PTO Today

Looking at everyone's peeves I see a kind of common theme: People who buy a gift because they feel they have to, but don't really get into the spirit of giving the gift. If you TRULY give someone a gift, you make sure that it is something you feel they will enjoy, that won't require extra work for them(like buying batteries), and that you make getting the gift a special experience(like having the company you order from gift wrap it). It's that "loss of what the season really means".

Shawn, did you see the A-Rod interview on 60 Minutes? Is he worth that much money? He thinks so. Please!!!

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Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.

Worth that kinda money??? ... HELL (can I say that?) NO!!!!

He maybe (OK he is....) the best player in MLB (at the end of his carreer, ever) but he's [B]'dumber than a box of rocks' TM[/B] and sucks in the postseason.

I love baseball but noone playing a 'Freaking Kids Game' is worth more than Stay-at-Home Parents, Educators (not Administrators), and Healthcare Professionals (eg Nurses, Midwives, etal) just to name a few.

The league minimum is around $300,000 (that's MLB not minors, they dont make jack)

$275 Mill for 10 yrs HELL (can I say that again??) NO!!!!.

Would I sign him as my starting 3b if by some freak of nature a Steinbrenner spawn and I switched bodies (ss If I owned the Cubs ,eg switched places with some moron from the Tribune Co- A Ram isnt moving off the hot corner for A Rod)?,
does my baseball hobby contribute to this insane madness?
and will it continue? Yes, Yes and Yes (but No he's not and prolly been shooting up too much HgH, Steroids and popping greenies to be worth that much $$$$, in a rational world

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[B]Liberalism is not an affilation its a curable disease. [/B]
[I][B]~Wisdom of Shawnshuefus[/B][/I]
[B]The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men."[/B]
[B][I]~Wisdom of Plato[/I][/B]

Why Shawn, did I strike a nerve there?! Like you, my hubby and I think it's absolutely ridiculous to pay a professional athlete sums like that when you think of what that money could do to improve the world. Imagine what $275 mil could do in the fight against cancer......

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Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.

Speaking of cancer--I saw a show yesterday where a man invented a system in his GARAGE that would put nano sized electrodes into cancer cells to kill them. The nanoids (?) are drawn to each other and when they connect they emit an electric shock that destroys the cell. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING...they tested it on an Australian rabbit with liver cancer and in 90 seconds the cancer was cured (not sure why an Australian rabbit but I'm sure there was a DNA connection there). There are trials (non human) going on all over the US and heres the kicker. Human trials are projected in 3-5 years and the man that invented the technique has leukemia and will probably not survive till then.
Can you imagine the gift this man will leave as his legacy if this is truly a cure for cancer. Amazing....d

d, that is amazing. There is so much going on in the area of nanotechnology especially in relation to medicine. Those are the kinds of brilliant minds that should be getting paid the "big bucks"!

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Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.

now if only people would stop smoking, lots less folks would need the services that nanotech has to offer.

Well, the gangs all here! It's great to see everyone popping in to say hello.

I have my own list of Christmas peeves but after an extremely negative past six months, I'm only focusing on the positive and counting my blessings:

~ Enough money in the bank to pay the bills.

~ A roof over my head.

~ Gifts under the tree.

~ Family and friends to spend Christmas with.

~ Ending my first college semester with a 4.0 GPA (I'm bragging now because the likelihood of ending any more semesters that way is pretty low! *Algebra next semester* Yikes...)

~ Hershey's Chocolate Mint candy canes. Mmmmm

I'm off to wrap presents and decorate the tree.

*** It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, ....... ***

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“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.”

Naw not a nerve, my pocketbook and fandom has contributed to the insanity (and the US AntiTrust Laws Congress granted to MLB way back when)

I'd love to boycott baseball but cant, its a game (entertainment) I love; Us fans are as big a problem as the solution.

Nanoids? like microscopic computers? Waaay cool

Way to go CC (algebra think of it in baseball terms c= a +b)

[B]OPS = OBP + SLG[/B]

where OBP is on-base percentage, and SLG is slugging percentage.

[B]SLG = TB divided by AB[/B]

and
http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/c/9...c485541d68.png
where:

• [I]H[/I] = hits
• [I]BB[/I] = walks
• [I]HBP[/I] = hit by pitch
• [I]AB[/I] = at bats
• [I]SF[/I] = sacrifice fly
• [I]TB[/I] = total bases

Since OBP and SLG have different denominators, it is possible to rewrite the expression for OPS using a common denominator.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/0/4...20e878c3d6.png

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[B]Liberalism is not an affilation its a curable disease. [/B]
[I][B]~Wisdom of Shawnshuefus[/B][/I]
[B]The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men."[/B]
[B][I]~Wisdom of Plato[/I][/B]

Oh, well, now I'm confident I'll get an A+ ~ Thanks Shawn!!!

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“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.”

Hey anything to help!
At least I didnt use Bob and John were on trains, one from NYY to Chi, one from DeMoines to Indy?? One travels at 35 MPH the other 55MPH, one leaves at 5PM the other at 515. Who gets there 1st?

My response was always,

"What?! havent these guys heard of Frequent Flier Miles? Why should we care? "Jeez, who cares when they arrive or who's first?"

Unless its Amazing Race (which wasnt around when we did algebra on papyrus and abacas')

__________________
[B]Liberalism is not an affilation its a curable disease. [/B]
[I][B]~Wisdom of Shawnshuefus[/B][/I]
[B]The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men."[/B]
[B][I]~Wisdom of Plato[/I][/B]