Ask Jake Anything

How do blind people know when they are done wiping?

Well i suppose it depends on what they are wiping: but I should imagine the easiest way is my touch. I mean a small kitchen table has a definite size, so they can recall what areas they have done.

Windows may make a squeaky sound when clean.

I think blind people develop an increse in other senses to compensate for all the difficulties faced in house cleaning.

Perhaps they just hire and maid.

I have this horrible rash...wait nevermind not that question!

My question is this...

Why is it that when Im at work I want to sleep but when I get home Im wide awake then I stay up half the night and Im tired at work again..its a vicious cycle.

Jake, when someone rez's next to us at a teleport, and they have obviously arrived before their clothing has, should we as gentlemen, discretely turn our gaze, or hit that long, snorting, laugh gesture button?

Jake, who hacked the SL client and forced the update?

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop, really ??

That damned Owl was lying !!!!!! yeah three, sure .. stupid owl. grrr.

-thanks in advance , been wondering for almost 30 years.

What happens when you strap buttered toast, butter-side up to the back of a cat and then drop them from the Space Needle? Will the toast land butter side down or will the cat land on it's feet?

"My daughter and my nephew answered this. She counted; he licked. It took 750 licks. Now the world definitely knows."

Of course ultimately the more important question is not how many licks it takes to get to the center, but how much you enjoy the flavor outside

A popular question. People out there must hate cates.
the cat will land on its feet. But it will be a mess.

I am wondering if I have an ethical duty to report cat killers here, as they are the type of people who go on to become serial killers heheheh

The question was:
Oh oracle most wise and well read, please answer me this...

Since a cat always lands on its feet, and a piece of buttered toast
always lands buttered side down, if you strap a piece of buttered toast
to the back of a cat (buttered side up), which side will it land on?

And thus Spake the Oracle:

} Oh supplicant most wise-cracker:
} Never fool with Murphy, for He supersedes Nature, even in Her Infinite
} Wisdom.
}
} Verily, the strap shall break on the way down. And the piece of toast
} shall proceed to fall faster than the cat (DON'T give me that jive
} about Gallileo, this is higher stuff!) and shall indeed land on the
} expensive carpet buttered side down. The cat will fall on its feet,
} directly on the piece of toast, thus grinding it well into the fabric
} of the carpet (which you could've sworn you remembered to roll away
} before the experiment!).
}
} In your desparate attempts to clean up the $2,000 rug, the vacuum will
} suddenly reverse action and spew out all of the dirt which has
} accumulated in it over the last few months (and just yesterday you were
} going to replace the bag, dammit!). So you call up the salesman, only
} to discover that the warranty has expired yesterday. You try to fix it
} yourself, and of course the moment you have taken the fine machinery
} apart is when the screwdriver drops out of your hand onto your big toe.
} You jump and cry out in agony, scattering the tiny screws and nuts
} into the least-accessible corners of the workshop, except for the
} largest one which is eaten by the cat. The spare screwdriver was lent
} to your neighbour last week, and he has just left for a month's
} vacation in the Bahamas.
}
} Ergo: Ask not which side things land on: this side or that side, Nature
} and Murphy are never on *your* side.
}
} You owe the Oracle $2.50 for the toast, $75 for the vet, $100 for
} medical expenses (wounded toe), $200 for the carpet cleaners, and $200
} for a new vacuum cleaner. You owe Murphy an apology. You owe Nature
} your existence.

Well now Nisa, the laws of gravity versus murphy's law is a bit of a different question. The answer to that question is that a betting man puts his money on gravity.

Gravity is but another Tool of Murphy

Murphy's law will force gravity to have the cat fall just fast enough it lands on your face as you look up to hear the howling - the cat haivng its claws out.