50 Jobs, 50 States in a Year? 1 Man Gives it a Try

At a time when some people are having trouble finding one job, Daniel Seddiqui is lining up 50 — one in every state.
Each job symbolizes the state's most famous industry, and each lasts one week — just long enough for the 26-year-old to appreciate the labor and explore the region.
Since starting in Utah in the first week of September, he's been a park ranger in Wyoming, a corn farmer in Nebraska and a wedding coordinator in Las Vegas.
Last week, in Week 23 of his year long saga, he was a cheesemaker in southeast Wisconsin. He mixed ingredients, hoisted slabs of cheddar — and tasted plenty of his work.
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Pencil construction

I wonder whether this is real, or simply computer-generated art.

It appears to show a 3-dimensional structure constructed of interlaced pencils (which would probably have had to be glued together rather than held together by gravity/friction).
There are four sets of 18 pencils each, with each set arranged as a hexagon, and the sets intersecting in different planes. Tattoo Jim said...
I'm guessing this was part of the government bailout meeting in congress. Just something about it say "another government project".

Tattoo Jim said...
I'm guessing this was part of the government bailout meeting in congress. Just something about it say "another government project".

Caboodle Ranch at Dinnertime!

A hundred + cats gather around Craig Grant, (Guy Crazy About Cats), for their evening meal, at Caboodle Ranch, a cat rescue sanctuary in Florida.

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HE FEEDS THEM ALL EXPENSIVE CANNED WET FOOD!

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Just a Reminder

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He's called Noodles for a reason...Ha ha!

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The weird world of a 'face blindness'

Man can't recognize his wife unless she wears red - or spot himself in a photo

Barry Wainwright's earliest memories are of feeling like a social outcast. Looking back, he sees his childhood and teenage years as a catalogue of humiliating and deeply confusing episodes that left him sure he was different from everyone around him. 'I found it impossible to make friends and felt totally removed from the rest of my family,' says Barry, 54. 'Interacting with other children was impossible, because I'd recognize them one day and then not the next. 'On one occasion, aged seven, I remember spending lunchtime chatting with a boy in my class. We asked each other questions about our families and hobbies and played football together. But later the same day when he came up to me and began talking, I had no idea who he was or why he knew so much about me. Another time, my own mother approached me in the street and I failed to recognize her despite her talking to me for five minutes.' Though Barry told no one about his problem, his parents felt there was something wrong. Psychiatrists and psychologists presumed he was mentally impaired or mildly autistic. But Barry shocked everyone by scoring highly on IQ tests. Eventually, medics deemed him normal, noting him as 'above-average intelligence but bored and disruptive'.
So, with no diagnosis, Barry felt he'd no choice but to 'muddle through' life. He finished school, got married, became a chemical engineer and went on to have seven children, now aged between 12 and 35. It was only by chance, three years ago, that he discovered the source of his problems. Barry suffers from prosopagnosia, a condition also known as face blindness - where patients cannot recognize the faces of others, even those very close to them. It's estimated as many as 1.5million Britons might suffer from the condition, although there are many different degrees, and many people do not realize they are sufferers.The condition can be present from birth, as in Barry's case, or brought on by head injury - in both cases it leads to an interruption to the brain's normal processing of data that allows facial recognition. This means sufferers are able to conduct a normal conversation with somebody, but will fail to recognize that same person's face minutes later. They spend life relying on other 'clues' such as clothes, voice pitch, mannerisms and whether or not somebody wears glasses to recognize them.
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I Confess

I'm not the most energetic of people.

After all I'm a guy, "I'm not lazy. I'm just energy efficient". In fact, few people know but if you look up couch potato in the dictionary it has a picture of me.

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Puppy found with "Mickey" Spot!

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Look at this little guy! Perhaps he was trying to find his way to Disney World, but he was found right in St. Pete! This little puppy has a black spot, and it looks just like the Mickey Mouse ears. They couldn't be better, even if they were drawn by Walt Disney himself.
He needs a home, and he's in custody of St. Pete's animal shelter. They're calling him "Petey." He'd make the perfect pet for any Disney fan, that's for sure!

Bush turns down job at DIY store

George W Bush has turned down his first chance of a new job since leaving the White House - at a hardware store in Dallas.
Elliots store manager Andrea Bond said the former US president entered the Elliott's outlet with his security detail saying "I'm looking for a job.".
The owner of the Texas chain had made the offer earlier this month in a letter published in a Dallas newspaper, reports the BBC.
But despite not yet having a publisher for his memoirs, Mr Bush decided on reflection to turn the job down.
Equipped with a name tag reading 'W', Mr Bush spent an hour there with his secret service security detail, chatting to customers and shopping.
Described as part-time, the job would have left Mr Bush time to work on his presidential library and write about his two terms at the White House.
"We're confident that your experience working in your own family business, as well as your people skills developed throughout years of meeting with foreign dignitaries would make you an excellent candidate for the position," read the job offer, signed by Kyle Walters, president and CEO of Elliott's Hardware.
"Furthermore, like you, many of our greeters are retired from the corporate world, so we're sure you'll have no trouble making new friends."
The employment package also offered parking for his security detail and an employee discount.
"We think you'll find working with us much less stressful than your last job," the offer continued.

That's why I kept finding the phone off the hook.

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