Amazing 3D Printer - No Joke, Simply Astonishing - Video

This 3d Printer is probably the coolest printer I’ve seen since the Lego Printer. 3D printing is a form of additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is created by laying down successive layers of material. The advantages to 3D printing for manufacturers are numerous as they can work on various product prototypes in a faster and less expensive manner than without 3D Printing.

Easy Enough Mistake To Make

Skin Graft *~*~

A married couple was in a terrible accident where the woman's face was severely burned. The doctor told the husband that they couldn't graft any skin from her body because she was too skinny. So the husband offered to donate some of his own skin.

However, the only skin on his body that the doctor felt was suitable would have to come from his buttocks.

The husband and wife agreed that they would tell no one about where the skin came from, and they requested that the doctor also honour their secret. After all, this was a very delicate matter.

After the surgery was completed, everyone was astounded at the woman's new beauty. She looked more beautiful than she ever had before! All her friends and relatives just went on and on about her youthful beauty!

One day, she was alone with her husband, and she was overcome with emotion at his sacrifice. She said, "My Dear, I just want to thank you for everything you did for me. How can I possibly repay you?"

"My darling," he replied, "I get all the thanks I need every time I see your mother and the friends kiss you on the cheek."

An easy enough mistake *~*~

A man and a woman were having dinner in a fine restaurant. Their waitress, taking another order at a table a few paces away noticed that the man was slowly sliding down his chair and under the table, with the woman acting unconcerned.

The waitress watched as the man slid all the way down his chair and out of sight under the table. Still, the woman dining across from him appeared calm and unruffled, apparently unaware that her dining companion had disappeared.

After the waitress finished taking the order, she came over to the table and said to the woman, "Pardon me, ma'am, but I think your husband just slid under the table."

The woman calmly looked up at her and replied firmly, "No he didn't. He just walked in the door."

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Through Eyes Of The Blind

A press photo in the newspaper some while ago caught my eye, in which a blind man with a white stick is helped by a lady at his side, looking like he was negotiating his way in the city street to go somewhere. I was sure that was Ernest Benach, president of the Parliament. Only that Benach is not blind. Reading the caption confirms his identity. He was just heading a group of government deputies carrying out an experiment, having themselves blindfolded to experience what kind of difficulties the blind people have in certain basic activities like walking in a busy city street. With the objective of improving what is necessary to make their life easier.

Taking part in the group were several government officials, both male and female, and each was provided with a white stick and accompanied by a guide from ONCE (organisation independent of public administration, and dedicated to humanitarian services without gain, helping the physically incapacitated to find work, etc.). These 'blind' group moved around the Parliament area in the city centre at the peak hour in Barcelona.

The circuit included all sorts of obstacles which the sighted would have taken for granted as all normal and insignificant, not worth a second thought. The uneven surfaces, slops, steps, road work signs and barriers, building sites with work in progress, scaffolding, street cafes with tables, chairs and lampposts, sunshades (those enormous sun umbrellas), and menu stands in front of the street eateries, flower pots, always hurrying waiters with full trays, other pedestrians with prams, running toddlers, dogs and cats ... This exercise was also with the incentive to raise awareness of the public to be considerate and helpful to their fellow citizens.

Not sure whether other countries do similar experiment. What the Spanish did is admirable. Who says all politicians are all talk and no action?

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Clever Anagrams - Quite Amazing

Here are a list of words which, when you rearrange the order of the letters ...

Surprising and Amazing new meanings :-

1. PRESBYTERIAN: Best in prayer
2. ASTRONOMER: Moor starer
3. Desperation: A rope ends it
4. The Eyes: They see
5. The Morse Code: Here come dots
6. Slot Machines: Cash lost in me
7. Animosity: Is no amity
8. Election Results: Lies - Let's recount
9. Snooze Alarms: Alas! No more Z's
10. A Decimal Point: I'm a dot in place
11. The Earthquakes: That queer shake
12. Eleven Plus Two: Twelve plus one
13. Mother-In-Law: Woman Hitler
14. Dormitory: Dirty Room

Yep! Someone with waaaaaaaaay too much time on his hands! I like No. 9 and 13 best. What about you?

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Current Mood: Amused

It's So Freezing Cold ...

It Was So Freezing Cold That ...

1. We had to stop eating with metal cutlery. Some people walked around for days with spoons or forks stuck to their tongues!

2. Hitchhikers were holding up pictures of thumbs!

3. Roosters were rushing into Kentucky Fried Chicken and begging to use the pressure cooker!

4. When I dialed 911, a recorded message said to phone back in the Spring!

5. The optician was giving away free ice scrapers with every new pair of eyeglasses!

6. Kids were using a new excuse to stay up late: "But Mom, my pj's haven't thawed out yet!"

7. Pickpockets were sticking their hands in strangers pockets just to keep them warm!

8. The squirrels in the park were throwing themselves at an electric fence!

9. Grandpa's teeth were chattering - in the glass!

10. The dogs were wearing cats instead of chasing them!

11. Starbucks was serving coffee on a stick!

12. Levi Strauss started manufacturing electric jeans!

13. The rats were bribing the alley cats for a snuggle!

14. We had to carry around hammers and chisels so we could get out of our parkas!

15. When the cows were milked, we got ice cream! Milking the brown cows, we got chocolate ice cream!

16. Playboy magazine stopped publishing because no women would take their clothes off!

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Beauty & The Beast

I was discussing books, or rather, I was more listening to the discussion of books, with Count Dracula, Pink Panther and a Koala bear the morning during the recent Roses Carnival in my regular cafe. The bear I met only this morning, friend of the other two who are sort of my friends. People I meet often but chat only when we happen to encounter in the same place at the same time. Naturally they were just in costume for the Carnival. I don't actually have amongst my friends Dracula or a Panther, although it would have been rather interesting. Anyway, when I arrived at the cafe they were already there. As there was no other available table so they invited me to sit with them. Everybody in the entire Roses is, at the Carnival period, in the highest spirits and the jolliest and friendliest mood; you could just sit at anybody's table and be welcome, without having to be asked first. So I sat happily and noted that in fact I had disrupted rather an in depth conversation. They were in the middle of a literary debate re. merits and defects of several authors, none of them I am too familiar with. I have not read too many novels or other literature in Spanish. There are quite a few well known names I know about but whose work I have only read fragments of. So I chose to listen quietly. Count Dracula was telling what one author wrote in his autobiography about an incident he witnessed, something he saw just for a few minutes but could never forget. As I listened to his account, I felt as if my heart was being pierced and I actually sensed the very real, physical pain. I badly wanted to cry. I eventually yielded and did. The 'story' went like this. The author whose name I don't remember now, lives at the edge of a river, in a very quiet village, practically in the midst of the woods. A beautiful, peaceful and idyllic setting for a writer. One day he sat writing by the window overlooking the river, and heard a heart wrenching cry, similar to that of a very young puppy in pain or desperation. Which was exactly what it was when he leaned out of the window to search the source. He saw on the opposite side of the river, just by the edge of the water, a tiny puppy, still blind from birth, abandoned, most likely having been thrown into the water by someone who had misjudged the distance, and the new born pup landed on the edge and crying it's little lung out. He couldn't do anything about it as he was on the wrong side of the river. He was desperate too, busy thinking if he could somehow do something and quickly ... Then, he saw coming out of the woods the figure of a man. To his enormous relief, that man was indeed making his way towards the puppy, and the writer was mumbling to himself "Thank God" when he saw the man picked up the puppy, hardly cast it a glance but immediately raised his arm up a little behind his shoulder, and threw the still whining puppy right into the middle of the river!!! With such brutal force that the frogs stopped croaking due to the sudden impact the pup hitting the water ... Not only every word of the story is now firmly etched in my heart, but the detailed images of the whole episode, as if I was right there too, by the edge of the river but lamentably on the wrong side. I know for sure I will never ever forget this. And I will never understand how horrible and inhuman atrocity we humans are capable of, after more than 3,000 years of something we call civilization. Beauty and the Beast. The beast is in this case is the man! Tags:beauty,puppy,beast

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