Cumulus or Nimbostratus?

It's bad when you are reading a technical article or even a murder mystery and you have to look up a word to find out what they are talking about. It is very good to expand your vocabulary, but not at the expense of the storyline or technical description. One of the big advantages of online reading is that many words will be hyperlinked and can easily be clarified and return to the original text is easily accomplished. This would be very handy in online textbooks. While that is a big advantage (among many others); it may not be enough reason to completely abandon printed pages. There is still a casual elegance involved with reading a newspaper in an airport terminal or a paperback on a beach that can't be easily fulfilled with an e-reader, laptop, tablet or desktop. Until the investment is well under $100 for an e-reader, I won't consider it disposable or risk leaving one on my beach blanket, while I take a swim. I believe that e-readers will drop in price, while tablets will continue to add features and probably remain at approximately the same price for a long while. Laptops and desktops will probably continue to drop in price because of lackluster sales. They will still be needed by developers and other creators of content, as the e-readers and tablets are really for content viewing. Where does that leave the computer industry ? I think we are going to be doing more and more with our personal computers, but they will probably be on the "phone" platform. They will project keyboards on our desk, and screens on the wall. We will be developing content by accessing a cloud on a wireless network.

An elderly patient gets hearing aids from a doctor. After short time, he meets the doctor again.

Doctor, "Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased."
Patient, "Oh, I am in a funny situation now. I haven't told my family yet. I just sit and listen to their conversations. In a month, I've changed my will three times!" 

The following is an important announcement...

Police warn all clubbers, party-goers, and unsuspecting bar regulars to be alert and stay cautious when offered a drink from any woman. A new date rape drug on the market called "beer" is used by many females to target unsuspecting men.

The drug is generally found in liquid form and is now available almost anywhere. It comes in bottles, cans, from taps and in large "kegs."

"Beer" is used by female sexual predators at parties and bars to persuade their male victims to go home and have sex with them. Typically, a woman needs only to persuade a guy to consume a few units of "beer" and then simply ask him home for no strings attached sex. Men are rendered helpless against this approach.

After several "beers" men will often succumb to desires to perform sexual acts on horrific looking women to whom they would never normally be attracted. After drinking "beer," men often awaken with only hazy memories of exactly what happened to them the night before, often with just a vague feeling that something bad occurred.

At other times these unfortunate men are swindled out of their life's savings in a familiar scam known as "a relationship." It has been reported that in extreme cases, the female may even be shrewd enough to entrap the unsuspecting male into a longer term form of servitude and punishment referred to as "marriage."

Apparently, men are much more susceptible to this scam after "beer" is administered and sex is offered by the predatory female.

Please! Forward this warning to every male you know. However, if you fall victim to this insidious "beer" and the predatory women administering it, there are male support groups with venues in every town where you can discuss the details of your shocking encounter in an open and frank manner with similarly affected, like-minded guys.

For the support group nearest you, just look up "Golf Courses" in the yellow pages. 

A doctor on his morning walk, noticed an old lady sitting on her front step smoking a cigar, so he walked up to her and said, I couldn't help but notice how happy you look! What is your secret?"
"I smoke ten cigars a day," she said. "Before I go to bed, I smoke a nice big joint. Apart from that, I drink a whole bottle of Jack Daniels every week, and eat only junk food. On weekends, I pop pills, have sex, and I don't exercise at all."
"That is absolutely amazing! How old are you?"
"Forty," she replied.

 And you thought you had a bad day....