It’s Friday! Girls just wanna have fun, so that is what I am sharing today, the FUN! The following post has become a weekly post of some odd-ball news, quotes I like, a few strange facts and some things that might make you pause and go “hmmmmm.”
Strange News:
CARMAGEDDON! In what was touted as being a disaster for unsuspecting vacationers and locals alike, LA closed the excessively used HWY 405 for construction last weekend, July 16th and 17th. The 405 you say? Why yes, I answer. You know, the one that had the OJ car chase once upon a time? Yep, you got it. That is the 405. The infamous highway will be shut down for construction. Over 280, 000 cars A DAY travel this road. This is a major traffic artery in the LA road system. Did LA survive the shutdown? Will Carmageddon be worse than Godzilla defeating King Kong in Tokyo? Tune in next season as we again investigate Californians disastrous closings as construction will inevitably continue, cause when can the work crews ever get a job finished in 2 days? Truth be told they did finish ahead of time, and most everyone avoided the area until this past Monday. More construction is planned for October. Maybe Godzilla will show up then. 
From the New York Times: Worker dead at desk for five days. Bosses of a publishing firm are trying to work out why no one noticed that one of their employees had been sitting dead at his desk for five days before anyone asked if he was feeling ok. George Turklebaum, 51, who had been employed as a proof reader at a New York firm for 30 years, had a heart attack in the open-plan office he shared with 23 other workers, per a post mortem exam revealed that he had been dead for five days after suffering the coronary. George was ironically proofreading manuscripts of medical textbooks when he died.
He quietly passed away on Monday, but nobody noticed until Saturday morning when an office cleaner asked why he was working on the weekend.
His boss, Elliot Wachiaski, said: “George was always the first guy in each morning and the last to leave at night, so no one found it unusual that he was in the same position all that time and didn’t say anthing. He was always absorbed in his work and kept much to himself.
You may want to give your co-workers a nudge occasionally. The moral of the story: Don’t work too hard. Nobody notices anyway.
Use Your Bikini to Charge Your IPod! A pretty crazy idea: Clothing (in this case, a bikini) that charges your gadgets. Would you don a wearable charger on the beach? Nope, those aren’t metallic sequins you’re looking at on this swimsuit. They’re thin-film photovoltaic panels, and they do more than just cover up your unmentionables. In my case it would take more than a bikini to cover my unmentionables.
Designed by Andrew Schneider, the Solar Bikini is made up of small photovoltaic film strips that produce a 5-volt charge into a USB connection. You can plug in your iPod (or iPhone for that matter) and get endless music playtime on a sunny day at the beach. The bikini is able to withstand water, so you can take a dip while wearing it. Yeah, well. Probably not. I don’t want to go for that new hair do like weird Al Yankovich. As Schneider sums it up, “You’ve got tunes, you’ve got beer, you’ve got sun, and you’ve got each other in swimwear. The rest is up to you.” The male version will also be available soon and will have a higher voltage output. Hmmmmm……
Quotables:
Success is easy, but so is neglect. Jim Rohn
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. ~Norman B. Rice
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in. ~Alan Alda
Fact Finders:
Keys Can Be Recycled: We all have a drawer full of miscellaneous keys, but you don’t have to toss them in the trash. They’re made of valuable metal, after all. Keys For Kindness is a small, family-run program designed to raise money through metal key recycling for the Multiple Sclerosis society. The donor pays for shipping, but we’re sure karma points are said donor’s future.
Greenest city in the US? In a study of 27 major cities in the U.S. and Canada, San Francisco was named the greenest, ranking strongly in its performance and policies in energy, buildings, transportation, water, waste management and air quality.
Recycle Those Surfboards! ReSurf Recycling recycles all surfboards and surfboard manufacturing waste materials into numerous products including asphalt and concrete for paving city roads. Additionally, the company developed a method to produce 100 percent recycled yoga mats using neoprene scraps from wetsuit production.
Think About It…
The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Humor:
A 70 year old man asks his wife: “Do you feel sad when you see me running after young girls?” Wife replied: “No, not at all. Even dogs chase cars they can’t drive!”
If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?
What do you call a male ladybug?
Why doesn’t the glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
A Loan for Kermit
A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can see from her nameplate that her name is Patricia Whack. “Miss Whack, I’d like to get a $30,000 loan to take a holiday.” Patty looks at the frog in disbelief and asks his name. The frog says his name is Kermit Jagger, his dad is Mick Jagger, and that it’s okay, he knows the bank manager.
Patty explains that he will need to secure the loan with some collateral. The frog says, “Sure. I have this,” and produces a tiny porcelain elephant, about an inch tall, bright pink and perfectly formed. Very confused, Patty explains that she’ll have to consult with the bank manager and disappears into a back office.
She finds the manager and says, “There’s a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow $30,000, and he wants to use this as collateral.” She holds up the tiny pink elephant. “I mean, what in the world is this?”
(You’re going to love this)
(A masterpiece)
(Wait for it)
The bank manager looks back at her and says…”It’s a knickknack, Patty Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old man’s a Rolling Stone.”
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