Higher Education

A good friend of mine called to tell me that her daughter was just offered a FULL scholarship to UCLA.

Full scholarship....PLUS $6,000 a year for expenses!

Wow!

I congratulated her on her obviously brilliant, hard studying daughter!'

"Hard studying my Pootie," replied my friend.  " Her scholarship is for............ Vollyball."


(I did NOT make this up!   -Ed)

Defragging

I do that about once a week for my computer (PC).

I also do it for my brain.  The way I do that is with astronomy.  All I have to do is read about a half of page about "outer space and the stars and..." and my mind immediately starts to "boggle." It only takes about 5 minutes of this and, "voila," the mental defrag is complete.

"Pillars of Creation"

Like just about everything else, the news is both good and bad.

For example, today I discoverded that the PILLARS OF CREATION....no longer exist.

Darn!

The Hubble telescope dscovered and photographed them in 1995 and they've been an inspiration to millions since then. 

And now, they're gone.

But the good news is that the "experts" didn't expect them to last very long anyway.  If there had been a photograph taken of Earth...from the PILLARS OF CREATION....we wouldn't exist either.


You see, the "Pillars" are 7,000 light years away from Earth. The picture that Hubble took is what the "Pillars of Creation" looked like in the year 4985 BC.  The mythical picture taken of the Earth would have shown it...also as it looked in 4985 BC.

The Astronomy article on the Internet explained that,

. "We see the Sun as it looked 8.5 minutes ago. If you were standing one foot in front of me, I would see you as you looked 1.01670336 nanoseconds ago, which is the time it would take for the light to reflect from your face to my pupil. While our brains live in their present, we see everything else in its past tense."

Are you "boggled" yet?

-Ed

"Time is an illusion"

-Albert Einstein

Rubber Room Time

Watching this country go insane....just breaks my heart.
It's getting close to sending me "around the bend" too.

The fact that the American People haven't stormed the Washington Establishment with pitchforks yet, tells me that they never will.

You don't hear the old expression, "The American People won't stand for it"  because apparently they will stand for anything.

Boys in the girls bathrooms, Girls in the boys bathrooms?

Insane

Or deliberate further destruction of the once greatest nation on earth.

Sad.

-Ed

World's Oldest Person Passes

Susannah Jones

According to CNN, Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world's oldest person, died in New York city Thursday night.

 She was 116.

Jones was born on July 6, 1899, in Lowndes County, Alabama, and her life spanned three centuries,  Her father was a sharecropper who supported his family by picking cotton.

She lived through 20 U.S. presidents, two world wars and the birth of the automobile, the airplane, TV and the Internet.

Jones attributed her longevity to sleep, clean living and positive energy.

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Which reminded me of one of my favorite stories about a TV reporter, years ago, who was sent to interview a 100 year old man. 

He inquired of the man what his secret to living so long was.

"I never smoked....never cussed....fooled around with wild women...and, most importantly, never touched a drop of alcohol!

Suddenly, there was this loud crash.....from somewhere in the back of the house.

The reporter stopped his camera...and said..."What the Heck was that!"

The old man sheepishly replied, 

"Oh, I'm so embarrassed!  it's my father. He's drunk again!"

Put the Third Finger of the Right Hand...

....on the letter L...and the first finger of your left one the letter F.  Keep that position while you "hunt and peck" punching the "found key" with whichever finger is closest to it.

It took my Mom less than 2 minutes to explain that to me, but it turned out to be one of the most useful lessons I ever had. I was perhaps 14 years old at the time, and never again typed with only 2 fingers.  I wish I had absorbed more of her advice with such determinaton.

I "hunted and pecked" a lot after that, but with ALL of my fingers, instead of just two. And almost before I knew what a "Touch Typist" was.....I was one.

And seldom has a day gone by since then that I have not used that skill.
What a Mom!  I would say she was perfect.......except for one thing; she never did buy me that pony.

-Ed