Snipped from DiscoveryMagazine.com.

Whether you are from Fargo and are intimately familiar with the white fluffy stuff, or you are from South Texas and you have only dreamed of it, snow may be more fascinating than you think. Here is an article covering 20 things you may have never known about snow.

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Cans I help yuoz?
AP Photo

Now, I received this by email, so I don’t know if this is actually true, or who the originator of this story is, but knowing the state of our education system, I don’t doubt it to be true. Anyways, this is how the email went:

Wal-Mart Employee: “Hello ‘dis Walmarts, how can I help you?”

Customer: “I would like to order a cake for a going away party this week.”

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Blog4Brains is having a new problem with handling submitted comments. This is due to the recent upgrade to the most up-to-date Wordpress version. Ahh, upgrading is always downgrading. Anyways, I will be working on the fix tomorrow and thereafter hopefully fixing it sooner rather than later. As always, I am working hard for your reading pleasure.

The error concerns articles with comments; they are breaking the template causing the sidebars not to be displayed and any following comments to disappear. Articles w/o comments seem to be unaffected, but suffer from the same problem once a comment is submitted (the comment is saved just not displayed if not the first).

If you have any knowledge in HTML or PHP please feel free to advise me as I am sure I will be going through a lot of trial and error. Take care, and I will keep you guys up to date with my programming nightmare.

UPDATE: The comment issue is now fixed; please resume your daily reading (and writing) pleasure. If any other errors come to your attention, please feel free to notify me. Thank you for your patients.

Don’t run, it’s not safe!

In one of Kilgore Trout’s comments, he talks about childhood and growing up. “Most of the best parts of childhood have the line ‘I can’t believe no one got serious hurt.’ Children need time to be children, they need to experience life on their own … When do they get to just do the stupid things that kids do simply because they’re kids?”

Then from Cerebral: “I knew what it was like to just be a kid and care about nothing. We did shit just to have fun with no one to tell us ‘you can’t do that because it’s not safe.’ ”

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Immigrants at Ellis Island, 1902.

Sometimes the argument goes like this…Hey! Let the illegal immigrants slide, give them amnesty. Hey! we were all illegal immigrants at one time. Whoa! My parents didn’t come into the country under the fence.

My Mom and Dad came in through Ellis Island, just about everyone came through Ellis Island. Under the fence? What was the difference? When you came through Ellis Island where you might be required to be quarantined for health reasons there, your name and other info was entered into a book. If the official couldn’t pronounce your last name, he truncated it or give you a new name made up on the spot. But you were in the book, registered so to speak, maybe the proper term would be “listed” in the book, then you were let into the country.

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It’s coming!

I have three sex and Halloween I-Was-There stories to relate. They stay vivid in my mind, I guess, because those memories are tinted with a hint of sex.

1) My Mother Gets Mooned in her own house on Halloween. It happened in my parents’ old homestead house and I was just a little kid. It was the fourth or fifth visit by trick-or-treaters. My mother had the plastic pumpkin bowl in her hand and opened the door. This big matron-like woman burst past her with about eight kids older than I. She was dressed like a gypsy with long skirts, beads, and with the Long Ranger kind of mask.

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We all love trivia. Some of us are better than others when involved with trivia games. Whenever I watch any of the game shows or watch someone fill out a crossword puzzle effortlessly, I am amazed. I don’t know how people do it.

I came across a list of trivia questions the other day that were particularly humorous. So, I thought I would share them with my favorite people–Blog4Brains’ readers. So, enjoy. Maybe they will even make you smile. By the way, the answers are at the bottom of the list.

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Snipped from the HuffingtonPost.com.

Well, here we go again. Japan is surpassing us and this time it’s in broadband access. Compared to the U.S. Japan has access that is 30 times faster than the U.S. As a result, we are being left in the dust when it comes to “experiencing innovation and enjoying applications that Americans simply don’t have access to.” In Japan, you can watch broadcast-quality, full-screen television over the internet. All we have is grainy, wallet-sized images. With Japan’s ultra-high-speed applications, they are introducing into the market low-cost, high-definition teleconferencing and telemedicine which allows doctors to diagnose diseases remotely. And, their advanced telecommuting is helping Japan reach their target of doubling the number of people who work from home by 2010. So, what happened to the U.S.?

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Being that we have had some pretty serious, depressing political rants on here lately, I thought I would lighten it up a little bit. So I decided to post some very important public safety information regarding knowing when you have had too much to drink.

I know we have all been there but often times, we wait until it’s too late and then we end up not even knowing how we got home.

So, the next time you pick up that bottle of beer or dry martini, maybe you’ll remember this list. So, here they are…

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Snipped from newsvine.com.

Okay guys, I’m not into conspiracy theories but this article really caught my attention. First of all, it is written by a mechanical engineer from the U.K. who I wouldn’t think would have any particular agenda. And, second of all, even though the math is way above my head, it looks real. For any of you mechanical engineers or physicists out there, maybe you can share your knowledge on this subject. This has to do with why the total collapse of the World Trade Center Towers goes against basic physics laws. But I guess, the real question is, if the towers didn’t collapse from the impact/explosion of the airplanes, what did make them collapse and exactly who was behind it?

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