New Year’s Resolutions

According to a recent US survey, the top 10 New Year’s resolutions people make are:

1.) Spend more time with family and friends
2.) Exercise regularly
3.) Tame the bulge
4.) Quit smoking
5.) Enjoy life more
6.) Quit drinking
7.) Get out of debt
8.) Learn something new
9.) Help others
10.) Get organized

Inspiring Quotes

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and blind can read."
__ Mark Twain

" It may be that those who do most, dream most."
____ Stephen Buyler Leacock

"To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness."
___ Malcolm Forbes

"We must accept finite diappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."
____ Martin Luther King Jr

J. Peterman (Seinfeld Show)

In the TV Sitcom Seinfeld, actor John O'Hurley portrayed J. Peterman, owner of the J. Peterman Catalog, for 21 episodes

In Real Life: In 1998 the real J. Peterman catalog was in financial trouble and headed for bankruptcy. Desperate, the catalog company's owner (the real J. Peterman) called O'Hurley for help. The actor funneled money into it, and within a year, the company was again turning a profit. The J. Peterman Catalog now has two owners: the real J. Peterman and John O'Hurley, the TV J. Peterman.

Ahead Of His Time

Throughtout the 1950s, Gross made repeated attempts to interest AT&T in his radios. The technology, he explainded, would free telephones from having to be connected to the wall. People could make calls from anywhere in their homes or offices. But the phone company wasn't interested in cordless phones. He explained how CB's could be intergrated into the phone system, so that people would be able to make calls outdoors or even from their cars. The phone company wasn't interested in the cellular phones either. Gross explained that his hospital pagers could be intergrated into the system, too, so that people could reach someone even if they weren't near a phone, just by dialing a special number for the pager. Again the phone company said no. Man did they miss the boat.