Sunday With Calvin
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Sunday With Calvin
Our favorite grade-schooler and tiger have been absent too long from these pages, something we’re rectifying today:
Serendipitous Monday
Your humble scribe is on travel this week, gov’mint business and all, out in the land of real mountains. Posting may or may not be spotty (non-specific enough? There’s plausible deniability for you), so here are a couple of items from around the blogsphere to chew on. Fear not, Flightdeck Friday is not in jeopardy……
How Big is the Internet?
Some interesting end-of-year numbers from www.pingdom.com: Email 1.3 billion – The number of email users worldwide. 210 billion – The number of emails sent per day in 2008. 70% – The percentage of emails that are spam. 53.8 trillion – The number of spam emails sent in 2008 (assuming 70% are spam). Internet users 1,463,632,361…
Rx for Beltway Ennui
Take one of these: Add your betrothed of near 25 years; Mix with a warm pre-spring evening (courtesy of DST)Apply over two-lane, county blacktop: Take as often as necessary. Caution – May Be Habit Forming…– SJS
If Perception is Reality…
… we (Team Navy) are in deep bat guano where public perceptions are concerned: Gallup Military Perceptions 2008 View more presentations or upload your own. See especially slides 17-21 for recruiter’s challenge: Â ” If you were just turning 18 and had to spend two years in the Service, which branch would you prefer to join?”…
Tuesday’s Child
…and more of Hobbes’ wisdom:
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Damn! I miss Calvin and Hobbes, particularly on Sunday mornings.
What Marine6 said. And I sure DO relate to the first strip… 😉
Buck:
I think courtesy our kids, we’ve all had similar moments – which is one of the reasons Calvin & Hobbes was so good (and is so missed…) 🙂
-SJS