Wishing you . . .

a merry Christmas.

See you in 2009.

Giving 110 Percent

What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%?

Here’s a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:

If:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:

H-A-R-D-W -O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

and

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But,

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

And,

B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

AND, look how far ass kissing will take you.

A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty, that while Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, itʼs the Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top.

Paper Challenge

Did you know that no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times? Try it, I dare you.

My attempt at folding and 8.5″x11″ piece of paper. I only got to 6.

gmail crashing my browser

Over the last few weeks I’ve noticed Firefox crashes when I attempt to leave my gmail inbox for another site. I type in the address of the site into the address bar, hit enter, and then nothing. The browser ends up crashing.

Is anyone else having this issue?

Realizations gets a face lift

New style for the site. I think this one is a lot cleaner. Links are more visible and well, let’s just chalk this one up to some spring cleaning.

Simple Idea for Campus Safety

I received an email from UT today regarding campus safety and the steps the university is taking to enhance their readiness and ability to react to an incident that threatened the security of those on campus. I thought one of the initiatives was a very simple and elegant solution. It’s called ‘Red Alert’ and students can register their cell phone to receive a text or voice message in the event of danger.

An enhancement to the Red Alert program would be to allow users to be able to text or call to report danger, although some incidents may then be reported that don’t qualify as Red Alert safety concerns. In light of the recent campus tragedies, I would air on the side of caution and allow everyone to enact the alert.

“SMS messages are transfered over air made of solid gold”

Jared found an interesting article that sure seems like it would have been written on this site. Check out this guys rant about the cost of Text messaging.

Update: Corrected the link
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Happy New Year

Welcome to 2008. I don’t have much to complain about as I just got back to work from 2 stress-free weeks of vacation. I’m hoping that good attitude carries over for awhile, but I’m sure there will be some realizations to write about shortly. I had something trivial to post this morning about Facebook, but it’s more of a warning and found someone else has already posted it, so I thought I’d give him/her some credit: www.topofthemountains.net/2008/01/02/a-facebook-virus-of-sorts/

1000+ views

This silly blog has reached a milestone; over 1000 views. I’ve gotten about half from google Image search results for “Snickers” and people looking for MSN messenger info, but the other half are legitimate co-workers, family and friends checking in.

I know the last week has been post free, but stress free vacation left me with nothing to complain about. I’m looking for good topics to write about so leave a comment and get me posting again.

Snickers vs Milky Way

Jared and I got into it today about which candy is better, Snickers or Milky Way. He claimed that only 1 in 10 would respond Milky Way. A quick office poll revealed Snickers is preferred more, but only by a small margin. The initially tally was Snickers 9, Milky Way 7.

Cast Your Vote Here