Wednesday, November 22, 2006
If you’re like me, you’ve received emails purporting to explain just how big a billion is with helpful illustrations about Christ living a billion minutes ago and other things happening a billion somethings ago. Depending on the source, there are often minor differences in the “other things.” You might have seen this in magazines or other publications as well. In most cases this leads up a point they’re trying to make about a billion something or another.
Accurate?
The illustrations are pretty close but not exact. At the time of this writing, a billion minutes (about 1901.25 years) ago was around 105 AD, seventy-some years after Christ was crucified. However, we can cut some slack here since it depends on where you round, and it’s more-or-less the time of Christ — plus, it makes a better point than “a billion minutes ago Pliny the Younger died.”
Friday, November 17, 2006
Did you get an email asking for help locating a missing child, Ashley Flores?
Maybe if everyone passes this on, someone will see this child. That is how the girl from Stevens Point was found by circulation of her picture on tv. The internet circulates even overseas, South America, and Canada etc. Thanks. Please pass this to everyone in your address book.
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Sheesh.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
If you receive an email with several blank lines between each line or paragraph, condense it before blasting it back out to all your email buddies. This Smart Email Tip walks you through an example of how to turn a sure-to-annoy, deleted email into an emotional powerhouse that’s possibly forwarded ten thousand times or more.
Monday, November 13, 2006
This is so crazy-weird you just will not believe it. Did you know that the events of September 11th, 2001 have torn a hole in the mathematical underpinnings of the universe. Either that or it is some despicable right-wing hard leftist Muslim Jewish conspiracy. Or something like that.