Greetings!
Well, it seems that 3/4 of the country will be over 90
today, except for the North West, where the rains have
returned... I have to say, I'm very glad to live where I
live!
For those in the Seattle area, you'll be glad to note
that Dick's Hamburgers is opening a new restaurant
location... There's a lot more to Mac and Cheese than you
thought! (Thomas Jefferson?)... Here in Washington, a very
shocking story is in the news about a teacher who, it seems
to me, shouldn't be allowed to teach... an update on the
Footprint on Mars...
Hope everything is going well for you where you are!
Remember... its already almost half way to Friday! =]
And the answer was...
(Jerry got it)
How much water does an average acre of fir tree's drink
in a month?
Jerry found a site that said a young tree needed a gallon
of water a day, so his acre of one tree needed 31 gallons a
month. =] That was the closest to a 'real'
answer, so I listed him as the winner.
MikeM guessed 5,000 gallons, so he gets honorable mention
for coming the closest... but the answer is on the picture
below, taken while visiting the Cedar River Watershed
Information Center, which is a welcome center for the Cedar
River water source project for the city of Seattle...
That's a lot of water!
Today's Challenge
Now... how much water can a Camel drink in 10 minutes?
Know the answer?
One look, and the folks from the Seattle area will smile...
http://www.nwcn.com/news/washington/Dicks-Drive-In-opening-first-restaurant-in-36-years-101845473.html
Wow.
Here's some amazing tidbits of information...
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365 MILLION boxes a year... that's one million a day for
a year... and its more than one box for every US Citizen!
MORE:
From an Email
Unbelievable!
This is a very sad, sad story. It seems a teacher
in Washington plead guilty of molesting little girls, and
was sent to jail. He was fired, of course.
But after getting out of jail, he sued for his job back,
saying that getting fired constituted being punished by the
state twice, since he went to jail for the same crime.
He won, and no, I'm not kidding.
"
KING 5 News obtained a copy of the hearing examiner’s
decision to reinstate Moulton as a teacher.
Court-appointed hearing examiner Joseph Mano, Jr. decided
Moulton should not have been fired. Mano decided that the
district had its chance to fire Moulton when the allegations
surfaced.
Originally the district chose to suspend Moulton, without
pay, for 12 days.
The superintendent said he decided to fire Moulton after he
was sentenced to jail.
Manke told KING 5 he thought at that point, “The district
would have a stronger case for termination.”
But Mano, the hearing examiner, wrote in his decision that
Moulton, “Cannot be punished for the same conduct twice,
under the law.”
"
What a crazy-sad story! If he's on a predator watch
list... how can he work at a school with kids?
MORE:
http://www.nwcn.com/news/washington/Unwelcome-Morton-teacher-calls-in-sick-101806348.html
And the story continues to unfold in baffling ways.
A bit of weirdness from the Red Planet.
Stuff is BIG on Mars!!! The crater floor is 2,000
feet below the surface of the surrounding region, and the
ridge along the crater's rim extends more than a mile
above... that's a pretty severe altitude change!
"
New
images of an ancient crater on Mars look just like a
bootprint -- and the high res pics have failed to solve the
age-old mystery for planetary scientists.
If anything, the high-resolution images of the "Footprint
Crater" -- otherwise known as Orcus Patera -- have puzzled
Mars-watchers even further as to how the Red Planet was
originally scarred with the 240-mile-long depression.
The picture was taken by the European Space Agency's Mars
Express orbiter and released by the ESA late last week.
It sits between two volcanoes, and while the name "patera"
is traditionally given to irregularly shaped volcanic
craters, scientists know at least enough about the Orcus
Patera to know it wasn't formed by a volcano.
The most likely explanation is that it's an impact crater,
although given the length of the scar, it would have to have
been formed by something striking the surface of Mars at an
angle of less than five degrees, possibly bouncing back off
the surface.
"
MORE:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/30/scientists-baffled-bootprint-mars/?test=latestnews
Humor is always a good thing!
This is why you should use
dryer sheets...
You can't "Un-See" some
things...
Sort of explains why the signs
are so funny in English sometimes...
The FBI has a new system that
tracks people's activity on the Internet. Its called
EagleEye... and they have assured those who care that it
will not be at all intrusive... you can check out this demo
if you'd like:
http://users.chartertn.net/tonytemplin/FBI_eyes/
This looks like it was a lot of work!
There's a story here somewhere...
Um... something like that isn't just going to go away.
