Joke of the Day

A wildly unsuccessful young businessman came to the priest one day to confess.  He owed massive amounts of debt, his family life was in shambles, and had more than once considered suicide.  The priest tried to console him, and gave him the best advice that he could.

"Son, you need to do three things:  first find a calm beach, set out a chair, and sit in it.  Secondly, open your bible and let the wind blow the pages.  Lastly, when the pages have finally come to rest, look down and read the first thing you see.  This will have the answer to your problems."

Years later the man came back to the priest, happy, full of life, and now wildly successful.  The priest eagerly asked him what had happened.

"Did you go to the beach?"
"Yes."
"You opened the bible and let the wind blow the pages?"
"Yes, sir."
"And what did you read?"
"Chapter 11."

Notable Quote

"I'm not going to test you on e-agents...I don't really have any interest in computers, I don't really like them."

[baby cries in the back of the room]

"I didn't mean it...I didn't, I didn't mean to offend you younger generation people."

(Law professor)

Twenty-five

Is the number of years in a silver wedding anniversary.  It is also the minimum cut-off age for election to the House of Representatives, the atomic number for manganese, the minimum age to rent a car without a co-signor, the number of cents in a quarter, the customary TCP port for SMTP (the incoming email protocol), a freeway going between New Mexico and Wyoming, the size of a full major league baseball team roster, the number of points required to win a set in volleyball (under rally scoring rules), and a square number (which often appears in demonstrations of Pythagorean's theorem).

I'm glad that it is such an important number.