Month: January 2007
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Brilliant Ploy
Two days ago, Apple Inc. Chair, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone at Macworld in San Francisco. Today, the web is abuzz with news that Cisco Systems, Inc. is suing Apple because it owns the iPhone trademark.By ignoring that fact and calling the new OS X phone by that name, he has firmly implanted that name…
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Intelligence
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
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Statistically Speaking
I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female driver, who cut right in front of a pickup truck, causing the driver to drive onto the shoulder to avoid hitting her.This evidently angered the driver enough that he hung his arm out is window and gave the woman the finger.“Man, that guy is…
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The Purina Diet
I was in Wal-Mart buying a large bag of Purina for Lola and was in line to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog…. Duh!I was feeling a bit crabby so on impulse, I told her no, I was starting The Purina Diet again, although I probably shouldn’t because I’d…
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Humor
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.W. H. Auden
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Interesting Psychological Fact…
A study conducted by UCLA’s Department of Psychiatry has revealed that the kind of face a woman finds attractive on a man can differ depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle.For example: If she is ovulating, she is attracted to men with rugged and masculine features. However, if she is menstruating, or menopausal,…