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Wow! Those guys at forbes.com are really sharp– Such insight, such intellegence!
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That’s right folks, the season is rapidly approaching. I always love this time of year, the hustle and bustle, the good cheer and of course, the shopping!

In that vein, every year on the day after thanksgiving nearly every store on the planet has super-special deals to get the good little consumers to empty their pocketbooks so we’ll all have something shiny under tree come Dec 25th. This year I have the edge. Someone has compiled a list of the “Black Friday” deals before they are available to the public. Check them out and plan ahead!

http://www.bf2004.net/

Oh and speaking of holiday cheer, check out this link.

Apparently a bunch of smart guys got together to see if they could turn some really crappy vodka into some pretty good vodka by using a Brita water filtration system to filter out the impurities and chemicals which give cheap vodka its nasty aftertaste (and beforetaste and duringtaste for that matter).

Surprisingly, it seems to work pretty well. I happen to have a Brita and I recently bought a new set of filters for it… I might just have to give this a try.

I happen to have a often stressful job.

In order to relieve my stress when needed I keep a bunch of office toys around to play with (Yoda magic 8-ball, matchbox car, stress ball, light-up super ball, etc..). My most recent accusition is a freebie yo-yo I comendeered from one of my office mates.

Now I like a good yo as much as the next guy, but I have always considered them children’s toys. Sure they were once considered kinda cool and people had yo-yo trick competitions but in this modern day these things don’t still go on do they?

This proved me wrong. Apperently (much to my surprise) Yo-yoing is alive and well– In fact it appears to be Kicking ass all over the place.

It’s all very cool I suppose, but ask yourself– What kind of person do you have to be to actually sport one of these.?

I was pondering this morning and thought it warranted a blog topic: What happened to humor in the form of a written word? I remember in grammar school reading volume after volume of 101 great jokes! and other similar books. I loved them. Then as I grew older I picked up Douglas Adams, Tery Pratchett and P.G. Wodehouse.
Their zany characters and quick wit kept me amused for many a happy hour. So ponder this: when was the last time you read a joke? I don’t mean read-a-joke-with-a-picture-and-sound-and-animation, just a regular joke. I love flash animations and cute movies as much as the next guy but I hope we’re not going to lose the written joke for good. In honor of the written joke I will pass on one of my favorites, a Sven and Ole joke no less!

Sven and Ole went on vacation and decided to go fishing out on their favorite lake. They rented a boat and floated around on the lake looking for a good spot.
After about three hours of poor luck they found a good place and started catching fish. As fast as they could throw out their line they would catch another one. Ole exclaimed “Man Sven, this sure is a great fishin’ spot! I wish we could mark the spot so we can come back here tomorrow and catch more fish!” Sven nodded and thought for a moment then he laughed and reached into his tackle box, “I’ve got just the thing” he said. Sven produced a big piece of chalk and marked a huge white X in the bottom of the boat. Ole shook his head sadly and said “Oh that won’t work you big dummy! What if next time we don’t get the same boat?!”

Sometimes you get the blimp, sometimes it gets you!