Archive for June, 2007

Anyone who knows me personally knows that I am a huge Pink Floyd fan. I have been searching for concert tickets to one of the Roger Waters shows in July. I finally found some by searching for a new york ticket broker. $535 for two tickets would put the wife and I up close and personal (two rows back) to Roger Waters when he is Hartford, CT.

…..but, that is $535 that I should probably spend on something that we really need. On the other hand….we really need a vacation!

• The “chapters” of the New Testament were not there originally. When monks in medieval times translated it from the Greek, they numbered the pages in each “book.”

• According to the ceremonial customs of Orthodox Judaism, it is officially sundown when you cannot tell the difference between a black thread and a red one.

• A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

• The growth rate of some bamboo plants can reach three feet (91.44 cm) per day.

• Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

There is a friend of mine that drinks a lot. When I say a lot, I mean that he can drink a half gallon of liquor in a days time by himself. No problem. The scary part is, he makes his own liquor. That’s right, he makes moonshine. That is bad enough by itself, but whenever he gets drunk, he starts doing blow.

I may talk to him about drug rehab, but he probably won’t want to hear anything about it. A friend is a friend though, and I will do what it takes.