The world’s worse blogger is here…and gone again.

Longer post is in the works. Bye.

Twas a beautiful Sunday yesterday, too nice to sit in front of a computer, but I say thee Nay! I plopped down and was going to do some furious, seething grading of 200+ assignments and hopefully cast out thoughts of sun and shine. I opened up the database and the grades from the first part of the semester were gone. All of the grading I’d done up to this point…gone. And my backup copy was the same. Oh my %$#^&.

I’ve been doing IT for 25 years and when things like this happen, I know from sad, crappy experience that it was human error. The CPU did not eat it nor did the ether wash it away. I hold me responsible. In any case, I have to ask my friendly, understanding students (!) for their graded hardcopies back. Peachy keen.

I did what grading I could but not all of the grading I could have done (paradox?) because I was much too busy kicking myself. After my foot cramped up from the repeated impacted, it was time for a ride. Been doing some good ones this weekend because it is nice out there, but I got to wondering where I am on my official goal of 1250 miles in 2007.

The results are after the jump. The blue line is where I should be and the black line is where I am. You can see where I yakked my back because flat lines indicate no riding (that would be February).

Y’all try to have a nice day while I get back to kicking myself. Ciao!!!

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[from the internet.]

The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the 2006 winners:

1) Cashtration: The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

2) Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

3) Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

4) Bozone: The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

5) Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

6) Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

7) Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.

8) Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

9) Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

10) Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.

11) Karmageddon: It’s like, when everybody is, like, sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s, like, a serious bummer.

12) Decafalon: The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13) Glibido: All talk and no action.

14) Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15) Arachnoleptic fit (n): The frantic dance you perform just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.

16) Beelzebug (n): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17) Caterpallor (n): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.

And the pick of the literature.

18. Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.

[from the internet]

The husband leans over and asks his wife, ‘Do you remember the first time we had sex together over fifty years ago? We went behind this very tavern where you leaned against the back fence and I made love to you.’

‘Yes, she says, ‘I remember it well.’

‘OK,’ he says, ‘How about taking a stroll around there again and we can do it for old time’s sake?’

‘Oh Charlie, you old devil, that sounds like a crazy, but good idea!’

A police officer sitting in the next booth heard their conversation and, having a chuckle to himself, he thinks to himself, I’ve got to see these two old-timers having sex against a fence. I’ll just keep an eye on them so there’s no trouble. So he follows them.

The elderly couple walks haltingly along, leaning on each other for support aided by walking sticks. Finally, they get to the back of the tavern and make their way to the fence. The old lady lifts her skirt and the old man drops his trousers. As she leans against the fence, the old man moves in. Then suddenly they erupt into the most furious sex that the policeman has ever seen. This goes on for about ten minutes while both are making loud noises and moaning and screaming. Finally, they both collapse, panting on the ground.

The policeman is amazed. He thinks he has learned something about life and old age that he didn’t know.

After about half an hour of lying on the ground recovering, the old couple struggle to their feet and put their clothes back on.

The Policeman is still watching and thinks to himself, this is truly amazing, I’ve got to ask them what their secret is. So, as the couple passes, he says to them,

‘Excuse me, but that was something else. You must’ve had a fantastic sex life together. Is there some sort of secret to this?’

Shaking, the old man is barely able to reply,

[After the jump]

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I bet this guy is one of my students.

Oops! Technician’s error wipes out data for state fund

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Perhaps you’ve experienced that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.

That’s what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account — one of Alaska residents’ biggest perks — and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.

[from the internet. #19 is me. ;-) ]

1. My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn’t.
2. I don’t suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.
3. Some people are alive only because it’s illegal to kill them.
4. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
5. Don’t take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.
6. You’re just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
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And so the Wolf Pack season ends, quietly. Memphis was the stronger and braver team. Nevada loses some valuable leadership and scoring with the departure of their senior stars, so the next generation must step up. Perhaps next year’s team will be stronger for it.

Go Pack!

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