3 Simple Ways to Get Greener and Save a Few Thousand Bucks

Burn less oil. Save at least $1,400.

At today’s fuel cost of about $4.00 a gallon, If you drive about 300 miles a week, the annual fuel cost to commute in a 17 mile per gallon SUV is about $3,529 a year, or $294 a month. Switching to a car that averages 29 miles per gallon saves you about $1,460. That’s more than $120 a month. Assuming gas prices stay constant (!??), you will save more than $7,000 if you keep your fuel-efficient car for 5 years.

Grey’s Book Basement, Chapter 1: We are all in this together-Leadership and Teamwork

We are all in this together books on leadership and teamwork

Arthurian Selection Redux: Who Would Pull the Pod from the Stone?

Legend has it that when the 12th century English monarch Uther Pendragon died there was significant disagreement over who would succeed him. The wizard Merlin magically set a sword in a great stone. Engraved on the sword were the words “Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone is the rightwise born king of all [...]

You’ve got to love the English language.

Here is a word I admire so much, I’ve named this blog in its honor. I am particularly fond of “an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus” as an apt descriptor for these posts.
eructation – a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth
belch, burp, burping, belching
ejection, forcing out, expulsion, [...]

I’m going to go for it, I Kid You Not!

…even if Branson and the Google gang are in some bar snickering “April fools” over their Stella Artois every time some wide-eyed reporter approaches them. Have two. Or ten. Like buying a lottery ticket, it’s a license to dream big.

“For thousands of years,
the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains [...]

R. I. P., Arthur C. Clarke

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke, futurist, inventor, writer extraordinaire.

Taken by the author at The Spinnaker, Portsmouth, England

Job opportunity

 
Drug dealer. Sells illegal substances to addicts, schoolchildren, and undercover cops.

Excellent prospects for promotion due to rapid turnover of gang membership (people get killed, go to jail, or are severely injured quite often.)
In a four-year period, you can expect [...]

Bob’s your homunculus.

All body parts are not created equal, as far as the sensory cortex of our brain is concerned. It turns out that certain parts have a much higher level of neural processing power devoted to them.

Here’s a translation of the body’s sensory map, called a homunculus by neuro-science:

Just goes to show – not all [...]

MIKE’s LAWS

1. We are all in this together.

2. Be the best you can be.

3. It’s simple, but not easy.

 

A Ringing Endorsement for Neuroplasticity

 
 
History-loving grandmother graduates at 74

4 p.m., May 26, 2007—
“I think what really motivated me to finish up and graduate was the fear that when I die my obituary would say I was still a senior at the University of Delaware,” Joe Ann Knauss, a very young and lively 74-year-old, said with a laugh. “I [...]