Now to answer the question of the greatest President....... I vote, Ronald Reagan.
19 August 2008
14 August 2008
A Little Rant...
Why is it when I pick up a cell phone I can dial ten digits 360-555-1212 for example and the call will connect regardless of the call being local or long distance. However when I make a long distance phone call from a land line and forget to dial the "1"... I get the annoying tone and voice telling me that I "must first dial a 1 when calling the number"..... We are the Greatest Nation on Gods Green Earth and our technologies are second to none. If the the phone companies computer is smart enough to know I am not making a local phone call..... Can't the computer just, CONNECT THE DARN PHONE CALL ANYWAYS!
The End.
The End.
13 August 2008
Compounding Ignorance.....
This is a letter taken from NPR's Car Talk. Tom and Ray (also known as Click and Clack) host a weekly Call in Radio Show where they help callers with their car problems. I find it very entertaining.
"I am writing to offer profound thanks to you for resolving an important philosophical question that has been heatedly debated for the last twenty years. The rumination began on a construction site one summer in the early 1970's, as my friend Jamie and I were working our way through college. The question we raised and have agonized over, lo these many years, is one that I've never read about in any philosophical treatise, and yet I have found it has applied to countless situations and conversations overheard in bars, repair shops, sporting events, political debates, etc. etc. etc.
"Posit the question: Do two people who don't know what they are talking about know more or less than one person who doesn't know what he's talking about? (Pardon the un-PC masculine pronoun, but I have found this to be, most predominately, a male phenomenon.)
"In your recent conversations regarding electric brakes on a cattle carrier, I believe you definitely answered this query and have put our debate to rest. Amazingly enough, you proved that even in a case where one person might know nothing about a subject, it is possible for two people to know even less!
"One person will only go so far out on a limb in his construction of deeply hypothetical structures, and will often end with a shrug or a raising of hands to indicate the dismissability of his particular take on a subject. With two people, the intricacies, the gives and takes, the wherefores and why-nots, can become a veritable pas-de-deux of breathtaking speculation, interwoven in such a way that apologies or gestures of doubt are rendered unnecessary.
"I had always suspected this was the case, but no argument I could have built from my years of observation would have so satisfyingly closed the door on the subject as your performance on the cattle carrier call. To begin your comments by saying, "We'll answer your question if you tell us how electric brakes work" and "We've never heard of electric brakes" and then indulge in lengthy theoretical hypostulations on the whys and wherefores of the caller's problem allowed me to observe that you were finally putting this gnarly question to rest.
"I am forever indebted to you for the great service you have performed! I'm truly impressed that it took so many years of listening to your show to finally have this matter resolved."
Sincerely, Andy R.
P.S. If you say hello to Jamie in Ojai, California, you'll save me a long distance phone call.
P.P.S. If you read this on the air, can you at least send me one of your cheap audio cassettes, so one day my grandchildren will know I accomplished something in my lifetime. "
Maybe you had to be there.
"I am writing to offer profound thanks to you for resolving an important philosophical question that has been heatedly debated for the last twenty years. The rumination began on a construction site one summer in the early 1970's, as my friend Jamie and I were working our way through college. The question we raised and have agonized over, lo these many years, is one that I've never read about in any philosophical treatise, and yet I have found it has applied to countless situations and conversations overheard in bars, repair shops, sporting events, political debates, etc. etc. etc.
"Posit the question: Do two people who don't know what they are talking about know more or less than one person who doesn't know what he's talking about? (Pardon the un-PC masculine pronoun, but I have found this to be, most predominately, a male phenomenon.)
"In your recent conversations regarding electric brakes on a cattle carrier, I believe you definitely answered this query and have put our debate to rest. Amazingly enough, you proved that even in a case where one person might know nothing about a subject, it is possible for two people to know even less!
"One person will only go so far out on a limb in his construction of deeply hypothetical structures, and will often end with a shrug or a raising of hands to indicate the dismissability of his particular take on a subject. With two people, the intricacies, the gives and takes, the wherefores and why-nots, can become a veritable pas-de-deux of breathtaking speculation, interwoven in such a way that apologies or gestures of doubt are rendered unnecessary.
"I had always suspected this was the case, but no argument I could have built from my years of observation would have so satisfyingly closed the door on the subject as your performance on the cattle carrier call. To begin your comments by saying, "We'll answer your question if you tell us how electric brakes work" and "We've never heard of electric brakes" and then indulge in lengthy theoretical hypostulations on the whys and wherefores of the caller's problem allowed me to observe that you were finally putting this gnarly question to rest.
"I am forever indebted to you for the great service you have performed! I'm truly impressed that it took so many years of listening to your show to finally have this matter resolved."
Sincerely, Andy R.
P.S. If you say hello to Jamie in Ojai, California, you'll save me a long distance phone call.
P.P.S. If you read this on the air, can you at least send me one of your cheap audio cassettes, so one day my grandchildren will know I accomplished something in my lifetime. "
Maybe you had to be there.
04 August 2008
McCain Compares Obama to Paris Hilton?
Come on John.... Think of something original...
Obama did that himself 3 years ago.
Rumor Has It.....
One of the benefits of working where I do is that I get the inside scoop on whats coming to our little town......
This will probably be a combined store with KFC as they are moving from next to Safeway..... so we already have a Taco Hut in town.... Now we will have a KFSilver's.
This will probably be a combined store with KFC as they are moving from next to Safeway..... so we already have a Taco Hut in town.... Now we will have a KFSilver's.
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