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

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 :

system · 2007-05-29T20:40:34.000Z

Dress Floppie
Dress Up Floppie the Banjo Clown. Just ignore the fact that he has a seven-string banjo.
Welcome to Floppie the Banjo Clown Dressup! Now you can dress up Floppie as some of his favorite rock stars! Just drag the items to Floppie with your mouse and they’ll snap right into place! You can make Floppie rock out like only Floppie knows how! Then, after you’ve dressed him up, print him out and hang him on your bedroom wall as a reminder that rock-n-roll wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t for Floppie
http://www.blueman.com/floppiedressup/

system · 2007-06-01T09:40:27.000Z

E.T. has been found.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=new+york&ie=UTF8&om=1&layer=c&cbll=40.673835,-74.406761&cbp=1,234.924811093247,0.61024115755627,1&ll=40.69795,-74.405594&spn=0.099562,0.150032&z=13
dr.web scanned clean 8)

system · 2007-06-01T22:14:27.000Z

USB Mini Fridge
Do you want to chill a can of drink just bought from the supermarket?
Or does your cold drink getting warm while you drink it slowly?
USB Mini Fridge can help you to solve these problems…think i’m gonna get one 8)
Features:
Cools a beverage from 5V USB Power
Stylized as a mini fridge
Holds one can
Internal LED light
USB powered
No batteries required
Plug and play
Temperature decreases to 8.5 degrees after 5 mins
Dimension: 19.4x9x9cm
Weight: 362g
Package Contents:
USB Mini Fridge
User guide
http://usb.brando.com.hk/prod_detail.php?prod_id=00286

DavidR · 2007-06-01T22:31:47.000Z

No thanks, doesn’t look big enough to hold a beer, just soft drinks ;D

system · 2007-06-01T23:18:06.000Z

doesn’t soft drinks come in the same size cans as beer(and it holds only 1 of either anyways) :
how many were you planning on davidr-a case ;D

DavidR · 2007-06-01T23:37:34.000Z

Soft drinks don’t normally come in 440ml cans, besides which if you are at your desktop, your likely to be in a place with a big fridge with lots of cold ones ;D

system · 2007-06-02T01:02:31.000Z

must be different in the UK then cause some of the soft drinks and beer here(US) come in the same size cans usually 355mL=12 FL Ounces(or larger)or beer in bottles
would that be beck’s or foster’s 8)

system · 2007-06-02T11:10:03.000Z

I Truly Need A New Pen
That’s what I wrote on a piece of paper. I then answered a series of multiple-choice questions pertaining to my handwritten sample. After that I got a personalized handwriting analysis.
Begin your handwriting analysis now http://tul.com/ dr.web scanned clean 8)

Lumosity
Lumosity is the brain fitness program designed by neuroscientists that is scientifically demonstrated to improve your memory, attention and processing speed. New research shows that we can improve the health and function of our brains by flexing our mental muscles. Exercising the brain leads to better brain performance today and healthier brains in the long run.
Find out how quickly you think, how well you remember, and how effectively you attend to the world around you. This quick and fun test provides an assessment of your brain fitness. http://www.lumosity.com/iq_tests?cookies_enabled=1

system · 2007-06-03T17:42:41.000Z

Einstein the Bird
Probably the smartest bird in the world.

http://www.killsometime.com/video/video.asp?ID=103

bob3160 · 2007-06-03T22:04:14.000Z

This is so funny I had to post it!

I guess that depends our your sense of humor.... :-[

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