October 2007 – The Kumachan

Left Brain vs Right Brain

Dave 2007-10-27

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Most of us would see the dancer turning counter-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† uses logic¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† detail oriented¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† facts rule¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† words and language¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† present and past¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† math and science¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† can comprehend¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† knowing¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† acknowledges¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† order/pattern perception¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† knows object name¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† reality based¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† forms strategies¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† practical¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† safe¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS

¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† uses feeling¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† “big picture” oriented¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† imagination rules¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† symbols and images¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† present and future¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† philosophy & religion¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† can “get it” (i.e. meaning)¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† believes¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† appreciates¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† spatial perception¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† knows object function¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† fantasy based¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† presents possibilities¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† impetuous¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä†¬¨‚Ä† risk taking

New From Apple

Dave 2007-10-25

Saving Face and Saving Grace

Dave 2007-10-19

A married couple was in a terrible accident where the man’s face was severely burned. The doctor told the husband that they couldn’t graft any skin from his body because he was too skinny. So the wife
offered to donate some of her own skin. However, the only skin on her body that the doctor felt was suitable would have to come from her buttocks. The husband and wife agreed that they would tell no one about where the skin came from, and they requested that the doctor also honor their secret. After all, this was a very delicate matter. After the surgery was completed, everyone was astounded at the man’s new face.
He looked more handsome than he ever had before! All his friends and relatives just went on and on about his youthful beauty! One day, he was alone with his wife, and he was overcome with emotion at her sacrifice. He said, “Dear,I just want to thank you for everything you did for me. How can I possibly repay you?”
“My darling,” she replied, “I get all the thanks I need every time I see your mother kiss you on the cheek.”

How to Make a Cross-over Cable

Dave 2007-10-14

Here is a diagram which shows the standard color code to make a cross-over CAT-5 cable.

Top Secret

Dave 2007-10-11

TOP SECRET
This was sent to me by an associate in the surveillance field. I am sharing it with friends and family on a need to know basis. I can not vouch for its validity.

SECURITY PHOTO: CONFIDENTIAL
The photo is a video capture from a security camera located in the North Corridor that leads to the Senate floor in the US Capitol Building.

Family Vacation

Dave 2007-10-10

Family on holiday in Australia for a week and a half when husband, wife and their 15 year old son decided to go scuba diving. The husband is in the navy and has had some scuba experience.

His son wanted a pic of his mum and dad in all their gear so got the underwater camera on the go. When it came to taking the pic the dad realized that the son look like he was panicking as he took it and gave the “OK” hand sign to see if he was alright.

The son took the pic and swam to the surface and back to the boat
as quick as he could so the mum and dad followed to see if he was OK. When they got back to him he was scrambling onto the boat and absolutely shitting himself. When the parents asked why he said, “there was a shark behind you” and the dad thought he was joking, but the skipper of the boat said it was true and that they wouldn’t believe him if he told them what it was.

As soon as they got back to the hotel they put the pic onto the laptop and this is what they saw.

How Long Do We Have?

Dave 2007-10-07

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.”

“A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.”

“From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”

“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years”

“During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage”

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota,points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000
Presidential election:

Number of States won by:
Gore: 19
Bush: 29

Square miles of land won by:
Gore: 580,000
Bush: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by:
Gore: 127 million
Bush: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore: 13.2
Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country.¬¨‚Ä† Gore’s territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare…” Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy‚Äö√Ñ√π phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

Jeff Foxworthy Picking on Michigan

Dave 2007-10-06

1. If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Michigan.
2. If you’re proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Pellston is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Michigan.
3. If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Michigan.
4. If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Michigan.
5. If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don’t work there, you might live in Michigan.
6. If your dad’s suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, (or at the top of his ankles) you might live in Michigan.
7. If you have worn shorts and a coat at the same time, you might live in Michigan.
8. If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Michigan.
9. If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Michigan.

Part 2 – You know you’re a true MICHIGANDER when . . .

1. “Vacation” means going up north on I-75
2. You measure distance in hours.
3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
4. You often switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day.
5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings).
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked
8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
9. You design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
11. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
12. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
14. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
15. Down South to you means Ohio.
16. A brat is something you eat.
17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole barn.
18. You go out to fish fry every Friday.
19. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
20. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
21. You find 0 degrees “a little chilly.”
22. You drink pop and bake with soda.
23. Your doctor tells you to drink Vernors and you know it’s not medicine.
24. You can actually drink Vernors without coughing.
25. You know what a Yooper is.
26. You think owning a Honda is Un-American.
27. You know that UP is a place, not a direction.
28. You know it’s possible to live in a thumb.
29. You understand that when visiting Detroit, the best thing to wear is a Kevlar vest.