28 Feb 11 Church Fart

This says it all about getting older & the whole aging thing.

An elderly couple are attending church services. About halfway through,

She writes a note and hands it to her husband. It says, “I just let out a silent fart. What do you think I should do?”

He scribbles back, “Put a new battery in your hearing aid.”

Tags: amp, attending church, church services, elderly couple, fart, hearing aid

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31 Dec 10 T-Mobile UK USB Broadband Stick in Ubuntu

I went into my local T-Mobile store because I wanted to get set up with a PAYG mobile broadband solution for my netbook. Sure, I can find wi-fi hotspots about, but that isn’t going to work when I want to go sit in the park on a spring afternoon.

Anyway, not only could the store not tell me if their sticks worked with any Linux distribution, but they also told me that once I bought a stick, there was no Linux support from their helpline, and no refund.

I was on my own.

Well a little research, and this is such an easy solution.

Fire up your netbook.

Using an alternative means of connecting to the internet, do the following:

Open a console.
Cut and paste the line below:

sh -c 'wget http://www.betavine.net/repository/bcm_lucid_install.sh -O /tmp/bcm.sh && /usr/bin/xterm -e sudo sh /tmp/bcm.sh'

Let it do its work; it will install the Vodaphone connect Manager.

Then plug in your T-Mobile USB Stick, and fire up the installed VCM. It will find your stick.

Click on connect. You’re done, except for one more thing. You need to go to the T-Mobile site http://t-mobile.co.uk/payperdayhome and set up your first day’s top-up.

That’s about it. Any Questions, drop me a line.

Tags: amp, broadband solution, connecting to the internet, easy solution, fi, helpline, hotspots, linux distribution, linux support, mobile store, mobile uk, repository, spring afternoon, sudo, t mobile, tmp, usb stick, usr bin, vcm, wget

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30 Dec 10 Selling Toothbrushes

The kids filed back into class Monday morning. They were very excited.
Their weekend assignment was to sell something, then give a talk on productive salesmanship.
Little Sally led off: “I sold girl scout cookies and I made $30,” she said proudly,
“My sales approach was to appeal to the customer’s civic spirit and I credit that approach for my obvious success.”
“Very good,” said the teacher.
Little Jenny was next:
“I sold magazines,” she said, “I made $45 and I explained to everyone that magazines would keep them up on current events.”
“Very good, Jenny,” said the teacher..
Eventually, it was Little Johnny’s turn.
The teacher held her breath …
Little Johnny walked to the front of the classroom and dumped a box full of cash on the teacher’s desk. “$2,467,” he said.
“$2,467!” cried the teacher, “What in the world were you selling”
“Toothbrushes,” said Little Johnny.
“Toothbrushes,” echoed the teacher,
“How could you possibly sell enough toothbrushes to make that much money?”
“I found the busiest corner in town,” said Little Johnny,
“I set up a Dip & Chip stand, I gave everybody who walked by a free sample.”
They all said the same thing, “Hey, this tastes like dog shit!”
Then I would say, “It is dog shit. Wanna buy a toothbrush?”
“I used the governmental approach of giving you something shitty that they say is good, And then making you pay to get the shitty taste out of your mouth.”
The teacher was speechless. . . . . . . .