Today’s unpopular opinion I’m going to espouse: Too many people have health insurance. When I go to the doctor, too many people in the waiting room and I don’t care if any of them live or die. Take away their health insurance.
The perfect murder is to murder everyone. Then you’ll never get caught.
I don’t get why MS Word has both a “New File” and “Save” option. Shouldn’t it just be one option called “Create or Save”?
Great experiment for the International Space Station: Does Wii Sports work in zero gravity?
Ending of Lost: It was all Vincent’s dream. When dogs move legs and bark while sleeping, their dreams are more complicated than we thought.
I can’t believe my wife hasn’t learned the lesson that if you think something is a term for a sexual act DON’T google it to find the meaning. Never once have I ever felt like a more complete person to know exactly what one of those lewd sexual terms means. Then again, for the longest time I thought “spooning” was much more lewd than it actually is.
Wait until you find out about “sporking”.
“The perfect murder is to murder everyone. Then you’ll never get caught.”
Looks like you’re all set for knifing….
“The perfect murder is to murder everyone. Then you’ll never get caught.”
Dick Cheney fact.
I’d be very pleased if “health insurance” didn’t exist and we took our bodies into the shop mechanic just like we do our cars. “Well, it looks like your timing chain has slipped. You’ll have to leave your body overnight. That OK?”
It’s OK about Health Care. Obama is going to “fix it” just like he did GM! Pretty soon your Dr. will be owned by some really gay Italian company. After that, your wish shall come true and most of the patients in the waiting room will actually die!
These Random Thoughts of Frnak are really interesting. Someone should invent a website where anyone can go to post 1- or 2-line nonsequitirs like that.
P.S. The Microsoft one above falls under the category of “why didn’t I think of that?”
Yeah, you should never google sexual slang terms – always check urban dictionary first. Of course, everything on urban dictionary has some lewd sexaul definition, but at least there are no pictures there…
“I can’t believe my wife hasn’t learned the lesson that if you think something is a term for a sexual act DON’T google it to find the meaning.”
Just out of curiosity, how many hours a day does your wife spend researching sexual acts on the internet?
Hi, I’m the new Chairman of GM. I don’t know anything about cars but I can guarantee you that myself and my management team of highly qualified MBA’s will interface on a daily basis with President Obama’s team to develop long-range strategies to effectively develop mutually beneficial synergies while still allowing GM to remain out-of-the-box when it comes to building brand loyalty and competitive outsourcing and business process re-engineering of our supply chain efficiencies to increase customer loyalty and targeted demand marketing pricing and advertising cost reduction implementation phase 1, 2 and 3 budget analysis factoring…
#’s 8 & 9 are worthy of separate blog posts. I’m crackin’ up here. Frank, how come you’re so lucky to have funny commenters who come up with original material?
Everyone acknowledges the fact that the Chinese are the among the worlds most astute businessmen. But look at what we just pulled off….we successfully unloaded Chrysler on the Italians. Take that Mussolini!
I don’t get why MS Word has both a “New File” and “Save” option. Shouldn’t it just be one option called “Create or Save”?
… only if it runs on Oracle. 8)
I will always rue the day that I wondered if “cornjob” meant anything.
The perfect murder?
There are two other ways to commit the perfect murder than to kill everyone.
First, kill a completely random stranger, preferably a hobo, because nobody will care. See this website’s references to Glenn Reynolds for examples of how this works.
Second, kill yourself. Almost impossible to prosecute after the fact.
“Never once have I ever felt like a more complete person to know exactly what one of those lewd sexual terms means.”
but you’re married now… learning about the lewd sexual terms gives you an excuse to try them…
well… not all of them… some of them go beyond lewd to down right gross…
but have fun with the lewd ones…
Take Franks advice and do not listen to and Google any reference in the song “Cleveland Steamer.” That goes double for you Peren. Catchy song, but some things I just don’t want to know.
The funny thing is that many of the top hits go to Unix geeks that misspelled cronjob. Talk about cornjobbers!
//I don’t get why MS Word has both a “New File” and “Save” option. Shouldn’t it just be one option called “Create or Save”?// No sweety that’s how the do it on the Mac. When Bill Gates lifted…..ah borrowed the ideas from Mac he knew he needed to make some changes or else how could his friends in the federal government keep him out of trouble, so he added a few extra steps.
Like having to go to the “Start” menu to quit. Makes perfect sense to me. It’s not like you should be able to go to a drop down menu and hit quit and the computer shuts down. Any idiot can do that ; )
Sean,
So what did Xerox call it before Steve Jobs stole the OS from them?
Ah yes that old chestnut. I do believe Mr. Jobs has admitted that Xerox was the inspiration for Apple, but since Xerox continued to use “MIcro soft type ” technology I don’t know how Jobs could have “lifted it”. Mr Gates has never admitted that the “windows concept” is very close to the Mac drop down menu’s and windows. It’s not so much that you can’t be inspired by something, the problem is when you claim to have thought it all up yourself.
Apple wanted to build a better computer, a computer “for the rest of us”, a computer you didn’t have to learn a different language to use. If it had been up to Gates and Xerox most of us still wouldn’t be using mice, or be able to do anything on our computers except read email and watch DVD’s.
A couple of years ago (before he retired) Mr. Gates suggested that operating systems should no longer be purchased…….just rented. So every time you turned your computer (which you paid for and paid taxes on) you would have to pay his company to use his operating system. If for nothing other than that you should thank Steve Jobs because, without competition it would have been a done deal.
Let us my dear IMAO colleague agree to disagree. You like you PC, I love my Mac, you say potato and I say spud. There is room at the IMAO banquet for both of us.
PAX
“The perfect murder is to murder everyone. Then you’ll never get caught.”
This reminded me of George Carlin’s perfect murder: You pick one guy up by his ankles and kill another guy with him…They both die and there’s NO MURDER WEAPON!
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gChW9semhk&feature=related at 2:12 to hear the police response…comedy gold!
“I don’t get why MS Word has both a “New File” and “Save” option. Shouldn’t it just be one option called “Create or Save”? ”
If they had a “create or save” option, it would lose your file whenever you clicked on it.
Does Wii Sports work in zero gravity?
The answer: Yes, mostly. Although the lack of gravity will change the frame of reference of the internal accelerometer, there is still inertia in space. Also, most of the tracking is done by the IR camera mounted in the front. It reads the signals from the “sensor bar” which is essentially to IR lights from which the system judges relative motion or distance based on the lights’ spacing. The lack of gravity however, would make it hard for the remote to tell which “state” the camera was in, as 180 degree rotated camera shots of the “sensor bar” would look identical. This would cause the orientation to flip depending entirely on inertia.
Essentially, it would be indistinguishable from playing sports while so completely drunk that you couldn’t tell which way was up.