November 22, 2005

• The human body is weird..  You don't get enough sleep
  and you seem to be fine and can function ok, you get one night with more sleep
  than you have had in a long time and your body seems to shut down and refuse to
  wake up the next morning.  I got to bed late but way earlier than I have
  been the past few weeks.  I almost slept through my alarm clock this
  morning.  It might have something to do with the weather. 

  Why is it that when you're a little kid and you go to school and are forced to
  take a nap that you hate doing because you want to play.  You get older
  and you want to take a nap mid day, but can't because you have to work. 
  Life was so much simpler when we were younger.  The care free years of
  life are well missed.  For those of you still in school cherish them while
  you can and make as many memories as possible.  I look back and still
  laugh at the things I did when I was younger and wonder how in the world I
  ended up surviving so far.  I wouldn't trade those memories for the
  world.  Hi ho, Hi ho back to work I go.....

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  Ok now for some funny quotes:
  

  Nowadays men lead lives of
  noisy desperation.
    - James Thurber

  To err is human--and to blame
  it on a computer is even more so.
    -Robert Orben

  Politics is perhaps the only
  profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
    -Robert Louis Stevenson

  Democracy means that anyone
  can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice
  president.
    -Johnny Carson
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  Wow, ok this news story was so stupid I had to add it to this
  post.  It's pathetic our morals have declined so much that this is
  even possible, but funny that London is just now recognizing it as a
  problem.

  This was taken from the following: http://today.reuters.com/News/default.aspx

  Semi-naked models drive motorists to distraction

  Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:30 AM ET

  LONDON (Reuters) - Almost a quarter of British motorists admit they have been
  so distracted by roadside billboards of semi-naked models that they have
  dangerously veered out of their lane.

  In research released Monday, one in five male drivers said their eyes were
  diverted from the road by posters of scantily clad women -- such as the saucy
  cleavage shots of model Eva Herzigova in her notorious adverts for
  Wonderbra.

  However only one in 10 women were put off by the sight of a semi-dressed male
  model.

  Flashing warning signs, huge advertising hoardings and Christmas decorations
  were also said to be major distractions.

  "There is a growing body of concern about the lack of any coherent strategy
  for arranging roadside furniture," said Mark Young, an expert in transport
  ergonomics from Brunel University.

  He said novel advertising could cause a significant risk of distracting
  drivers at crucial times, such as going around a difficult roundabout.

  "In fact, this risk is probably underestimated and we need to do more
  research on the possibility of excluding non-essential information when the
  driver is already busy dealing with the road," he said.

  The study, by Privilege Insurance, said a 5 second distraction at 60 mph
  equated to driving at least the length of a soccer pitch without fully
  concentrating.

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