My collection of funny emails from my inbox. Subject: 5 MINUTE MANAGEMENT COURSE Lesson 1: A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings.
The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbor. Before she says a word, Bob says, "I'll give you $800 to drop that towel. " After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob. After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. "Great! " Moral of the story: If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure. - StumbleUpon. Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived. Additional notes from the author: If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla.
Ben's also got a book out which is packed full of awesome. There's an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. It's corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his life. The drunk history of Tesla is quite awesome, too. History.com has a great article about Edison and how his douchebaggery had a chokehold on American cinema. Images. Most Loved All Categories Last 7 Days Stanley Kubrick Answers a Question: Zen Pencils Growth isn’t linear Today’s society.
LOOK AT YOURSELF AFTER WATCHING THIS.mp4. 12 Tough Truths that Help You Grow. As you look back on your life, you will often realize that many of the times you thought you were being rejected from something good, you were in fact being redirected to something better.
You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen. Because sometimes the truths you can’t change, end up changing you and helping you grow. Here are twelve such truths… Everything is as it should be. Photo by: Martin Gommel Related. 101 Short Stories that Will Leave You Smiling, Crying and Thinking.
Post written by: Marc Chernoff Email Since its inception eighteen months ago, our sister site Makes Me Think (MMT) has truly evolved into a remarkable online community.
Every day, users share their thought-provoking life stories and vote on stories that other users have shared. Some are happy, some are sad, and others twist your emotions, pulling them in several directions at once. As stated on the MMT About page, sometimes the most random everyday encounters force us to stop and rethink the truths and perceptions we have ingrained in our minds. I believe the 101 stories listed below perfectly fulfill that description. Even The 2nd richest man in the world is simple. Mental_floss Blog & Mad Scientist of the Month: Who's Afraid of Taylor Wilson? Update (2/7/2012): Taylor Wilson at the White House by Judy Dutton At 10, he built his first bomb. At 14, he made a nuclear reactor. Now he’s 17… Taylor Wilson makes people nervous. Shouldn’t teams in hazmat suits descend on Wilson and shut down his operations before someone gets hurt? “The Cold War is really when nuclear physicists got their shot, and those people are all retiring,” points out one of Wilson’s mentors, Ron Phaneuf, a professor of physics at the University of Nevada in Reno.
Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell. Accent: emphasis given a syllable in ordinary usage, as provided by a pronouncing dictionary.
See also stress. accentual-syllabic: the prosodic mode that dominated English-language poetry 1400-1900, and that this tutorial exclusively addresses. Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein - StumbleUpon. [Note: This list of Einstein quotes was being forwarded around the Internet in e-mail, so I decided to put it on my web page.
I'm afraid I can't vouch for its authenticity, tell you where it came from, who compiled the list, who Kevin Harris is, or anything like that. Still, the quotes are interesting and enlightening.] "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. " - StumbleUpon. Book - 9 insights on&life - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. 10 Hilarious, Wise, and Offensive Laws of Modern Man - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself - StumbleUpon. Memory, after 63 years! - StumbleUpon. Bertrand Russell Quote On The Paradox of Fools And Wise Men.
- StumbleUpon. What Are The Odds? Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century by Rank - StumbleUpon. Feynman Online. One Of The Greatest Speeches Ever Made&Video. &Seven Blunders of the World& by Mahatma Gandhi - StumbleUpon.