Dick Staub:
Staublog -
Seekers or Snackers?:

"I'm aware of the stats saying 82% of Americans are on a spiritual quest, but after all these years wouldn’t some of them find something? If 82% are on a quest that would include a lot of fundamentalist and evangelical Christians who say they have found the answer! One guy calls Americans “spiritual snackers” not seekers. Book sales are a commercial indication not a spiritual barometer. Marketing not the search for meaning can explain a lot. What kind of people buy 12 books at twenty dollars to learn that Jesus returns in the end, when you can buy one book (The Bible) for twenty dollars and find out the same thing? We live in a society that buys books titled “rescuing the emotional lives of overweight children” instead of helping the kid exercise and eat properly." Dick Staub

I say amen to that!

Fluid dynamics is a drag; electrostatics is repulsive; cryogenics is cool; ultra-high vacuum technology sucks; optics is enlightening; pathobiology is sickening; plasma physics is hot; acoustics is humdrum; nutrition is distasteful; the machine shop is boring; quantum chemistry is uncertain; NMR spectroscopy is pulsating; calculus is a transcendental experience; engineering mechanics is too stressful; aerodynamics is uplifting; thin film technology is superficial.

From Dave Olson

new web site????

QotD: “Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the Earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.” — Bertrand Russell

sent to me by Paul Leon

Yahoo! News - Croutons Land Brain Surgeon in the Soup

You have to be kidding me. I guess I'll watch how many pats of butter I take.....

What will folks think of next. A usb memory stick with a duck attached....

iDuck USB Memory Storage Device

Rum and Monkey: The Name Generator Generator

More madness on the web.

QotD: "...there is always less difficulty in fixing the mind on small matters than on great." Plato, Statesman

Yahoo!

Talk about closing the barn door after the horse has left!

The Brits view of our obesity epidemic.


BBC NEWS | Americas | Obesity 'becoming top US killer'

Just one more sign of the apocalypse!

Dick Staub:
Faith -
Behold the Power of Cheesus

QotD2: “It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system….”
Niccolo Machiavelli

Here are 14 actual error messages, that can be seen on the computer screens in Japan, where some are written in Haiku. Aren't these better than "your computer has performed an illegal operation"?

1. The Web site you seek cannot be located, but countless more exist.

2. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.

3. Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much.

4. Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.

5. Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that.

6. Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone.

7. Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down.

8. A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone.

9. Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred?

10. You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not here.

11. Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, but we never will.

12. Having been erased, the document you're seeking must now be retyped.

13. Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared.

14. Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

QotD: "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." - Theodor Geisel (“Dr Seuss”)

B U Z Z W O R D O F T H E D A Y
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> READ-ONLY VALUES: Values that are
> unquestionable, unalterable,
> non-negotiable. "Drafting a corporate
> mission statement is largely a search
> for the company's read-only values."
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"Get these three principles fixed in your hears: that Things eternal are much more considerable than Things temporal; that Things not seen are as certain as the Things that are seen; that upon your present choice depends your eternal lot. Choose Christ and his ways, and you are blessed forever; refuse, and you are undone forever." John Wesley