The (Other) End of the Internet

Welcome back!Ever heard of http://www.leekspin.com/? It’s a 27-second clip of a gibberish song. The page has a timer at the bottom. How long can you listen to it? NOTE: for a real challenge, open a second tab/window/browser with the same page and see how long you can listen to it as a ’round’.

I just learned this from geekyspeaky.com. If you have a word you need defined, just go to google and type define:word. For example, if you need the definition of the word demented, just go to www.google.com and enter the search words define:demented and google will come back with something like: Definitions of demented on the [...]

When the oldest kid left for work today she was absolutely convinced that she would be unemployed by the end of the day. We’ve been trying to convince her for the last few days that some people think the only way to motivate people is to threaten to fire them. I guess we’ll find out [...]

It is hot. Too hot. I don’t see how those poor folks in Las Vegas can stand it. I heard one day not too long ago that they got up to 128 degrees out there. I’m surprised that every last man, woman, and child didn’t book several week-long cruises in the Carribean just to escape [...]

After my last post/rant about New York’s newest tax, I got thinking about what a complicated thing it must be to manage a budget for a city that size: city employee payroll, road destruction, various city-funded programs, and who-knows-what else. They must have some impressive budgeting software!