Thursday, December 28, 2006
Friday, December 15, 2006
Now, I can understand why ancient man or cultures dreamed up the idea of god or gods; to explain the world as they perceived it, but why did someone have to die? Even sacrifice childern so that you could have rain, or a good harvest. This kind of practice is seen from the middle east to the Inca world and previous cultures before the Inca nation. I have not read anything that would explain this. The other amazing thing is that the people accepted the sacrifical killing as a way of life. How can you accept a god that desires to kill people, or your childern? I do not understand that. Even in the Bible when God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isacc, ( I already know all the theological arguments sooooooo, do not enlight me--- I know) this just seems barbaric to me.
The other side of the coin is that the human sacrifice did not always work, there was drought, famine or whatever, but they kept on with this practice; why? In the Inca world people gave of them selfs willing, from what I have read there was an endless supply of people willing to die for the gods. Why do you have to die for god anyways, how does dying add to the betterment of god? Since god created you, he/she then demands your death for appeasment, rain, or better life for the rest of your family? This whole concept of dying for god I do not understand how it started or why people just accepted it.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Now that I have taken DE I think that I have taken the highest math course a person can take, now the rest of my classes are going to be science classes-- physics, chemistry, well I guess that is not quite true I am taking linear algebra this spring(I think this well be my last math class), anyways I will be taking physics( I already have taken some physics classes, but I need to pick up physics /w calculus classes) and chemistry classes.
It is strange, you get to a point where you just want to take your final, and be done with the class. Once that happens all the pressure of doing homework and studying is lifted from your shoulders, that is how it feels to me. So I feel great, I am done with that class, but the next day I start missing the pressure, and the studying-- just weird.
Monday, December 11, 2006
Friday, December 01, 2006
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Monday, November 20, 2006
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Saturday, November 11, 2006
1. "Sex, to save the friendship."
2. "Listen to this. Marcy comes over and she tells me that her ex-boyfriend was over late last night and 'yada yada yada I'm really tired today.' You don't think she'd yada yada sex?"
"I've yada yada'd sex."
"Really?"
"Yeah. I met this lawyer, we went out to dinner, I had the lobster bisque, we went back to my place, yada yada yada, I never heard from him again."
"But you yada yada'd over the best part."
"No, I mentioned the bisque."
3. "Jerry, you stand on the threshold to the magical world of sensual delights that most men dare not dream of."
4. You remember my corporation, Kramerica Industries?"
"Alright."
"Well, apparently NYU is very enthusiastic about their students getting some real world corporate experience."
"But you only provide fantasy world corporate experience."
5. "She needs a little tenderness. She needs a little understanding. She needs a little Kramer."
6. "What is so appealing to men about a catfight?"
"Because men think if women are grabbing and clawing at each other, there's a chance they might somehow kiss."
7. "This whole sex thing is totally overrated. Now, the one thing you gotta be ready for is how the man changes into a completely different person five seconds after it's over. I mean, something happens to their personality. It's really quite astounding. It's like they committed a crime and they want to flee the scene before the police get there."
"So they just leave?"
"Yeah, pretty much. Well, the smart ones start working on their getaway stories during dinner. How, you know, they gotta get up early tomorrow. It's always about being up early. They all turn into farmers suddenly."
8. "So, how's the fornicating gourmet?"
"Doing quite well, thank you. Yesterday I had a soft-boiled egg and a quickie. You know what? If I could add TV to the equation, that would really be the ultimate."
9. "Can I have a medium diet coke?"
"Do you want the medium size or the middle size?"
"What's the difference?"
"Well, we have three sizes - medium, large and jumbo."
"What happened to the small?"
"There is no small. Small's medium."
"What's medium?"
"Medium's large and large is jumbo."
"Okay, give me the large."
"That's medium."
"Right. Can I have a small popcorn?"
"There is no small. Child-size is small."
"What's medium?"
"Adult."
"Do adults ever order the child-size?"
"Not usually."
"Okay, give me the adult."
"Do you want butter?"
"Is it real butter?"
"It's butter flavoring."
"What is it made of?"
"It's yellow."
10. "It's not you, it's me.... You're giving me the 'It's not you, it's me' routine? I invented 'It's not you, it's me.' Nobody tells me it's them, not me. If it's anybody, it's me."
"Alright, George, it's you."
"You're damn right it's me."
"Look, I was just trying to...."
"I know what you were trying to do. Nobody does it better than me."
"Well I'm sure you do it very well."
"Yes, well, unfortunately you'll never get the chance to find out."
I'm a workin' man
But I ain't worked for a while
Like some old tin can
From the bottom of the pile
From the bottom of the pile
[Chorus]
I have lost my way
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement
My words are like a rope
That's wrapped around my throat
Wash my mouth with soap
For words unfit to quote
Chorus x2
And now I'm free to go
But time cannot remove
The only life I know
Now only time will prove
Yes only time will prove
If I have lost my way
Cuz I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement
Yeah I have lost my way
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement
Big Sugar
I heard this song on The Bear, what made me listen to it was that I heard the word "Alberta." I feel Edmonton calling me.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
1. The Balance of Terror.
2 City on the Edge of Forever.
3 The Trouble with Tribbles.
4 Piece of the Action.
5 The Naked Time.
They are showing all the old Star Trek shows on a local TV station here in Tampa. I have seen these shows a milliion times, but I can watch them again and again. If I could live in the Star Trek world, I would not want/desire to be a captain or anything to do with command, I would be a Science Officer, of course working in the astrophysics lab of the Star Ship. It would be so cool traveling the universe and observering all the different phenomena in space and working different research projects.
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Einstein was the first person to start thinking about space-time, and the warping of space time by gravity. I have always wondered if you can warp space with gravity like space was warped in Dune. I have wondered if you can trade "the spice" for "gravity" and then bend space or fold space using gravity. I read a book a long time ago that wrote about experiments that the Navy was conducting using huge electo magnetics on ships and then passing the ships through the magnetic field, strange things happened to the ship and the people. That is about all I remember of the book. The warping of space-time is also the idea behind "Star Trek" the warp engines "warp space," thus the Star Ship is able to traveling faster then light. Maybe the relationship that time has between speed and gravity is space itself; resulting in the term space-time. I am only speculating , I am no expert, just thinking about what all the physics books said that I have read over time.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
me: "what program did you use to write your paper"
person: "windows"
me: "no, what word processing program did you write your paper in"
person: " i have aol"
me: "did you use ms word to type your paper?"
person: "yes"
So I bring up the document in ms word(2003) and it interoperates the document as a text file, which means that it was NOT a ms document but some other file format. So some of the characters in the document are converted to nonsence ascii characters , and the person asked me "why is my document like this?" So I told her " you did not use ms word, but you used a different word processing program, so you have to retype part of your paper, and then reformat your paper," but I was nice.
Life in the 21st Century .
Monday, October 30, 2006
Like I said before, Yellowstone is a supervolcanoe. The magma pit that is underneath the park is estimated about 35,000 square miles, and 5 miles deep. The last time that Yellowstone erupted was about 600,000 years ago. I have read and seen different stats on Yellowstone that states that Yellowstone has a cycle of about 600,000 to 800,000 years between eruptions. That last eruption was 640,000 years ago in Yellowstone.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
On of the reasons that I do not mind being on my own, and the job that I do (I fit the IT personality traits, and why I desire to be an astrophysist) I believe is because I am the first born. The first born is the first in the world which results in the independence ( and to me I am a loner to a certain extent and I am not bothered by that.) of the person. Plus, the desire to do anything on my own, not relying on anybody for help.
Wikipedia
"The first born child will receive expectations and responsibilites from his or her parents. Because of this, many firstborns are in danger of acquiring perfectionistic or people-pleasing behaviors. On a more optimistic note, proponents of birth-order theory state that firstborns tend to be quite confident, controlling, diligent, mature and achievement oriented. Not all firstborns are over-achievers, but even the most laid-back firstborn is clearly guided by a need to do the right thing and strives to make a difference in society."
Anyways if I was the second born, then my personality would be modified to fit the second born in the birth order. The personality trait of a second born or middle child is:
"The classic middle-born is very relational, tends to be a people-pleaser and usually hates confrontation. Their basic need is to keep life smooth and their motto might be 'peace at any price'. They are usually very calm, will roll with the punches and are amiable, down-to-earth and great listeners. They are skilled at seeing both sides of a problem and eager to make everybody happy. That makes them good mediators and negotiators."
I have a hard time seeing both sides of the problem, but if I was the second child I guess my outlook on life would be different. I do have some of the traits of a second born though. I would probably not be working in computers( a loner job to a certain extent), and not wanting to understand the universe( the desire to be an astrophysicist). There is a part of me that wishes I had an older brother, but at the same time I am comfortable with who I am, and happy with my life.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
1. When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and children's art. We don't have a life, and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.
2. Don't write anything down. Ever. We can play back the error messages from here.
3. When an I.T. person says he's coming right over, go for coffee. That way you won't be there when we need your password. It's nothing for us to remember 700 screen saver passwords.
4. When you call the help desk, state what you want, not what's keeping you from getting it. We don't need to know that you can't get into your mail because your computer won't power on at all.
5. When I.T. support sends you an E-Mail with high importance, delete it at once. We're just testing.
6. When an I.T. person is eating lunch at his desk, walk right in and spill your guts right out. We exist only to serve.
7. Send urgent email all in uppercase. The mail server picks it up and flags it as a rush delivery.
8. When the photocopier doesn't work, call computer support. There's electronics in it.
9. When something's wrong with your home PC, dump it on an I.T. person's chair with no name, no phone number and no description of the problem. We love a puzzle.
10. When an I.T. person tells you that computer screens don't have cartridges in them, argue. We love a good argument.
11. When an I.T. person tells you that he'll be there shortly, reply in a scathing tone of voice: "And just how many weeks do you mean by shortly?" That motivates us.
12. When the printer won't print, re-send the job at least 20 times. Print jobs frequently get sucked into black holes.
13. When the printer still won't print after 20 tries, send the job to all 68 printers in the company. One of them is bound to work.
14. Don't learn the proper term for anything technical. We know exactly what you mean by "My thingy blew up".
15. Don't use on-line help. On-line help is for wimps.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Pig & Dog
You are a good match, a spiritual union, and a much stronger couple than you are individually. Your relationship is filled with laughter, passion, flirtation, and vivid expression of feeling. You share a delicate approach, a subtle sense of tact in your rare moments of disagreement. The two of you, in concert, are capable of turning dreams into realities. You score high marks financially.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
After DE I am planning on taking Linear Algebra.
Friday, October 13, 2006
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Let's look at other examples of God's will. If God reveals to you (MM) that your wife is to die, but you can not grieve about it, and then you need to just wear a loin cloth, then bury it and then dig it up in three years, and put it on. Are you going to do it? That's God's will.
Look at when Israel was rebuilding the wall, and the prophet told all the men that they had to divorce their cannanite wives. Those wifes had children, and you know how hard it was for a women to survive in the ancient world, owell. I thought divorce was only acceptable if someone in the marrage cheated or maybe God's will changed between to old and new testament?, but God is the same as yesterday and tomorrow. How come it was alright for Judah to have sex with a suposive prostitute? because they were going to kill Tamar for prostituting her self, but when they found out that Judah had sex outside of marrage, nothing is said of him. I guess God's will is different for different situations and people?
Look at churchs or God's will today. I guess God will for one person to drive a Lexus, and then God will's another person to drive a Ford? or a broken down Ford? and they are both in the same church!! I have seen people on the religious station explain that God blessed them with millions of dollars and that they are in God's will, what about all the other Christians who are in God's will? Look at football games. I have seen football players declare that God helped then win the football game, but what about the Christains on the losing team? I guess God's will for them was for them to lose the football game. I guess it is God's will for some churchs to be poor, and God's will for some churchs to be rich? Are they not all worshipping the same God? I do not understand God's will.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
1 poteintial energy
2 kinetic energy
Potiential energy is stored energy, like a boulder at the top of a hill, then if the boulder is pushed off the hill then energy that is stored energy is then changed into kinetic energy, it is the kinetic that does the damage.
The asteroid has a mass of 5 x 10^10 kilograms, it's velocity = 12590 meters/second (approx).
Energy kinetic = 1/2 x mass x velocity^2 so
= 1/2 x (5.0 x 10^10 kilograms) x (12590 m/s)^2
= 3.9627 x 10^18 joules
To convert this to 1 atomic bomb = 500,000 tons of tnt
3.9672 x 10^18 x 2.38095 x 10^-10(conversion factor for tons of tnt)
= 943,499,056.5 tons of tnt
= 1886.998 atomic bombs
Does this anwser you question?
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Friday, September 29, 2006
Let's say you are gone for one year traveling at the speed of light( or close to the speed of light) and then you come back to the earth. Time on the Star Ship = 1 year, but time on the earth would = (I am just guessing) 1000 years, so time is relative to your position and speed, but the thing is that you can not travel into the future, only backwards, or what seems backwards in time.
Time started at the Big Bang( even that is in contention by some scientist, but the universe is expanding so time had a starting point; time = 0) so in a way time is also linear( even though space-time can be warped by gravity), as the universe expanded, time marched on so to speak from the center of the singularity( that is the term that physicist use to discribe the infinitely small and dense matter before the big explosion) . My point is that you can not have time beyond the expansion of the universe, so there is no travelling into the future, because the future is not there to travel too. So all those Scifi movies were the people travel into the future 1000's of years just can not happen.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Saturday, September 23, 2006
"...Genghis Khan (1167 - 1227), the greatest conqueror and butcher in all human history ... The Mongol Empire was the largest land empire in history."
That started me thinking about Daniel and the story of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar has a dream about, and how the statue represented world history, or the nations of the world. From all the preachers, books and stuff on the religious TV networks when I heard about Daniel preach as prophecy, the statue was always interpreted the following way:
1. the head was Babylon -- gold
2. the breast and arms silver -- Alexander the Great
3. belly and thighs brass -- the 4 generals that took over after Alexander kicked the bucket
4. legs of iron -- the Roman Empire
5. feet of iron and clay-- waaalaaaa we jump to the 21st century and that is the loose confederation of the European nations that we have to day.
Plus, the statue represents the kings, rulers, or people in power, and the changing the form of power from absolute power to demrocacy or people that have power but it is not total power that they yield I guess ( that's how it was explain to me). So in this grand scheme of nations in the world that the statue represents where are the following nations:
1. the Inca nation
2. the Mongal nation-- the greatest land nation in the history of the world. You would think that it would be part of the statue. Plus, Genghis had total, absolute power. Maybe he was not important enough?
3. the Egyptain Nation? Ancient Egypt was a nation that rule the world of and on for 3000 years you would think there would be a place in the statue for Egypt.
Just thinking and wondering.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Friday, September 15, 2006
What if a cure for cancer has been discovered, what are the implications or ramifications of such a discovery? Are the drug companies going to give up 800 billion dollars a year? What if a pill has been developed and it is just sitting on the shelf somewhere? Look at the jobs that are related the cancer business, maybe one pill could make all the research and related jobs disappear. Would "Big Business" let that happen? Would all the research universities let that happen? If cancer was cured, all these research institutions would lose federal grant money. There is a vested interest in keeping cancer from not being cured no matter these Drug Companies or research insitutions declare as their stated purpose in seeking a cure for cancer.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
The "Continental Drift Theory" was another subject that I read about and at the time the sceintist were debating if the earth( plate tectonics) really existed, and were the continents really joined together in the distance past of the earth. Now a person can read about the theory and it is treated like a fact. I remember reading these books and feeling like I was on verge of some scientific discovery because I was reading the newest theories being but forth by the scientific community.
I still feel that way when I read books on new theories, like the newest books on "string theory" which deals with the basic building blocks of matter(atoms). There was a great program on PBS called "The Elegant Universe", the material is presented in such a way that a person does not need to be a scientist to understand, you only need to be curious of the universe and how it operates to be able to watch this show. I can hardly waite until until I take a quantum theory/ mechanics class at USF, that will be cool.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Sunday, September 03, 2006
I am taking Differential Equations this semister. Remember taking Algerbra and wondering why I am taking this, or what good is this going to do for me? Really you say that almost about any math class, anyways it all comes together with DE. Everything you learnt in Trig, Algerbra, Calc I, II, III all comes together in DE. DE it's self is not hard, it is remembering how solve the equations from all the previous math classes that is hard, I am glad that I kept all my math notes.
So what book or books are you reading? I am reading "The Prophet and the Astronomer", "A History of the Middle Ages" and "In Search of Deep Time."
Saturday, September 02, 2006
If the Crusades are the cause for bin Laden's actions againest the West, particularly the United States in Iraq than my question is what was the cause of the Crusades ( who started what), and why have the Crusades left this indelible mark in the Muslim world that people ( particular young people) with there whole life ahead of them are willing so easily give up their lives. The Crusades were orginally started because Jerusalem was captured by the Muslims, and Pope Urban ( the pope at the time) deceided that Jerusalem need to be free from the Muslim infidels because people could not make a pilgrimages to Jerusalem in the same manner before when Jerusalem was under the control of the Byzantine Empire. Plus, "The Church of the Holy Sepulchure" was distroyed by the Muslims, this also added to the cause of the Crusades. As a side note I am reading,"A History of the Middle Ages," so I have been reading about the Crusades but one particular passage caught my eye:
"Five days later, on the night of July 13-14 the Christians attacked from there moveable towers and in the morning entered and captured the city(Jerusalem). In their frenzied exhileration the Crusaders showed no mercy but massacured all the Jews and Moslems they could find. Some ten thousand of them, according to one chroniclar, were beheaded in Soloman's Temple alone, and "had you been there, your feet would have been stained up to the ankles with the blood of the slain."" Another chroniclar described the massacure by saying that blood of the victims was up to the horse's bridals. This passage just stuck me because the brutality done by Christians in the name of God. It just did not seem right, and in my opinion leaves a dark mark on the history of the church.
Anyways, there were other Crusades with vairing degrees of sucess that the European nations had, but it seems to me that the Muslims came out on top after it was all over. I think that the Crusades are a convient excuse for bin Laden, because to my understanding the Crusades were started by the Muslims by destroying a Christian shrine that could have been left alone, I am sure that when the shine was destroyed they knew the impact it would cause in the Western Christendom. I am not a expert on the Crusades my knowlege is limited by what I have read online, and the book that I am reading of the Crusades. If bin Laden is fighting because of what happened in the first Crusade then I guess we should also be fighting the Jews too, but the slaughter was by the European nations, sooooo I just do not know if the Crusades are a valid reason.
Friday, September 01, 2006
Grab the nearest book. *Open the book to page 123.Find the fifth sentence.Post that text and the following three sentences, along with the stuff below on your blog, along with the instructions
[*] ‘nearest’ means you can’t rummage around for a ‘cool’ or ‘intellectual’ book. Really, whatever your hand falls on first.
To freeze a sprinter, the shutter must open and close before the image of the runner perceptibly changes position on the camera’s image plane. Therefore, the faster the subject runs, the faster the shutter speed you will need to stop the action and avoid a blurred image.
A second factor affecting the final image is the camera-to-subject distance.
One elevator door was half-open on an empty shaft, from which drifted hissing wind. The door was coated to look like wood, but a dent at kneel level showed it was black metal. While he squatted, fingering the edge of the depression, something clicked: a second elevator door beside him rolled open.
“Hey, good-lookin’!” the blond driver yells, her hair flapping in the wind. “Don’t go! I think I love you!” Laughing, her friends pull her hat off.
Several people put their arms around me and said keep coming back!
Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794), the revolutionary leader, was himself executed in July 1794. This destruction came not from outside the system; it was produced by the system. As in the later Russian Revolution the revolutionaries on their humanist base had only two options–anarchy or repression.
In a large skillet brown meat, half at a time, in hot oil. Drain off fat. In a 3 1/2- to 4-quart slow cooker combine undrained tomatoes, beef broth, onion, jalapeno or serrano peppers, garlic, cornmeal, chili power, brown sugar, oregano, cumin, and black pepper.
Let anyone who will not believe it, go thither and inquire for himself. There was once an ass whose master had made him carry sacks to the mill for many a long year, but whose strength began at last to fail, so that each day as it came, found him less capable of work. Then his master began to think of turning him out, but the ass, guessing that something was in the wind that boded him no good, ran away, taking the road to Bremen; for there he thought he might get an engagement as town musician.
The bus company? They got another one. Line coach Douglas Fowlkes recalled that the media wrote about the losing streak so much that it was always at the forefront of the players’ minds: “When are they going to win?”
There are also V-shaped dividers that are smaller than the frames; these go in front, to allow a deeper decolletage. In 1958, with the sexual revolution only a few years off, some of the customs inherited from the nineteenth century still survived. Despite the fact that most women now wore girdles, there were still corsets being worn — and not simply by a few elderly ladies, since Mademoiselle Etienne;s handbook contains instructions for making children’s corsets.
Roxane: Les roseaux fournissaient le bois pour vos épées…
Cyrano: Et les maïs, les cheveux blonds pour vos poupées!
Roxane: C’était le temps des jeux…
Cyrano: Des mûrons aigrelets…
Darwin's ideas are so much a part of our world view that we take them for granted, so much that we actually read the Origin, it does not seem fresh and iconaclastic, but dreary and derivative.
I tag arkadianriver
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Can religion exist with out evil being present? If everthing here in the world was "good," would we have all these different religions trying to explain the world and the way it is? I have always wonder if good and evil where composed of the same medium. By this I mean, take for instance light. The color of the light is "white", but shine light through a prizm, waaalu, you have a spectrum-- light is broken into different colors, the colors of the rainbow. This existance ( present reality) is the prizm that is dividing good and evil into it's seperate entities that we percieve?
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Monday, August 14, 2006
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Alone
Lyrics by Heart
I hear the ticking of the clock
I'm lying here the room's pitch dark
I wonder where you are tonight
No answer on the telephone
And the night goes by so very slow
Oh I hope that it won't end though
Alone
CHORUS:
Till now I always got by on my own
I never really cared until I met you
And now it chills me to the bone
How do I get you alone
How do I get you alone
You don't know how long I have wanted
To touch your lips and hold you tight
You don't know how long I have waited
You don't know how long I have waited
And I was gonna tell you tonight
But the secret is still my own
And my love for you is still unknown
Alone
CHORUS
How do I get you alone
How do I get you alone
Alone, alone
Friday, August 04, 2006
Thursday, August 03, 2006
I must say that Blackwolf made some of the best rolls that I have ever eaten, and the barbecue chicken that he made was better then what I could ever hope to make, I just do not know what he did(something about a secret spices or something like that). Man!! that was great eating at the condo, and Mrs. Blackwolf-- well just let me say that women can cook. I do not think that Blackwolf will ever have to worry about losing weight being married to Mrs. Blackwolf. O and welcome to the family Mrs. Blackwolf :)
Thursday, July 27, 2006
There is no junk food here, but there are some Paul Newman I want to be "oreo cookies." I am sorry there is no such thing as fake oreo's, and Paul Newman's cookies, just let me say that they are all moms. It is nice being in the mountains and hills, I like the feeling that accompanies being in them. I am always soooooooo glad that me and Lily spent 4 years in Alaska. We went camping in the mountains and Lily made fresh blueberry pancakes with the bluebarries that we picked at the campsite. Me and my boys would throw rocks into the streams, and skip rocks across the water. We would also bring our cat with us and the cat acted like a dog. The cat would follow us when went hiking on the trails, or the cat would just be around us like a dog. Alaska was a cool place to live.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
I was reading about the Byzantine Empire and how the empirer decided that the nation that they just conquered he needed to make a statement about his power, so what did he do? he blinded 14,000 people, but only blinded in one eye every 100th person so that way some of the people could guide the totaly blind people home. 14,000 people blinded for what? along with the blinded people are children that are suffering now too.
During the days in China when the different warlords of the various clans ruled, what would happen this that warlord would send out his person to collect tax money, if the people did not have any money what would happen to the people? The warlord in his wisdom would bring the "man of the house back" to his compound and then string the different people together by wire through there calves, just like fish, until somehow the families could pay the tax.
So I have a love, hate relationship with history. I have this desire to read history and study it, I love reading and understanding the battles of the WWII, the History Channel has some great documentaries on WWII ( my favorite move is "The Great Escape") , and it is ironic that because of WWII we have space program, but so many people died because of WWII and Hiltler's quest for power.
What does it mean?
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Monday, July 17, 2006
Saturday, July 15, 2006
I do not think that is right that to watch the old cartoons like "Bugs" that a person needs cable TV, because the cartoons that are on Saturday morning are really sad. I miss watching Bugs, watching Bugs is like watching the old Star Trek shows, I never get tired of watching the reruns.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Monday, July 10, 2006
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Well, on to other things; went to Barns and Nobles the other day with Lily and found this book, "A History of the Middle Ages," by Joseph Dahmus. The Middle Ages are defined from the Fall of the Roman Empire to about 1500 AD, I have read alot of Ancient History and Modern History, but not much Middle History, so this will be enjoyable.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Your date of conception was on or about 9 September 1958 which was a Tuesday.
You were born on a Tuesday under the astrological sign Gemini.
Your Life path number is 5.
Life Path Compatibility:You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 5 & 7.
You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 3 & 9.
You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path number 8.
You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 6, 11 & 22.
The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2436721.5.
The golden number for 1959 is 3.
The epact number for 1959 is 21.
The year 1959 was not a leap year.
Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 2/8/1959 and ending 1/27/1960.You were born in the Chinese year of the Pig.
Your Native American Zodiac sign is Elk; your plant is Mullein.
You were born in the Egyptian month of Mesore, the fourth month of the season of Shomu (Harvest).
As of 7/7/2006 2:00:55 PM EDT You are 47 years old.
You are 565 months old.
You are 2,457 weeks old.
You are 17,202 days old.
You are 412,862 hours old.
You are 24,771,720 minutes old.
You are 1,486,303,255 seconds old.
Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 6.73268101761252 years old. (You're still chasing cats!) I would rather be a cat.
Your birthstone is Alexandrite
The Mystical properties of Alexandrite: Alexandrite can assist one in centering the self, reinforcing self-esteem, and augmenting ones ability to experience joy. Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources) Pearl, Moonstone, Opal
Your birth tree is Ash Tree, the Ambition
Uncommonly attractive, vivacious, impulsive, demanding, does not care for criticism, ambitious, intelligent, talented, likes to play with its fate, can be egoistic, very reliable and trustworthy, faithful and prudent lover, sometimes brains rule over heart, but takes partnership very serious.
The Life Path 5 suggests that you entered this plane with a highly progressive mindset, with the attitude and skills to make the world a better place. The key word for your Life Path is freedom. In the pursuit of freedom, you are naturally versatile, adventurous, and advanced in your thinking. You are one of those people who is always striving to find answers to the many questions that life poses. The byword for the positive Life Path 5 is constant change and improvement. You want to be totally unrestrained, as this is the number most often associated with the productive use of freedom.
You may be one of the most compassionate of people as the 5 is surely the most freedom-loving and compassionate Life Path. Your love of freedom extends to humanity at large, and concern for your fellow man, his freedom and his welfare, may be foremost in your mind. A great Life Path 5 American President, Abraham Lincoln, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and ended slavery in America. As the ultimate progressive thinker type, your potential in government, the law, and other positions of authority is unlimited.
You are a good communicator, and you know how to motivate people around you. This may be your strongest and most valuable trait. Because of this skill, and your amazing wit, you are a truly natural born salesman. This ability to sell and motivate extends to any sort of physical product all the way through to whatever ideas or concepts you may embrace.
You abhor routine and boring work, and you are not very good at staying with everyday tasks that must be finished on time. On the average, the number 5 personality is rather happy-go-lucky; living for today, and not worrying too much about tomorrow. It is also important for you to find a job that provides thought-provoking tasks rather than routine and redundant responsibilities. You do best dealing with people, but the important thing is that you have the flexibility to express yourself at all times. You have an innate ability to think through complex matters and analyze them quickly, but then be off to something new.
A love of adventure may dominate your life. This may take the form of mental or physical manifestation, but in either case, you thrill to the chance for exploration and blazing new trails. Surely you belong to a group considered the most worldly and traveled. Clearly you are not one to pass up a good venture. You have quite a lot of the risk-taker in your makeup. If you aren't putting your money at stake, you are surely open to a wide variety of risks in your everyday life. Taking the conservative approach is just not in your nature.
In romance, you hate to be tied down and restricted. This doesn't necessarily mean that you are unfaithful or promiscuous, but it does mean that a good partner for you needs to understand your nature. A relationship based on jealousy and having tight reigns is not going to work at all for you. A partner who understands your need to be free and trusted will find you trustworthy, even if you aren't constantly available and totally dutiful. It is important for you to mix with people of a like mind, and to try to avoid those that are too serious and demanding.
If you are living on the negative side of the Life Path 5, you are apt to be multitalented, but suffering from some lack of direction, and there is confusion surrounding your ambition. Restless, discontent, and impulsive, you may bounce from one job to the next without accomplishing much at all. A negative Life Path 5 can become very irresponsible in tasks and decisions concerning the home and business life. The total pursuit of sensation and adventure can result in your becoming self-indulgent and totally unaware of the feelings of those around you.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Friday, June 30, 2006
I always looked forward to reading Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. I am not sure why, but reading through all the laws was invigorating and I know when people talked about reading those books that it was described by them as dry reading, but not to me. I have had some problems though with some of the laws because they are from "God" and they just did not seem fair and enlighted as I thought they should be because they are from God after all. For example how slaves were treated. If a person was a slave and as a slave was married, and then gained his freedom he could not stay with his wife or childern. His only option was to get his ear pierced by an awl and then remain a slave the rest of this life, so that he was able the remain with his wife and childern if there were any. I always was disturbed by this, why would God allow this? Why would God allow the family to be broken apart like this? God hates divorce-- "right?" This just never made any sense to me everytime I read it. It just seems wrong. The man should be able to take his family and be free, thus making a more stable society. The other thing was how a priest was to judge sickness and sores on people. A lot of it sounded like if you had a pimple you could be outcasted or your house could be burnt down. Then this whole thing with a woman's period. God created it, it is a natural function of a woman so why did God deem it as unclean? God is the one that made our bodies function the way they do, sooooooo, I do not understand. Some of these laws just do not make any sense to me since because they originated with God but are unfair and lack understanding of the human condition.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Monday, June 26, 2006
This is my world at Hillsborough Community College. The first picture is my office, my office is inside a computer lab. The second picture is the lab. The third picture are the toys that I have in my office that I have collected. I go to computer shows to see new inovative computer stuff, and I also get toys there to. Fun for me :) and my techs like them too. See the fuzzy thing on the coffee mug? That is a "Tribble" (from Star Trek) that Lily gave me from when she took her Tutoring staff to Las Vegas a few years ago. The next picture is my 19 inch monitor on my desk, I could have bought myself a bigger one, but I didn't. The last picture is my server room, I have 5 servers, one of servers I am planning on rebuilding and turning it into a Linux server.
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Saturday, June 24, 2006
It is amazing how many discoveries have been made with accidents in some laboratory. It was always difficult to count chromosomes and for some 30 years it was always thought that we had 48 chromosomes, everytime chromosomes were counted they were always ontop of each other, or scatterd and crowded about so there was no way to determine an exact count(they thought that they exact count was 48). Chromosomes could not be spread out flat to be counted with a microscope until an accident in the lab at the University of Texas. They were creating all kinds of cultures in various solutions, and not getting the resultes that they were desiring, and just by accident they created a salt solution that a techniction had mixed wrong, the result was that it spread the chromosomes over the slide flat so that they could be counted. Amazing. It it is amazing how many discoveries have been made in the world on accidents of this nature.
This is from the present book I am reading, "Adam's Curse" -- the book has nothing to do with Adam; for those inquiring minds. It is just a reference to the Y-chromosome. We have 46 chromosomes, 23 from the mother, and 23 from the father.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Thursday, June 22, 2006
In case you are wondering what has gotten me all riled up I just found out tonight one of my techs died. That is not the story. The story is that his wife left him so she could sleep around, that in it's self is painful, but he found out that the person who was tattooing him was sleeping with his wife, which was his best friend. So that everytime he looks at his arm, will you get the picture. O by the way, there is a little girl in the equation. Then he had new car and in the space of 2 weeks was in 4 accidents, 1 he caused and 3 that he did not cause. Then found out that his wife was not paying her share of the cell phone bill, which turned out to be a great amount of money. He came to me one day and said that he would understand if I fired him because he had to take off alot of time from the lab. I told him that I would not do, but that I would try to help him all that I could and work his schedule so that he could accomplish what he needed to do to put his life back together. I was not going to create a financial burden for him by denying him a job . I can understand the stress and pain he must have been enduring, because, will just trust me on that. So he dies in his sleep by a bleeding ulcer and leaves a little girl behind to be cared by the mother. Boy, God has a great plan. That little girl is going to have great life. Life makes no sense to me.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
If you are content and fullilled with what know and believe then I am happy for you. Me personally am not content with cookie cut or clichés answers to the world or life, or the way things are. I know that we have not had much contact with each other, that is one reason why I started blogging. I thought that this was a medium in which we all could communicate with each other, and get to know each other. I am quite happy to write and talk about what ever you guys want to talk about, yes even you "Hogrider" are invited. Auto Tuner 1 I will help you find your Indian family, just let me know what I can do for you.
Live Long and Prosper.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Saturday, June 17, 2006
I had no idea that Australia had such an airade, inhospitable climate that covered most of the continent to the extend that most of the population is living in 5 major cities on the coast. Another amazing fact is that Australia has trees that are 400 feet tall; I always thought that the tallest trees were here in North America. The land in Australia can only support farming in a specific area of Western Australia, but the nutrients in the land are being depleted because of over farming. The land does not regenerate itself like in other parts of the world. Even though Australia has such a hostile environment it is amazing the Aborigines had been surviving off the land for 45,000 years.
Friday, June 16, 2006
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Saturday, June 10, 2006
Friday, June 09, 2006
So I decided to do some research and see what I could discover to answer my question. As I yahooed and goggled I started to discover some interesting facts about China. In 1949 the population of China was 118 million people, and Mao in his great wisdom decided that China needed a bigger population because he thought it would bring wealth to the country. Mao also thought that by a larger population China could produce more food, have a better military, and develop better communication systems for the country.
“Large birth rates was also considered a sign of recovery from war and hardships that China had to endure.”
“During the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961) pro-natalism was again espoused as the only possible socialist policy and most counseling and dispensaries of contraceptives were closed down. The party line was ‘the more people there are, the more, faster, better, and thriftier can we build socialism”.(Scharping) Mao announced a desire for over a billion people and argued that the China’s greatest problem in the future would not be overpopulation, but lack of manpower. 1962-66 saw a renewal of birth-control programs but these continued on a very small scale and with significant opposition.“
China’s population increase from 118 million to 540 million in the 1960’s then increased again to 712 million by the 1970’s. In 1982 a census was taken and the population was 1,008,180,738 people which are considered accurate by officials. It is estimated that in 2002 there are 1.28 billion people in China. From these facts one can ascertain that government mandate is one reason for the population crisis that China finds its self in. Rural birth rates are higher then urban areas (36% of the population, which means rural birth rates account for 64% of the population) because you need children to help work the farm, and to help in selling produce, and to take care of the parents in old age.
Another factor in China’s population numbers is that in 1949 a universal health care system was implemented resulting in people living longer. At present time China’s births outnumber deaths by 9 million.
The effect that China has on the world is being felt now as China vies for energy, and other natural resources. Last year in the Tampa Tribune there was an article that stated that China had bought up ¼ of the world supply of concrete for that year. I know that China desires to become a superpower, but they want to take short cuts.
Scharping, Thomas. Birth Control in China 1949-2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Monday, June 05, 2006
We really like were we lived on Ft Riley, once they added on the living room we were quite comfortable in our house.
I then was assigned to 47th Engineer Company, Ft Wainwright and I had some interesting experiences there. Since I was the only draftsman on the post I was assigned to measure all the landing zones (LZ's) in the Ft. Wainwright area, which meant that I had to go physically to the LZ's and measure them. So for a few days I had a helicopter assigned to me to fly me around Alaska to the different LZ's. It was also 47th Engineer's job to clear the MSR's (main supply routs) during the winter field exercises, and since I was the CO's driver I really saw the raw Alaska, things that the normal person does not see. 47th Engineer Company also did ice bridging during the winter. There is nothing like driving across an ice bridge with 2 feet of water on top of the ice bridge. Another thing that was really cools was the northern lights. When you are in the middle of nowhere, no lights and it is 40 below 0, the northern lights are totally awesome. The colors, the way the lights dance, it can not really be described by words or pictures, it has to be experienced.