Pi (3/14), 2010

 

Yes I am starting year 10, and I'm going past one million kilobytes of data on this website.

I do love publishing it each week, and I appreciate the good, better and best emails you send me!

 

 

I love you video -amazing dog voice- wait for 3 meg download.

 

 

Want to see how much you know about automobiles and how they work?
 
Take this quiz:
 
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/auto-racing/nascar/nascar-basics/automotive-physics-quiz.htm

 

Congratulations to Barbara (right) and sister Renia for the nice article about your bakery:

 

The Christian Science Monitor has compiled a humorous list of their Top 10 favorite words birthed by the recession. Here are five of them:

1. Decruited, adj. To be fired from a position one has not even started yet.

Sample sentence: "At first I felt really bad about being decruited from that corporate law firm after spending two summers of law school interning for them. But then I decided to make the most of my funemployment and use my signing bonus to travel around Europe."

See also: uninstalled, prefired

2. Permatemp, n. The condition of being permanently employed as a temporary worker.

This could be due to lack of motivation to seek permanent employment, inability to find permanent employment, or the permatemp's belief that a company will eventually hire him/her for the job s/he is currently doing for lower pay and without benefits.

Sample sentence: "Wake up, Joe. You've been here for six months, your cubicle is decorated better than your living room, and the hiring manager still doesn't know your name. You're officially a permatemp, my friend."

3. Insource, v. To do oneself what one previously paid others to do.

Sample sentence: "No, I can't meet you for brunch this morning. I'm insourcing my laundry these days and have five loads piled up."

Alternate sample sentence: "I know my nails look like someone took a chainsaw to them, but I insource manicures now."

Antonym: outsource.

4. Intaxication, n. A sense of delight mingled with the perception of instant wealth that one feels upon receiving a tax refund.

Sample sentence: "It seemed like a good idea to charge that pair of Louboutins/small boat/Caribbean vacation to my credit card when I got my tax refund. But when I got my statement a week later, it was clear I was in a haze of intaxication at the time of purchase."

5. Madoff’d, v. To get ripped off in a particularly offensive fashion.

Sample sentence: "Oh man, that cab driver totally Madoff'd me. I gave him a $20 and he only gave me change for a $10."

 

Pete,
 
This picture brought back memories of milking cows on the family farm in Minnesota.
 
Gerald

 

Great illustration of how oil is removed from shale:

www.northernoil.com/drilling.php

 

Subject: YouTube - OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version - Official
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:21:09 -0400
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

 

This is really amazing....Check out some of your old"haunts."

When you enter an address you will see a picture of that place.  There's a little map with a little man on it - you can move the little man up and down the block if you need to.  I just looked at my childhood home!  Really nice website!

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Pete

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