Snippets ~ Are you a computer addict???

For those of us getting on in years and needing a bit of exercise, I thought
I might let you, my friends, in on a little secret I've found for building my
arm and shoulder muscles. You might wish to adopt this regimen - three
days a week or so.

I started by standing outside, behind the house, and with a 5-lb. Potato
sack in each hand, extending my arms straight out to my sides and holding
them there as long as I could. After a few weeks I moved up to 10-lb. potato
sacks, then 50-lb. potato sacks, and finally, 100-lb. potato sacks.

Finally I got to where I could lift a 100-lb. potato sack in each hand and
hold my arms straight out for more than a full minute.

NEXT, I started putting a few potatoes in the sacks, but I would caution
you not to over do it at this level.
GOOD LUCK :-)


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I just started working on a new layout for the http://stumpysteve.com/
web site. Yep, going to try my havd at a little DHTML with this one. I intend
to build the whole layout using XHTML / CSS / JavaScript and PHP.
Notice how the few links (on upper left) are resizing and opening new
windows ?!?

The midi radio has been shuffled ... also notice how all those little windows
are missing their "chrome" ... that's where i'm headed in a nutshell..

OK, back to another funny here ...


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Are you a computer addict???????

1. You see something funny and scream, "LOL, CTFU, ROFL"

2. You sign off and your screen says you were on for 3 days and 45 minutes.

3. You fall asleep, but instead of dreams you get IMs.

4. You beg your friends to get an account so you can "hang out."

5. You get a second phone line just to call out for pizza.

6. You purchase a vanity car license plate with your screen name on it.

7. You say "he he he he" or "heh heh heh" instead of laughing.

8. When someone asks you what you just said, "Scroll up".

9a. You sneak away to your computerwhen everyone goes to sleep.

9b. You get up at 2 am to go to the bathroom and turn on your computer instead.

10. You talk on the phone with the same person you are sending an instant message to.

11. You look at an annoying person off line and wish that you had your ignore button handy.

12. You start to experience "withdrawal"after not being online for awhile.

13. You sit on AOL for 6 hours for that certain special person to sign on.

14. You get up in the morningand go online before getting your coffee.

15. You end your sentences with..... three or more periods.......

16. You think faster than the computer.

17. You enter a room and get greeted by 25 people with {{{hugs}}} and **kisses**.

18. Being called a newbieis a major insult to you.

19. You say BRB while on the phone.

20. You are fluent in typoand consider it your second language.

21. The only Family you send Christmas and Birthday Cards to are the ones who have an email address.

22. When you decline a real date with a live person cause your cyber boyfriend (whom you've never met)is waiting online for you.

23. When your acrylic nails are shorterthen when you had them put on two weeks ago, or you don't even get them done anymore, because acrylics make it hard to type.

24. When you have to clean your keyboard with a Q-tip to dislodge the food particles.

25. When the letters come off your keyboard from excessive use.

26. You go on to "check mail" for 4 hours at a time.

27. You have been late for work because something happened on line28. You talk about cyber peoplemore than people not on line.

29. You can't talk on the phone without calling them by their screen names.

30. More than 60 percent of your friends are from AOL.

31. Your actual significant other is from AOL, and but never met or only once or twice.

32. Although you don't know what they look like, you become insanely jealous of people hitting on your cyber love.

33. You say you're tired of AOL,yet still sign on faithfully for hours.

34. You talk to your computer screens (with no mic)

35. You use computer lingo at work/school by accident.

36. The first and last things that they doduring the day are online.

37. (see 9b ~ lol)

38. They cry over things online.

39. You find it impossible to not state what action you are doing. (ie. LMAO @, RME, QQn @)

40. You meet some one you like off line and wish they had a profile for you to readso you can get to know their personality a lit better.

41. Your typing skills improve.You can type better then your secretary at work.

42. You get more mail deliveredfrom your server than your postman.

43. You re-enter a room in your house and say "BACK"

44. You understand the humor in this pagebecause you've committed these acts yourself.

45. You log on and are immediately hit with 10 IM's from people who have you on their buddy list.

46. You constantly find yourself doing things you said you would never do when you first got online.

47. You swore it was impossible to become addicted.


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The 25 People Responsible For The Global Financial Crisis

The worst economic turmoil since the Great Depression is not a natural phenomenon but a man-made disaster in which we all played a part. In the second part of a week-long series looking behind theslump, Guardian City editor Julia Finch picks out the individuals who have led us into the current crisis.

Read the whole story here ...http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/26/road-ruin-recession-individuals-economy


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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."~ George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) ~

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