Is this overkill or what???

85,000 Iphone Apps
Spending one minute on each one deciding if it would fit your needs would take 177 eight hour days. After that many days there would more than likely be more Apps.

50,000 Radio stations for your Blackberry
One minute on each to make sure you don't get any of your parents music and there goes another 104 eight hour days.

Google
Look for riding lawn mowers on Google and get 1,980,000 results. Looking at those will take something over 11 years at the usual one minute per.

Google
Google comes up with two billion results for Google. No one could live long enough for this one.

Say what ?

I'm not a really big Obama fan, but I have trouble understanding all the fuss over him speaking to School kids.

I wonder how getting rid of car dealers as GM and Chrysler have done, will increase sales at the manufacturing level. If it is such a good idea, why haven't Ford, Honda and Toyota done the same.

Some years back (65 or so) saying that someone was living a dog's life, meant that he or she was living a life of misery. Today, judging from what I see and hear on TV, and in real life, it appears that it means just the opposite.


There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

The person who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Sometimes I Wonder

I wonder just when the last person in the US, who has never who has never used a personal computer, will die.

I wonder if the young voters, who had so much influence in putting Obama in the oval office, are noticing how few of his campaign promises are being kept.


Golf is one of the few things in life you don't have to be good at to enjoy.

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less.

More idle thoughts

So much fuss and todo over Michael Jackson's death and memorial service. I don't remember anything like this when Lawrence Welk died.

Ask your doctor ads. So many commercials on TV for medicine that can't be bought without getting a doctor to prescribe something because you want it, whether he or she thinks you need it or not.

But "wait" ads. So many ads on TV for stuff that most of the time looks useless or nearly so. Then, near the end of the pitch comes the "But wait", order now and we will double the offer, you just pay shipping and handling for the second item. Sometimes that can be fifteen or sixteen dollars for something that they are selling for $9.95, and can more than likely be shipped for a lot less than they are charging.

Bubble gum contains rubber.

The ancient Egyptians had bowling alleys similar to ours.

Mosquitoes flap their wings 10.000 times every second.

Things I thought I'd never see

GAMBLING: The state of Iowa, pretty much a Bible Belt state, with so many gambling casinos, and talking about more. The government is so dependent on the revenue, that they will more than likely never go away.
COMPUTERS: Computers everywhere, controlling every thing it seems.
NEWSPAPERS: Rather the end of same. Papers going out of business, and those that are left, eliminating staff to stay above water.
GM. Talk of General Motors going bankrupt. Chrysler in the same or worse shape.
CHINA; China seems to be getting more and more powerful every day. We, the USA, owes them so much money, they will own us one of these days.
Something new and unbelievable seems to pop up every day.

The Dead Sea is really a lake.

You can feed 24 people with one ostrich egg.

Idle thoughts

I ran across an advert for an Apple iPod recently. This particular one would hold 30,000 songs. 30,000 songs at an average of three minutes each, would be 90,000 minutes. divided by 60 would make that 1500 hours. If someone spent 16 hours a day listening, leaving 8 hours for sleep, it would take nearly 94 days to listen to them all. Downloading the songs from Apple at 99 cents each, plus the cost of the iPod, would mean an investment of about $30,000.00. The price of a pretty nice car tied up in a gad-get hooked to a small earphone. This thing also has the ability to hold 25,000 pictures. At just 15 seconds per picture, more than 6 days gone using the same 16 hours a day. A very small picture as well. It would also hold 150 hours of video. Nearly 10 days to look at that! Are we living in a techie world, or what?

When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called "HappyRabbit."

The first gold record ever awarded went to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo-choo."

The really

big catch phrase these days seems to be "create jobs". The government can, and does do that a good share of the time it seems. Businesses need a reason however, like sales of their product. I've seen somewhere how the big bailout could have given every household in the country ten thousand dollars. Maybe that 10 grand should have been sent, in the form of a gift certificate, to those households. No loan pay down, or saving the money. Good only for new cars, TVs, appliances, things that would put people back to work. It may have started things moving again, rather than going to pork projects, politicians pet programs, bonuses to bankers etc.

We are having great run of weather at the moment. Only a little snow left in ditches, and the north side of buildings. Sixty seven degrees here in Dayton today. It's Iowa though, so things are bound to change. This is happening during the girl's state basketball tournament.

All the Zodiac symbols are animals, except one--Libra

Most accidents are caused by people, and most people are caused by accidents.

A segment

on 60 Minutes last night had to do with the drug cartels in Mexico, and what a problem they are becoming. Murders, kidnapping, wars with police, bribery, all because there is so much money involved. The same Mexican cartels are also gaining a foothold in this country. Our government spends billions trying to stop illegal drugs from getting to the streets, and more than likely, other countries are spending a lot as well. So far it seems that it isn't working. Maybe the world should legalize these drugs. No big money involved so crime would more than likely come down, the Taliban would lose their main resource for weapons, and billions wasted trying to stop what seems to be the unstoppable could be saved. Prohibition only begets more and more crime, and has not worked. A few more people may start using, a few more may OD, but that may well be a small price to pay in the long run. The government would surely find a way to add a tax in this somewhere, which could help the economy. Perhaps this could also qualify as a change to believe in. Don't hold your breath.

Before 1863,mail service in the U.S. was free.

The first chain store was the A&P. It was founded in 1842.

A segment

The new

president isn't having much luck charming the Republicans the way he charmed the young, and the ladies here in Iowa. I hope the stimulus package works, but it's about like tossing a Cheerio on a thread to someone who is about to drown in the lake. The solution to the problem is to do more of what caused the mess in the first place. People have to go out and buy things they can't afford, and borrow the money. One of these days Obama will be pleading with the public to do just that. Detroit has to sell cars, and Whirlpool has to sell appliances, and so on down the line. You can give employers a tax credit, but they won't hire one person they don't need if their business is bad. Again, I hope the nearly 800 billion works. The money will be borrowed, and that means lots of interest to pay, plus the debt has to be repaid some day down the line. Usually the people that will have to do this are called our kids and grandkids. Too much debt can lead to bankruptcy, and it seems to me that's what Bin Laden hoped for with the twin towers attacks.

A little good news, at least for us in Dayton. The predicted snow for yesterday left more than seven inches in Des Moines, but we had none at all.

The number 1 TV show of 1961 was a Western called "Wagon Train."

You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

I watched

a little of the golf tournament from the Phoenix area last weekend. Somehow it doesn't seem quite right to see so much green grass and water in the middle of the desert. Where does all the water come from? Tons of water must evaporate every day when the sun shines nearly every waking hour.
We are in the midst of a January thaw. Snow is disappearing fast, and good riddance. Trouble is, there is lots of time left for more.

There is a city called Rome on every continent in the world.

At this moment, the Earth is traveling through space at 660,000 miles per hour..

I sometimes

wonder why it is when someone is to be interviewed on (60 Minutes) or a show like that, the interviewee is often seen walking purposefully down the sidewalk, or towards the camera in a hallway, before the interview. What is this about?
It's beginning to look like the way to get a high position in the Obama administration is to not pay your income tax. Is this the change he promised?

The leaves of an adult oak tree give off seven tons of water every day.
Letters galore: Chinese script has more than 40,000 characters.

Nearly a year

of 2009 gone already. The big topic these days is the economy. Obama's stimulus package seems big on rebuilding roads, bridges, all sorts of infrastructure and the jobs this will create. I have been wondering where the Wall Street bankers that have been laid off, will fit into this program. Somehow I can't visualize those people painting bridges, working on the roads or rebuilding water mains. Time will tell, if the Congress even OKs the money. The stock market is up today so some people must have hope.
The winter has been brutal here in the midwest. Lots of snow and cold and quite a lot of winter season left to go. Why does anyone live in this place?
I can't ever remember hearing so much advice about how to economize and save money. All of this should have been done years ago. Instead we were sold the idea of bigger and better everything, and told to use credit cards and to borrow the money on home equity loans or what ever to do it. I guess it was fun while it lasted, but some day the piper must be paid.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.