Coworker: What does it mean if the Groundhog comes out of his hole, slips on the ice, and ends up in traction? Perpetual winter?
Weather channel has older white guy and young black woman anchors. Apparently still no place for middle-aged Asian transvestites.
Egyptian transformation less interesting than (lack of or occasional spurts of) corporate transformation: outcomes of latter still undefined
Weather has knocked out information systems like phones and internet in places. I guess they'll be forced to rely on their knowledge and wisdom systems.
Tuesday, groundhog day. Wednesday, Chinese year of rabbit begins. Thursday, start of chipmunk month. Good week for rodent awareness.
Learned why penguins waddle. If they took large strides they could slip.
If ratio of personal wealth to GDP for Mubarak was the same in US, Obama would be worth $2.1 TRILLION. Mubarak is worth $70B. Egypt's GDP is $500B.
Do you know how people wildly gesture and twist in an effort to influence the bowling ball they've already released? That's parenting.
Super Bowl would be more interesting with same stakes as when Visigoths and Huns fought. Fans of winners get the women and homes of opposing fans.
Green Bay's population is 100,000 and 83,000 people are waiting for season tickets. Est. year you'd get tickets if you applied today, 2074.
Games provide flow but rarely provide meaning. Education provides meaning but rarely provides flow. Time to bring gamers into the classroom?
Riots in muddled east stem, in part, from bad job market. Economies are now limited by ability to generate jobs - not products.
Valentine's Day is to love what birthdays are to happy. At least no one sings "be romantic to her" while we stare self-consciously at a box of chocolates.
If you wanted the players to take losing seriously, wouldn't your team name be something other than cavalier?
Texting STOP It's like having a telegraph in your pocket STOP AT&T knew they'd be vindicated for holding onto the rights to that last T STOP
Shares traded on NYSE one day in 1830: 31. Shares traded 4 Jan 2001: 2 billion. Doubled every decade to 64 million times.
Catholic confession app. Assange and Jerry Springer are already funding R&D into how to hack the feed. http://bit.ly/eJP8ys
Curious. Grocery store item labeled, "restaurant quality." Didn't "tastes home made" used to be the compliment of choice?
Bad: increasingly employees face the same risk to future income as entrepreneurs. Worse: they don't share the same potential for returns.
MS wants license plate for KKK founder. I like the idea. It's an easy way for a community to tag and monitor the demented and hateful.
Walking is easy until you overthink it. At least that's what I keep volunteering to kids in strollers.
His teachers knew Abe had a great future when after electing him class president, his classmates voted to make his birthday a school holiday.
Still a little confused about whole Egyptian thing. When did the Pharaohs resign and why didn't that get any coverage?
Wonder if in the future electronic devices, instead of spending their remaining energy beeping, will just crawl over to a wall socket.
I consider myself tech savvy. For one thing, I regularly appear in 3-D.
House Republicans propose 0 budget for NPR. So awesome. For-profit news is obviously superior. Just compare BBC & PBS w/ Fox & MSNBC.
Obama presented his new budget at a middle school. That makes sense. Junior high kids can't seem to get enough talk about federal budgets.
Conclusion after full day in conference: powerpoint is to communication what hubcaps are to transportation.
The further removed you are from a situation, the more simply you can speak about it because actual situations are rarely simple.
20th century: people program software. 21st century: software programs people.
He said that he had a couple of thoughts. It sounded to me, though, like the thoughts had him.
Since 2005, the ratio of approvals for offshore gas and oil to wind projects is 4,603 to 1, about the same as ratio of inertia to vision.
Wonder how long it'll before the first NBA team has a team tattoo artist.
Caught my computer friending Watson on facebook without me. Great. Now our computers are going to start feeling superior to us.
CA - pop. 37 million / 8th largest economy in the world.Obama visits for 1 day? How about a law requiring the president live here odd years?
NFL announces that it must drastically cut players' pay and benefits in order to remain competitive with China. http://yhoo.it/hSsHNn
Interactive graph. From 1960 to 83, poor shared prosperity w/ rich. Since then? Only the prosperous prospered http://bit.ly/eN1fKn
Ever noticed? Apparent - something obvious. A parent - someone clueless.
Emotionally pithed. Just back from Old Globe. Saw Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Miller was a genius. No wonder Marilyn fell for him.
Rush Limbaugh says that first lady is no swimsuit model then announces a new endorsement deal with speedo.
I confess. I want 3-D sound.http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/03/what-perfection-sounds-like/8377/
Writing: the process of banging your brain against the page until words come out.
Saw gas at $3.99 /gal. Oil by barrel is only $2.35. I think I'll just start making my own gas at home.
My brain hurts.
Presumably it is with some measure of guilt that the San Diego weather gods have returned us to our regularly scheduled program. Gorgeous.
It's great that they came up with the Oscars so that movie stars could finally get some praise and attention.
The distinction between best dressed and worst dressed seems so arbitrary. Everything cool eventually looks geeky and vice versa, no?
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