Month: February 2009
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Happy Valentine’s Day
A friend of mine forwarded this link to me, and the site to which it transports you shows approximately 500 years’ worth of women’s portraits, using truly excellent morphing software to transition between the various faces over a period of three minutes. To those of you who have speakers hooked up to the computer you…
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Unixtime milestone
Per Michiel Ross: Number aficionados, you probably already know what happens today. As of 6:31:30PM ET this afternoon it will officially be 1234567890 Unix time, which started at zero and has been counting seconds since the stroke of midnight on January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds.via email from Michael Cannon, Fri, 13 Feb 2009…
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Objectives
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Golf game
A man staggered into a hospital with a concussion, multiple bruises, two black eyes and a five iron wrapped tightly around his throat.Naturally the doctor asked him, “What happened to you?”“Well, I was having a quiet round of golf with my wife, when at a difficult hole, we both sliced our balls into a cow…
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Happy Birthday Charles
It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Charles Darwin, who shares the 12-February-1809 birthdate with Abraham LincolnSee more birthday felicitations.