Happy Leap Day!

This is a leap year, so February has an extra day at the end, February 29.

This only happens every four years to keep our modern calendars on track with methods used by our ancestors to track the four seasons.

So today is an extra day in the year 2012.

Please do something fun for yourself today.

Please do something to help someone else today.

And if anybody want's to know why? Just tell them it's in honor of Leap Day!

And there are some years you would think would be leap years but they aren't IF:
"Years that are evenly divisible by 100 are not leap years, unless they are also evenly divisible by 400, in which case they are leap years."  from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year

So it goes.

-GL

How Cool Is This?

Just found these clips of the Allman Brothers Band from a 1990 and a 1991 appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Wow!

More Interesting Visitors

A couple of days ago, someone with USA Today spent almost 40 minutes looking at MexicoMaxim.com and garyaleonard.blogspot.com.


27 Feb 01:44:05 AM IE 8.0
Win7
1366x768 Mc Lean,
Virginia,
United States Usa Today (159.54.xxx.xxx) [Label IP Address]
 garyaleonard.blogspot.com/
 www.mexicomaxim.com/page/5/

Then there's this one that's been showing up repeatedly:



28 Feb 02:34:02 PM IE 8.0
Win7
1920x1080 Coraopolis,
Pennsylvania,
United States Harbison-walker Refractories Company (205.137.xxx.xxx) [Label IP Address]
 www.mexicomaxim.com/
(No referring link)


I don't know who you are, but thanks for stopping by!

So it goes.

-Gary

Biggest Winner at the Oscars - Angelina's Right Leg

The Academy Awards were handed out last night. Historically by and large a not real exciting thing to watch.

But then you have Angelina's Right Leg. Dressed in a black gown with a thigh high slit, Angelina Jolie struck a pose that was captured on film.

And now her leg has gone viral on the Internet.

Here's one of the funniest things I saw first thing this morning:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/legbombing

There's even a tool at that web site that let's you add Angelina's Leg to any photo.

Funny stuff.

-GL

Wouldn't It Be Nice If ....

OK, I got the idea from watching Letterman last night.

But wouldn't it be great if all the gas stations started pricing gas per half gallon?

If nothing else, it would give the appearance of being cheaper.

Right now gas is $3.399 a gallon. Experts are predicting possibly $5 a gallon by this summer.

But if all the gas stations sold gas by the half gallon, then the current price would only be $1.699.

Doesn't that sound much better than $3.399?

And when gas gets close to $5 a gallon this summer, if it were priced by the half gallon, it would only be $2.50.

$2.50 sounds much better than $5.

Now I  know the total for filling your tank wouldn't change, obviously.

But wouldn't it be nice to be able tell our grandchildren about the good old days back in 2012 when we only paid $1.699 for gas?

It just sounds better than $3.399.

It's a stretch, I know, but wouldn't that be somethin'?

Have a great weekend!

Life is good. God is great.

So it goes.

-Gary

Cosmic Karma?

Solar flare stock image

An X-class solar flare could be headed toward Earth this week, that will have have the potential to interfere with radio and satellite communication.

Seems that Friday, the sun threw off a slow moving coronal mass ejection or CME, in the SHAPE OF A HEART!

And it's due date with Earth? Valentine's Day no less.

Cosmic Karma? Could be.

As Spock would say, "Fascinating".

The full story is here: Sun points a loaded gun at us at MSNBC.com.

So it goes.

The NFL Did Something Stupid

Since I've been writing in my blog and at MexicoMaxim.com, I've pointed out some stupid stuff that people have done.

Some of that stupidity has been displayed on the Internet, some of that stupidity has been displayed by people in the national news and some of that stupidity has been displayed by our local media and by people here in Mexico, Missouri.

A couple of years back the NFL did something stupid.

They made people stop using the term "Super Bowl" unless they paid licensing fees to the NFL.

You used to hear about Joes's TV and Appliance having a Super Bowl Sale, or Eat at Joe's Restaurant having a Super Bowl Buffet Special.

We had Super Bowl Diamond Sales at Joe's Jewelry Store, and Super Bowl Car Sales at Joe's New and Used Autos.

All of that "superbowl-dom" helped to promote the "Big Game".

People had fun with Super Bowl Sales.

Radio stations had Super Bowl Parties.

Bars had Super Bowl Viewing Parties.

But then the NFL decided the term "Super Bowl" was copyrighted, by them, and nobody could use the term "Super Bowl" unless it was approved and licensed by the NFL.

That was stupid.

So now we have sales that say "Join us for the big game sale", and Sunday food specials that say they're timed for the "Big Game"

Bars say come watch the "Big Game" at Joe's Bar.

We know what the big game is. The NFL knows what the big game is.

And where people used to have fun  with Super Bowl this or Super Bowl that, now we just have to get by with big game this and big game that.

It just isn't the same.

And the NFL took something that people everywhere used to have fun with and put it away in a closet so only the very rich can run Super Bowl commercials or have Super Bowl sales.

Because they're the only one's that can afford to run a :30 ad IN the Super Bowl. Last year CBS got between $2.5 million and $2.8 million per :30 second commercial.

People still watch the Super Bowl. People still talk about Super Bowl commercials.

But the average business person in this great nation can't have a Super Bowl Sale.

And if the Super Bowl cops are watching the Internet closely, this blog will receive a cease and desist notice from the NFL, because I'm not supposed to be using the term "Super Bowl" either.

So we'll all have fun watching the Super Bowl this Sunday and all those silly Super Bowl Commercials.

But now you know why you don't hear about Super Bowl this or Super Bowl that like you used to "in the good old days" before the NFL did something stupid.

So it goes.

New Scam For Broadcasters to Worry About

Just when you think you've seen it all, a company called Mission Abstract Data is now claiming it's owed licensing fees for computer use at radio stations.

There's more from Tom Taylor on Radio-Info: http://www.radio-info.com/newsletter/html/tri-02012012.html

Mission Abstract Data has started sending letters to operators of radio stations claiming it's owed licensing fees for the use of personal computers by radio stations.

Just about any use of a PC in radio station, from music scheduling software, commercial scheduling, billing, cleaning the bathroom floor, washing the GM's car - ANY use of a PC in a radio station - is subject to licensing fees for Mission Abstract Data.

OK, the last two PC use examples from me are fictitious, but any other use of a PC in a radio station since the invention of the personal computer is trying to be covered Mission Abstract Data's patents.

It's absurd.

But some lawyers somewhere are probably going to make money off the whole thing.

The US Patent Office is reviewing the Mission Abstract Data Situation.

Hopefully broadcasters won't have to pay licensing fees for using personal computers in a broadcast environment.

They already pay substantial licensing fees for other things the general public would be amazed at.

So it goes.