I found this to be very interesting.  I really need to get in the Ink Jet business!!!  The price of Gas versus Printer Ink

All these examples do NOT imply that gasoline is cheap; it just illustrates how outrageous some prices are....

You will be really shocked by the last one!
(At least, I was...)

Compared with Gasoline......

Think a gallon of gas is expensive?

This makes one think, and also puts things in perspective.

• Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 ... $10.32 per gallon
• Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 ..........$9.52 per gallon
• Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 ...... $10.17 per gallon
• Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 ......... $10.00 per gallon
• Brake Fluid 12 oz $3.15 ...... $33.60 per gallon
• Vick's Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 ... $178.13 per gallon
• Pepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 .. $123.20 per gallon
• Whiteout 7 oz $1.39 ....... . $25.42 per gallon
• Scope 1.5 oz $0.99 .....$84.48 per gallon

And this is the REAL KICKER... Evian water 9 oz $1.49..$21.19 per gallon! $21.19 for WATER and the buyers don't even know the source

(Evian spelled backwards is Naive.)

Ever wonder why printers are so cheap?  So they have you hooked for the ink. Someone calculated the cost of the ink at...............
(you won't believe it....but it is true........) $5,200 a gal. (five thousand two hundred dollars)

So, the next time you're at the pump,be glad your car doesn't run on water, Scope, or Whiteout, Pepto Bismol, Nyquil or Printer Ink!

Just a little humor to help ease the pain of your next trip to the pump...

Did you know that there's an online database that summarizes how to get through all the computerized voices so you can talk to a human for help on things?   I've had this bookmarked for a while now and I use it when I need to dial-in to the various services so I can finish my tasks more quickly rather than hanging on the phone and talking to a computer.  The part I can't stand is when the computer repeats my phone number I just typed in for validation ~ pleaseeee....

The GetHuman.com™ movement was created from the voices of millions of consumers who want to be treated with dignity when they contact an enterprise for customer support.  Their goal is to convince enterprises that providing high quality customer service and having satisfied customers costs much less than providing low quality customer service and having unsatisfied customers.

This works great for me and I hope you find this link handy: GetHuman.com.  Walt Tetschner created GetHuman and deserves great applause!  Nice job!

UPDATED!!! Oct 15, 2008:  Just found this site. http://dialahuman.com/  It's basically the same thing.

So I was surfing the other day trying to get inspired by design from other web folks and came across these two awesome CSS sites,

(1) StyleShout.com and

(2) OpenSourceTemplates.org. 

They both provide the ability to view and download nice looking and well-designed sites all mostly done in CSS.  I'm especially pleased with the second site, OpenSourceTemplates.org because it has some of the templates hosted on this site that is also used for my blog. 

Anyway, I hope you find these two CSS sites useful and become inspired by some of the nice work done by some of these authors.

I found this out on the Web ....  Pretty interesting... hmmm???

In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have 'the rule of thumb'

Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only..Ladies Forbidden'...and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

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