Have you “Googled” today? On this day in History: 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page incorporated their Internet search company at Menlo Park, California. The test search engine was doing some 10,000 searches a day. A year later it was doing three million searches a day. They called their company – Google
The 101 number one song of the Day was recorded by a man tagged by the press as a Bob Dylan ripoff. It’s easy to see why he was considered to be a copy because he wore a denim cap, played a harmonica attached to a neck harness and sang what sounded like folk songs. But when Dylan came to Britain and the two met face to face at a hotel, the two emerged as obvious friends, the media’s attitude shifted to a more favorable stance. Eventually his music evolved and as his image changed from wandering minstrel to flower child, the distinction between the two became much clearer. And on September 7, 1966, he owned the number one song in America – something that Dylan was never able to do…It’s Donovan with the 101 number one song of the day – Sunshine Superman.
Thanks to Steve Chavira, self described “sales dog” for spending some time with us this morning to talk about his Las Cruces company, Success, Inc. Steve works with people who want to present themselves better in order to do a better job in the their career or to get a better job. He can be contacted at salesdog65.comcast.net
Hurricane Earl skirted the east coast over the weekend. Interesting story about people preparing for a bad storm. Everybody knows you stock up on batteries, water and candles. But food retailers reported Pop Tarts were selling seven times faster than normal. It turns out – Pop Tarts are a hurricane essential.
The 101 Gold Nugget of Knowledge: A new study out of England says men drive an unnecessary 276 more miles a year…because they won’t stop to ask for directions. The researchers say over the course of a lifetime…that’s wasting over $3,000 in fuel costs.
Congratulations to The Black Widow – professional eating champ Sonya Thomas won the 9th Annual Buffalo Wing Eating Championships in Buffalo, New York. She ate 181 chicken wings in twelve minutes…destroying #1 ranked eater Joey Chestnut for the title.
-Here’s the amazing part…she’s 5’2” and 105 pounds. When she’s empty.
Everybody’s trying to come up with alternative energy sources…we’re going green, don’tcha know. A tiny village in Peru may have the answer. Their entire village is being powered by guinea pigs. See, Guinea pigs are a big deal in Peru…but mostly people eat them. Now they’re working on a pilot program where they raise the Guinea pigs and use their pellet-shaped waste to fire up the local power plant. They hope to power the entire village from Guinea pig manure.
-Okay – that’s better. we were thinking of hundreds of little wheels.
New research suggests one in seven American home kitchens would flunk the health inspections given to restaurants. The researchers say some home kitchens wouldn’t pass on items like – is the refrigerator at 41-degrees or lower; is raw meat stored below other food; and are all fruits and vegetables washed carefully before eating. Interesting note – the experts say most food poisoning cases come from home cooked meals – not restaurants.
-Yeah – and good luck suing mom!!
This is kind of weird. You know they had a devastating 7.1 earthquake in New Zealand over the weekend. In the city of Christchurch over 500 buildings were damaged…but luckily there were only two injuries. And here’s the weird part, scientists say the quake opened up a new fault line in the earth’s crust…and part of the world actually moved eleven feet to the right.
-We know in America it seems like everyone is lurching to the right. Now it’s the whole world!?!?!
The big Philadelphia Naked Bike Ride took place over the weekend. Hundreds of naked people rode bicycles through the city to promote bicycling awareness and clean air.
-The irony here being…when a hundred naked people pass you on bicycles…the only thing you probably don’t notice…is the bicycles.
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