Cute Androids

I love the Motorola Droid smartphone, but these are much cooler!

Happy New Year 2010

This is Google’s image for today-

The full moon was clever, yesterday was the full moon as well!

Merry Christmas from Google

And here is their image for today-

Mobile Broadband vs Cable Internet

I am trying the Mobile Broadband Connect (tethering) feature on Verizon Wireless for one month during a trial promotion. It is nice while you are on the go, I guess it gives ISDN/slower DSL speeds. It is great for a secondary internet connection when you are traveling or visiting clients.

Here is the speed on Mobile Broadband

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here is the speed on cable:

 

 

The Count’s Google Image

In honor of Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary, here is  Google’s image for today:

Today’s Google image from Sesame Street

In honor of Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary, here is Google’s image for today-

In honor of Sesame Streets 40th Anniversary, here is Cookie Monster-

Happy 40th Anniversary Sesame Street!

I came across this Google Doodle today-

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a blog posting with more information-

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/04/big-bird-google-doodle-ce_n_345030.html

 

Did you know?

DID YOU KNOW?

1. A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

2. A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.

3. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

4. A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.

5. A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

6. Every person has a unique tongue print.

7. According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.

8. After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

9. An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

10. A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.

11. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

12. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

13. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood, we only have 206 in our bodies.

14. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his
    lifetime.

15. By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.

16. By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute).

17. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

18. Every human spent half an hour as a single cell.

19. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

20. Fingernails grow faster than toenails.

21. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour and about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
    

Amazing Lung Facts

• At rest, a person breathes about 14 to 16 times per minute. After exercise it could increase to over 60 times per minute.

• New babies at rest breathe between 40 and 50 times per minute. By age five it decreases to around 25 times per minute.

• The total surface area of the alveoli (tiny air sacs in the lungs) is the size of a tennis court.

• The lungs are the only organ in the body that can float on water.

• The lungs produce a detergent-like substance which reduces the surface tension of the fluid lining,
  allowing air in.

Amazing Heart Facts

• Your heart is about the same size as your fist.

• An average adult body contains about five quarts of blood.

• All the blood vessels in the body joined end to end would stretch 62,000 miles or two and a half times around the earth.

• The heart circulates the body’s blood supply about 1,000 times each day.

Snow

It had been snowing for hours when an announcement came over the high school intercom: “Will the students who are parked on University Drive please move their cars so that we may begin plowing.”

Twenty minutes later there was another announcement: “Will the twelve hundred students who went to move 26 cars, return to class.”