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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:10:06 GMT

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Sunday, December 17, 2006

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:25:00 GMT

Einstein's Riddle! There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage.

The question is: Who owns the fish?

Hints:

The Brit lives in the red house.

The Swede keeps dogs as pets.

The Dane drinks tea.

The green house is on the left of the white house.

The green homeowner drinks coffee.

The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.

The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.

The man living in the center house drinks milk.

The Norwegian lives in the first house.

The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.

The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.

The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.

The German smokes prince.

The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

Einstein wrote this riddle early during the 19th century. He said 98% of the world could not solve it. Its not hard, you just need to pay attention and be patient.

Monday, November 27, 2006

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:38:35 GMT

Knowing your Limits

So I've decided to write a serious entry for once.

Today in class, I've come to the horrible realization that I've reached the limits of my brainpower.

Back in elementry and middle school everything was easy, if I got a bad grade it was because I simply didn't care about the subject and didn't try at all. I was never one to really care about my grades as long as I learned what I needed to learn. Then high school started, that was when I first saw the limits to my brain. Spanish for two years, no matter how hard I worked, I simply couldn't do well in it. Naturally I just lied to myself that I wasn't a language person and it was a subject that I didn't care much for anyways.

Now I'm in college, and I'm taking a high leveled math class. I studied my ass off for a whole week for one test and I still didn't do very well on the test. I would study the same way for all of my other classes, and I would do decent in them, but it seems as if this level of mathematics is simply too high for me. I admit I'm not working as hard as I can in the class. I should do the homework as it's being assigned, but thats hard to keep up with.

Its such a depressing feeling to feel as if my brain has a limit. No matter how hard I try, I won't be able to truely understand it. Am I the only one that has this problem? or has others not reached their limit yet? Anyone have any suggestions as to how I can overcome this weakness?

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:53:14 GMT

My Schedule next term....8 o'clock classes EVERYDAY

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DIS 01/MATH 448
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DIS 01/ECON 466
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:36:29 GMT

My Schedule this term Fall 06

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INTRO TO PROBABILITY & STAT I
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Sunday, August 20, 2006

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:30:52 GMT

I know this is old...but still amazes me when i read it:

If you take things for granted heres somethings to ponder about...

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.

If you can read this webpage, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

Take nothing for granted.

Something to think about

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If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:

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There would be:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans

52 would be female
48 would be male

70 would be nonwhite
30 would be white

70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian

89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the U.S.A.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:06:53 GMT

Perhaps this is a little vindictive but every once in a while I have to
smile when a big company is taught a lesson by a thinking citizen. A
little background: Neiman-Marcus, if you don't know already, is a very
expensive store; i.e.., they sell your typical $8.00 T-shirt for $50.00.
Let's let them have it!

THIS IS A TRUE STORY

My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a Neiman-Marcus Cafe in
Dallas, and we decided to have a small dessert. Because both of us are
such cookie lovers, we decided to try the "Neiman-Marcus" cookie.

It was so excellent that I asked if they would give me the recipe, and
the waitress said with a small frown, "I'm afraid not, but you can buy
the recipe."



Well, I asked how much, and she responded, "Only two fifty-it's a great
deal!" I agreed to that, and told her to just add it to my tab.



Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement, and the Neiman-Marcus
charge was $285.00! I looked again, and I remembered I had only spent
$9.95 for two salads and about $20.00 for a scarf.

As I glanced at the bottom of the statement, it said, "Cookie Recipe-
$250.00" That was outrageous!



I called Neiman's Accounting Department and told them the waitress said
it was "two fifty", which clearly does not mean "two hundred and fifty
dollars" by any reasonable interpretation of the phrase.

Neiman-Marcus refused to budge. They would not refund my money because,
according to them, "What the waitress told you is not our problem. You
have already seen the recipe. We absolutely will not refund your money
at this point." I explained to the Accounting Department lady the
criminal statues which govern fraud in the
state of Texas. I threatened to report them to the Better Business
Bureau and the Texas Attorney General's office for engaging in fraud. I
was basically told, "do what you want".



Don't bother thinking of how you can get even, and don't bother trying
to get any of your money back." I just said, "Okay, you folks got my
$250, and now I'm going to have $250 worth of fun." I told her that I
was going to see to it that every cookie lover in the United States with
an e- mail account has a $250
cookie recipe from Neiman-Marcus...for free.

She replied, "I wish you wouldn't do this." I said, "Well, perhaps you
should have thought of that before you ripped me off!" and slammed down
the phone.



So here it is! Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you can
possibly think of. I paid $250 for this, and I don't want Neiman-Marcus
to EVER make another penny off of this recipe!



NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES (Recipe may be halved)

       2 cups butter
       24 oz. chocolate chips
       4 cups flour
       2 cups brown sugar
       2 tsp. soda
       1 tsp. salt
       2 cups sugar
       1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
       5 cups blended oatmeal
       4 eggs
       2 tsp. baking powder
       2 tsp. Vanilla
       3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)

Measure oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine powder.

Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mix together
with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda.

Add chocolate chips, Hershey Bar, and nuts. Roll into balls, and place
two inches apart on a cookie sheet.

Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees.

Makes 112 cookies.

PLEASE READ THE RECIPE AND SEND IT TO EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN
E-MAIL ADDRESS!

THIS IS REALLY TERRIFIC! Have fun!!! This is not a joke-it's a true
story. Ride free, citizens!

Friday, July 14, 2006

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:51:00 GMT

A boss wondered why one of his most valued employees had not phoned in 
>sick one day. Having an urgent problem with one of the main computers, 
>he dialled the employee's home phone number and was greeted with a 
>child's whisper. 
> 
>"Hello." 
> 
>"Is your daddy home?" he asked. 
> 
>"Yes," whispered the small voice. 
> 
>May I talk with him?" 
> 
>The child whispered, "No." 
> 
>Surprised and wanting to talk with an adult, the boss asked, "Is your 
>Mommy 
>there?" 
> 
>"Yes." 
> 
>"May I talk with her?" 
> 
>Again the small voice whispered, "No." 
> 
>Hoping there was somebody with whom he could leave a message, the boss 
>asked, "Is anybody else there?" 
> 
>"Yes," whispered the child, "a policeman" 
> 
> 
>Wondering what a cop would be doing at his employee's home, the boss 
>asked, "May I speak with the policeman?" 
> 
> 
>"No, he's busy", whispered the child. 
> 
>"Busy doing what?" 
> 
>"Talking to Daddy and Mommy and the Fireman," came the whispered 
>answer. 
> 
>Growing more worried as he heard what sounded like a helicopter through

>the earpiece on the phone, the boss asked, "What is that noise?" 
> 
>"A helicopter" answered the whispering voice. 
> 
>"What is going on there?" demanded the boss, now truly apprehensive. 
> 
>Again, whispering, the child answered, 
>"The search team just landed the helicopter." 
> 
>Alarmed, concerned and a little frustrated the boss asked, "What are 
>they searching for?" 
> 
>Still whispering, the young voice replied with a muffled giggle: 
> 
> 
>"ME."

Friday, July 07, 2006

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:26:26 GMT

Friday, June 30, 2006

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:14:28 GMT

This actually happened at Harvard University in October of last year. In a biology class, the professor was discussing the high glucose levels found in semen. A young female (freshman) raised her hand and asked "If I understand, you're saying there is as much glucose in male semen as there is in sugar? "That's correct", responded the professor, going on to add statistical info. Raising her hand again, the girl asked, "Then why doesn't it taste sweet?"

After a stunned silence, the whole class burst out laughing, the poor girl's face turned bright red, and as she realized exactly what she had inadvertently said (or rather implied), she picked up her books without a word and walked out of class... and never returned.

However, as she was going out the door, the professor's reply was classic... Totally straight-faced he answered her question, "It doesn't taste sweet because the taste-buds for sweetness are on the tip of the tongue and not in the back of the throat."