1. I am currently out at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position. I may be a little moody so be prepared.

2. You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn’t have received anything at all.

3. Sorry to have missed you, but I am at the doctor’s having my brain removed so I can be promoted to our management team.

4. I will be unable to delete all the unread, worthless emails you send me until I return from vacation on 4/18. Please be patient, and your mail will be deleted in the order it was received.

5. Thank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged $5.99 for the first 10 words and $1.99 for each additional word in your message.

6. The e-mail server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this message. Please restart your computer and try sending again.
( The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see how many in-duh-viduals did this over and over.)

7. Thank you for your message, which has been added to a queuing system.
You are currently in 352nd place, and can expect to receive a reply in approximately 19 weeks.

8. Hi, I’m thinking about what you’ve just sent me. Please wait by your PC for my response.

9. I’ve run away to join a different circus.

10. I will be out of the office for the next 2 weeks for medical reasons. When I return, please refer to me as ” Sharon ” instead of “Steve”.

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In Hong Kong, because of the space, apartments are small and expensive. Gary Chang, an architect, decided to design a 344 sq. ft. apartment to be able to change into 24 different designs, all by just sliding panels and walls. He calls this the “Domestic Transformer.”

Total worldly annihilation be damned, i want to talk to some aliens!

“I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach.”

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Travel the highways and byways of the U.S. and you just might stumble across a few intersting names such as Boring, Accident and Last Chance.

Truth or Consequences, N.M.
Boring, Ore.
Cool, Calif.
Uncertain, Texas
Carefree, Ariz.
Last Chance, Idaho
Accident, Md.
Normal, Ill.

Some of you might find this article a little bit more interesting than the rest of us….depending on where you get your software.

Microsoft maintains a 75-person staff of antipiracy investigators, consisting of paralegals, forensic intelligence analysts, investigators, and other staff, many with backgrounds in law enforcement, according to Bonnie MacNaughton, a senior attorney in Microsoft’s antipiracy enforcement efforts and a federal prosecutor for 14 years before that. Senior business intelligence analysts are placed in all geographic regions.

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