Got some extra time on your hands.... Here's something to keep you busy

bob3160 · 2007-05-16T23:34:01.000Z

Can you survive for 18 second? ??? ;D

system · 2007-05-17T22:50:13.000Z

no…14 seconds and wasn’t easy :

Click the screen to make a flower garden
http://www.procreo.jp/labo/flower_garden.swf

bob3160 · 2007-05-17T23:31:41.000Z

A little Texas geography lesson:

Texas locations

Here’s a list of actual places to travel in Texas:

Need to be cheered up?

           Happy, Texas 79042

           Pep , Texas 79353

           Smiley , Texas 78159

           Paradise , Texas 76073

           Rainbow , Texas 76077

           Sweet Home , Texas 77987

           Comfort , Texas 78013

           Friendship, Texas 76530

Love the Sun?

           Sun City , Texas 78628

           Sunrise , Texas 76661

           Sunset, Texas 76270

           Sundown, Texas 79372

           Sunray , Texas 79086

           Sunny Side , Texas 77423

           Sunnyvale, Texas 775182

Want something to eat?

           Bacon , Texas 76301

           Noodle , Texas 79536

           Oatmeal , Texas 78605

           Turkey , Texas 79261

           Trout , Texas 75789

           Sugar Land , Texas 77479

           Salty, Texas 76567

           Rice , Texas 75155

           And top it off with:

           Sweetwater , Texas 79556

Why travel to other cities? Texas has them all!

            Atlanta, Texas 75551

            Detroit , Texas 75436

            Colorado City , Texas 79512

            Denver City , Texas 79323

            Nevada , Texas 75173

            Memphis , Texas 79245

            Miami , Texas 79059

            Boston , Texas 75570

            Santa Fe , Texas 77517

            Tennessee Colony , Texas 75861

            Reno , Texas 75462

Feel like traveling outside the country? Don’t bother buying a plane ticket!

           Athens , Texas    75751

            Canadian , Texas 79014

            China , Texas 77613

            Egypt , Texas 77436

            Italy, TX 76651

            Turkey , Texas 79261

            London , Texas 76854

            New London , Texas 75682

            Paris , Texas 75460

No need to travel to Washington D.C.

              Whitehouse ,  Texas 75791

We even have a city named after our planet!

              Earth , Texas 79031

And a city named after our State!

             Texas City , Texas 77590

Exhausted?

              Energy , Texas 76452

Cold?

              Blanket , Texas   76432

              Winters, Texas

Like to read about History?

             Santa Anna,  Texas

             Goliad, Texas

             Alamo, Texas

             Gun Barrel City, Texas

Need Office Supplies?

             Staples , Texas 78670

Men are from Mars, woman are from

             Venus , Texas 76084

You guessed it… it’s on the state line…

             Texline , Texas 79087

For the kids…

             Kermit , Texas 79745

             Elmo , Texas 75118

             Nemo , Texas 76070

             Tarzan , Texas 79783

             Winnie , Texas 77665

             Sylvester , Texas 79560

Other city names in Texas , to make you smile… :

             Flower Mound, Texas 75022

             Frognot , Texas 75424

             Bigfoot , Texas 78005

             Hogeye , Texas 75423

             Cactus , Texas 79013

             Notrees , Texas 79759

             Best, Texas 76932

             Veribest , Texas 76886

             Kickapoo , Texas 75763

             Dime Box, Texas

             Telephone , Texas 75488

             Telegraph , Texas 76883

             Whiteface , Texas 79379

             Twitty, Texas 79079

Have a Good Day!

P.S. Whoops, left out

              Muleshoe

              Cut n shoot,

              Hoop And Holler,

              Ding Dong,     and don't forget......

              Farewell , Texas

And, of course, there is a place in Texas that is…

               KNOTT, TEXAS

DavidR · 2007-05-17T23:33:40.000Z

I assume those figures are the Zip Code and not the population ;D

system · 2007-05-17T23:39:02.000Z

i’m sure it’s not the IQ level ;D
isn’t there an avast,texas :

click pic to supersize :

system · 2007-05-18T21:39:16.000Z

screaming beans :
http://simon.supermegaactionplus.com/beans.html

system · 2007-05-19T13:33:10.000Z

Talk Like A Pilot Day
I say old bean, are you familar with ‘Talk Like a Pilot Day.’ You know what? Tally ho, that’s today! Want to know what all this malarky is about? I’m jolly glad I can tell you.
It’s about talking like a pilot for a day, old chap. It’s that simple. It’d be even better if you look like one too. Just think Biggles. Before he bought the farm that is. Or didn’t he?
Anyway, today, Saturday May 19, 2007, is the First International Talk Like a Pilot Day. Chocks away!
http://www.talklikeapilot.org/

system · 2007-05-20T12:04:48.000Z

Space Oddity Animated
Sam Miller is a student in Digital Animation at the University of Hertfordshire, England. For a college project he animated the song ‘Space Oddity’ by David Bowie.
one on my all time favorites when i was a young hippie in the late 60’s 8)
http://fargalex.monkeybasedesign.co.uk/animation/flash/spaceoddity.html

bob3160 · 2007-05-20T13:08:19.000Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTHgDQFnMZc

Check out this video of some pretty amazing kids.

system · 2007-05-23T08:03:25.000Z

20 Things I Learned From The Internet

You want it, you can find it online.

If you don’t want it, you can also find it online.

It might take a while.

Sometimes the hunt is half the fun.

Everyone has a website. Grandfathers, mothers and babies. Everyone.

At some point, Google became a verb.

The difference between web surfing with Firefox and IE is the difference between body armor and a trendy cotton vest.

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

The Internet is the geeks playground. Here, we rule.

Not that you would ever need to know the dietary habits of the South American anteater, but it’s comforting to know you could find it online if you did.

When in doubt, Wikipedia.

Anyone who uses the term ‘Interweb’ has never been online.

Explaining the Internet to someone who’s never been online, is like explaining the Magna Carta to your cat.

Almost everything of substance can be summed up with a “DUDE! Check this out!’ and a hyperlink.

Be safe. Be cynical.

Some else already said it first. But that doesn’t mean it won’t be said again, and again…

The Internet IS redundancy.

There is no such thing as ‘sufficient bandwidth’.

There’s always something new.

You can never go back once you’ve tried it

click on birds to animate :

bob3160 · 2007-05-24T14:17:14.000Z

Lovers of the English language might enjoy this…How do non-natives ever learn all the nuances of English???

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is “UP.”
It’s easy to understand UP , meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends and we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing:
A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP .
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP !
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don’t give UP , you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP … When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP . When it rains, it wets UP the earth.
When it doesn’t rain for awhile, things dry UP .
One could go on & on, but I’ll wrap it UP , for now my time is UP , so …
Time to shut UP …!
Oh…one more thing:!
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night?
U P ;D
Don’t screw up .

bob3160 · 2007-05-24T21:30:13.000Z

Get a pencil/paper–no kidding this is intriguing.

YOUR AGE BY DINER & RESTAURANT MATH

This is pretty neat.

DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!
It takes less than a minute. Work this out as you read ...
Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!
This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would 
   like to go out to eat.
   (more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1757...
   If you haven't, add 1756.

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number. (I.e., How 
many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week.)

The next two numbers are

YOUR AGE ! ------ (Oh YES, it is!!!)

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2007) IT WILL EVER WORK , SO SPREAD IT 
AROUND WHILE IT LASTS

system · 2007-05-25T12:44:00.000Z

Life Before the Computer:

An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity
A keyboard was a piano!
Memory was something that you lost with age
A CD was a bank account
And if you had a 3 1/2 inch floppy
You hoped nobody found out!
Compress was something you did to garbage
Not something you did to a file
And if you unzipped anything in public
You’d be in jail for awhile!
Log on was adding wood to a fire
Hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And a backup happened to your commode!
Cut - you did with a pocket knife
Paste you did with glue
A web was a sipder’s home
And a virus was the flu!
I guess I’ll stick to my pad and paper
And the memory in my head
I hear nobody’s been killed in a computer crash
But when it happens they wish they were dead!

And along the same lines: Birth by Computer…
Son says: Daddy, how was I born?
Dad says: Ah my son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway…
Well you see, your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on MSN. Then I set up a date via email with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room where your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive.
As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a blessed little popup appeared and said: You’ve got Male!

click on pic to enlarge :

bob3160 · 2007-05-25T12:46:55.000Z

50 Years in Three Minutes…
Turn up the volume, sit back and enjoy a review of 50 years of history in less than 3 minutes!
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~yeli23/Flash/Fire.html

system · 2007-05-25T22:12:48.000Z

Trump Selling Overpriced Meat
Billed as the “world’s greatest steaks.” Trump Steaks.
Here’s just one example: Country Club Collection. Pay $349 (plus shipping) and you get six steaks and 12 hamburgers. That works out to $31.72 per pound, and more than half of it is ground beef.
http://www.sharperimage.com/trumpsteaks/index.jhtml

bob-i’ll take this one-send next day air-thanks ;D
http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/product/sku__TS061
Trump Steaks Country Club Collection
#TS061
“The World’s Greatest Steaks” — now delivered straight to your home!
$349.0

bob3160 · 2007-05-26T01:57:11.000Z

bob-i'll take this one-send next day air-thanks Grin ;D

I'll send it right out let me know when it arrives..... ;)

system · 2007-05-26T07:58:31.000Z

thanks bob(yeah right-who are you kidding)-probably won’t get them till tuesday because of the memorial day weekend-was hoping to get them before i left for the indiananpolis 500 race but guess not
did you send some good steak sauce with them
click on pic to enlarge :

system · 2007-05-26T11:54:20.000Z

Mac vs Cat
http://www.vimeo.com/clip:77426
link scanned by dr.web and clean

bob3160 · 2007-05-29T02:50:12.000Z

High Power Job

system · 2007-05-29T20:36:08.000Z

40 FACTS ABOUT SLEEP YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW…
(OR WERE TOO TIRED TO THINK ABOUT)
-The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. The record holder reported hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory and concentration lapses.

It’s impossible to tell if someone is really awake without close medical supervision. People can take cat naps with their eyes open without even being aware of it.
Anything less than five minutes to fall asleep at night means you’re sleep deprived. The ideal is between 10 and 15 minutes, meaning you’re still tired enough to sleep deeply, but not so exhausted you feel sleepy by day.
A new baby typically results in 400-750 hours lost sleep for parents in the first year
One of the best predictors of insomnia later in life is the development of bad habits from having sleep disturbed by young children.
The continuous brain recordings that led to the discovery of REM (rapid eye-movement) sleep were not done until 1953, partly because the scientists involved were concerned about wasting paper.
REM sleep occurs in bursts totalling about 2 hours a night, usually beginning about 90 minutes after falling asleep.
Dreams, once thought to occur only during REM sleep, also occur (but to a lesser extent) in non-REM sleep phases. It’s possible there may not be a single moment of our sleep when we are actually dreamless.
REM dreams are characterised by bizarre plots, but non-REM dreams are repetitive and thought-like, with little imagery - obsessively returning to a suspicion you left your mobile phone somewhere, for example.
Certain types of eye movements during REM sleep correspond to specific movements in dreams, suggesting at least part of the dreaming process is analagous to watching a film
No-one knows for sure if other species dream but some do have sleep cycles similar to humans.
Elephants sleep standing up during non-REM sleep, but lie down for REM sleep.
Some scientists believe we dream to fix experiences in long-term memory, that is, we dream about things worth remembering. Others reckon we dream about things worth forgetting - to eliminate overlapping memories that would otherwise clog up our brains.
Dreams may not serve any purpose at all but be merely a meaningless byproduct of two evolutionary adaptations - sleep and consciousness.
REM sleep may help developing brains mature. Premature babies have 75 per cent REM sleep, 10 per cent more than full-term bubs. Similarly, a newborn kitten puppy rat or hampster experiences only REM sleep, while a newborn guinea pig (which is much more developed at birth) has almost no REM sleep at all.
Scientists have not been able to explain a 1998 study showing a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain’s sleep-wake clock.
British Ministry of Defence researchers have been able to reset soldiers’ body clocks so they can go without sleep for up to 36 hrs. Tiny optical fibres embedded in special spectacles project a ring of bright white light (with a spectrum identical to a sunrise) around the edge of soldiers’ retinas, fooling them into thinking they have just woken up. The system was first used on US pilots during the bombing of Kosovo.
Seventeen hours of sustained wakefulness leads to a decrease in performance equivalent to a blood alcohol-level of 0.05%.
The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, the Challenger space shuttle disaster and the Chernobyl nuclear accident have all been attributed to human errors in which sleep-deprivation played a role.
The NRMA estimates fatigue is involved in one in 6 fatal road accidents.
Exposure to noise at night can suppress immune function even if the sleeper doesn’t wake. Unfamiliar noise, and noise during the first and last two hours of sleep, has the greatest disruptive effect on the sleep cycle.
The “natural alarm clock” which enables some people to wake up more or less when they want to is caused by a burst of the stress hormone adrenocorticotropin. Researchers say this reflects an unconscious anticipation of the stress of waking up.
Some sleeping tablets, such as barbiturates suppress REM sleep, which can be harmful over a long period.
In insomnia following bereavement, sleeping pills can disrupt grieving.
Tiny luminous rays from a digital alarm clock can be enough to disrupt the sleep cycle even if you do not fully wake. The light turns off a “neural switch” in the brain, causing levels of a key sleep chemical to decline within minutes.
To drop off we must cool off; body temperature and the brain’s sleep-wake cycle are closely linked. That’s why hot summer nights can cause a restless sleep. The blood flow mechanism that transfers core body heat to the skin works best between 18 and 30 degrees. But later in life, the comfort zone shrinks to between 23 and 25 degrees - one reason why older people have more sleep disorders.
A night on the grog will help you get to sleep but it will be a light slumber and you won’t dream much.
After five nights of partial sleep deprivation, three drinks will have the same effect on your body as six would when you’ve slept enough.
Humans sleep on average around three hours less than other primates like chimps, rhesus monkeys, squirrel monkeys and baboons, all of whom sleep for 10 hours.
Ducks at risk of attack by predators are able to balance the need for sleep and survival, keeping one half of the brain awake while the other slips into sleep mode.
Ten per cent of snorers have sleep apnoea, a disorder which causes sufferers to stop breathing up to 300 times a night and significantly increases the risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke.
Snoring occurs only in non-REM sleep
Teenagers need as much sleep as small children (about 10 hrs) while those over 65 need the least of all (about six hours). For the average adult aged 25-55, eight hours is considered optimal
Some studies suggest women need up to an hour’s extra sleep a night compared to men, and not getting it may be one reason women are much more susceptible to depression than men.
Feeling tired can feel normal after a short time. Those deliberately deprived of sleep for research initially noticed greatly the effects on their alertness, mood and physical performance, but the awareness dropped off after the first few days.
Diaries from the pre-electric-light-globe Victorian era show adults slept nine to 10 hours a night with periods of rest changing with the seasons in line with sunrise and sunsets.
Most of what we know about sleep we’ve learned in the past 25 years.
As a group, 18 to 24 year-olds deprived of sleep suffer more from impaired performance than older adults.
Experts say one of the most alluring sleep distractions is the 24-hour accessibility of the internet.
The extra-hour of sleep received when clocks are put back at the start of daylight in Canada has been found to coincide with a fall in the number of road accidents.

don’t click on the pic-you will wake him up :

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