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The Wall Street Journal today reports that they are hiring Jerry Seinfeld to be a pitchman for their WIndows product. The pay for Jerry? 10 million dollars.

http://online.wsj.com

Microsoft Corp., weary of being cast as a stodgy oldster by Apple Inc.’s advertising, is turning for help to Jerry Seinfeld.

The software giant’s new $300 million advertising campaign, devised by a newly hired ad agency, has been closely guarded. But Mr. Seinfeld will be one of the key celebrity pitchmen, say people close to the situation. He will appear with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in ads and receive about $10 million for the work, they say.

The new ad effort is expected to use some variation of the slogan “Windows, Not Walls,” according to several people familiar with the matter. Those people say the point is to stress breaking down barriers that prevent people and ideas from connecting. The campaign, said to debut Sept. 4, is one of the largest in the company’s history.

Insomnia Happens. Especially at 1:38 AM.

The band buys Linda a birthday shot! Guess What Kind?

It’s well known that I have an aversion to being around people chewing gum. The sound of someone chewing their gum with their mouth open drives me so crazy that I can’t even think straight. Plus it looks decidedly uncouth! Recently, I had a long discussion with someone who maintained that chewing gum was good for you, and invited me to research it. I really think gum has no place in society. But of course I had to check it out. So Ed, this is for you!

According to this study:

http://crobm.iadrjournals.org/cgi/reprint/10/3/405

Clearly, sugar-free chewing gum has no relevant mechanical tooth-cleaning effect, but the saliva stimulated by mastication will effectively dissolve and remove soluble fermentable substrate from the oral cavity, raise plaque pH, and promote remineralization. Thus, the chewing of tooth-friendly chewing gum after meals and carbohydrate-containing snacks is strongly recommended if no mechanical oral hygiene can be performed. The admixture of mineral salts to chewing gum formulations aimed at enhancing the pH-raising effect of chewing gum has been proven less effective than the incorporation of carbamide for the same purpose. Carbamide-containing chewing gum can be consumed for pleasure alone, but it is also specifically recommended for persons with high caries activity, especially in connection with hyposalivation and in patients with active tooth erosion (Imfeld, 1996).

My solution: Carry a toothbrush with you! 😆 72.222.140.152

Borrowing Money IRA 401(k)Loan Retirement Account http://tinyurl.com/6z3ehs – is this a good idea?

Being in a state of confusion can often get you out of it. – Kristy

I’m in the news! “Saving Gas – It’s not Rocket Science” on Marketwatch.com. http://ping.fm/ag44s

Boycott United Airlines. Look what they did to this poor familiy!

Even for evil airline stories, this one may shock you. How about:

* Holding on to over $5,000 in ticket fees from a family for six months, then telling them the day before that the flight has been canceled;
* When confronted with the fact that the flight hasn’t been canceled, telling the family that the reservation has been lost;
* Finally admitting that they’ve bumped the family from the flight and were lying about the cancelation and the lost reservation;
* Offering replacement seats on multiple planes and days, splitting the family up on different flights and depositing them at different islands;
* Offering to get them there 5 days into a 7 day vacation, part of which was scheduled to spend time with a family member who was dying in a hospice in Hawaii;
* Refusing to write a letter on the family’s behalf so that they can collect their insurance payment on the house they rented but never used.

http://ping.fm/5z0kC

So I was just driving around and thinking the other day (driving is when I do most of my thinking) and was giving some thought to the whole God thing. I met someone the other day and we had an in depth discussion about God. His was “yes, I believe” and mine was the opposite. The usual questions from him:

1. Who made the universe
2. How do you know what’s moral
3. What happens when you die?

My usual questions/statements:

1. Why does there have to be a God?
2. I think morality is self-evident (then I quote the Declaration of Independance (“we hold these truths to be self-evident”)
3. What about all the inconsistencies in the Bible (You want to see? Try this link.)
4. I’ve accepted that when I die, it’s over and I’m gone. But whatever happens to me, happens to you, no matter what either of us believe
5. Why does there have to be something that created the universe? If God always was, and matter is never created or destroyed, then why hasn’t the universe just always been?

So the last statement got me thinking. Maybe the whole universe, or the system that is the universe is God. The creator, the all present, ever-powerful. I can buy into that. You can feel one with the universe. A person is pretty insignificant in relation to the universe, but like the chaos theory, maybe the flap of a butterfly’s wings here on earth creates a super nova in another galaxy. I like those thoughts.