CHEAT SHEET

J-Walk pointed me to this very interesting pdf file that contains a lot of Google functions I wasn't aware of. I can see it will come in quite handy. Things like define:phrase or word retrieves definitions fast and easy.

The Works of Pablo Picasso

The Works of Pablo Picasso

I've always been fascinated with Picasso's work. The Online Picasso Project has an extensive archive of his works. I had know idea just how prolific an artist he was. This site containes 11,133 catalogued artworks. I've saved a number of these images and use them as a slide show screen saver. I've heard that Picasso was known to draw small artistic representations on scraps of paper and napkins to pay his bar tab on occasion. I certainly wish someone would accept a chart of a database structure from me in payment of my tab. I'd sign it of course.

Deep Thoughts

ON DEEP THOUGHTS
A day without sunshine is like night.

ON HIGHER EDUCATION
College is a fountain of knowledge...and most of the students are there to drink.

ON MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMS
A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.

ON COMMON SENSE
Never pet a burning dog.

ON PROBLEM SOLVING
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
-- Abraham Maslow

ON MATERIALISM
He who dies with the most toys, is, nonetheless, still dead.

ON ECONOMICS
The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.

ON PUBLISHING OR PERISHING
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University

ON DATING
When aiming for the common denominator, be prepared for the occasional division by zero.

ON LAMENTATION
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

ON POETIC LOVE
When you're swimmin' in the creek,
And an eel bites your cheek,
That's a Moray!
-- Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

ON EXTINCTION
Save the whales. Collect the whole set.

ON HUMILITY
To err is human, to moo bovine.

ON EXPLANATION OF THE END
"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs."
-- Robert Firth

ON PROPHECY
The meek shall inherit the earth--- for they are too weak to refuse.

ON WORLD POLITICS
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.

AND FINALLY, ON DRUGS AND DEVELOPMENT
There are two major products to come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.

THE PAEOMNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID

Ignor the jumbled nature of the following paragraph and just read it:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Flybar 800 Flip Variations

This is kind of cool.

Furgler Hardware Summer Video

The previous post about Camel Toe reminded me I hadn't been to the Bob & Tom site in quite some time. Now, I know today is Labour Day the official end of summer, but this is still too good to pass up. From the boys at Bob & Tom , they take a call from Furgler Hardware who apparently has a summer instruction in house video. It's a radio show so listen to the soundtrack here.

Blooper Stargate SG1

Although I was never a McGyver fan, I can still appreciate the humour.

Crocodile Hunter Dead at 44

From Australia Broadcasting Network. After all those years of handling crocodiles and venomous snakes, he apparently was killed by a sting ray. "His producer and close friend John Stainton says he was swimming above a stingray on Batt Reef when it suddenly pierced his heart with the barb on its tail. Very sad, I thought he was a very interesting and entertaining guy.

Moosehead now Largest Canadian Owned Brewery

According to CBC News , Moosehead is now officially the largest Canadian owned brewery. How sad is that? "With the impending sale of yet another major brewery to foreign interests - this time Ontario-based Sleeman Breweries (TSX:ALE) to Sapporo of Japan - the Canadian brewing industry is all but dead." My own beloved brand Molson Canadian has been spirited away by Coors. Does this mean that in Smoky and the Bandit IX Burt Reynolds will be doing a beer run to Montreal. "Mon Dieu!"

Camel Toe

I know, this is old but it just cracks me up. From the Tom and Bob show : Get the lyrics and wmv file here .

Not to be confused by the way with Camel "Toads " apparently found at public swimming pools.