108 - Real life

So how does a corporation operate? By department budgets and to hell with the company.

107 - WWW rankings

Here's an interesting site. It ranks the sites by their main site name. I.E. blogger.com

www.ranking.com

Once there, click on "view the rankings".

106 - 'No words' to live by

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

105 - Wash up on wash day

This is a short article from the January edition of AARP magazine.

Wash up on wash day.
Just how clean are your just laundered clothes? If you're like most Americans not very. Only 5% of Americans now regularly wash their underwear and towels in water that is hot enough - at least 160 degrees F - to kill the bacteria according to the University of Arizona environmental microbiologist Charles Gerba, PhD. That means live bacteria can spread from one garment to another when you remove your wet laundry, those live germs can get on your hands. Touch your mouth or rub your eyes and you might get a cold, an infection, or even E.coli.
Your defense: unless you use bleach or wash water at 160 degrees or hotter, head for the sink for a soapy hand wash immediately after putting laundry into the dryer (which is hot enough to kill bacteria). "In order to kill germs you need to wash your hands for at least 20 seconds and use plenty of soap and hot water," says Gerba. It's also wise to regularly use a commercial sanitizer to wipe the bottoms of handbags, which collect dangerous germs when placed on tabletops and public restroom floors.

To add to the problem not very many water heaters are set at 160 degrees. Most are set at 120 to prevent unknowing people from scalding themselves.

104 - Jokes and more jokes

Go to http://www.brackenspub.com/ and click on 1, 2, 3 or 4 after the Jokes link. Between the 4 picks there must be 500 or more jokes to read. Most of them are like the jokes of old, nothing nasty but full of insinuation.

103 - True cost of Iraq war

In an article in issue 1016 of Rolling Stone an ecomomist calculates the total cost, past and future, of the Iraq war as follows.
The war it self.........................................725b
Health care and disability benifits for vets..127b
Hidden increases in defense spending........160b
Economics losses from injured vets...........355b
Higher oil prices.......................................450b
Total cost............................................. 2.267trillion

102 - Spender or saver?

Are you a spender or a saver? A financial person said you are one or the other. A recent poll done by AARP found that 54% of retirees that took a lump sum retirement payment in 2003 had spent it all by 2006. I guess that's the split on spenders/savers. 54%/46%

101 - Saturday

It's Saturday again. Time flies when your having fun!

100 - Post number ?

This is post number 100.
Or is it 4(b2),
or 64(b8),
or 256(b16),
or 1024(b32),
or 4096(b64),
or 3584(b128),
or 65,536(b256),
or .........................?

99 - great old saying

Here's one from 20 years ago at work but it still holds true today. Copy this to a word processor and blow it up to 72 point type and post it by your desk.

Poor planning
on your part,
does not constitute
an emergency
on my part.

98 - Capitalism at work in China

I saw this in the paper today.
"A factory manager in east China has been arrested for using grease from swill, sewage, pesticides and recycled industrial oil to make lard for human consumption."
I think this guy could run Enron!

97 - Terrorist schmerrorist

What is a terrorist? Well first what is terror? From dictionary.com - "from Latin terror, from terrre, to frighten". So a terrorist would have to be frightning to me. Am I frightned by these idiots that that are suppossedly terrorists? Not really. I have more of a chance of being struck by lightning than being hurt by one of these self-righteous morons that think they are going to heaven by blowing themselves up.

If they really think they are going to get 43 virgins, they may want to consider why these women are still virgins to begin with. And what happens if you manage to work your way all the way through all 43 of them? No more virgins for you pinhead!

96 - Overweight? - check this out

Here is a URL to an article from the magazine New Scientist. It adds 8 more reasons for being overweight besides the first obvious two.

Link - overweight reasons