As the folks in the Houston area are recovering, Floridians are bracing themselves. As I write this Hurricane Irma is just starting to hit the keys...see here. Apparently it hit Cuba and the wind speeds have descreased to only 130 mph and who knows where Jose will land. I was curious this morning to know if there were other significant weather ev …
If one of your closest friends was going to get a serious elective medical procedure and you strongly didn't want them to do it...how far would/should you go to dissuad them? A friend of mine is struggling with this now. One of his closest friends is going for gastric sleeve surgery and he strongly feels that best friends and family should always …
Is Terminator that far behind? A Japanese company has introduced a new application for their humanoid robot acting as a Buddhist priest for hire at funerals. They put the robot on display at a funeral industry trade show in Tokyo chanting sutras in a computerized voice while tapping a drum. The funeral robot could step in when a prie …
I had to dig deep this week...finding a unique and funny story from around the world. This one I just shook my head. Asda, one of the UKs largest supermarket chains (and is part of the Walmart group), is selling green grapes that it says taste like 'candy floss'. The supermarket has been experimenting in recent years with varieties of fruit known …
Chalk this one up to the French. They are starting to offer fresh oysters from vending machines...yes, fresh oysters. Tony Berthelot, an oyster farmer is offering a range of quantities, types and sizes of live oyesters 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the Ile de Re island off France's western coast. The refrigerated dispenser, one of the fi …
This week is not about anything but sharing a smile and a laugh. I found this selection of parent tweets and hope you have the same reaction as I did. Enjoy! No one is full of more false hope than a parent with a new chore chart.— Simon Holland (@simoncholland) *Sees burglar hiding in closet*Me: Hey, mind if I hide in here with you? I nee …
This weeks true and funny story comes from Corpus Christi, Texas. Just the other day, in a bank that was being remodeled, an ATM repariman was there to replace a lock inside the machine. He left his phone in his truck while he went inside the bank and inside the ATM machine. Unfortunately he locked himself inside the machine and couldn't call for …
Last Tuesday, July 4th, I agreed to go totally "off the grid." No phone or computer at all...not even to check to see if there was an emergency. And I only told 4 people I was doing this. It wasn't that hard but I must admit that I kept reaching for my phone in my back pocket quite a bit. At one point I even felt my butt buzz as if I was getting …
Ever been driving behind a car on a one lane road only to find they stop for seemingly no reason at all? Then, much to your suprise, they make a left hand turn. No blinker, hand signal or even a smoke signal. This non-blinker using driver is most likely thinking (or not thinking) "I know where I'm going, I don't need to use a blinker." What they …
This is an official warning for all users of canned hair spray. A Washington state woman returned to her car after work to discover a can of hairspray had exploded and embedded itself in her windshield. Temperatures in the area were only in the low 90s. Karmend Ayers, the woman who left the can in her car told the local news "At first I looked …
My cousin Helene, Norman's daughter, tragically passed away last Wednesday. As I reflect through this heartbreaking loss, my memories take me back to meeting her when Norman and Mara were married in my parents house. She was bright and beautiful with a big smile. Helene had a great voice and even sang at my wedding reception. When we had her over …
Looks like our education system will need to step it up a notch in an effort to stem tide of tech-related cheating. A Guardian investigation revealed that these cases have risen 42%. As an example, a British law student was caught red-handed using a James Bond style gadget to cheat in a university exam. The woman was found with 24 pages of note …
Another funny and true story comes to us from Michigan this week. A Michigan village clerk, Julie Glenn, sent a couple their water bill addressed to the woman "and the [expletive] who lives here too." (see below) Ms Glenn ended up sending a letter of apology to Annette Tolis and Kevin Barthel after they noticed the profane insult in the wate …
As I prepare to celebrate Easter with my family, I am reminded how fallible we, humans, are. Even bible printers 300 years ago made mistakes. In New Jersey, a 300-year-old Bible at Christ Episcopal Church sits locked in a glass case, untouched since 1916. It's opened to Luke 20, and that is not random. There, on the heading of the left-hand page, …
After reading and commenting on Fred's blog, a thought occurred to me. Did you know that the average human's attention span has decreased over the past few years? According to a study by Microsoft Corporation, human attention span has supposedly dropped from 12 seconds in 2002 to only eight seconds in 2013. Do you know what animal has a longer …
It's Saturday...and anything goes.
