Chit Chat Thread For The Week Of September 2, 2013

or at least what is left of it.

Loving it!

But I haven't been there in years. Probably wouldn't recognize it, especially with the "new" Bay Bridge.

with 6 days of complete and total bedrest. Now I am really have difficulty remembering what day of the week it is. They all seem to blend together.

Glad to be out of bed.

Good week to all. Travel safely.

Only a few places left in the U.S. where the kids have not gone back to school.

Happy end of summer

-jgracey

good morning everyone

all

*Canada Has More Lakes Than Any Other Country

*The Largest Island In The Mediterranean Sea Is Sicily

*90% Of All Volcanic Activity Occurs In The Ocean

*The Nile River Flows North

*Spain's Largest Source Of Income Is From Tourism

*Coca Cola Was Founded By Joseph A Biedenharn

*The First Place In The World To Allow Women To Vote New Zealand

*The First Parachute Jump From Plane Was In 1918 Over France

*The Dollar Values On The Board Game Monopoly Have Been The Same Since 1935

*The First Us Coast To Coast Aeroplane Flight Occurred In 1911 And Took 49 Days

*The First Paperback Book Was Printed By Penguin Publishing In 1935

*Before 1863 The Postal Service In The Us Was Free

*The First Taxi Service Began In New York In 1907

*Pez Was Invented In 1927

*The Elevator Was Invented In 1850

*The First Toothbrush Was Invented In 1498

*Honey Enters Your Blood Stream Within 20 Minutes Of Being Eaten

*You Brain Weights 2% Of Your Body Weight Though Uses 20% Of All Oxygen You Breathe And 15% Of The Bodys Blood Supply

*Each Red Blood Cell Lives An Average Of 4 Months And Travels Between The Lungs And Other Tissue 75,000 Times Before Returning To Bone Marrow To Die

*The Hardest Substance In The Human Body Is Enamel

*There Are Over 10 Trillion Living Cells In The Human Body

*The Number 1 Cause Of Blindness In The Us Is Diabetes

*Trees Do Not Have Life Expectancies (Most Can Grown Indefinitely)

*Rain Contains Vitamin B12

*Over 500 Meteorites Hit The Earth Each Year

*Clouds Fly Higher During The Day Than The Night

*The Sun Has A Diameter Of 1,390,176km (864,000miles)

*It Takes A Plastic Container Over 50,000 Years To Start Decomposing

*Every Year Over 98% Of Atoms In Your Body Are Replaced

*Your Blood Is 6 Times Thicker Than Water

*Clothes Dried Outside Smell Better Because Of A Process Called Photolysis (Sunlight Breaks Down Compounds That Cause Odor)

*Mercury Is The Only Metal That Is Liquid At Room Temperature

*The Opposite Of A 'Vacuum' Is A 'Plenum'

*Sound Travels 15 Times Faster Through Steel Than Air

*Before 1850 Golf Balls Were Made Of Leather And Were Stuffed With Feathers

*The Most Common Spanish Surname Is Garcia

*22% Of People Skip Lunch Daily

*The Average Person Swallows 295 Times During A Meal

*72% Of People Eavesdrop

*The Most Popular Snack Food Is Potato Chips

*45% Of People Use Mouthwash Daily

*On Average 22% Of All Restaurant Meals Include Potato Chips

*The Most Popular Toothbrush Color Is Blue

*The Us Produces 19% Of The World's Trash

*59% Of People Say That Their Average Looking

*53% Of Women Don't Leave Home Without Makeup On

*44% Of People Have Broken A Bone

*9% Of People Skip Breakfast Daily

*Chocolate Manufacturers Use 40% Of The World's Almonds

*90% People Depend On Alarm Clocks To Wake Up

*21% Of People Don't Make Their Bed In The Morning

*85% Of Women Wear The Wrong Bra Size

*The Number 1 Reason Why People Purchase A Mobile Phone Is For Safety

*Women Are 4 Times More Likely To Shop Lift Than Men

*Per Person France Consumes The Most Cheese

*The Earth Experiences Over 50,000 Earthquakes A Year

*75% Of People Wouldn't Give Up Their Spouse For A Night For A $1,000,000

*M.A.S.H Stood For 'Mobile Army Surgical Hospital'

*The Tv Sitcom Seinfeld Was Originally Called 'The Seinfeld Chronicles'

*The First James Bond Movie Was Called 'Dr. No'

*'Fan' Is Short For 'Fanatic'

*Clinophobia Is The Fear Of Going To Bed

*A Standard 747 Jumbo Jet Has 420 Seats

*Police Dogs Are Trained To Respond To Commands In Foreign Languages (Usually German Or Hungarian)

*The Makers Of The Board Game Monopoly Print Over 50 Billion Dollars Worth Of Monopoly Money Every Year

*Superman Dates Back To June 1938 (He First Appeared In Action Comics No. 1)

*The 'Black Box' That Houses An Airplanes Voice Recorder Is Actually Orange So It Can Be More Easily Detected Amid The Debris Of A Plane Crash

*The Average Ice Berg Weighs 20,000,000 Tons

*The Blueprints For The Eiffel Tower Covered More Than 14,000 Square Feet Of Drafting Paper

*The Colgate Toothpaste Company Started Out Making Starch, Soap, And Candles

*The First Crossword Puzzle Appeared In 1913

*The Human Eye Can Detect More Shades Of Green That Any Other Colour

*The Number 4 Is The Only Number That Has The Same Number Of Letters In It

*The Statue Of Liberty's Mouth Is 3 Feet Wide

*The Surface Area Of A Brick Is 79 Cm Squared

*3 Teaspoons Make Up 1 Tablespoon

*Useful Life Of A Modern Toilet Is 50 Years

*Jellyfish Don't Have A Brain

*45% Of Americans Don't Know That The Sun Is A Star

*The Greek National Anthem Has 158 Verses

*It Takes 1 Week To Make A Jelly Bean

*You Can't Tickle Yourself

*You Can't Trademark Surnames

*Ferrets Sleep Between 18 - 20 Hours A Day

*The 'You Are Here' Arrow On Maps Is Called An Ideo Locator

*The Smallest Unit Of Time Is A Yoctosecond (1 Septillionth Which Is 10 To The Power Of Negative 24 )

*A Boeing 747 Airliner Holds 216,847 Litres (57,285 Gallons) Of Fuel

*A Violin Contains Over 70 Separate Pieces Of Wood

*There Are Over 10 Million Bricks In The Empire State Building

*The Average Person Has Over 1,460 Dreams A Year

*Recycling One Glass Jar Saves Enough Energy To Watch Tv For 3 Hours

*A Baby Fetus Develops Fingerprints At Eighteen Weeks

*A Group Of Foxes Is Called A Skulk

*A Hippopotamus Can Run Faster Than A Man

*A King Cobra Is The Biggest Of All Poisonous Snakes And Can Grow To Over 4 Metres (13 Feet) Long

*Lions In The Wild Usually Makes No More Than 20 Kills A Year

*A Male Baboon Can Kill A Leopard

*Rhinoceros Have 3 Toes On Each Foot

*A Shrimp Has 5 Pairs Of Legs

*Elephants Can Run Up To 40kmh (25mph)

*Baby Rattlesnakes Are Born In August And September

*Most Snakes Have 1 Lung

*Camels Have 3 Eyelids To Protect Themselves From Blowing Sand

*The Night Vision Of Tigers Is 6 Times Better Than Humans

*Flamingoes Can Live Up To 80 Years Old

*In Africa More People Are Killed By Crocodiles Than Lions

*Most Dinosaurs Lived To Be More Than 100 Years Old

*Out Of The 250+ Known Species Of Shark Only 18 Are Known To Be Dangerous To Man

*An Ostriches Can Outrun A Horse

*Ostriches Can Live Up To 75 Years Old

*Sheep Won't Drink From Running Water

*Squirrels Can Climb Trees Faster Than They Can Run On The Ground

*Wild Cobras Can Live Up To 20 Years Old

*The Average Cow Produces 40 Glasses Of Milk A Day

*A Blue Whale Can Weigh As Much As 30 Elephants And As Long As 3 Large Tour Buses

*The Greyhound Is The Fastest Dog And Can Reach Speeds Of Up To 72kph (45mph)

*The Fastest Fish In The Sea Is The Swordfish And Can Reach Up To Speeds Of 108kph (68mph, 59knots)

*Female Condors Lays A Single Egg Once Every 2 Years

*Hippopotamuses Have Skin 3.8cm (1.5in) Thick

*An Arrow Frog Has Enough Poison To Kill Over 2,200 People

*Whales Have The Slowest Metabolism Of All Animals

*Penguins Are Only Found In The Southern Hemisphere Primarily In Antarctica (Excluding Zoos Above The Equator)

*Toads Only Eat Moving Prey

*When Born A Baby Giraffe Is 1.8m (6ft) Tall

*A Bear In Hibernation Loses Up To 25% Of Its Body Weight

... but not for long. Will be getting on the bike shortly. Let's see where it takes me ...

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it's the dog's fault

7:30 pm, Baltimore and Denver. Be there:)

upcoming weekend

It's football time finally. Go Broncos.

Should be good weather! Happy Friday to all.

That's all I have to say this week.

Windows 7..

Wish we could stay with XP for a while longer but when my machine blew up the other day, I tried to reinstall XP which went like a charm but the Updates were bad.

It would not automatically update all the patches that I needed and was told by the web sites that the updates may not be found in the future and should d/l and save them for future use.

That's not good...

I do like some feature of Win 7 but a lot of my programs wont run in the env. I need to set up a XP Mode for them to work.. more disk space and slower now..

YUCK

Just my input...

Beautiful day in the Midwest. Looking forward to the weekend after the long one last week.

Bobkz, I fought going to Windows 7 from XP for quite awhile. I finally deep sixed the old computer and built a modern one with Windows 7 with a solid state hard drive. It was like coming out of the horse and buggy era to a new sports car. I will never look back.
I love windows 7 compared to XP but don't think I will ever go to Windows 8.

We still have an old computer with XP in our guest room for anyone that wants to use it. It still functions fine but slow slow slow.

Happy Friday looking forward to the weekend....

nothing

Denver Broncos looked good on opening night.

7 TDs for Manning IS looking good.

windmill post

have a good week everyone

Keep forgetting to sign in lately. Must be getting old.

I'm ready for Fall.

Have a great weekend.

Have a great weekend.

It's nice to be back home after driving 5600 miles.

Everyday is a weekend day when you're retired!
Only difference is that stores are busier on Saturday and Sunday!

A bumper sticker on older van
I'm retired. Go around.

last post.

Until the next one.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Go Bears

short week... and a late post.

Larry

And I'm almost too late for this... VaK getting in the way of the internet

Have a great post Labor Day weekend.

When will it end????

good morning

Summer went by pretty fast...

I just recovered my brothers 8 yr XP unit to a factory recovery partition. I had to manually download SP2 and then SP3. I did some updates in between that would allow me to. It is fully patched to what is available. Then I uninstalled the bloatware using Revo uninstaller.

for a nice week!

Is it hot in here or is it just me?

...it's been raining all day.

making wild concord grape jam today.

Circular bumper sticker, brown in color, seen on an SUV: "I Pooped Today"

Just checking in.

RT

My name sums it up. Connecticut may be small enough
that we could meet somewhere.

How's Las Vegas weather historically at the end of September? Planning a visit there for a few days to check out the sights.