan. Do you think NewEgg is going to give a rat's ass about Timmy, who needs a new PC sent to refugee camp #14, north of the big smoldering crater, when Citi Bank, State Farm, the National Guard,... are ordering hardware in blocks of 100 and paying 10 times market value.
I've heard the same distorted, egocentric behavior from IT managers in DRP meetings over and over. Back up in 24 hours my ass.
Good point. I would bet George could have delivered three great movies if he delivered them going backwards from ANH.
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Wonder if you've ever had the experience where you are typing something, you think one word, and another perfectly spelled "other" word appears on the screen/paper?
Every now and boobs but it usually happens when my mind hasn't quiet finish another thought.
I think the ability to read and correctly key a code requires a level of consiousness similar to searching a room.
I beg to differ. I once gave someone perfect instructions on how to program the VCR while hovering between wake and sleep. Don't remember it at all. Must be Zombie skills.
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How about dividing up the "Hollywood" sign into a million 1'x1' sections that can be sold as advertisements? 10 bucks a square per month. Google "million dollar home page" for insight.
For any company that I can think of I can drop all of their expenditures into three buckets: labor to produce a product, 2) material to build the product and 3) energy for the production. Given bucket 1 comes from the populous and 2 comes from Earth's resources what happens when energy is so cheap that it is no longer a limiting factor to production?
Then you would have hated my message around the time "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" was in its prime.
"Hi, this is Brian. Leave your name and number after the beep. If you would like me to return you call answer this question: What body of water has the longest shore line in the continental US?"
I rotated the question weekly and received many 8 second voice mails consisting of someone thinking out loud, hanging up in frustration and never leaving their intended message.
Remember that scene in Red October? "Give me a stopwatch and a map, and I'll fly the Alps in a plane with no windows". That was way cool. I've spent many a trip figuring when (as in elapsed time, not distance) the next turn will come based on my speed, the mile marks and exit numbers on the map. I can usually get it within 15 seconds.
Cows like to eat grass but they are lazy. So they would prefer to graze where there is a lot of grass.
When vegetation grows on a hill, it is lusher on the sunny side of that hill. In the Northern hemisphere that side happens to face south.
Not only are cows always hungry and lazy, but they are also big. So big that keeping their center of gravity over their hooves is really important to them so they don't tip over. And the best way to do that on a hill is to face the top of the hill because it is easier to have your front legs above your back legs than it is to have at your lefts and rights at different heights.
So it's not that all cows face north, just the ones lucky enough to find the greener side of a hill.
Hope I make the lighting round. I've got some theories about mutilating aliens using Polaris to blind their victims on the approach.
And since you posted from Beijing, and used letter that could spell Tibet, you will never see it.
But can you read it?
Game, set and match to Moraelin
Carrying coconuts?
Don't listen to parent. If you're 44, Parkinsons is right around the corner. Then your wife will think you a god.
I think it is more likely that each of the contestants, on some level, is thinking that 'OK, we are both guys and are both capable of seriously injuring the other, so it is better that we both find a way to back off without coming to blows.'
I think he means we become the pets.
This may be my once in a life time chance to share a quote someone that could appreciate it. It has been on my wall off and on for many years. While I've admired the hope it offers to anyone, you seem to have lived it.
"Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, is magnificent in that it turns the whole will toward effort and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty strips the material life entirely bare, and makes it hideous; from this arise inexpressible yearnings toward the ideal life. The rich young man has a hundred brilliant and coarse amusements, racing, hunting, dogs, cigars, gambling, banqueting, and the rest; busying the lower portions of the soul at the expense of its higher, more delicate ones. The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He enters God's theater free; he sees the sky, space, the stars, the flowers, the children, the humanity in which he suffers, the creation in which he shines. He looks at humanity so much that he sees the soul, he looks at creation so much that he sees God. He dreams, he feels that he is great; he dreams some more, and he feels that he is tender. From the egotism of the suffering man he passes to the compassion of the contemplating man. A wonderful feeling springs up within him, forgetfulness of self, and pity for all. In thinking of the countless enjoyments nature offers, gives, and gives lavishly to open souls, and refuses to closed souls, he, a millionare of intelligence, comes to grieve for the millionaires of money." -- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Thanks for the chance to share, Brian
Jmorris, Please hand over your character sheet. I'm imposing an alignment shift. You are now Lawful-Neutral with Evil tenancies.
Best Post Ever by a gnazi.
There is something magical about a kid's imagination when they watch those old favorites. Lucas and Disney depend on it.
Prove it to yourself, if you are in your thirties watch "Stand by Me" again. It's not nearly as moving now. And you'll be able to do the same thing with "Braveheart" in ten years.
The problem is, it isn't my last day and now I'm further in debt, car-less and in Arizona.
A better version is "I will live today as if it is *your* last day".
Sure the super models are cute but they really don't compare to the handful of Bettys that I work with.
I call it "Jonesing locally, not globally."
So maybe it's not that they are too perfect, it's that they are too remote.
What is better for the ego than getting modded +5? Getting a reply from CmdrTaco.
Yes he is Hindu, but I still want them to remove his line to Homer on the 4th of July episode: "Celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it."
I've heard the same distorted, egocentric behavior from IT managers in DRP meetings over and over. Back up in 24 hours my ass.
bkskin has a point. You don't get jet propulsion smarts on the streets.
Good point. I would bet George could have delivered three great movies if he delivered them going backwards from ANH.
Every now and boobs but it usually happens when my mind hasn't quiet finish another thought.
I beg to differ. I once gave someone perfect instructions on how to program the VCR while hovering between wake and sleep. Don't remember it at all. Must be Zombie skills.