What’s a trillion dollars among friends? I mean, come on, it is being treated like we don’t have it, oh wait, WE DO NOT.

What does a trillion dollars look like? Here you go. Starting with the familiar $100. (100 x $1.00) Easy enough.

$100 (one-hundred)

Next in line is a mere $10,000.00 (ten-thousand) (100 x $100.00)

$10,000 (ten-thousand or 100 x 100)

Here is a pile equaling $1,000,000.00 (million). (100 x $10,000.00)

Here is a pallet of $100,000,000 (one-hundred million). (100 x $1,000,000.00)

This is 10 pallets of $100,000,000.00 which equals $1,000,000,000.00 (billion). (10 x $100,000,000)

Finally, 1000 pallets of $1,000,000,000 = $1,000,000,000,000. (trillion). (1000 x $1,000,000,000,000)


In the last money shot, there is a guy standing next to the pallets in the far lower left corner. This is our money that is being wasted by our cowardly politicians in the name of stimulas. If you look closely at the stimulas package details, you can actually see that there is no stimulas, it is all socialization.

These pictures were sent to me in an fwd email. I usually delete fwd’s, but I happend to open this one and find these.

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Lost Keys

After I left UTA, University of Texas at Arlington, today, I was slowly walking to my car to go home. Wednesdays are the worst for parking, so I have to park on the far east side of campus. I was pretty close, so I swung my bag around, where I keep my keys while I am in class, and open the pocket, all to find NO keys. I made an about face heading back to my lab classroom and the print lab.

There are thousands of students at UTA, and any one of them could have my keys if they were not still plugged into the workstations I used. My wife does not drive, what the heck was I supposed to do now? I found a giant concrete step to basically tear my back apart, scattering books, and other stuff around. Alas, I found them. Turns out, I boneheadedly clipped them to the holder, and then stuck them into an internal pocket. This bag I have has somewhere around twenty-five pockets, so it was not a surprise I found them in pocket number… twenty-three lets say.

I am glad I found them, because cabs sure are not cheap. I only live somewhere around eight miles, (~13K), so there is no telling how expensive that would have been. I work with a cabbie, and he says they charge $.25 per 1/9 mile (just short of 200 meters), with a $2 upfront fee + $1 fuel surcharge per person!

Basis of this story, why are there so many pockets, and why are cabs so freaken expensive?

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