Month: January 2005

  • Philosophy

    There’s a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.Charles M. Schulz

  • Jeff Foxworthy on New England

    If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in New England.If you’re proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Mt. Washington is the coldest spot…

  • Information week item

    Comcast Plans VoIP Service For Its 40 Million SubscribersPowerful telephone companies are serving notice on the cable-TV industry that its stranglehold over television programming will be coming to an end.  In response, Comcast plans to counterattack using VoIP, and its strength in broadband cable is expected to serve the cable TV company well.Information WeekThat’s all…

  • Potter Potter Potter Potter

    Potter Potter Potter Potter…Bizarre lip-syncing Converting the first 10,000 digits of pi into a musical sequenceWhoa… dude. (Large collection of art and animation.)Top ten Atom Films of 2004 Old government and school films! Dating, hygiene, etc.  (See “Most Viewed Films” on the right side.)Quick ice fishing clip A fan created his own movie trailer for…

  • Willpower

    WILL POWER = Our WILL-ingness to use a Higher POWER.Anonymous

  • Let’s take this offline

    Take this discussion offline: Usually, this expression means, “Let’s not waste time on this while we’re all together at this meeting.”  Instead, everyone in the meeting gets CC’d on an E-mail to kick around the topic.  So taking a discussion offline almost inevitably means taking a discussion that wasn’t online, and putting it online.InformationWeek, “Between…

  • Only in Maine

    The owner of a golf course in Maine was confused about paying an invoice, so he decided to ask his secretary for some mathematical help.  He called her into his office and said, “You graduated from the University of Maine, and I need some help.  If I were to give you $20,000, minus 14%, how…