Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl 'Will you marry me?' The girl said, 'NO!'

And the guy lived happily ever after and rode motorcycles and went fishing and hunting and played golf a lot. He drank beer, ate pizza, had several good looking girlfriends, and left the toilet seat up whenever he wanted.

I was recently vacationing on the Big Island of Hawaii and spent an hour or so in a submarine. Conditions for shutterbugs like me weren't great 100 feet under water, but I did manage to catch these two fish doing their best to entertain us.

The whole Joe Wilson / Barrack Obama thing is quite interesting. The first thing you have to ask yourself is how did the photographer capture such a perfect shot of Wilson if his outburst was completely unplanned and only last for a second or two?

And then you've got to ask yourself, where was Wilson's lie-sensing abilities during the Bush years? Don't know what I mean? Here's what I mean...

Hmmm...

Here's a quick test for you to take. This just proves that we have become way too dependent on our computers.

Q: Are you male or female?

To find out the answer, look down...

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Look down, not scroll down!!!

Not too long ago in Information Week magazine, I read an announcement from RedHat that they would end development and support for a desktop version of Linux. That's quite a blow to the effort if you ask me.

"The desktop market suffers from having one dominant vendor, and some people still perceive that today's Linux desktops simply don't provide a practical alternative."

The quote rings true. And anyone that isn't happy with Microsoft's offering, is probably more inclined to go to Apple than to Linux.

I found this on my harddrive the other day. I think my brother e-mailed to me, but I have no idea where he found it. It seems the advice is still valid even today...

"I deal with hurt and, you know, so many, you know, celebrities, they never take the time off, and I've never taken the time off to really, you know, I just, music after music and tour after tour on tour," Kanye West told Jay Leno.

Yep. Recording that one for posterity.

If you've worked in corporate America for more than 5 minutes, this photo is sure to strike a chord. It's always amazed me how some companies stay in business despite allowing their hierarchies to become top-heavy.

I'd give credit for this image if I knew where it came from. Sorry...

I love it when the speed of things are put in perspective. Take this quote from CNN today regarding the world's fastest supercomputer which was unveiled recently by the Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM Corp.

"If every one of the 6 billion people on earth used a hand-held computer and worked 24 hours a day it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner computer can do in a single day."

This supercomputer is twice as fast as it's nearest competitor which is itself 3 times as fast as anything else in use.

Full article on CNN.com.

In a recent edition of Fortune Magazine, Elizabeth Spiers, as part of a pro-nuclear energy article, wrote:

"We're willing to tolerate the health risks and environmental repercussions of other fuels to avoid the infinitesimally small and comically improbable possibility of a catastrophic accident that resembles something out of a 1979 Jane Fonda movie, the likes of which have never happened in the history of nuclear power."