Useful Thoughts and Actions Taken

I have tried using Alibaba and it seems to be scammish.  I list something to sell and I get people emailing me trying to sell me the same sort of thing.  When I ask for estimates to buy items in bulk direct from China I get estimates that are HIGHER than retail ! Where’s the magic in Alibaba ??? I am more than a little stumped!

I love portuguese. When I found these common phrases I called a brazilian friend to help me pronounce.  Vocabulário e expressões coloquiais populares no Brasil e seus equivalentes nos EUA: Essa “pequenina” lisstinha…foi minha amiga fofa Tabatha q me enviou…. Obrigada Tatha…..com certeza vai ser muito util p/ todas nos…rsrs . One for the road = A saideira . The worst-case scenario = A pior das hipóteses . To give something up = Abrir mão de algo . To hit the nail on the head = Acertar em cheio . Come what may = Aconteça o que acontecer . After all = Afinal Read more…

Think about it !  Women are cheap with their own money but not with their man’s!  They do like money.   An ugly man can suddenly be oddly gorgeous once a woman finds out he has some net worth.

Thought experiment: You work in engineering and you need to borrow some hand work assemblers from the production department of you company.  Describe who they loan you? Results: Generally speaking they will give you the screw up. Reason: They have a job to do and its called PRODUCTION ……not ENGINEERING!  You can be sure they will give you the person they would be most likely to lay off in the next round.  This principle applies to outsourcing also. The following is an exerpt for this arty: Outsourcing – too successful to waste on teams of less than 50 people  We hire Read more…

There are two very important things to remember if you are trapped in close quarters with a nut job with a gun: 1- Most people are not that good with a gun – put a solid object in between you and them and do not stand still.  Dance according to the rythm of their shooting.  I am not joking. Remember the lawyer Jerry Curry?  He dodged bullets from behind a tree until his would be killer William Strier emptied a 6 shooter revolver from the other side of the tree.   The link below is to a slide show. I could not Read more…

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Imagine a jar of peanut butter. Now imagine that the cost of all the things the government does to be the peanut butter.  It does not matter how you spread that peanut butter around.  You may make as many PBJ sandwiches as you wish.  The same amount of peanut butter exists.  The total costs are the same.  You can smear peanut butter around the entire world like a monkey with scat and the costs are the same. This is a metaphor for all of government spending. When the government taxes the evil oil companies its like smearing peanut butter on them.  Read more…

From this arty on rapid evolution of mankind : Rapid Evolution There are other mysteries too. “Nobody 10,000 years ago had blue eyes,” Hawks said. “Why is it that blue-eyed people had a 5% advantage in reproducing compared to non-blue-eyed people? I have no idea. Damn scientists must not date much.  The reason why blue eyes are an advantage is because they are more attractive. DUH!  This is a blanket statement that is true in general.  The reason for it could be as simple as that there are fewer and the brown eyed of the world follow the same natural impulse Read more…