wintergreen

Do you have 885 billion dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Well too bad for you... you can't afford these shoes. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B008I5NI0S/ref=dp_olp_new_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=new

I have been lurking and leeching for a while. I hope to start contributing now. I'm an older guy.. in my sixties. I'm in the aerospace industry. You know those mission control rooms where a bunch of engineers control a spacecraft? I build and maintain those rooms. Mostly we put up communication satellites. But we send cargo up to the ISS, we have build some X planes, and we have a number of science missions in progress including one inter-planetary job. Really cool job! Doesn't pay that well though. I'm thinking about post a 60 CD set. I hope that doesn't run afoul of the rule against mega posts.

Somebody just hijacked a link to an official CP archive and posted it in another forum. I downloaded it and noticed the txt file with an invitation to visit. So here I am. But I should mention that following links in txt files in archives does not always lead to a pot of gold. Many times the link is just dead... the archive has outlasted the site. Also some people build a useful, nice archive but put a nasty link in it. Some times it is malware, but usually it is just spam. My system is well defended and so I usually follow the link and see where I land.

Nasty looking, I agree. But I'm not gonna tell him that.

If they got Ferrari's and Lambo's why did they buy that stupid Twizy? You gotta be kidding me. I would rather just get out and walk.

Microsoft is missing the boat here. They should simply sell extended XP support contracts for, say, $20 per year. They could then support XP as long as it was profitable. The XP community would prefer that to simply having the rug yanked out from beneath their feet.

A man staggers into an emergency room with a concussion, multiple bruises, two black eyes, arm in a sling, and a five iron wrapped tightly around his neck. Naturally, the doctor asks him what happened. "Well, it was like this," said the man. "I was having a quiet round of golf with my wife when at a difficult hole, we both sliced our balls into a pasture of cows. We went to look for them and while I was rooting around I noticed one of the cows had something white at its rear end. I walked over and lifted up the tail, and sure enough there was a golf ball with my wife's monogram on it, stuck right in the middle of the cow's butt. That's when I made my big mistake." "What did you do?" Asks the doctor. "Well, I lifted the cow's tail and yelled to my wife, 'Hey, this looks like yours!' I don't remember much after that."

To get the joke you need to know that one of the many things Descartes is famous for is "cognito ergo sum" which is Latin for "I think therefore I am".

The famous mathematician and philosopher René Descartes goes into bar and orders a glass of wine. About half an hour later the bartender says "René, I see you have finished your glass. Would you like another?" Descartes thought for a moment and said, "I think not." And then Descartes immediately blinked out of existence and vanished from the universe.

My neighbour found out that her dog (a Schnauzer) could hardly hear, so she took it to the vet. The vet found that the problem was hair in the dog's ears. He cleaned both ears and the dog could then hear fine. The vet then proceeded to tell the lady that if she wanted to keep this from recurring, she should go to the pharmacy and get some 'Nair' hair remover and rub it in the dog's ears once a month. The lady went to the pharmacy and asked for some 'Nair' hair remover. The pharmacist told her, "If you're going to use this under your arms, don't use deodorant for a few days." The lady said, "I'm not using it under my arms." The pharmacist said, "If you're using it on your legs, don't shave for a couple of days." The lady replied, "I'm not using it on my legs either. If you must know, I'm using it on my Schnauzer." The pharmacist says, "Well stay off your bicycle for about a week."