Top Ten Thoughts to Ponder for 2008

• Number 10: Life is sexually transmitted.
• Number 9: Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
• Number 8: We know exactly where one cow with mad-cow-disease is located among millions and millions of cows in America but we haven't got a clue as to where terrorists are located. Maybe we should put the Dept. of Agriculture in charge of Immigration.
• Number 7: Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day, teach a person to use the internet and they won't bother you for weeks.
• Number 6: Some people are like a Slinky .. Not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.
• Number 5: Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. Yea us!
• Number 4: All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
• Number 3: Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200.00 and a substantial tax cut saves you $30.00?
• Number 2: In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
• And the number 1 thought for 2008: Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.

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Denzel Washington at Brooks Army Medical Center

Don't know whether you heard about this, but Denzel Washington and his family visited the troops at Brook Army Medical Center, in San Antonio, Texas (BAMC) the other day. This is where soldiers who have been evacuated from Germany come to be hospitalized in the United States , especially burn victims. There are some buildings there called Fisher Houses. The Fisher House is a Hotel where soldiers' families ca n stay, for little or no charge, while their soldier is staying in the Hospital. BAMC has quite a few of these houses on base, but as you can imagine, they are filled most of the time.

While Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave him a tour of one of the Fisher Houses. He asked how much one of them would cost to build. He took his checkbook out and wrote a check for the full amount right there on the spot. The soldiers overseas were amazed to hear this story and want to get the word out to the American public, because it warmed their hearts to hear it.

The question is - why do Brad Pitt, Madonna, Tom Cruise and other Hollywood fluff make front page news with their ridiculous antics and Denzel Washington's Patriotism doesn't even make page 3 in the Metro section of any newspaper except the local newspaper in San Antonio?

The Media 'Accidentally' Missed This One. This needs as wide a distribution as we can create. Share it!

Don't tell anybody or everyone will be doing it

I was reading the article "7 headaches - and how to fix them" published in Popular Mechanics and written by Jamie Hyneman, the guy from the TV show MythBusters, and I found the following affirmations I do believe are worthed to be posted here.

(Illustration by Frank Stockton... copied from the original article)

• There are times when innovation produces aggravation, and when that happens, technology can flat out drive us nuts.
• As machines become more complicated, good interface design becomes more essential—you can't just keep adding buttons and menus.
• High-tech companies—stop messing with us on your treadmill of software upgrades while making the old stuff obsolete.
• To my mind, engineering is a high art, and it brings tears to my eyes to see it so disrespected at times by the marketing and legal departments of corporations. Ideally, form is supposed to follow function, and designing and manufacturing consumer products should be a collaborative process. Com­panies, it's time to wake up and pay attention to your engineers—and to your customers.

The best of any of the reader comments I spent time reading says... "Jamie, you have my sympathies, but so do the engineers who are forced but our market-driven society to create items that are incomplete as stand alones, too complex to fix yourself, or include far too many 'extras' to be easily used. My solution is this: become better consumers folks."

Finally, where can I find that "LED flashlight called the Fenix that puts out 1 watt, uses a single AA battery and lasts for months of use" that Jamie mentioned? Maybe, this is the one he is talking about.

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