From YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyCtOCK6MiE
Take a look.
If you want to read the see comments, see the YouTube page [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyCtOCK6MiE].
If you find out how to write this poor kid to tell him you agree, please let me know and I’ll update it here.
VistaPrint (http://www.VistaPrint.com) offers inexpensive products.
For many people they are “adequate”.
That said, one of the items not disclosed is that their business cards are UNDERSIZED.
While the standard specifies dimensions of 3.5 ” x 2″, the cards produced by VistaPrint are only 3.43″ x 1.93″. While that is “tiny”, it is noticible and in a stack of cards, those by VistaPrint are clearly undersized.
I have confirmed this with VistaPrint and it is by “design”.
Some years ago I drove mother down to the Houston Butterfly Museum (http://bit.ly/gC597u) (more precisely the Cockrell Butterfly Center at the Houston Museum of Natural Science).
It was a fun trip for a couple of reasons.
First, when we arrived the line was way out the door. So I decided to try something.
I walked downstairs (I was walking better then before my strokes) and went to a pay phone (was before I ever carried a cell) and called the museum to see if I could “reserve” tickets for pickup.
Turns out I could, so I did for a viewing group in 30 min telling the clerk I would make the time as I was “close”. Having done it I walked back upstairs and went around the line to the desk where you went if you had a reservation. After a minor delay caused by the fact that I was trying to buy the tickets about 3 min after having made the reservation, I bought and paid for the tickets.
It was a delightful visit and I heartily recommend that trip it to everyone.
While there, in the gift shop, I bought mother a set of a bunch of tiny flat, printed, butterfly magnets for her refrigerator.
One of the things she attached to her refrigerator with one of the magnets was this quote from Barbara Jordan (http://bit.ly/caGSo3) which she espacially liked and had typed on her typewriter when she still had one and I noticed again today while going to that refrigerator:
I want to succeed as an American Citizen. To do that, I must speak standard American English. And I demand it of every student in my class.
It was a point my mother strongly shared with her sister, my Aunt Agnes, (also a former school teacher and still alive). Woe be unto him who uses poor English in an official manner. And in that spirit, you might enjoy these: http://bit.ly/w1NJ1W
(Barbara Jordan, like my father and my father’s mother, also suffered from Multiple Sclerosis.)
On the web:
http://bit.ly/zDdkJy
The whole SOPA/PIPA debate has reached a fever pitch in the last week or so. There was even a massive web protest in which sites like Wikipedia and Google participated. The protest has slowed the SOPA/PIPA threat, but it would be foolish to think the threat went away.
If you are not aware of the issue and how it effects you, this very recent talk may help a bit.
Einstein was once traveling from Princeton on a train when the conductor came down the aisle, punching the tickets of every passenger. When he came to Einstein, Einstein reached in his vest pocket. He couldn’t find his ticket, so he reached in his trouser pockets. It wasn’t there. He looked in his briefcase but couldn’t find it. Then he looked in the seat beside him. He still couldn’t find it.
The conductor said, “Dr. Einstein, I know who you are. We all know who you are. I’m sure you bought a ticket. Don’t worry about it.”
Einstein nodded appreciatively.
The conductor continued down the aisle punching tickets. As he was ready to move to the next car, he turned around and saw the great physicist down on his hands and knees looking under his seat for his ticket.
The conductor rushed back and said, “Dr. Einstein, Dr. Einstein, don’t worry, I know who you are; no problem. You don’t need a ticket. I’m sure you bought one.”
Einstein looked at him and said, ‘”Young man, I too, know who I am. What I don’t know is where I’m going.”
Alabama
A group of Alabama friends went deer hunting and paired off in twos for the day. That night, one of the hunters returned alone, staggering under the weight of an eight-point buck.
“Where’s Bubba?” the others asked.
“Bubba had a stroke o’ some kind. He’s a couple of miles back up the trail,” the successful hunter replied.
“You left Bubba layin’ out there and carried the deer back?” they inquired.
“A tough call,” nodded the hunter. “But I figured no one’s gonna steal Bubba!”
Georgia
The owner of a golf course in Georgia 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 Georgia and I need some help. If I wuz to give yew $20,000, minus 14%, how much would you take off?”
The secretary thought a moment, and then replied, “Everthang but my earrings.”
Louisiana
A senior citizen in Louisiana was overheard saying, “When the end of the world comes, I hope to be in Louisiana .”
When asked why, he replied, “I’d rather be in Louisiana ’cause everythang happens in Louisiana 20 years later than in the rest of the world.”
North Carolina
A man in North Carolina had a flat tire, pulled off on the side of the road, and proceeded to put a bouquet of flowers in front of the car and one behind it. Then he got back in the car to wait.
A passerby studied the scene as he drove by, and was so curious he turned around and went back. He asked the fellow what the problem was.
The man replied, “I got a flat tahr.”
The passerby asked, “But what’s with the flowers?”
The man responded, “They tell you when you break down to put flares in the front and flares in the back. I never did understand it neither.”
Tennessee
A Tennessee State trooper pulled over a pickup on I-65.
The trooper asked, “Got any ID?”
The driver replied, “Bout whut?”
Texas
The Sheriff pulled up next to the guy unloading garbage out of his pick-up into the ditch.
The Sheriff asked, “Why are you dumping garbage in the ditch? Don’t you see that sign right over your head.”
“Yep,” he replied, “That’s why I’m dumpin’ here, ’cause it says: ‘Fine For Dumping Garbage.’
http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html
Years ago when I attended the Rome campus of the university I attended (University of Dallas) I had my own personal chance to see the Sistine Chapel. It is crowded and I needed the binoculars I had brought to see it clearly.
Now, with the help of technology and the web, you can see it in ways that are better than actually being there.
Do not try to view this on your cell phone. Use the largest monitor you have access to.
TO VIEW EVERY PART OF THE MICHELANGELO’S MASTERPIECE, JUST CLICK AND DRAG YOUR ARROW IN THE DIRECTION YOU WISH TO SEE.
In the lower left of the screen are a couple click controls. Click on the plus (+) to move closer, on the minus (-) to move away. You can also turn the choir music on and off.
Enjoy.
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