Thursday, July 31, 2008

This one got delayed in my inbox

It Has Its Hands Full Warming the Globe

Beach patrol: Ma'am, I am going to have to ask you to put on your top. This is not a "clothing optional" beach.
Man sitting with topless woman: Leave her alone. She is trying to get a full body tan.
Beach patrol: Sir, I think you are asking quite a bit from the sun.

--Fort Macon, North Carolina

Overheard by: El Gee


via Overheard at the Beach, Jul 31, 2006

Monday, July 28, 2008

While we're out past Neptune

I have been all interested in Trans-Neptunian Objects the last few days.

And since, at the Western Syndicate, we have a rule that there are always supposed to be some images on the front page, and I just broke that rule, I need to fix it, so here are some images of Quaoar.



Quaoar also was the name of my previous workstation. Now you know more than you wanted to.

Worms sound like me

Do calculus...
Like humans with a nose for the best restaurants, roundworms also use their senses of taste and smell to navigate. And now, researchers may have found how a worm's brain does this: It performs calculus.

Worms calculate how much the strength of different tastes is changing - equivalent to the process of taking a derivative in calculus - to figure out if they are on their way toward food or should change direction and look elsewhere, says University of Oregon biologist Shawn Lockery, who thinks humans and other animals do the same thing.
eat spicy chili peppers...
Observing the worm responding to changes in concentration suggested an experiment to see if the worm's brain computes derivatives. The mathematical concept of a derivative indicates the rate at which something, such as salt concentration, changes at a given point in time and space. So Lockery tried to verify that these neurons recognize changes in salt concentration and then tell the worm where food is and where it is not.

To do so, he artificially activated each neuron with capsaicin, the spicy component in chili peppers, which worms naturally cannot detect. Worms with capsaicin applied to the left neuron crawled forward. When the worm's brain indicated that the current motion leads to increasing salt concentrations, it continues moving in its original direction. But when the worm's right neuron is activated by capsaicin, it is duped into thinking the salt levels are decreasing. So the worm changes direction, hoping to find salt elsewhere.
Full story here: Worms Do Calculus to Find Food (Yahoo/LiveScience.com)

Friday, July 18, 2008

I could learn to love the Euro

Donald Trump, converting all his dollars to the euro???? He shows you how.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Liberty

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the law” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Isaac H. Tiffany 1819.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

It's not over

Hillary's going to go all the way

Wait, that can't be right


In all fairness, the AP's headline writer was probably flustered by whether or not he would be able to get his money out of IndyMac bank during lunch break today...

Gotta run to the bank

Reuters has a good slide show of the excitement at the IndyMac Bank in Pasadena.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

I guess my car loan is paid off

This is the 21st century's version of notification that your car loan is paid off.

javax.portlet.PortletException: Error getting property 'toyotaAccountList' from bean of type com.toyota.tfs.epay.managedbean.StatementBean: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0 at com.sun.faces.portlet.FacesPortlet.render(FacesPortlet.java:320) at com.toyota.tfs.faces.portlet.TFSFacesPortlet.render(TFSFacesPortlet.java:203) at com.bea.portlet.container.PortletStub.render(PortletStub.java:380) at com.bea.portlet.container.AppContainer.renderStub(AppContainer.java:686) at com.bea.portlet.container.AppContainer.invokeRender(AppContainer.java:622) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.controls.content.JavaPortletContent.fireRender(JavaPortletContent.java:258) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.controls.content.JavaPortletContent.renderInternal(JavaPortletContent.java:176) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.controls.content.JavaPortletContent.beginRender(JavaPortletContent.java:131) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlLifecycle$1.visit(ControlLifecycle.java:495) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:543) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walk(ControlTreeWalker.java:247) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walk(ControlTreeWalker.java:105) at com.bea.netuix.nf.Lifecycle.run(Lifecycle.java:356) at com.bea.netuix.nf.UIControl.render(UIControl.java:536) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.controls.PresentationContext.render(PresentationContext.java:405) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.util.RenderToolkit.renderChild(RenderToolkit.java:123) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.jsp.taglib.RenderChild.doStartTag(RenderChild.java:58) at jsp_servlet._framework._skeletons._lfs.__lfshomelayout._jspService(lfshomelayout.jsp:36) at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspBase.service(JspBase.java:33) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run(ServletStubImpl.java:1077) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:465) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:348) at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.include(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:646) at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.include(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:431) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.controls.JspRenderer.renderAlt(JspRenderer.java:194) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.controls.JspRenderer.beginRender(JspRenderer.java:96) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlLifecycle$1.visit(ControlLifecycle.java:491) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:543) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walk(ControlTreeWalker.java:247) at com.bea.netuix.nf.Lifecycle.runOutbound(Lifecycle.java:204) at com.bea.netuix.nf.Lifecycle.run(Lifecycle.java:146) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.manager.UIServlet.runLifecycle(UIServlet.java:324) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.manager.UIServlet.doPost(UIServlet.java:196) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.manager.PortalServlet.doPost(PortalServlet.java:772) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.manager.PortalServlet.doGet(PortalServlet.java:671) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.manager.UIServlet.service(UIServlet.java:147) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run(ServletStubImpl.java:1077) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:465) at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:28) at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27) at com.toyota.tfs.filter.AppManagerFilter.doFilter(AppManagerFilter.java:204) at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27) at com.toyota.tfs.filter.PortalGZIPFilter.doFilter(PortalGZIPFilter.java:125) at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27) at com.bea.p13n.servlets.PortalServletFilter.doFilter(PortalServletFilter.java:293) at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:7053) at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321) at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:121) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:3902) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java:2773) at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:224) at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:183) Caused by: javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Error getting property 'toyotaAccountList' from bean of type com.toyota.tfs.epay.managedbean.StatementBean: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0 at com.sun.faces.el.PropertyResolverImpl.getValue(PropertyResolverImpl.java:89) at com.sun.faces.el.impl.ArraySuffix.evaluate(ArraySuffix.java:167) at com.sun.faces.el.impl.ComplexValue.evaluate(ComplexValue.java:151) at com.sun.faces.el.impl.ExpressionEvaluatorImpl.evaluate(ExpressionEvaluatorImpl.java:243) at com.sun.faces.el.ValueBindingImpl.getValue(ValueBindingImpl.java:173) at com.sun.faces.el.ValueBindingImpl.getValue(ValueBindingImpl.java:154) at javax.faces.component.UISelectItems.getValue(UISelectItems.java:110) at com.sun.faces.util.Util.getSelectItems(Util.java:602) at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.MenuRenderer.getOptionNumber(MenuRenderer.java:488) at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.MenuRenderer.renderSelect(MenuRenderer.java:465) at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.MenuRenderer.encodeEnd(MenuRenderer.java:430) at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeEnd(UIComponentBase.java:720) at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentTag.encodeEnd(UIComponentTag.java:623) at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentTag.doEndTag(UIComponentTag.java:546) at com.sun.faces.taglib.html_basic.SelectOneMenuTag.doEndTag(SelectOneMenuTag.java:505) at jsp_servlet._jsp._tfs._epay.__statement._jspService(statement.jsp:209) at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspBase.service(JspBase.java:33) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run(ServletStubImpl.java:1077) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:465) at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:28) at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27) at com.bea.p13n.servlets.PortalServletFilter.doFilter(PortalServletFilter.java:293) at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27) at com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.PageFlowJspFilter.doFilter(PageFlowJspFilter.java:265) at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27) at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.include(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:652) at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.include(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:431) at com.bea.portlet.container.PortletRequestDispatcherImpl.include(PortletRequestDispatcherImpl.java:133) at com.sun.faces.portlet.ExternalContextImpl.dispatch(ExternalContextImpl.java:126) at com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:130) at com.sun.faces.portlet.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:122) at com.sun.faces.portlet.LifecycleImpl$RenderResponsePhase.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:536) at com.sun.faces.portlet.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:245) at com.sun.faces.portlet.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:187) at com.sun.faces.portlet.FacesPortlet.render(FacesPortlet.java:304) ... 67 more Caused by: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0 at java.util.ArrayList.RangeCheck(ArrayList.java:507) at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:324) at com.toyota.tfs.epay.managedbean.StatementBean.populate(StatementBean.java:236) at com.toyota.tfs.epay.managedbean.StatementBean.getToyotaAccountList(StatementBean.java:172) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor3612.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at com.sun.faces.el.PropertyResolverImpl.getValue(PropertyResolverImpl.java:79) ... 101 more Nested Exception is javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Error getting property 'toyotaAccountList' from bean of type com.toyota.tfs.epay.managedbean.StatementBean: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0 at com.sun.faces.el.PropertyResolverImpl.getValue(PropertyResolverImpl.java:89) at com.sun.faces.el.impl.ArraySuffix.evaluate(ArraySuffix.java:167) at com.sun.faces.el.impl.ComplexValue.evaluate(ComplexValue.java:151) at com.sun.faces.el.impl.ExpressionEvaluatorImpl.evaluate(ExpressionEvaluatorImpl.java:243) at com.sun.faces.el.ValueBindingImpl.getValue(ValueBindingImpl.java:173) at com.sun.faces.el.ValueBindingImpl.getValue(ValueBindingImpl.java:154) at javax.faces.component.UISelectItems.getValue(UISelectItems.java:110) at com.sun.faces.util.Util.getSelectItems(Util.java:602) at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.MenuRenderer.getOptionNumber(MenuRenderer.java:488) at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.MenuRenderer.renderSelect(MenuRenderer.java:465) at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.MenuRenderer.encodeEnd(MenuRenderer.java:430) at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeEnd(UIComponentBase.java:720) at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentTag.encodeEnd(UIComponentTag.java:623) at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentTag.doEndTag(UIComponentTag.java:546) at com.sun.faces.taglib.html_basic.SelectOneMenuTag.doEndTag(SelectOneMenuTag.java:505) at jsp_servlet._jsp._tfs._epay.__statement._jspService(statement.jsp:209) at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspBase.service(JspBase.java:33) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run(ServletStubImpl.java:1077) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:465) at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:28) at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27) at com.bea.p13n.servlets.PortalServletFilter.doFilter(PortalServletFilter.java:293) at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27) at com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.PageFlowJspFilter.doFilter(PageFlowJspFilter.java:265) at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27) at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.include(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:652) at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.include(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:431) at com.bea.portlet.container.PortletRequestDispatcherImpl.include(PortletRequestDispatcherImpl.java:133) at com.sun.faces.portlet.ExternalContextImpl.dispatch(ExternalContextImpl.java:126) at com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:130) at com.sun.faces.portlet.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:122) at com.sun.faces.portlet.LifecycleImpl$RenderResponsePhase.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:536) at com.sun.faces.portlet.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:245) at com.sun.faces.portlet.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:187) at com.sun.faces.portlet.FacesPortlet.render(FacesPortlet.java:304) at com.toyota.tfs.faces.portlet.TFSFacesPortlet.render(TFSFacesPortlet.java:203) at com.bea.portlet.container.PortletStub.render(PortletStub.java:380) at com.bea.portlet.container.AppContainer.renderStub(AppContainer.java:686) at com.bea.portlet.container.AppContainer.invokeRender(AppContainer.java:622) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.controls.content.JavaPortletContent.fireRender(JavaPortletContent.java:258) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.controls.content.JavaPortletContent.renderInternal(JavaPortletContent.java:176) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.controls.content.JavaPortletContent.beginRender(JavaPortletContent.java:131) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlLifecycle$1.visit(ControlLifecycle.java:495) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:543) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walk(ControlTreeWalker.java:247) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walk(ControlTreeWalker.java:105) at com.bea.netuix.nf.Lifecycle.run(Lifecycle.java:356) at com.bea.netuix.nf.UIControl.render(UIControl.java:536) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.controls.PresentationContext.render(PresentationContext.java:405) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.util.RenderToolkit.renderChild(RenderToolkit.java:123) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.jsp.taglib.RenderChild.doStartTag(RenderChild.java:58) at jsp_servlet._framework._skeletons._lfs.__lfshomelayout._jspService(lfshomelayout.jsp:36) at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspBase.service(JspBase.java:33) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run(ServletStubImpl.java:1077) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:465) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:348) at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.include(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:646) at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.include(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:431) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.controls.JspRenderer.renderAlt(JspRenderer.java:194) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.controls.JspRenderer.beginRender(JspRenderer.java:96) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlLifecycle$1.visit(ControlLifecycle.java:491) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:543) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walkRecursiveRender(ControlTreeWalker.java:554) at com.bea.netuix.nf.ControlTreeWalker.walk(ControlTreeWalker.java:247) at com.bea.netuix.nf.Lifecycle.runOutbound(Lifecycle.java:204) at com.bea.netuix.nf.Lifecycle.run(Lifecycle.java:146) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.manager.UIServlet.runLifecycle(UIServlet.java:324) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.manager.UIServlet.doPost(UIServlet.java:196) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.manager.PortalServlet.doPost(PortalServlet.java:772) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.manager.PortalServlet.doGet(PortalServlet.java:671) at com.bea.netuix.servlets.manager.UIServlet.service(UIServlet.java:147) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run(ServletStubImpl.java:1077) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:465) at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:28) at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27) at com.toyota.tfs.filter.AppManagerFilter.doFilter(AppManagerFilter.java:204) at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27) at com.toyota.tfs.filter.PortalGZIPFilter.doFilter(PortalGZIPFilter.java:125) at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27) at com.bea.p13n.servlets.PortalServletFilter.doFilter(PortalServletFilter.java:293) at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:7053) at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321) at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:121) at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:3902) at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java:2773) at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:224) at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:183) Caused by: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0 at java.util.ArrayList.RangeCheck(ArrayList.java:507) at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:324) at com.toyota.tfs.epay.managedbean.StatementBean.populate(StatementBean.java:236) at com.toyota.tfs.epay.managedbean.StatementBean.getToyotaAccountList(StatementBean.java:172) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor3612.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at com.sun.faces.el.PropertyResolverImpl.getValue(PropertyResolverImpl.java:79) ... 101 more

Friday, July 11, 2008

I would just flip the seats back

Guess Whether or Not I'd Save You

Conductor to a group of passengers: You should flip the seats back, this is going to be a crowded train.
Passenger #1: Well, what if we lied down and pretended to be corpses or something? People wouldn't take our seats then.
Conductor: No, people would just come and sit on you.
Passenger #2: But what if we were just like "We're not dead yet!"?
Conductor: Well, they'd still sit on you, so you probably would be dead soon.

--NJ Transit

Overheard by: alison


via Overheard in New York, Jul 11, 2008

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Sounds painful to me

"Hot peppers eyed" sounds painful.

Salmonella infects over 1,000; peppers now eyed
Thursday July 10, 1:26 am ET
By Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
Salmonella infects over 1,000; hot peppers added to raw tomatoes as possible cause of illness

Friday, July 04, 2008

Happy aphelion!


Today the Sun is at its furthest away from the Earth (SpaceWeather).

Today the Sun appears 1.7% smaller than average.

OK, and it's the middle of the summer, so that doesn't seem to make sense to us in the northern hemisphere. But of course it makes perfect sense to the people in the southern hemisphere today, in the dead of winter.

But did you know that southern hemisphere summers are not as warm as northern hemisphere summers? Even though the Earth is closest to the Sun during their summer? Read the article to find out why.

And if you believe the Sun goes around the Earth, well, it's up to you to come up with your own explanation.

(hat tip to Fr. Z)

Thursday, July 03, 2008

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

This is making me hungry

I can't see grapes, and I don't know what rice is.