Yet another useless holiday? Not quite… This upcoming Wednesday is International Delete Your MySpace Account day. Finally something to celebrate.
Also looks like there is some happy reading in Wired’s related articles, including
Myself, I won’t be partaking, although only because it’s too much work to figure out how to create my first MySpace account just to delete it a couple days later.
Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.
Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.
In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. “Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each.”
The villagers rounded up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys. Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!
Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works…
So apparently stomach flu is contagious over IM, I just finished getting over one of the less pleasant episodes of stomach flu that I’ve ever experienced, and now a good friend down in Colorado’s children are sick. Sorry ’bout that Randy, remind me I owe y’all a round of fries from Red Robins next time we’re out in Texas, k?
Pepto Bismol chewable tablets worked well, although I did notice something interesting while reading the ingredients for this “heartburn • indigestion • upset stomach • nausea • diarrhea” medication. One of the non-medical ingredients is a laxative. Weird.
All well, back to my normal self, even had a couple rounds of wonton soup. My precious! And extra special thanks to Mah Lori for taking such good care of me!
