I'll Stand By You

I think this is a title of a Pretenders song, but I may be wrong.

This morning I read about Halleys Comment's last moments with her Dad.

A Dream About to Come True

I recently received this email from ME and KE, who are adopting a baby girl from China.

Family and Friends:

Today we received our referral paperwork from China. This is the paperwork we've waited 13 months to receive! We don't have the exact dates that the four of us will travel to China to pick up Kira.......although we will probably depart around the 2nd week of June. (We'll spend 12 days in China, picking her up on the first day we are there).

She is 11 months old.....weighs 16 pounds and is 25 inches long.....her date of birth is 5/24/01 (Kathy shares her birthday :0).

She is presently living in foster care in the Nanchaang Scoial Welfare Institute located in the Jiangxi Province of China.


Her birth name is Hong Yuan Hui. (We'll use part or all??? of her birthname as her middle name).

Her personality is described as: active, restless, having a ready smile, gets along well with ohers, quick in reaction, energetic, fairly extroberted, obstinate sometimes, and impatient sometimes(We think she'll fit right in!)

Hopefully this answers most of your questions, if you have others, PLEASE feel free to ask!

Also, if you know of someone who may be interested in our news and you do not see them on the recipient list of this e mail, please feel free to pass it along.

Thank you for all your support and prayers! We're so glad to be able to share this exciting time with you!

Unemployment Jumps to 6%

NEW YORK - On Friday morning, the U.S. Department of Labor said the unemployment rate rose to a seasonally adjusted 6%, its highest point since August 1994. Yes, the top line is disappointing, especially for Wall Street economists who expected just 5.8%, but some of the internal numbers show promise for recovery. Both components of the employment data--household and business statistics--had some positives.

Forbes.com: U.S. Unemployment Jumps To 6%

Work for the Crime... Great Story

It seems like something straight out of a Simpsons script, but it really happened.

In Monroe, Washington, yesterday, armed bandits broke into a Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) coffee shop and forced employees to open the safe. The contents apparently weren't enough to buy more than a few cups of Mocha Coconut Frappuccino, however, so the thieves immediately began thinking of ways to increase their loot.

And, thus, for the next 30 minutes, they served coffee, lattes, and cappuccinos to drive-thru customers. After collecting enough cash (and a half-hour was plenty with the price of Starbucks products), the thieves calmly got in their vehicle and drove away... and haven't been heard from since.

We wonder how many customers received correct change.

Published at The Motley Fool Investment Page

Thanks to my friend and brother SDT for this.

Remember Laura Branigan?

(PEOPLE) -- In the 1982 music video for her hit song 'Gloria,' Laura Branigan grooves awkwardly in a studio, a single disco ball spinning above her head. 'I have on black spandex pants and knee-high boots,' says the singer. 'It's hysterical.'

She took my self-, she took my self-, my self-control.

Journey Into Geekdom, Part 7

Tonight (well, actually yesterday evening, since this is early Thursday morning), I made a new all - time high score at Pinball! My new high score is

15,890,500

Now you can rest better with this knowledge.

Apostrophe Protection Society

I know. It sounds so funny, but it is a genuine organization.

The Apostrophe Protection Society was started in 2001 by John Richards, now its Chairman, with the specific aim of preserving the correct use of this currently much abused punctuation mark in all forms of text written in the English language.

Dont you just hate it when folk's grammar is messed-up?

Girls made to show underwear at school dance

"LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Angry parents demanded the resignation of a California high school vice principal Tuesday because she lifted the skirts of teenage girls at a dance in front of men and male classmates to make sure they were wearing "appropriate" underwear."

Ahem. (blushes). I don't remember teachers and principals doing this when I went to high school...

2/15/2005 Update: Some 5th-grade girls at my daughter's school got me with this one recently:

GIRLS: What under there?

DAN: Under where?

GIRLS: You said "UNDERWEAR"!!

Which 80s Hair Band Are You?

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Find Your Inner "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" Character

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