Fighter Of The Year

Is George St. Pierre fighter of the year?
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Family Guy Clips that crack me up...

And in the disturbing catagory:





Just plain funny:

Sequoia National Park 2009

Waste and Environmental concerns at Starbucks

A personal report.

While I don't go to Starbucks on a regular basis, I do pop in once in a while for a latte on break from work. For the last two months, I have been paying close attention to the barristas and still can't believe what I discovered.

Wasted Shots.

Whenever they made a drink with an odd number of shots, they would simply let the odd shot run down the drain. Maybe you have seen their method? Each esspresso head has two spouts. If you have a drink with 2 shots, they place your cup directly under the head to catch one shot from each spout. If you only need one shot, they would place your cup off to the side, catching only one shot from one spout. You would think they would put another cup under the other spout to catch the stray shot?

NO. They calously and carelessly let the shot drain off into the sewers. This is a precious commodity that some farmer worked hard to grow, just tossed aside like trash.

Starbucks worked hard to create a new coffee culture in America, where people valued coffee. But what value does it have when it is in the sewer? I will tell you.

Caffeine in the wild.

Over the past ten years, I have noticed a sharp drop in the number of wild sewer aligator sightings in the LA area. I always thought this was due to a combination of public education about the dangers of releasing pet aligator infants and a great effort in animal control. However, the truth seems more insidious. Imagine if you will, a host of wild sewer aligators fed a steady stream of caffeine from a plethora of Starbucks dumping shots into the sewer all day long. These hopped up gators would have extremely hightened senses. Their senses are so hightened that nary a animal control agent could get within a mile of them. Granted, they are skinny and pale gators, but a danger non the less. Especially dangerous are the hours between Starbucks closing and opening the next day. Such a gator going through caffeine withdrawls is not a sight I want to witness in person.

Solution.

Whenever you visit Starbucks and see the barrista wasting a shot, ask them if they can catch that extra shot and put it in your drink. It will save a gator and make the American workforce that much more productive. And it might also increase the sale of anti depressant drugs and sleep aids.

Young Hawk Down

North Hollywood, CA.

In a fit of depression over not getting a ticket to the Michael Jackson memorial at Staples Center today, a young hawk flew a kamikaze mission into the front window of a home in the Valley Village area of North Hollywood at approximately 7:15PM. The home owner dried to give aid but the depressed hawk refused her attempts to help, even threatening to "nip her finger off" if she didn't let the hawk die. Emergency services were called and a medical rescue worker was forced to call in a bird psychologist to talk the suicidal bird down before medical attention could be administered. The emergency workers were very concerned and mentioned this was the fifth such issue today.

"We new birds loved music, but had no idea they would react this way to Jackson's passing" said one medic.

"Birds have complex psyches and understand more about our world than most people realize", said the bird psychologist who was called to talk the bird down.

"We have been seeing a trend in bird suicide attempts since the King of Pop passed away. Most end in tragedy. Luckily, this bird has a good chance at recovery with the proper therapy and drug regimine.", said Sneznblo.

Sadly, this may not be the last member of our society drawn into depression so deep it renders them incapable of leading a normal life due to the undue media attention paid to the singer's passing. These are the uncalculable costs of the media circus that has been keeping us informed of ever minor detail possibly related to the unfortunate and untimely death of Michael Jackson.

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Tyrone Fong graduates the LAFD academy

New Fire Fighter Tyrone Fong.

It's almost official.

Badged and all.

Smile!!!

Time Warner set to Screw customers??? Is it true?

Just got this by e-mail.. Is it true???
People across the country are rising up in protest. Join them! By signing this letter, you’re telling your representative in Congress to step in and demand a thorough investigation of Time Warner before its scam comes to your community.

Time Warner’s plan couldn’t come at a worse time. Congress and President Obama have made access to an affordable and free-flowing Internet a focus of America’s economic recovery plan.

By curbing people’s ability to use new business and educational tools, watch Internet video, share pictures with family, and connect to new government services, Time Warner is using their market monopoly to cripple the technology millions of people need to be a part of the Internet age.

The company’s scheme would cost customers $15 per month for one gigabyte -- the equivalent of one 30-minute HD television show -- with a penalty fee of $2 for every additional gigabyte over the limit. This rip-off is designed to make customers think twice before switching off their cable TV and finding the shows they want online.

U-Bike Bicycle Rental Program in Taiwan.

This is a cool news video produced by Eric Mah. After watching this, I just wonder if something like this would work in major metro areas in the states???

Funny News from The Onion - Bullet recall

Did I mention HP sucks?

OK. So I am in the position of managing a Dental Lab's IT dept. that was set up by the person who ran the place before me.
Anyway, the marketing dept. depends on an HP CLJ 3600 for creating all their monthly/weekly fliers and other mailers.
2 weeks ago, the printer went in to an endless calibration cycle. It kept up until, as per a forum post and the tech support agent on the phone with me, I pulled all the ink cartridges and the main board, booted up and waited for the error message and then replaced the components one by one. That got it printing again, but the colors were way off. Phone support was not able to help. Hours were spent with them updating firmware, replacing all the ink and doing cold resets one after another.
Finally, they scheduled a field tech to come out the next day. I was called on Thursday to be alerted the tech was not able to make it until Friday because some parts had not come in yet.
I expected the tech on Friday, and was not overjoyed when he never showed up. On Monday morning I got a call that the part was finally in and he would be there on Monday. nearly three hours of the field tech's efforts provided no improvement.
Tuesday saw more time on the phone, another 2 hours, discussing the issue with polite yet useless support folks with heavy accents.
I finally got message that 2 techs would be coming on Wednesday.
Sure enough, 2 techs worked for more than 2 hours and there was no improvement. The printer was still not printing colors correctly.
The following day, I was informed that 3 techs would be out on Monday to look at it. I argued for a replacement and was told it was not policy. We had even purchased the upgraded extended warranty from HP and they still refused to help up get back up and running in a timely fashion. I was transferred through 3 departments before I was finally told that they would process a replacement only if the techs on Monday could not fix the issue. Unfortunately, it would take 3-5 business days to get the printer. WTF? So, on Monday it turned out to be 4 techs and took almost 3 hours to finally fix it.
Now, not only was our marketing dept. down for more than a week, which cost us a lot, HP also wasted their own money. The printer in question only retails for about $500. Their cost to replace it would have been about $200. Instead, they sent a total of 4 techs out on 3 separate calls to replace almost every part in the printer while causing a customer to be down and unproductive for more than a week.
I warn all of you to stay away from HP and definitely stay away from their warranty service unless you get the 24hr replacement plan. Even then, it's more expensive than just buying a new printer.
Also, with the small laserjets, they don't work well with terminal services. Specifically, they don't redirect through remote desktop (RDP) connecting to WTS.
I switched out a couple HPs for Brother printers and the Brothers work fine.
After this very frustrating experience with HP, I can not recommend them in a business environment. It really hurt us to be down that long. I will be replacing our HPs this year. Sorry HP... You suck!

funny email forwarded by Witty

This is probably a made up letter, but it's funny.. So I wanted to share it.:

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term.

The answer by one student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well:

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities :

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,' and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct . . . leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting 'Oh my God.'

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.

UFC 94.. St. Pierre Vs. Penn.

This will be a very quick note. I just wanted to bring up that St. Pierre is now sponsored by The Men's Warehouse.
So, next time you want clothing to make you look like a champ, think Men's Warehouse.