Old Age
March 14, 2009
I’m further into old age than I had previously thought.
Old age is often blamed for causing us to misplace car keys, forget a word or lose our train of thought.
But new research shows that many well-known effects of ageing may start decades before our twilight years.
According to scientists, our mental abilities begin to decline from the age of 27 after reaching a peak at 22.
Crap.
Unfortunate Mistake
March 14, 2009
Honestly, now. What prison guard could possibly make this mistake?
A 23-year-old inmate beaten to death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary had been put in a cell with convicted killer he had testified against.
Prison spokesman Jerry Massie says Paul Duran Jr. fought with one cellmate and then was put in a cell with Jessie James Dalton.
Duran was found beaten to death about 15 minutes later.
Bumper Stickers
March 13, 2009
The NyQuil Night
March 13, 2009
It’s another NyQuil night for me! Oh, goody.
The $100 Million Diamond Heist
March 13, 2009
This is a pretty interesting story. I hadn’t heard about it before.
In February 2003, Notarbartolo was arrested for heading a ring of Italian thieves. They were accused of breaking into a vault two floors beneath the Antwerp Diamond Center and making off with at least $100 million worth of loose diamonds, gold, jewelry, and other spoils. The vault was thought to be impenetrable. It was protected by 10 layers of security, including infrared heat detectors, Doppler radar, a magnetic field, a seismic sensor, and a lock with 100 million possible combinations. The robbery was called the heist of the century, and even now the police can’t explain exactly how it was done.
Read the rest of it. It’s long but really interesting. If you’ve seen Ocean’s Eleven, you’ll see that there are some parallels.
Debt Star
March 11, 2009
I’m not sure where this originated but somebody sent it to me today.
The Debt Star
The Good News and the Bad …
March 2, 2009
So, here’s the good news. My class finally got around to grading the three exams that we had thusfar taken in our Economics class. The total points available on the first exam was 117, one which I got 91. I got 210 of a possible 256 points on the second exam. The third one had a possible amount of 128, whereas I got 100.
Now we get on to the cool part. My 91 points was the class high score, which means that my 91 points is actually equal to 100%. I also got the high with my 210 on the second exam. That also means that I got 100%. I didn’t get the high score on the third exam, however, as somebody else got 110 to my 100. That’s a total of 401 out of 411, which is about 97%. I was stoked.
Then I got the bad news, which is that the results of those three exams are only worth 10% of total for the class. So, while I, to this point have 97%, it’s only guaranteed that this will get me 9.7%.
Suck.
Bailout
March 2, 2009
Fun stuff.
