Tony Brewer

I can remember the summer that I decided to take a college math course.  I was in a big hurry to finish up my college degree, and the local college was finally offering the statistics course that I needed to take during a time frame that I could actually take it!  Little did I know that I’d be dedicating my entire summer to that course!  Every waking minute was studying statistics! I sure could have used some statistics help back then!

The only place that I could get free statistics help back then was to go to the University itself and sign up for a statistics tutor. That was all well and good, but it was almost impossible to find a mutually agreeable time to meet the tutor and get to work!

The kids in school now have it a lot easier; with the Internet at their fingertips they can use the Internet to get all the math help they need for free at the tutorvista.com website! I sure wish that site was available when I needed it!

I was just cruising the ‘net and found some animal face-off videos.  I originally found them on you-tube and I wanted to share one with you.  It was about a crocodile fighting with a great white shark.  I found it interesting, but couldn’t find a way to embed it.  You tube said that the embed feature was turned off by request.  So I tracked the original site down, and found it on the animal planet website.  I still couldn’t find a way to embed it.  So I’m frustrated.  While I was there I saw that they also had a face-off between a wolf and a cougar.  I decided to watch it.  I have to tell you that it looked like a video-game animation – it really looked fake to me.  I wonder why they would do that, put a video up that looks so fake.

It seems that January 28th is National Kazoo Day. I never heard of National Kaz0o Day, but then what do I know. So I decided to google “national days” and found a complete list that was most useful and interesting. I cut and pasted January’s national days to post here, maybe you will learn something as well.

JANUARY

January 1 is …First Foot Day and Z Day

January 2 is …Run Up the Flagpole and See if Anybody Salutes It Day

January 3 is …Festival of Sleep Day

January 4 is …Trivia Day and Humiliation Day

January 5 is …Bird Day

January 6 is …Bean Day

January 7 is …Old Rock Day

January 8 is …National JoyGerm Day and Man Watcher’s Day

January 9 is … Play God Day

January 10 is … Peculiar People Day

January 11 is … National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day

January 12 is … Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day

January 13 is … Make Your Dream Come True Day and Blame Someone Else Day

January 14 is … National Dress Up Your Pet Day

January 15 is … Hat Day

January 16 is … Hot and Spicy Food International Day and National Nothing Day

January 17 is … Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral Day

January 18 is … Winnie the Pooh Day

January 19 is … National Popcorn Day

January 20 is … National Buttercrunch Day

January 21 is … National Hugging Day

January 22 is … National Answer Your Cat’s Question Day and National Blonde Brownie Day

January 23 is … National Handwriting Day, National Pie Day, and Measure Your Feet Day

January 24 is … Eskimo Pie Patent Day

January 25 is … Opposite Day

January 26 is … Australia Day

January 27 is … Punch the Clock Day and Thomas Crapper Day More Info on Thomas Crapper Day

January 28 is … National Kazoo Day, Clash Day, Rattle Snake Round-Up Day

January 29 is … National Cornchip Day

January 30 is … Escape Day

January 31 is … National Popcorn Day and Child Labor Day

 
Teri was so excited when her boss gave everyone in her office a new Blackberry for Christmas. I can’t say that I blame her for being excited, but I always suspect there is an ulterior motive for gifts like that! Maybe I’m just hyper-cynical, but I think that businesses are trying very hard to find ways to get more of their employee’s time without paying for it! And I think that a gift like this can be written off as a business expense. Oh well, I don’t want to ruin her fun; she’s very excited about having it in the first place! She’s been very busy entering all of her contacts into the contact list.

I’ve advised Teri that she should go online and sign up for the free Blackberry Backup app that I found at the drive.com website. I think it’s a valuable tool to be able to use their free app to back up and restore your contact list. The service isn’t restricted to just Blackberrys; it can be used for the Iphone and the Android phone as well. With the amount of contacts I have on mine, I sure appreciate having an app like that – I’d go crazy if I lost all of my contacts! This app provides real peace of mind about averting that disaster!

I was fascinated to read on the BBC news website’s science page a story about how pictures from a satellite show that the earth’s gravitational pull differs from spot to spot.  What that means is that there are some spots on earth where a person weighs more than on other spots!  I better not let Teri know about this map, she will want to move to where she weighs less!