JabberWocky!

While as a general rule I don’t usually share my personal e-mails with anyone but this time I just can not resist!

A friend of mine sent this to me earlier this week and I just knew that it was too good to keep to myself and what better day to share it than Friday to lead us into the week-end with a bit of a laugh!

My E-Mail:

This is the greatest application ….what a guy!!! He should live to be a really old fella with that attitude!

This is an actual job application that a 75 year old senior citizen submitted to Walmart in Arkansas .
They hired him because he was so funny…..

NAME : Kenneth Way (Grumpy Old Bastard)

SEX: Not lately, but I am looking for the right woman (or at least one who
will cooperate)

DESIRED POSITION: Company’s President or Vice President. But seriously, whatever’s available . If I was in a position to be picky, I wouldn’t be applying here in the first place

DESIRED SALARY: $185,000 a year plus stock options and a Michael Ovitz style severance package. If that’s not possible, make an offer and we can haggle.

EDUCATION: Yes.

LAST POSITION HELD: Target for middle management hostility.

PREVIOUS SALARY: A lot less than I’m worth.

MOST NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT: My incredible collection of stolen pens and post-it notes.

REASON FOR LEAVING: It sucked.

HOURS AVAILABLE TO WORK: Any.

PREFERRED HOURS: 1:30-3:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL SKILLS?: Yes, but they’re better suited to a more intimate environment .

MAY WE CONTACT YOUR CURRENT EMPLOYER?: If I had one, would I be here?

DO YOU HAVE ANY PHYSICAL CONDITIONS THAT WOULD PROHIBIT YOU FROM LIFTING UP
TO 50 lbs.?:Of what?

DO YOU HAVE A CAR?: I think the more appropriate question here would be “Do you have a car that runs?”

HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY SPECIAL AWARDS OR RECOGNITION?: I may already be a winner of the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes, so they tell me.

DO YOU SMOKE?: On the job – no!
On my breaks – yes!

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE DOING IN FIVE YEARS?: Living in the Bahamas with a fabulously wealthy dumb sexy blonde supermodel who thinks I’m the greatest thing since sliced bread. Actually, I’d like to be do i ng that now.

NEAREST RELATIVE….7 miles

DO YOU CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE IS TRUE AND COMPLETE TO THE BEST OF YOUR
KNOWLEDGE?: Oh yes, absolutely.

Is it just me or is this one of the strangest, to say the least, job applications you’ve ever seen?

That’s all for me today and in fact this week! Have a great week-end and see you back again Monday for some more…

Does the name Peter Schiff ring a bell?

Well probably not, but what if I told you that this young boy was written about in one of the most widely read books in the world, it has been translated into 67 languages, it is the legendary journal of a young Jewish girl that was hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II for 25 months in the confines of the Secret Annex above her fathers office until she, her family and friends were betrayed to the Nazis and were found, arrested and deported to concentration camps where she died at the tender young age of 15 of typhus at Bergen-Belsen.

Would you have any idea who I am talking about now?

In case you don’t, then I will tell you. This young boy with “beautiful brown eyes” is the “one true love” that Anne Frank wrote about in her diary and through the years millions have wondered about.

Anne had fallen for the boy when she was just 11 years old and to her “Peter was the ideal boy: tall, slim and good-looking, with a serious, quiet and intelligent face”

I suppose the attraction was mutual because according to school friends they would walk hand and hand home from school.

Anne saw Peter for the last time a few days before moving to the Secret Annex and she never forgot him because she wrote about him 1½ years later.

Unfortunately they both died in 1945, Anne in Bergen Belsen concentration camp and Peter in Auschwitz.

I think it is such a sad story, sort of a modern day Romeo and Juliet if you will. And the sadder part is that this world seems not to have learned anything from the horrors of World War II because the same things still go on to this day even though people swore that it could and would never happen again!

The photo of Peter Schiff was donated to the Anne Frank museum by his former childhood friend Ernst Michaelis who recently realized that there were no known pictures of Schiff and contacted the museum.

I myself have always been fascinated with Anne Frank and her diary. I have also been to the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam many times and of course with this new discovery they will surely see me there again! My advice to you is that if you visit Amsterdam this is a Thumbs Up Must See.

As you walk through the Secret Annex it as though you can still to this day feel their presence and fear…or at least I do!

Only known photo of Peter Schiff

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Anne Frank

That’s all for me today, see you back again tomorrow for more…

This is the message that is given for this video. I haven’t heard the song in a long while and I must admit I had just about forgot about it and the Five Stairsteps until I heard it last night then I remembered that it has always been one of my favorite songs of all time…I hope you enjoy the song and video and remember to:

Increase The Peace!

That’s all for me today have a great day and see you back again tomorrow for more…

The Svalbard Global Seed vault, more commonly known as the “Doomsday Vault”, a vast underground vault storing millions of seeds from around the world, is scheduled to have it’s opening ceremony today in a mountain on a remote island near the Arctic Ocean between Norway and the North Pole.

The”Doomsday” Vault is considered the ultimate safety net for the world’s 4.5 million seed samples that it will eventually hold of almost every variety of the worlds most important food crops, protecting them from a wide range of threats including war, natural disasters, lack of funding or poor agricultural management.

The seed vault is the perfect place for keeping seeds safe for up to 10,000 years as Doomsday’s location is at the end of a tunnel that was blasted deep inside a mountain in the frozen north which ensures the seeds can be stored safely in at least -4 C temperatures no matter what happens outside.

In 2004 a trust was founded by the U.N. to support long term conservation of crop diversity, in which countries and foundations provide the funding.

Doomsday was built by the Norwegian government at the cost of 50 million Norwegian Kroner or $9.4 to give us every option in the future of using the whole array of plant diversity that is available.

More information about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault can be found at:

The “Doomsday” Vault

I know I feel better going to sleep at night…how about you?

That’s it for me today but see you back again tomorrow for more…

I’m sure that almost everyone has heard the song America The Beautiful at least once in their lifetime but have you ever really sat back and thought about how beautiful she really is?

Of course she has so much to offer in the way of beautiful freedom and democracy and that is what so many people think about when they think of America, but have you ever thought about just how many beautiful sites she has in your own backyard…if you happen to live in America?

A friend of mine made a comment to me the other day that he is always amazed how when people go on vacation they always want to go “Overseas” or to some other country that borders her like Canada or Mexico and half of the time these same people have never really seen what “their own backyard” has to offer them first!

After sitting back and thinking about it I soon saw that he was right of course.

Personally I have traveled a lot “Overseas” and in the border countries of America and in fact I have lived in The Netherlands for the past 15 years, so I may seem like one of those people that I have mentioned above…But I’m Not!

Before I started venturing out of America I had traveled very extensively throughout all of the U.S.A. I have personally seen from sea to shining sea and trust me, everything in between over a dozen times.

I made most of my travels in a car and not flying over the top of her, (although I have done that a number of times also and she is almost as beautiful 30,000 feet above her as she is on the ground, but it is definitely not the same), so I know just how beautiful America really is.

But for those of you that have not been as fortunate as I have been to travel so extensively in America or for those of you that have never seen America, here is a little look see at just some of the beautiful sites that makes America The Beautiful!

America The Beautiful

I want to thank my cousin for e-mailing me this site, he knows how I like pretty and interesting things and after viewing this video and the rest of the site I have added SageBrush Patriot to the blogroll where it is described as “just good old fashioned American patriotism, values, and tradition”, if you care to stop by and see what other words of wisdom is on offer!

That’s it for me today, I hope that you had a great week-end and I’ll see you back again tomorrow for some more…

If you’ve been hearing about this weird and creepy video called Rubber Johnny that has been around for a couple of years and haven’t seen it yet then here’s your chance! If you have seen it already then you just may want to watch it again, although, for many, once is enough!

And if you are one of those people that haven’t heard about it then you really don’t know what you are missing!

Rubber Johnny is a 16 year old inbred mutant that also happens to be an insane imbecile. This 6 minute film documents his almost solitary existence. He is locked in a dark basement by his parents who are ashamed of him. Johnny’s parents feed him occasionally and of course yell at him a lot for making too much noise.

Rubber Johnny does have one companion though…his little Chihuahua dog who is completely terrified of him! (I wonder why)??

Anyway, Rubber Johnny spends his days trying to amuse himself and his dog in some Very Strange ways…

Need I say more?

You can view the video here and if you choose you even have the option of watching it full screen if you go to the right bottom of the video screen and click on that option.

Now I would suggest you going to the kitchen and making yourself a nice bowl of popcorn and get a soda so you can sit back and enjoy the festivities in style!

Rubber Johnny

That is well and truly it for me today and in fact this week, I think I am going to go and have a lie down for the rest of the week-end and rest my truly disturbed mind…sometimes I really worry about me!! But I’ll be back! And I’ll see you back here again on Monday when I am thoroughly rested for some more…

The Earth’s shadow swept over the moon turning the moon’s disk dusky red and the moon became completely immersed in the Earth’s shadow. The brilliant midwinter full moon became a shadow of it’s former self and morphed into a glowing coppery ball.

Suddenly a tall, dark, handsome man leapt out of the shadows in front of the svelte auburn haired woman and she let out a somewhat quite “Ahh”! She knew at that moment that she would probably not make it through the night…

Sounds like the beginning of a pretty spooky novel doesn’t it?

But it’s not! It’s the description of what began last night at 10:01 p.m. ET and lasted 51 minutes…all except for the part about the man leaping out of the shadows etc.!

Do you know what it was?

For the third time in a year the moon was completely immersed in Earth’s shadow when the Earth passed directly between the sun and the moon and resulted in a total lunar eclipse.

Nearly 3 billion people in the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Africa and Asia was able to view it…weather permitting, unfortunately, in my part of Holland weather did not permit!

Last night was the last chance to see another one until 2010, but this eclipse came with a very rare bonus in that Saturn and the bright bluish star Regulus formed a triangle with the moon. I hope you were to catch it because it will probably never happen again in your lifetime as this was the only one of it’s kind occurring within the next millennium!

Personally I think the photo below is the nicest I have seen so far…I hope RI PhotoMan allows me to keep it here!

Newport, RI
By: RI PhotoMan

That’s all for me today, I think I’m going to get some sleep now, you see it was 4:01 in the morning here when this magical event occurred and of course, I being the stubborn woman that I am, just had to take the chance that I just might catch a glimpse of it, but much to my chagrin, I did not, but I’ll see you back again tomorrow for more…

I literally Stumbled Upon this site yesterday and thought that maybe you would enjoy it.

I’m sure that all of you know that PBS is an educational Public Broadcasting Service that is home to more than 1,000 television show companion sites and one of these sites happens to be NOVA.

This site features NOVA programs that are available to watch Online that are divided into chapters so they are easier to watch. They are also closed captioned for the deaf or hearing impaired and Podcasting is available so you can listen or watch whenever you like on your MP3 player or computer.

The directory on the site is divided up into interests such as Earth, Exploration, Disasters, Investigations and so on.

So if you’re interested in gaining a good bit of reliable knowledge then I would definitely suggest you checking it out.

NOVA programs Online

That’s all for me today, see you back again tomorrow for more…

In my quest for a certain software program I happened upon the Free Software Foundation.

They are a non-profit organization that relies on support from individuals to carry out their worldwide mission to preserve, protect and promote the freedom to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer software, and to defend the rights of all free software users particularly with the GNU operating system. Their motto is: “Free software is a matter of liberty not price”.

GNU is a computer operating system that is composed entirely of free software.

So if you’re looking for free software, they have over 4,000 entries in their directory, or if you’re just interested in seeing some of the projects that they have going on right now I would suggest you take a gander at the Free Software Foundation sometime soon.

That’s it for me today! See you back tomorrow for more information about…

For anyone that doesn’t know YouTube is a popular free video sharing Website that lets users upload, view and share video clips.

Some people, like me, have a little trouble with uploading some of these videos from the YouTube Website and/or complain that it takes too long, they don’t show up and other various complaints.

Softpedia has a solution to this problem, it offers a free tool that downloads FLV files from the YouTube Website quickly and easily.

It’s very simple to use. Simply copy and paste the URL of a video from YouTube into the program, press “Grab” OR “Enter”, and the file will be downloaded into the same directory as the program.

Interested? The YouTube Grabber can be downloaded here:

YouTube Grabber

That’s all for me today, I hope you enjoy your “GRABBER” and see you back again tomorrow for more…