I'm looking forward to spending some quality time today... so far, so good. It's going to get better, too, I'm sure.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on TV last night.. I haven't seen it in ages, and forgot how fun it was, though I think Benny Hill was underused.
Red-Haired Barbarians: The Dutch and other foreigners in Nagasaki and Yokohama, 1800-1865 40 Japanese prints from the NEHA collection.
Who was Aunt Jemima? (via art for housewives)
Fart costs bank 100,000 dollars
A fart was the start of a staff conflict that ended up costing the Swedish national bank NOK 760,000 (USD 100,000) in compensation.
According to computer technician Göran Andervass, 44, a colleague visited his office and let out a big, stinky fart, Aftonbladet reports.
Andervass thought the incident was provoking and shouted at his colleague.
After the fart and the following shouting, Andervass and his colleague were called in to a meeting with their boss in the national bank.
"The boss wanted to know why I had been shouting at my colleague. I explained what it was all about, but my colleague would neither admit nor confirm that he had farted", Andervass told Aftonbladet.
The incident was the beginning of a serious conflict, a long sick notice and exclusion from the office.
Göran Andervass was fired from his job on 20 December 2001. According to the human resource department in the bank, the reason was "personal issues".
The bank thinks Andervass was away sick a lot of the time and that he was not following the rehabilitation plan presented to him by a doctor and the social security office. According to Andervass, there was no such rehabilitation plan.
Göran Andervass sued the national bank, and the court sentenced the bank to pay him NOK 760,000 compensation.
from:
1 MINUTE AGO: cleaned out Newt's litter
1 DAY AGO: Went Grocery shopping
1 WEEK AGO: started at acim
1 YEAR AGO: played heroclix with Dave,
I HURT: my toe last night (fine now)
I LOVE: sleeping in with the rain falling and Newt by my neck.
I HATE: that my brother is in his current situation
I FEAR: that it he may be that way for the rest of his life
I HOPE: that all those dear to me are prosperous and healthy
I FEEL: good about my new gig
I LISTEN: to my head, heart, and gut. I admit that gut seems to get priority too often.
I HIDE: my hand under a blanket to put Newt into Stalk-mode
I DRIVE: a pair of black sneakers, and a mean internet browser
I PLAY: paper wad fetch, twenty questions, orisinal games
I MISS: playing champions, and the sort of "weekly community
I'VE LEARNED: that people are fascinating, complex things, even the most seemingly bland ones.
I KNOW: that there are very few things that are "black or white", though some people believe otherwise
I WAIT: patiently, as long as I have something to read, or some way to distract myself.
I NEED: to learn new things regularly.
I THINK: old books, monkeys, giant squid, ancient civilizations and common beliefs around the world are very nifty.
Current Clothes: Boxers marked "Handle with care"
Current Mood: pretty good
Current Music: thunder and rain outside, Zwan in here
Current Hair: Long, Brown, hanging down... "Fabio mode"
Current Annoyance: Nothing's really annoying me right now.
Current Smell: rain, sandalwood
Current thing I should be Doing: it's a holiday. I'm doing what I should be... lazing around.
Current Desktop Picture: nifty burgundy & silver "Celtic meets middle east" pseudo fabric with knotwork.
Current Favorite bands/singers: Zwan is a new fave, but I like a lot of music.
Current Book: Champions - Aaron Allston
Current Movie In VCR/DVD: had to look... Young Frankenstein.
Current Refreshment: ice cold water
Current Worry: see fear, above
Random fact of the moment: My least favorite slang term for breasts is "cans".
Random Scotto factoid - I liked Dynamite Magazine when I was in elementary school, but only because of Magic Wanda's tricks page. DYNAMITE (1974-1992)
ok, I've implemented flex points in my system...we'll see how that works out. Rather than point ranges for each day, 35 flex points are awarded each week. These points may be used as needed during the week. As part of this program Weight Watchers has eliminated point ranges and now assigns a single daily point value for each weight group. Seven days, five points a day, equals 35 points. I've done the math, and you still get the exact same number of points per week - it's just a different psychological way of counting. They're just modifying the system so that it's in terms of a week rather than in terms of a day... though I can reserve some for a extra gluttonous day on occasion.
I've been craving ice cream cake since Cookie Puss has made a return to Carvel. Though... fudgie the whale seems to be sort of ironic. "To a whale of a dad... Here's a big chunk of ice cream, tubbo!"
Speaking of which, I sort of like Am I Annoying or Not? of the "Or Not?" trends. Cleopatra's Entry
Segue into Egypt...
Egyptian Scholar Planning Lawsuit Over Exodus Gold
A prominent Egyptian legal scholar is preparing a lawsuit against Jews around the world over gold allegedly stolen in biblical times during the Jewish exodus from Egypt.
Nabil Hilmy, dean of the faculty of law at Egypt's Zagazig University, announced his plan in the Egyptian government weekly, Al-Ahram Al-Arabi, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute — known as MEMRI — a group that specializes in translating articles in the Arab media. Hilmy reportedly told Al-Ahram that if the story of the exodus is to be believed, Jews fleeing Egypt "stole from the Pharaonic Egyptians gold, jewelry, cooking utensils, silver ornaments, clothing, and more, leaving Egypt in the middle of the night with all this wealth, which today is priceless."
Calling the alleged heist the "greatest fraud history has ever known," Hilmy said that he and a number of Egyptian jurists will sue "the Jews of the world" for these lost treasures, the value of which Hilmy estimates in the trillions of dollars.
"If we assume that the weight of what was stolen was one ton," Hilmy said, its worth "doubled every 20 years, even if annual interest is only 5%... hence after 1,000 years it would be worth 1,125,898,240 million tons... This is for one stolen ton. The stolen gold is estimated at 300 tons, and it was not stolen for 1,000 years, but for 5,758 years, by the Jewish reckoning. Therefore, the debt is very large."
Hilmy said that he and Gamil Yaken, the vice president of the Egyptian community in Switzerland, had "set up a legal team to prepare the necessary legal confrontation aimed at restoring what the Jews stole a long time ago, to which the statute of limitations cannot possibly apply."
Hilmy said that while the defendants would not be able to repay the debt in full, Jews around the world — particularly Israelis — should pay their fair share: "There may be a compromise solution. The debt can be rescheduled over 1,000 years, with the addition of the cumulative interest during that period."
MEMRI's report has already created a tremendous splash in Israel, according to the organization's president, Yigal Carmon, who oversaw the translation of Hilmy's interview from Al-Ahram. "We had 1,200 reactions on our Web site," Carmon told the Forward. "We sent it to [all] our subscribers — one in five reacted," one of the largest reactions the group has ever received.
Carmon said if he had read the Al-Ahram article on April Fool's Day he would have assumed it was a joke, but "it's a reality. This publication is like [the Egyptian equivalent of] the Sunday New York Times insert — it's a serious publication."
Hilmy did not specify where he planned to file suit, but should the case ever reach a courtroom, Alan Dershowitz — a Harvard Law professor and author of "The Case For Israel" (Wiley) — told the Forward, "I'd be happy to defend the Jews." Calling Hilmy a "clown" who "obviously knows [only] a little bit of law," Dershowitz said that the scholar's "ridiculous" suit invites a countersuit from the Jews over reparations for their enslavement in Egypt. Such a countersuit, Dershowitz said, could also be calculated in the trillions of dollars and would expose the oppressive life the Jews led under Egyptian slavery.
Not that Dershowitz believes that Hilmy's case will ever be heard in court: "There's no court that would be open to a lawsuit like that," he said. "Maybe an Islamic court with an elbow, a foot and an ass on the scale."
Image quest marine - beautiful shots of marine life.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on TV last night.. I haven't seen it in ages, and forgot how fun it was, though I think Benny Hill was underused.
Red-Haired Barbarians: The Dutch and other foreigners in Nagasaki and Yokohama, 1800-1865 40 Japanese prints from the NEHA collection.
Who was Aunt Jemima? (via art for housewives)
Fart costs bank 100,000 dollars
A fart was the start of a staff conflict that ended up costing the Swedish national bank NOK 760,000 (USD 100,000) in compensation.
According to computer technician Göran Andervass, 44, a colleague visited his office and let out a big, stinky fart, Aftonbladet reports.
Andervass thought the incident was provoking and shouted at his colleague.
After the fart and the following shouting, Andervass and his colleague were called in to a meeting with their boss in the national bank.
"The boss wanted to know why I had been shouting at my colleague. I explained what it was all about, but my colleague would neither admit nor confirm that he had farted", Andervass told Aftonbladet.
The incident was the beginning of a serious conflict, a long sick notice and exclusion from the office.
Göran Andervass was fired from his job on 20 December 2001. According to the human resource department in the bank, the reason was "personal issues".
The bank thinks Andervass was away sick a lot of the time and that he was not following the rehabilitation plan presented to him by a doctor and the social security office. According to Andervass, there was no such rehabilitation plan.
Göran Andervass sued the national bank, and the court sentenced the bank to pay him NOK 760,000 compensation.
from
1 MINUTE AGO: cleaned out Newt's litter
1 DAY AGO: Went Grocery shopping
1 WEEK AGO: started at acim
1 YEAR AGO: played heroclix with Dave,
I HURT: my toe last night (fine now)
I LOVE: sleeping in with the rain falling and Newt by my neck.
I HATE: that my brother is in his current situation
I FEAR: that it he may be that way for the rest of his life
I HOPE: that all those dear to me are prosperous and healthy
I FEEL: good about my new gig
I LISTEN: to my head, heart, and gut. I admit that gut seems to get priority too often.
I HIDE: my hand under a blanket to put Newt into Stalk-mode
I DRIVE: a pair of black sneakers, and a mean internet browser
I PLAY: paper wad fetch, twenty questions, orisinal games
I MISS: playing champions, and the sort of "weekly community
I'VE LEARNED: that people are fascinating, complex things, even the most seemingly bland ones.
I KNOW: that there are very few things that are "black or white", though some people believe otherwise
I WAIT: patiently, as long as I have something to read, or some way to distract myself.
I NEED: to learn new things regularly.
I THINK: old books, monkeys, giant squid, ancient civilizations and common beliefs around the world are very nifty.
Current Clothes: Boxers marked "Handle with care"
Current Mood: pretty good
Current Music: thunder and rain outside, Zwan in here
Current Hair: Long, Brown, hanging down... "Fabio mode"
Current Annoyance: Nothing's really annoying me right now.
Current Smell: rain, sandalwood
Current thing I should be Doing: it's a holiday. I'm doing what I should be... lazing around.
Current Desktop Picture: nifty burgundy & silver "Celtic meets middle east" pseudo fabric with knotwork.
Current Favorite bands/singers: Zwan is a new fave, but I like a lot of music.
Current Book: Champions - Aaron Allston
Current Movie In VCR/DVD: had to look... Young Frankenstein.
Current Refreshment: ice cold water
Current Worry: see fear, above
Random fact of the moment: My least favorite slang term for breasts is "cans".
Random Scotto factoid - I liked Dynamite Magazine when I was in elementary school, but only because of Magic Wanda's tricks page. DYNAMITE (1974-1992)
ok, I've implemented flex points in my system...we'll see how that works out. Rather than point ranges for each day, 35 flex points are awarded each week. These points may be used as needed during the week. As part of this program Weight Watchers has eliminated point ranges and now assigns a single daily point value for each weight group. Seven days, five points a day, equals 35 points. I've done the math, and you still get the exact same number of points per week - it's just a different psychological way of counting. They're just modifying the system so that it's in terms of a week rather than in terms of a day... though I can reserve some for a extra gluttonous day on occasion.
I've been craving ice cream cake since Cookie Puss has made a return to Carvel. Though... fudgie the whale seems to be sort of ironic. "To a whale of a dad... Here's a big chunk of ice cream, tubbo!"
Speaking of which, I sort of like Am I Annoying or Not? of the "Or Not?" trends. Cleopatra's Entry
Segue into Egypt...
Egyptian Scholar Planning Lawsuit Over Exodus Gold
A prominent Egyptian legal scholar is preparing a lawsuit against Jews around the world over gold allegedly stolen in biblical times during the Jewish exodus from Egypt.
Nabil Hilmy, dean of the faculty of law at Egypt's Zagazig University, announced his plan in the Egyptian government weekly, Al-Ahram Al-Arabi, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute — known as MEMRI — a group that specializes in translating articles in the Arab media. Hilmy reportedly told Al-Ahram that if the story of the exodus is to be believed, Jews fleeing Egypt "stole from the Pharaonic Egyptians gold, jewelry, cooking utensils, silver ornaments, clothing, and more, leaving Egypt in the middle of the night with all this wealth, which today is priceless."
Calling the alleged heist the "greatest fraud history has ever known," Hilmy said that he and a number of Egyptian jurists will sue "the Jews of the world" for these lost treasures, the value of which Hilmy estimates in the trillions of dollars.
"If we assume that the weight of what was stolen was one ton," Hilmy said, its worth "doubled every 20 years, even if annual interest is only 5%... hence after 1,000 years it would be worth 1,125,898,240 million tons... This is for one stolen ton. The stolen gold is estimated at 300 tons, and it was not stolen for 1,000 years, but for 5,758 years, by the Jewish reckoning. Therefore, the debt is very large."
Hilmy said that he and Gamil Yaken, the vice president of the Egyptian community in Switzerland, had "set up a legal team to prepare the necessary legal confrontation aimed at restoring what the Jews stole a long time ago, to which the statute of limitations cannot possibly apply."
Hilmy said that while the defendants would not be able to repay the debt in full, Jews around the world — particularly Israelis — should pay their fair share: "There may be a compromise solution. The debt can be rescheduled over 1,000 years, with the addition of the cumulative interest during that period."
MEMRI's report has already created a tremendous splash in Israel, according to the organization's president, Yigal Carmon, who oversaw the translation of Hilmy's interview from Al-Ahram. "We had 1,200 reactions on our Web site," Carmon told the Forward. "We sent it to [all] our subscribers — one in five reacted," one of the largest reactions the group has ever received.
Carmon said if he had read the Al-Ahram article on April Fool's Day he would have assumed it was a joke, but "it's a reality. This publication is like [the Egyptian equivalent of] the Sunday New York Times insert — it's a serious publication."
Hilmy did not specify where he planned to file suit, but should the case ever reach a courtroom, Alan Dershowitz — a Harvard Law professor and author of "The Case For Israel" (Wiley) — told the Forward, "I'd be happy to defend the Jews." Calling Hilmy a "clown" who "obviously knows [only] a little bit of law," Dershowitz said that the scholar's "ridiculous" suit invites a countersuit from the Jews over reparations for their enslavement in Egypt. Such a countersuit, Dershowitz said, could also be calculated in the trillions of dollars and would expose the oppressive life the Jews led under Egyptian slavery.
Not that Dershowitz believes that Hilmy's case will ever be heard in court: "There's no court that would be open to a lawsuit like that," he said. "Maybe an Islamic court with an elbow, a foot and an ass on the scale."
Image quest marine - beautiful shots of marine life.
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