Where's me de-icer?

Car-icle? From skyandsummit.com

!SR

Snopes jokes

Is this true?

At Heathrow Airport today, an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a compass, a protractor, and a graphical calculator. Authorities believe he is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement.

He is being charged with carrying weapons of math instruction!

This has been really bugging me - I'm certain it's not true. Following the death of the Queen Mother in the UK:

What with all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person which almost went un-noticed last week.

Larry La Prise, the man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey," died peacefully aged 83. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin.

They put his left leg in - and things just started to go downhill from there.

Both stories from Snopes e-mail page

!SR

Berri Burial Quote

Once, Yogi's wife Carmen asked, "Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you played ball in New York. If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?" To this, Yogi replied, "Surprise me."

Yogi Berra quotes

Linked from Growabrain

!SR

A Million Random Digits with some odd reviews

Linked to amazon's review of the book A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates from the website Everything Isn't.

Check out the reviews. All 27 of them.

Wow! The 1,000,000 random digits produced by the Rand Corporation are some of the best random digits out there! I was amazed at some of their selections. For example: would YOU have conceived of the sequence 35462? Or 239877687468? Or 776834689765872643756324876 (one of my personal favorites). This is fine, fine work. Kudos to the folks at Rand on this most fascinating tract that truly keeps one on the edge of his seat.

!SR

The incredible adventure of Cabeza de Vaca

I first heard this mentioned in the pub a few weeks ago; a Spaniard shipwrecked in the Americas in the Sixteenth century, living among native American Indians. Tales of extreme hardship, hunger, shamanism, more hunger, brutal treatment by the Indians, hunger again, and an incredible journey across the Gulf of Mexico picqued my interest.

With some time off work to recover from my 33rd birthday, I thought I'd check it out. It was worth the read. Not many books have a Chapter 23 entitled "How we left after Having eaten the Dogs". (thank goodness).

Read it online : Southwestern Writers Collection

After returning to Spain, Cabeza de Vaca wrote an account of his years in the Americas. First published in 1542, this extraordinary adventure story has thrilled readers for centuries. Cabeza de Vaca's account is also of great anthropological and historical importance. In Texas alone he identified 23 Indian groups, describing in detail their clothes, languages, eating habits, rituals, homes, and migrations. In 1989, thanks to the generosity of Bill and Sally Wittliff and an anonymous donor, the Southwestern Writers Collection received a very special gift - a copy of the 1555 edition of La relación. This is one of the rarest books in the world.

Mind you for some of the indians it wasn't all bad:

Throughout this land they get drunk on a certain smoke and give all they have to obtain it. They also drink a tea made from the leaves of a tree that resembles the live oak, which they toast in vessels on a fire.

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Dead End Job?

Always on the look out for a change of job, nevertheless am slightly concerned about the "ever expanding market"!

Opportunities at Crime Scene Clean-Up

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If you have what it takes to be a team player and are looking for adventure in our field, you are cordially invited to submit your resume' to the address below.

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!SR