For a couple of years I have been blaming it on lack of sleep, not enough sunshine, too much pressure from my job, ear wax buildup, poor blood, or anything else I could think of. But now I’ve found out the real reason. I’m tired because I’m overworked. And here’s why:
The population of this country is 273 million. 140 million are retired. That leaves 133 million to do the work.
There are 85 million in schools, which leaves 48 million to do the work. Of this, there are 29 million employed by the federal government, leaving 19 million to do the work. 2.8million are in the armed forces, which leaves 16.2 million to do the work.
Take from that total the 14,800,000 who work for state and city governments,and that leaves 1.4 million to do the work. At any given time there are188,000 people in hospitals, leaving 1,212,000 to do the work. Now there are 1,211,998 people in prisons.
That leaves just 2 people to do the work. You and Me, and there you are sitting at your computer, reading Ripley jokes. Nice,real nice!
Eons ago in Engineering class I wrote my first Fortran code on punch cards and submitted the deck to the teaching assistant (TA). (No direct access to a computer in those dark days) The program started, ran a while, a red error light lit on the front panel and the computer crashed. Reworked the code, same results. The TA tried to help me debug it. She was stumped. I may have had that extra hyphen that they missed. After several rewrites and submissions she gave me a passing lab grade and I focused on hardware from then on…..
Listen, a so-called missing hymen is no indication that this Marina girl was not a vir… oh, you’re saying hyphen and a rocket. Never mind. ~ Emily Litella
May way too serious about himself chopper pilot Kenneth “We Called It A Whirlybird But You Can Call It What You Want It Was A Hell Of A Copter” Tobeyord be with you, and gesundheit.
Re: Mariner I: It wasn’t a hyphen, it was an overbar. And it wasn’t exactly missing from the code. Someone creating the code from hand-written formulae failed to notice the overbar, so coded an incorrect formula.
Maybe I’m a little slow on the uptake, but I didn’t understand how cherries could be “sitting in water”. Here’s a snippet from bccherry.com that explained it to me.
How helicopters work to dry the cherry crop:After the rain, the trees are soaked throughout. Flying a helicopter just above the treetops produces a downwash of air and turbulence which blows most of the rainwater off the leaves and cherries. The turbulence rebounds from the ground providing side wash, blowing the trees dry on both sides.
Who do they send in there, and what kind of specialized skin diving training do they need? Would YOU swim in a whale’s ear, and if you did, would you remember to count wax layers?
A couple of articles that I quickly researched said that the earwax is retrieved after the whale is deceased. It is a “treasure trove” of information about how the whale lived, what pollutants were in the water, what stresses it underwent (by identifying hormones), etc. They don’t retrieve earwax from live whales, as far as I can tell.
@Charlie Fogwhilstle: Hi, Charlie! Roaming26-37 kindly alerted me to your experiment question. I’m sorry to say that I don’t see any previous comments from you. I believe that i’ve read from other commenters that when someone is put in time out, or banned, not just the “banned” comment is deleted; previous ones are two. But I know very little about the process except what I’ve seen other people post. Hope you are doing well. :-)
Templo S.U.D. almost 2 years ago
I wonder what was the original code for Mariner I those sixty years ago. I hope the hyphen forgetter didn’t get fired for that simple mistake.
Pickled Pete almost 2 years ago
For a couple of years I have been blaming it on lack of sleep, not enough sunshine, too much pressure from my job, ear wax buildup, poor blood, or anything else I could think of. But now I’ve found out the real reason. I’m tired because I’m overworked. And here’s why:
The population of this country is 273 million. 140 million are retired. That leaves 133 million to do the work.
There are 85 million in schools, which leaves 48 million to do the work. Of this, there are 29 million employed by the federal government, leaving 19 million to do the work. 2.8million are in the armed forces, which leaves 16.2 million to do the work.
Take from that total the 14,800,000 who work for state and city governments,and that leaves 1.4 million to do the work. At any given time there are188,000 people in hospitals, leaving 1,212,000 to do the work. Now there are 1,211,998 people in prisons.
That leaves just 2 people to do the work. You and Me, and there you are sitting at your computer, reading Ripley jokes. Nice,real nice!
Zykoic almost 2 years ago
Eons ago in Engineering class I wrote my first Fortran code on punch cards and submitted the deck to the teaching assistant (TA). (No direct access to a computer in those dark days) The program started, ran a while, a red error light lit on the front panel and the computer crashed. Reworked the code, same results. The TA tried to help me debug it. She was stumped. I may have had that extra hyphen that they missed. After several rewrites and submissions she gave me a passing lab grade and I focused on hardware from then on…..
Huckleberry Hiroshima almost 2 years ago
Listen, a so-called missing hymen is no indication that this Marina girl was not a vir… oh, you’re saying hyphen and a rocket. Never mind. ~ Emily Litella
May way too serious about himself chopper pilot Kenneth “We Called It A Whirlybird But You Can Call It What You Want It Was A Hell Of A Copter” Tobeyord be with you, and gesundheit.
Gameguy49 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
How do you get a Blue whale to stay still long enough to get a Q-Tip in there?
Jogger2 almost 2 years ago
Re: Mariner I: It wasn’t a hyphen, it was an overbar. And it wasn’t exactly missing from the code. Someone creating the code from hand-written formulae failed to notice the overbar, so coded an incorrect formula.
stamps almost 2 years ago
You’re going to need a bigger Q-tip.
Metamucilage - The stick-to-your-ribs fiber™ almost 2 years ago
Many cases of costly commas, too.
And costly spellings… and costly comas.
Charlie Fogwhistle almost 2 years ago
I went shopping today and picked up a cherry and a microphone stand.
Bought a bing, bought a boom!
finnygirl Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Maybe I’m a little slow on the uptake, but I didn’t understand how cherries could be “sitting in water”. Here’s a snippet from bccherry.com that explained it to me.
How helicopters work to dry the cherry crop:After the rain, the trees are soaked throughout. Flying a helicopter just above the treetops produces a downwash of air and turbulence which blows most of the rainwater off the leaves and cherries. The turbulence rebounds from the ground providing side wash, blowing the trees dry on both sides.
ekke almost 2 years ago
Who do they send in there, and what kind of specialized skin diving training do they need? Would YOU swim in a whale’s ear, and if you did, would you remember to count wax layers?
finnygirl Premium Member almost 2 years ago
A couple of articles that I quickly researched said that the earwax is retrieved after the whale is deceased. It is a “treasure trove” of information about how the whale lived, what pollutants were in the water, what stresses it underwent (by identifying hormones), etc. They don’t retrieve earwax from live whales, as far as I can tell.
finnygirl Premium Member almost 2 years ago
@Charlie Fogwhilstle: Hi, Charlie! Roaming26-37 kindly alerted me to your experiment question. I’m sorry to say that I don’t see any previous comments from you. I believe that i’ve read from other commenters that when someone is put in time out, or banned, not just the “banned” comment is deleted; previous ones are two. But I know very little about the process except what I’ve seen other people post. Hope you are doing well. :-)