To all who stop by here from time to time be aware I will be more absent than usual for the the next week. I am on sort of a vacation but really just a week off to go back to Ohio since I missed at Christmas. Unfortunately my mother is in the hospital after an issue a few days before I left home to come north. She is doing good but at 79 the goal is of course to exit the hospital as quickly as possible. Fortunately my sisters live very close by and my Aunt is next door so things should be good when I leave.
I finally fixed my mother's computer after 3 days of torture so I will at least be able to read all the good stuff you guys post.
Take care and I will be back next week...
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Today's Apocalypse Sign: NFL Playoffs and The Weekend Graphs
Packers are playing today. Game face is on...also my lucky Packers shirt. The dogs have their jerseys on and tension is high.
On the lighter side...here are today's graphs to get you going.
Enjoy....
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On the lighter side...here are today's graphs to get you going.
Enjoy....
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Today's Apocalypse Sign: Right Out Of The Gate...Ominous Dates Begin 2012
Happy Friday The 13th! And if this date gets you bent sideways, you have...paraskevidekatriaphobia (or friggatriskaidekaphobia)! Say that three times fast and click yours heels...viola! You're cured. I can't even say it slow or phonetically. And .......now I've lost interest.
I give you the following courtesy of the Huffington Post and Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D: Comments in red are mine all mine!
-- The fear of Friday is skeviphobia, the fear of the number 13 is triskaidekaphobia, and the fear of Friday the 13th is paraskevidekatriaphobia (aka friggatriskaidekaphobia).
-- While both Friday(because Judas was thought to have been the 13th guest at the Last Supper) and 13(because it is an uneven number following the even number 12 widely considered beneficial) had independently been considered unlucky for centuries, the dark nature of Friday The 13th appears to have only originated in the West in the 19th century, possibly with Henry Sutherland Edwards' 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini wherein the date is termed unlucky!
-- Apollo 13, which barely escaped becoming a doomed flight, was launched on 13:13 CST, April 11,1970, with the explosion that disabled the craft occurring on April 13(a Monday).
-- In Spanish-speaking nations, Tuesday The 13th is regarded as unlucky!
-- Oklahoma bandit Crawford "Cherokee Bill" Goldsby murdered 13 victims, and was captured with a reward of $1300, At his trial, 13 eyewitnesses testified against him, the jury took 13 hours to render a verdict of guilty, and he was hanged on April 13,1896 on a gallows with 13 steps!
-- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt would never host a dinner party with 13 guests in attendance and refused to travel on the 13th day of any month!
-- Cuban leader Fidel Castro was born on Friday, August 13,1926, while celebrated outlaw Butch Cassidy was born on. Friday, April 13,1866! These two seem to be a wash. Evil and good.
-- Miami Dolphin Quarterback Dan Marino wore No. 13 throughout his distinguished football career. In his one and only trip to the Super Bowl(1985), the San Francisco 49ers clobbered his team, 38-16!
Marino truly was unlucky. Many of his teams had all the skills to win the big one, it just never happened.
-- The majority of skyscrapers in America do not have a 13th floor, while some hospitals avoid rooms numbered 13, and a few airline terminals bypass gates numbered 13! All skyscrapers have a 13th floor...just because you don't call it that doesn't mean it not there!
-- Every calendar year has at least one Friday The 13th. The most Fridays The 13th that can occur in any given calendar year is three, such as in 2012(January, April and July)! Well of course it would be THIS year!!!
-- The longest period that can occur without a Friday The 13th is 14 months, either from July through September of the following normal year, or from August through October of the following leap year!
-- In the 1960 cinematic thriller, 13 Ghosts, director William Castle, known for creating innovative PR gimmicks, introduced "Illusion-O" and offered audience members "ghost viewers" to enable them to see the invisible spirits(unfortunately, his on-camera appearance is often deleted from TV airings of the film).
-- On Friday April 13, 2029, the asteroid 99942 will make its closest encounter with the Earth! Now I'm worried, oh wait...when the world ends this year it won't matter! Take THAT Mr. Ph.D dude.
Here is a Friday The 13th related video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2RZn9CV_9s
It's stupid but what the hell.
I give you the following courtesy of the Huffington Post and Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D: Comments in red are mine all mine!
-- The fear of Friday is skeviphobia, the fear of the number 13 is triskaidekaphobia, and the fear of Friday the 13th is paraskevidekatriaphobia (aka friggatriskaidekaphobia).
-- While both Friday(because Judas was thought to have been the 13th guest at the Last Supper) and 13(because it is an uneven number following the even number 12 widely considered beneficial) had independently been considered unlucky for centuries, the dark nature of Friday The 13th appears to have only originated in the West in the 19th century, possibly with Henry Sutherland Edwards' 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini wherein the date is termed unlucky!
-- Apollo 13, which barely escaped becoming a doomed flight, was launched on 13:13 CST, April 11,1970, with the explosion that disabled the craft occurring on April 13(a Monday).
-- In Spanish-speaking nations, Tuesday The 13th is regarded as unlucky!
-- Oklahoma bandit Crawford "Cherokee Bill" Goldsby murdered 13 victims, and was captured with a reward of $1300, At his trial, 13 eyewitnesses testified against him, the jury took 13 hours to render a verdict of guilty, and he was hanged on April 13,1896 on a gallows with 13 steps!
-- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt would never host a dinner party with 13 guests in attendance and refused to travel on the 13th day of any month!
-- Cuban leader Fidel Castro was born on Friday, August 13,1926, while celebrated outlaw Butch Cassidy was born on. Friday, April 13,1866! These two seem to be a wash. Evil and good.
-- Miami Dolphin Quarterback Dan Marino wore No. 13 throughout his distinguished football career. In his one and only trip to the Super Bowl(1985), the San Francisco 49ers clobbered his team, 38-16!
Marino truly was unlucky. Many of his teams had all the skills to win the big one, it just never happened.
-- The majority of skyscrapers in America do not have a 13th floor, while some hospitals avoid rooms numbered 13, and a few airline terminals bypass gates numbered 13! All skyscrapers have a 13th floor...just because you don't call it that doesn't mean it not there!
-- Every calendar year has at least one Friday The 13th. The most Fridays The 13th that can occur in any given calendar year is three, such as in 2012(January, April and July)! Well of course it would be THIS year!!!
-- The longest period that can occur without a Friday The 13th is 14 months, either from July through September of the following normal year, or from August through October of the following leap year!
-- In the 1960 cinematic thriller, 13 Ghosts, director William Castle, known for creating innovative PR gimmicks, introduced "Illusion-O" and offered audience members "ghost viewers" to enable them to see the invisible spirits(unfortunately, his on-camera appearance is often deleted from TV airings of the film).
-- On Friday April 13, 2029, the asteroid 99942 will make its closest encounter with the Earth! Now I'm worried, oh wait...when the world ends this year it won't matter! Take THAT Mr. Ph.D dude.
Here is a Friday The 13th related video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2RZn9CV_9s
It's stupid but what the hell.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Today's Apocalypse Sign: New Year, Same Stupidity
The continuing proof that people in this day and age of every thing showing up on Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube can still be unbelievable dumbasses. This happened today and already has had over 25,000 views on Twitter. I think I will start looking at my receipts...
The following is from the Huffington Post site. All credit to Huffpo.
Minhee Cho went to Papa John's for some fast food goodness. Little did she know, she would get it served with a side of racism.
At around 12:30 p.m. today, Papa John's customer Minhee Cho tweeted a photo of a receipt she received at a Papa John's restaurant in uptown, New York City.
In it, under the customer's name section, the restaurant employee who rang up the order used the racial slur "lady chinky eyes" to describe her.
The following is from the Huffington Post site. All credit to Huffpo.
Minhee Cho went to Papa John's for some fast food goodness. Little did she know, she would get it served with a side of racism.
At around 12:30 p.m. today, Papa John's customer Minhee Cho tweeted a photo of a receipt she received at a Papa John's restaurant in uptown, New York City.
In it, under the customer's name section, the restaurant employee who rang up the order used the racial slur "lady chinky eyes" to describe her.
Go figure, the employee has been terminated. What do you think they will put on their next job application as the reason for leaving their last job?
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Today's Apocalypse Sign: The Weekend Graphs
Here are this weeks odd collections of I found. Sure to make you go...hmmm. Or not.
Bringing in the New Year...
Enjoy!
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Bringing in the New Year...
Enjoy!
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Monday, January 2, 2012
Today's Apocalypse Sign: Things I am Mostly and Certainly Done With
This is a weird quasi-New Year's resolution kind of list but I had to get these things down before I forgot them. My consciousness streams all over the place during the early morning breakfast hours. Today it landed on the things I am done with.
ON STEROIDS
This term is now overused to the point of irrelevance. I know I am tired of everything being like something else "on steroids". At work, on TV, in general conversation. Somehow society has made the use of a harmful substance common vernacular for describing something good or better. Are we weird or what.
IT IS WHAT IT IS
I mentioned this saying several posts ago but it bears repeating...hearing this from anybody makes me instantly want to punch them in the face. It seldom is what it is in this day and age of transformers, hidden agendas and "me first" mentality. Has there ever been a time where you could say a man's word was his bond any less than in today's society? I think not. Most of us are very skeptical at hearing anything even slightly too good...to be true. In business speak it is a conversation filler and means almost nothing. The time will come where I instinctively DO punch someone in the face as a knee-jerk reaction to hearing this blather. Just stop it.
OUTSIDE THE BOX
Get in the box, seal it and shut the hell up.
POLITICALLY CORRECT
All the fun went out of many things in life because of these two words. Seriously, is everybody so damned sensitive and uptight (throw back to the 60's) that they can no longer take a joke or even laugh at themselves?? I ask you. It is almost to the point you cannot talk to people anymore without thinking out the whole conversation well in advance so as to make sure it is "polictically correct". I thought this meant it applied to politicians and not two people on the street talking. Saying polictically incorrect things at work can get you fired! I'm not talking about racist remarks or clearly offensive things...come on people!
WHATEVER
I dare you to say that to me...I will instantly and without thinking tell you to fuck off. I hate this condesending one-word blow-off more than any other word. Beside the fact (again) it means almost nothing and generally hides someone's ignorance of the subject at hand, it is almost an implied curse AT you without being a four-letter word. Be warned.
I am sure there will be more on this subject in the future but for now...the New Year has begun!
What are YOU done with??
ON STEROIDS
This term is now overused to the point of irrelevance. I know I am tired of everything being like something else "on steroids". At work, on TV, in general conversation. Somehow society has made the use of a harmful substance common vernacular for describing something good or better. Are we weird or what.
IT IS WHAT IT IS
I mentioned this saying several posts ago but it bears repeating...hearing this from anybody makes me instantly want to punch them in the face. It seldom is what it is in this day and age of transformers, hidden agendas and "me first" mentality. Has there ever been a time where you could say a man's word was his bond any less than in today's society? I think not. Most of us are very skeptical at hearing anything even slightly too good...to be true. In business speak it is a conversation filler and means almost nothing. The time will come where I instinctively DO punch someone in the face as a knee-jerk reaction to hearing this blather. Just stop it.
OUTSIDE THE BOX
Get in the box, seal it and shut the hell up.
POLITICALLY CORRECT
All the fun went out of many things in life because of these two words. Seriously, is everybody so damned sensitive and uptight (throw back to the 60's) that they can no longer take a joke or even laugh at themselves?? I ask you. It is almost to the point you cannot talk to people anymore without thinking out the whole conversation well in advance so as to make sure it is "polictically correct". I thought this meant it applied to politicians and not two people on the street talking. Saying polictically incorrect things at work can get you fired! I'm not talking about racist remarks or clearly offensive things...come on people!
WHATEVER
I dare you to say that to me...I will instantly and without thinking tell you to fuck off. I hate this condesending one-word blow-off more than any other word. Beside the fact (again) it means almost nothing and generally hides someone's ignorance of the subject at hand, it is almost an implied curse AT you without being a four-letter word. Be warned.
I am sure there will be more on this subject in the future but for now...the New Year has begun!
What are YOU done with??
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Today's Apocalypse Sign: New Year's Day Weekend Graphs
A new year is beginning and it is only fitting that I find the best holiday graphs around. To you on this first day of a brand spanking new year (what the hell does that mean anyway??) I give you these sparkling treasures.
Happy New Year and enjoy!
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Now you'll know what to do next year for Santa!!!
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And because I am nothing if not a public servant...
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Happy New Year and enjoy!
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Now you'll know what to do next year for Santa!!!
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And because I am nothing if not a public servant...
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