This New Years eve at just before 4PM Pacific Time (midnight GMT), an extra second will be added to the atomic clock. So what are you going to do with the extra time? Al asked his family and his wife said he could kiss her and son said they’d pet the dog.
Category: Interesting
That’s One Way To Go About It
If you’ve got a gripe with a company, buy stock in the company so you can attend stockholder meetings and wreak a little havoc. That’s exactly what Jack Thompson did:
No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Jack Thompson has purchased shares in Take-Two interactive – otherwise known as the publisher behind the Grand Theft Auto series of games. So has JT suddenly become a financial supporter of the company he’s long campaigned against? Not a chance. JT has purchased stock in the company in order that he might attend Take-Two’s shareholder meetings and face up to the company’s CEO, Paul Eibeler.
I guess if you’ve got money to blow, this is one way to make your point. I’d love to be at that stock holder meeting — the guy’s going to get beaten senseless.
Here Come The Year-End Wrap Ups
This time of year, you’ll see a pile of different news organizations and web sites that will do year-end wrap ups and summarys of the “x” of the year 2005. The first one I’m posting is this very entertaining 101 Dumbest Business Moments of 2005. Thanks BBSpot for the link.
A 1700 Year Old G-String
Apparently gladiators were sex symbols.
Women Turned On By Monkey Sex
The study, conducted by Meredith Chivers of the Center for Addiction and Mental Health and J. Michael Bailey of Northwestern University, was published in the October issue of Biological Psychology. The researchers found that while straight men are only aroused by females of the human variety, straight women are equally aroused by all human sexual activity, including lesbian, heterosexual and homosexual male sex, and at least somewhat aroused by nonhuman sex.
Need An Alibi?
As long as it’s not for an illegal activity or to cover up for your criminal acts, these folks will help you out.
Sadly, I Might Actually Try This
Nothing like starting your day with liquid cereal in such flavors as Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Fruit, and Apple & Cinnamon.
What A Waste Of Computer Resources
Now if somebody could get this to work on a small device so that didn’t require it to be hooked up to your PC, then this doorbell would replace mine in a heartbeat.
Knot Tying For Dummies
I remember having to know some of these way back in my Cub Scout days, but this is a nice handy reference with nice animations for us knot-tying nitwits.
Google Does A Lot Of Stuff
Just check out this comprehensive list.