Connected with some of my former students, the GOOD ones when I was teaching. Nice to get in touch again. It has been brutal this week having no primary car. Taking Geri to work everyday and picking her up is really getting to me. It is the heat, the damn HOT weather, especially in my car, no a/c, and I know that Geri is suffering also. Wish that we had the extra money to rent a car, but that is not in the cards right now. So, we are soldiering on driving the 41 Chrysler, at least it is paid for. Northlake Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep better find out what the hell is wrong with the Caliber ASAP! It is some damn computer thing. I have an appointment with the Rod Shop in Stuart September 1st to have my brakes readjusted after the breaking in period and to have Ed see what the vibration at idle in gear is. The rear pinion seal is still leaking after he fixed it, so he said "No Charge". I will believe it when I see it!
How did my grandpa drive around all those years without a/c? When I was a little kid in the 51 Dodge Coronet, I guess that I didn't know about a/c. When he had the 55 Dodge Royal, I knew then that a/c was vital! His last car, a 64 Dodge Dart was a sharp car, but no a/c! All grandpa wanted was Fluid Drive or full automatic, he hated to shift gears. I found that out when he drove my 52 Pontiac on time, he kept his foot on the clutch like a footrest and was in high gear by 10mph, lugging the engine the entire time! I miss him so much, he was like my own dad.
From the demented, sarcastic wit of Count Floyd, aka Bob Grimes
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...Frankly I used to like Count Chocola...
ReplyDelete...Sometimes Booberry too....
...You actually had students you considered GOOD?...hmmm...
...So Floyd is gonna be a gramps again huh?...
...Very interesting...
Israel and the Arabs:
ReplyDelete* Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's population, can make claim to the following:
* Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
* Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin - 109 per 10,000 people - as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.
* In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world.
* In absolute terms, Israel has the largest number of startup companies than any other country in the world, except the US (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).
* Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind the US. oside the United States and Canada, Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies.
* Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East. The per capita income in 2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that of the UK.
* Wth an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16s, Israel has the largest fleet of the aircraft outside of the US.
* Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.
* On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech start-ups.
* Israel has the largest raptor migration in the world, with hundreds of thousands of African birds of prey crossing as they fan out into Asia.
* Twenty-four percent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees - ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland - and 12 percent hold advanced degrees.
* Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
* In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews at risk in Ethiopia to safety in Israel.
* When Gold Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world's second elected female leader in modern times.
* When the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was bombed in 1998, Israeli rescue teams were on the scene within a day - and saved three victims from the rubble.
* Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship - and the highest rate among
* women and among people over 55 - in the world.
* Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants
* come in search of democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity.
* Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."
* With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and start-ups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world (apart from the Silicon Valley).
* In response to serious water shortages, Israeli engineers and agriculturalists developed a revolutionary drip irrigation system to minimize the amount of water used to grow crops.
* Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.
* Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per
* 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U.S., over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. *
* With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions. Israel places first in this category as well.
* The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.
* Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed by Microsoft-Israel.
* The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
* Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
* Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.
* The technology for AOL Instant Messenger was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.
Evan,
ReplyDeleteNo comments on the old cars? Looks like your "bullet points" were taken verbatim from some source, maybe the Internet?
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I wrote the "Ballad of ?" this morning while drinking coffee. I will email it to you. This will be an off blog email. Don't feel too depressed today, just because it is Sunday. I always felt that way on Sunday night, knowing what was coming the next morning.