Who is June E. Botich?

She holds Patent # 6667697

Not impressed.

She holds the patent on the little raised bumps on the F and J keys on most keyboards and typewriters.

Note: Her patent is HERE. It seems to deal with putting tactile edges on keys rather than bumps. Yahoo, however, credits her with patenting the bumps.

Come this summer there will be no more tomorrows for "Annie."

After 85 years, Tribune Media Services announced Thursday that it will cease syndication of the comic strip featuring the iconic redheaded orphan on Sunday, June 13.

 

Oddly, I have been worrying about this for days!

In an earthquake, do the mountain goats fall off the mountain?

Note to self" Self, build ark!

It's more than location...

I like to watch HGTV's House Hunters International

especially in the Caribbean or Bali

many episodes are in Europe

this is what the European financial crisis means to American buyers in previous episodes:

Assume an American couple bought a house costing 200,000 Euros in December 2009, it would have cost them a little over $300,000.

Yesterday, a 200,000 Euro house would cost a little over $250,000.

Heard online

The British Petroleum oil spill is the revenge of the English  for the revival of the Tea Parties.

Nice picture, except that the dude is dead!

It's a funeral home.

The rider is recently deceased.

Make up your own joke.

The full article is HERE.

There is one of THESE guys in ever bar!

In this case, it's the Apple employee who left the prototype of the next iPhone in a beer garden.  Probably not going to be employee of the month!

ps. It look like he waxes his eyebrows.

This just got ridiculous!

Ozzie and I were eating our lunch at one the the local McDonald's -- the one attached to a gas station.

That tanker puller diagonally behind me. Before I could get out, that guy pulled the hose in back of me. I was in the second space, you can see me trying to back up.

"I need to get out."

"I'll be 45 minutes."

Then the fun ensured.

I called ConocoPhilips. The lady was nice. She transferred me to the station owner. He was nice.

He especially liked the part where I went up to the counter in the gas station and asked who was in charge.

"Nobody."

He really liked that part.

I'll keep you posted.

Wow!

Arizona is now the only state where you can be arrested because your name is Jesus.

"Dead man was stabbed"

That was a headline in today's STL Post-Dispatch.

My first thought was "Why would anyone stab a dead man?"

Hurray for Hollywood [Sign]

For some reason, Howard Hughes owned all of the land around the famous "Hollywood" sign. His estate now owns it and they want $12.5 million or they plan to cover the slopes with condos. UGH!

A community group has been trying to raise the money, but like a true B-Movie, they fell short.

To the rescue at the last second came none other that Playboy's own Hugh Hefner, who wrote a person check for needed $900,000. The sign is saved. Hefner comes across as a good guy. And, the Hughes estate is richer.

Schwarzenegger didn't contribute and cash, but he did show up for the photo-op. Politicians, don't you just love them!

The tree does not fall far from the apple.

Apple is now very close to being worth the same or more than Microsoft (stock price x number of shares outstanding).

Oddly, this is good news for Microsoft since it is a major investor in Apple.

It would also be good news for the Rockefeller Brothers who were the initial major investors in Apple, except that they are all dead.

NOTE: News update: David Rockefeller is alive and 95!

WHY?

I always park my car far away from everybody else!

But someone will always park next to me!

Maybe it's my magnetic personality!

Maybe they're just an...you know!

The brown SUV in the DISTANCE is mine.

When I came out a Kohl's that truck, in an almost empty parking lot, had parked NEXT TO ME.

It has to be some kind of personality defect...probably related to potty training.

This you HAVE to see (and hear).

Bird dances to Ray Charles!

The simpliest way to write "Jesus"

The image is of "Jesus" in a first century Hebrew text.

The letters roughly translate y-sh-oo-a (switching from right to left to left to right).

The pronounciation would be Y'shua (or Joshua).

The name can also be written with one or more Hebrew letters for h, pronounced he (producing Yehoshua).

Translation to Greek got rid of the ua, since Greek men's names cannot end in an a. They changed ua to us.

The Greeks also had no Y so they used I.

The J was not invented until the middle ages.

Happy Easter!

Note:  There is great disagreement over how "Jesus" would have actually been probounced. Part of the problem is that the last letter above (on the right, it looks like a Y) -- named Ayin -- is silent (like the H in honor). This might produce Yey-soo or Josh. Although the Ayin is silent, it does indicate that the word should end with an exhale from the back of the throat -- like Fonzie's "Aaay!" Other places in the Bible, where the Ayin is preceded by an H-sound, are easier to translate as "waa" as in Joshowa -- JHWSH, plus an Ayin at the end, producing JHWSH' by modern convention.

Can you spot the problem?

Enough

Saw kid last week at the milk store. Probably 16. He had his pants in back pulled to below his butt cheeks so almost all of his faded boxers showed. That kid was less offensive than bicyclists in their anatomically-correct, unisex, Lycra bike shorts. You're 30, go put on some decent clothes!

Gallows Humor

A really easy question!

Which direction is the prevailing wind at my house?

(The flowers are fake. I put them in the hostas to add some color.)