Why did Soloman have 300 concubines? I guess God thought it was allright because since the Bible is inspired from God and God says nothing against the 300 concubines, it is just fine.

So what did Santa bring you for Christmas? Santa brought me the following:

1. Spidy Origins set, it is also a game you can play.

2. Spidy action figures, it will look cool on my desk at work.

3. Spidy remote control car. Been going through the dirt.

4. Ant farm.

5. A Spidy blanket, which in use by you know who.

6. Pocket watch, from Miss Know it All.

7 And other stuff.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

What is it about human sacrifice that ancient man decided that the gods needed to be appeased by killing innocent people? How or why has the idea of human sacrifice been propagated through various cultures through out the world?

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.

Ok, I am getting flack from the peanut gallery(you know who). Yes the Bible is on CD, DVD, and the internet, but not on podcast.

I do not think a person can understand the Bible until you have read it in the orginal Klingon.

An impossible mission,
with impossible odds,
Glory to the Empire.

This is a good day to die.

QAPLA

Star Trek DS9

When were Adam and Eve married? Were they married? Do not remember reading in my Bible that they were married. Fornication between consenting adults.

My last post has me thinking, updating the Bible to our culture:

1. Instead of " Sermon on the Mount", "Sermon in the Football Stadium"

2. Turning water in wine-- turning coolaid into wine.

I think that God should update the Bible to modern culture, and distribute the Bible on CD, podcast, and DVD.

Well this semister is done, and if feels great to have my finals behind me. It was hard taking 3 classes, but it was also challenging, invigorating, and pleasurable. I enjoy being a math, science person, learning the mysteries of the universe, why things operate the way they do, and understanding the physical laws that govern the cosmos.

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.

So what do you think about this? I saw this on PBS and thought that is was great.

This is really cool, Neil deGrasse Tyson is an physicists.

Well, I had my final for Chemistry Lab last night. Chemistry lab turned out to be more enjoyable then I ever thought, I started Chemistry with some trepidation because it had been a long time since I had taken any chemistry. I am glad thought that I have taked all my math courses, that just that made chemistry easier, plus math teaches you how to think logically and you can take that skill to all of your other classes.

If eating hotdogs is not right, then I want to be wrong.

Kevin James "The King of Queens"

Which OS are You?

MM I have a question or two. We have recorded history for about 5,000 to 6,000 years, approx. The Old Testament was not written(started the Old Testament) until about 1400 BC, approx. Why did God wait so long to inspire someone to write the Old Testement? Why is the Old Testament not the Oldest Book in the world? before all the legends and stories from other civilizations? Would not God want the "Truth" out there from the beginning of time for man to read? Would not God want His flood story first? The Bible should be the origin of original thought, but it is not, why?

The Perodic Table is quit logical in it's configuation. It is amazing how the elements can be arranged by the number of protons, and how valance electrons fit into the arrangement of the table. It has been years since I have taken a chemistry( actually the last chemistry class I had taken was high school) I was not sure how I was going to like chemistry. There has been alot of change in chemistry, and I am having fun learning all the new chemistry stuff. One of the new things I really like working out are Lewis Structures , I find these problems fun and challenging, I like working out these kinds of problems.

Make love not war. Nothing more to say.

Why does God need a Army of Angels to do His bidding?

I do not understand how Tom Cruse getting married is news. He is just going to get divorced in 9 years and 6 months anyways.

This is soooooo amazing, I found a picture of Hogrider's Harley, I can see why she has so much fun riding around Shreveport; is that Frank?

My Top 10 Movies:

1. The Great Escape
2. MI 2
3. Star Wars Episode IV(1977)
4. The Princess's Bride
5. Notting Hill
6. Aliens (2nd movie)
7. Star Trek -- The Voyage Home
8. The Matrix
9. Raiders of the Lost Ark
10. Bad Boys II

Me and Lily go to Wal-Mart a fair amount of the time, Wal-Mart has some of the best oatmeal-raisin cookies that I have every had. They are too die for. A cold glass of milk and 5 or 6 cookies and I am in cookie heaven. :-) I do not think that anybody can make these cookies any better, other then Mother or Lily. And that's the truth.

If there was a class for Seinfield I would take it. I think that Seinfield was a brilliant comedy show, they were able to take subjects and world events and transform them into comedy routines.

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."

All Hell For A Basement Lyrics

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.

TV Land has on their web site the top 5 Star Trek shows, at least their opinion of the best 5 Star Trek episodes. I agree with one of their picks, "City on the Edge of Forever" that episode would be in my list of the top 5 episodes of Star Trek. My list is as follows in no particular order:

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.

What is the nature of time? I have been thinking about time again and what is the relationship between the speed of light and gravity. When the speed of light or close to the velocity of light is achieved time passes more slowly, strong gravitational field has the same effect on time. In the presence of strong gravity, like a black hole, time also slows down. Why is time effected that way? Why is time not a constant? Why is time not like the speed of light? Why is time relative to the observer?

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.

This person comes in the computer lab and what to print her paper, the conversation is as follows:

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 .

Well the world is going to end in a big bang or explosion of magma. I have seen a number of shows on supervolcanoes, and I watched another one last night on NOVA. Supervolcanoes are classified as volcanoes that can deliver the destructive force of a small asteroid, I do not remember the exact number but there are 4 or 6 supervolcanoes around the world. One is right in our backyard, under Yellowstone National Park. The last eruption by a supervolcanoe was 75,000 years ago; Lake Toba, Sumatra, Indonesia and ejected 2,800 km^3 of volcanic ash into the atmosphere. That amount of material in the atmosphere will and did cause a world climate change, it is esimated that 1/4 of the poplulation ceased to exist.

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.

What would my life be like if Robert would have been born? I have been thinking of the implications of that for a few days now, and I have arrived at some conclusions. If you have ever read the bith order book you know that the order in which you were born has a direct impact on your personality, and how you percieve the world. If Robert had lived the result would have been Hogrider would have replaced Blackwolf, then would have come Blackwolf, then Autotuner, but no MM-- I guess, not sure were the mother hen would have stopped laying egges. I think that there was another egg that did not hatch, but I am not sure were in the order of the hatching of the eggs that was.

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.

How to Please Your I.T. Department

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.

I was looking for some old files and I discovered some pictures that I have taken a while back.

According to Chinese Astrology me and Lily are:

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.

Differential equations is elegant math, there is no other way to express the feeling that I feel when I solve a DE equation. I am amazed at how all the math classes that I have taken has cumulated with DE. I can remember being in some of my math classes and I was wonder what was the purpose of particular math process or formula, and now I know, the purpose is so a person can solve a DE equation. I can look back and see the purpose all the different math classes. By taking DE a person can understand all the math classes and why you learned math in the order that the classes were offered, they were building blocks.

After DE I am planning on taking Linear Algebra.

Fly away little birdies, fly. Fly birdie fly.

In the HCC Fantasy Football League I am 5 and 0, in the Missionary Fantasy Football League I am 2 and 3.

I guess you want to talk about God's will, implying that people who are not living by your defination of "God's will" are not living to the full potential of life here on planet earth. So what is God's will? God's will in the Old Testament involved the slaughter of women and children, and the genocide of whole populations of people. If you look in all the laws in Deuteronomy( God's will) if a person had a pimple and the priest deemed the pimple unclean( because the priest had no understanding of what the difference between a disease and a pimple) it was God's will to burn your house down. How can a woman's period make a woman unclean? That is the way God made women, so how could women be deemed unclean, but according to the laws which came from God, a women was unclean. That was God's will.

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.

They will not let me blow anything up in the chemistry lab. :(

Shadowpaint you asked about an asteroid called Apophis and why it would do so much damage to the earth, this is this why. There are two types of energy:

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?

Soooooo you never seen the movie "The Matrix." I am surprised that Auto Tuner never saw the movie, the movie buff that he is. Here is a link that will explain everything.

MIT has put there courses online, with teacher's notes and everthing. This is really cool.

The universe has been expanding for about 12 to 15 billion years, some think 14.5 billion years. I was thinking about time travel, and according to the Theory of Relativity time slows down as you approach the speed of light or C. Tme is relative though. What this means is that if you were on the Star Ship Enterprise and accelerated to the speed of light, time would seem normal to you, and on the earth time would seem normal too.

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.

Free telephone calls with Skype. Or pay a nominal fee.

I am reading a book about the middle ages, and I came accross this passage:

"...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.

I am always amazed when I see people in the Middle East celebrating or protesting whatever. How are they celebrating you asked, -- I say: "by firing automatic weapons into the air, do they not understand that what goes up, has to come back down!! " From what I have seen on TV they fire many rounds up into the air in the crowds of people , plus there always seems to be 4 or 5 people who are firing automatic weapons at the same time, but I am sure there are many more people shooting automatic weapons that are not shown on the TV. I just do not understand how the leaders and police of these nations let this stuff happen, I am sure people are killed from all the rounds that are falling back to the earth at 9.8 meters per sec^2. Why does this happen?

I have been thinking about this for some time. Cancer is a business, a 800 billion dollars a year business. Some of these cancer treatments cost 100's and 1000's of dollars, sometimes people lose all their savings or their house or other worldly possessions because the cancer treatments cost so much. Just for your information 1500 people a week die from cancer. We or American interest, companies and government agencies have been doing cancer research 30 or 40 years maybe? I am not sure how long cancer research have been conducted but research has been going a long time. Big Business controls the world to a certain extent, it is Big Business that does the drug research and decides what drugs they will bring to the market in concert with the FDA. On Lily's blog there is a link to Biloblog( he is a doctor and his blog does not seem to be working, not sure why) and he has a blog about the FDA and how their interest are not necessary what is best for America even though they are a government entity and their duty is to protect the American people.

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.

I remember reading books 15 or 20 years ago that were of a controversial nature in the sceintific world. The present book that I am reading now the author writes about the meterite that collided with the earth about 65 million years ago which resulted the destruction of the dinasours, and changing the earth's climate. The author anaylsis of all the evidence (geological and fossil ) that has been gathered over the last 20 years and now the theory is not so controversial anymore, but it is still debated by sceintist. I first read about this theory when we were in Alaska, I bought the book through the Quality Paperback Book Club which me and Lily had joined.

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.

Boy, I sure could go for some Oreo's and milk. I think that I will go the store and buy some, and think about Africa while I dip the Oreo's in cold glass of milk--- scrumptious.

Why is 2/3's of the earth cover by water that man can not drink or use for agriculture?

I have always loved reading Physics books, I bought my first physic book when I was 16( I think), anyways it was a book on particle physics, and I remember how fascinated and amazed I was after I had read this book. The book was all about bombarding elementry particles with other elementry particles and when they broke apart you then could discover what the different particles were composed off. Ever since I read that book, physics has always been passion of mine beside computers. When I look at pictures from the Hubble, or I look at picture on Space.com I am always amazed. I am always thinking of the physical forces (gravitational, or what ever force that is needed to form the celestial object), or I am amazed at the simple things like watch water drops, drop and understanding the physics of what is involved for the water to drop.

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."

Free e-books. thousands and thousands of books. I am reading 4 now, what am I going to do?

I read a book that stated that Osama bin Laden was basically fighting the Crusades, and that the United States( we are the current superpower in the world) had replaced the Imperial Nations (England and France, and the Catholic Church) that fought in the Crusades during the 11th through the 15th centuries. The author stated that because we (America, Bush Administration) did not understand that concept that the "war on terror" would never be won by the West. I am not sure that if that is true, I just think that bin Laden is fighting for his own political gain, and popularity in the Muslim world. I know that there are different Muslim sects, and they differ on the interpertation of the Koran, and how they view each other. I guess it is probably like the Catholics and Protestants killing each other, and differ on how the Bible is interperated, plus the Catholics have more books in the Catholic Bible, than the Protestant's bible. Anyways I am just related the conflicts in the Muslim world with the conflicts in the Protestant world trying to understand how, or why Muslims seem to kill each other so easily and without reguard to the collateral damage that these car bombs and other explosions caused by bin Laden and his crew.

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.

Do this:
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

They said on the radio (The Bear) that 90,000 people a year are moving to Alberta. If you move to Alberta housing is in short supple that you need to buy a house or rent a apartment before you move to Alberta. I guess with the price of oil, the tar sands are booming? Other than that, I am not sure what is driving the econmy in Alberta.

Birthday boy, I answer your math question, but something happen so it only shows 0 comments on your blog, but the anwers is there.

Where is Auto Tuner 1?

I have never been much a Metallica fan, but I love their rendition of Bob Seger's Turn the Page.

Why is this existance (life) defined by it's opposite? What I mean is that evil defines good, evil defines the parameters of "what is good." Can we know good, without evil? or is "good" intrinsic in it's nature? God is good so we say, but for God to be "God" is not God an infinite being? What is the nature of a infinite being? is there a intrinsic nature to God? Is not an infinite being composed of infinite realities? It has always bother me that the Bible defines God and the parameters of God, but God is a infinite being. How can God be defined by finite beings in nature and understanding? Is it that because God is composed of infinite realities that good and evil exist at all? What started me thinking about this is that quantum mechanics states that there are infinite realites, and I was just thinking of the ramifcations of this statement?

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?

What a kiss!!!!! I am sure glad that lips never wear out. Infinite kisses. YEA :) I could never find those submarines?!!##*

Jurassic Park is on it's way. See you there.

Well I am back home from all my travels, only had one day fishing( that was a bummer, I was looking forward to 2 or 3 days, but at least I went fishing), it was just fun casting, and contemplating my life. I had read a theoretical physics book a few years ago, and the author started out comparing how a fish's reality observing a human through the water compares to human observing the cosmos from the earth. So every time I look at a fish or water I am always reminded about how I observe reality and precieve my surroundings in this vast universe.

I was watching VH1 classics and I saw a Heart concert on TV. I have always liked a number of Heart songs, but there is one song in particular that seems to speak to my spirit, I am not sure why but I feel the music and the lyrics of the song "Alone." If I was not going to be a Astrophysicists, I would be a rock star.:)

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

Scratch & Sniff

Good cookie, good cookie. There is no way to describe just how scrumptious those double stuffed oreo's are. It's great to live in America.

Pictures from my trip. The Miner's picture "One of the best hamburgers that I have ever eaten." The last picture is Mt. St. Helens.

Well I am back the vast fruit, and beer bearing land(Washington State) that mom calls home. I am only home for 3 days and then I am off again. I am going to visit my father-in-law, we will have a hectic schedule when I get up there. We have planed to watch some John Wayne movies, watch some more John Wayne movies, watch some more John Wayne movies, and do some fishing. It will be a real taxing situation with my father-in-law, hope I can keep up with him.

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 :)

Well, I am home on the range so to speak, suffering from internet withdrawal. I did not realize how much time I spent online between work and home, just let me say alot. I do not understand the way the airports have their internet access set up. They want you to pay $8.00 to $10.00 for access at the airports and this is for 12 to 24 hours of internet access; you are only for a hour or two, so why would you pay? I would not mind paying a few dollars for a hour or two, but I guess they do not want that. Anyways.

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.

I have been reading history books for the last 6 or 8 months, I seem to have this driving need to understand the history of the world, the evolution of man, why the world evolved in the way that it did. I have always enjoyed history, I even took more history classes then I needed for my degree, but there is a sad part to knowing and understanding the history of the world that that has been seeping into my conscious. All the sensless death and suffering that has occured; for what? Why? I just do not understand why history is framed by so many innocent people dieing, and suffering all these 1000's of years. I know that some people try to explain the world's events by religious mindset and overtones, but that explanation falls short, it does not explain the world or the suffering that people have had to indure.

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?

Well, I am leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I well be back again.

I have researched this microwave oven / food controversy and I do not find any evidence to change my mind, in other words I am not disposing of my microwave oven anytime soon. I have personally talked to an engineer, two physicists, one nutritionist, and one biologist and asked them the question if a microwave oven will destroy or change the molecular structure of food to rendure the food not viable to the body. The consensus was that the microwave oven was not damaging the food molecules any worse then a conventional oven will. What the microwave heats up is the water molecules in the food, some nutritional nutrients are destroyed just like conventional heating of food. I read one study from Australia were the microwave oven actually enhanced the vitamin C and E content in the food being heated up. The nutritionist that I talked too knew about the study that Shadowpaint referred too, but she did not agree with the findings. So this carbon based unit will continue bombarding food with microwaves until the food glows in the dark.

I was thinking about a name for the little female package on the way in Africa, and "Lo-Ruhamah" is a female Biblical name inspired by the Holy Spirit.

We had a new friend this morning, Lily was looking out the back yard and saw him/her and then called me and this is what we saw on our fence.

I have always wonder what gave the "Church" so much political power during roughly 1500's AD to about 1800's AD and I think I have my answer. I am presently reading the history of the middle ages, I just finnished reading how the monasteries became the dispositers of knowlege during the Dark Ages, I knew this, but I have never considered this fact before until now. The book never said that this was the reason but I came to my own conclusion based on the concept, "knowledge is power", and since the Church had all the knowlege at the time I think that this is one reason the Church was able to amass such political power in the time frame that I have been thinking about. It is sad though that the Church used this power in unworthy persuits of it's own agenda; money and more political power.

You Are an Emo Rocker!

Expressive and deep, lyrics are really your thing. That doesn't mean you don't rock out... You just rock out with meaning. For you, rock is more about connecting than grandstanding.

What Kind of Rocker Are You?

Nothing better then rolling down the highway with the volume all the way to the right.

When I was about 12 years old (I think), I made a promise to myself that I would never stop watching cartoons, and I have kept that promise to myself. I still love watching cartoons ( watched Batman this morning), and as my kids grew up I watched cartoons with them and loved every minute of it. I used to watch "He Man", "Nija Turtles", "Transformers", "Bugs Bunny", "Spiderman", and "X-Men", all the cool cartoons with my kids, not anymore(they are older now), I watch them by myself now. What started me thinking about cartoons and how I have always felt about them is that last night we went to the move,"Pirates of the Caribbean" and there had a preview for the new Transformer movie, I can hardly waite for the movie. I have always love the Transformers; Autobots, and Decepticons, my favorite Autobot was always Optimus Prime, he as always wise , patient, and concerned about the innocent people that were always caught in the middle of the conflict between the Autobots and Decepticons. I remember one year for Christmas we bought the oldest son "Optimus Prime," I am not sure who was more excited, if I was more excited buying it for him, and showing him how you transformed from a robot to 18 wheeler, or my son unwrapping it on Christmas and seeing the excited look on his face that he had a Transformer.

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.

There is another concert that me and Lily went to that I surprised her with. Lily really likes Yanni, so for her birthday one year I took her to a Yanni concert, but that is not the story. The story is that the night before there was a Yanni concert on PBS and we watched the concert on TV. During the concert I made comments like, "Since we are seeing Yanni on TV we really do not see him in person, this is better to see him on TV" or "I really do not think that he is that great of a musician", or "He does not play his music loud enough for me so I would not really like to see him in person." I made some more cemments then I just let it die. The next morning when we were getting ready for work, I gave her a birthday card with 2 tickets for Yanni, I surprised her :), we went out to eat and then the concert, it was an enjoyable night.

Back in the year 2000 there was a radio station that played what they thought was the best 100 songs of the milianium, and boy were they wrong. Anybody knows that "Stairway to Heaven" (by Led Zepplin) is 10 times better then "Satisfaction"(by the Rolling Stones). I am bias though, I am not a fan of the Rolling Stones. I like 2 songs by the Stones, for the most part I really do understand why people think that the Stones are so great. Mick Jagger has smoke(pot), drank liquar, and indulged in drugs so much that just by looking at him you can see that his brain is fried. He is not exactly coherent during interviews, I just do not see what the attraction is. There is one rock band that I really think is the greatest and my kids can tell who they are--- BOSTON; Lily even came with to the concert with me when they were here in Tampa. I like Boston because they have their own sound, and that the leader of the group graduated from MIT. MIT is cool, I wish I could take classes there and graduate from MIT. Anyways, I am still erked that they the "radio station" placed the Stones over Zepplin.

This summer was to be about working(at HCC) and lifting weights at Bally's, just let me say that a father's job is never done, no matter how old your childern are.

This is cool.

I finished the book, "Adam's Curse." Basically the Y-chromosome has mutated over the years and is becomming inert, men are going to die out in 125,000 to 130,000 years, soooo party on men. At least with the current understanding that we have now about genetics men are on a downward spirial path, but I am sure we will figure something out and cure the genetic defect so that Y-chromosome will survive, and produce more Dallas Cowboy football players.

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.

I am attending a audio visual/computer comference next week. I love my job, yea!! more toys :)

The day that I was hatched; found this on Lily's blog.

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.

Hey, Auto Tuner 1, and Mmabatho do you want to play Fantasy Football this fall?

Global Warming is being driven by political hype and not sceince. I remember 20 years ago that news reports stated that because of global warming the earth should be destroyed by now, but the human race is still here, o well.

Like I said before, I have read my Bible from front to cover so many times that I have lost count. The only Book of the Bible that I did not read like a book was Psalms, you have to feel a certain way to read Psalms, but you are not( at least I am not) reading Psalms for knowledge but a connection to God or a feeling of understanding that which is outside myself. My favorite Psalms by the way was always Psalms 37, I always felt those words, they have resonated with my spirit over the years. Anyways I really was not intending to write about Psalms, I wanted to write about the first 5 books of the Bible.

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.

What the Superman movie should be like.

This is the front of my desk, this is from a Star Trek tear of calander.

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.

Mmabatho what do you think about this?

So what did you eat tonight?, I made:

1. Mushroom and Red Pepper Pilaf
2. Easy Cheesy Broccoli
3. Herbed Beef Patties
4. Chocolate pudding /w Whipped Cream

I did not realize that turtles and aligators sex is determined by temperture. With turtles if the temperature is at the cool end of the spectrum then the offspring will be male, at the hot end females will develope. With aligators it is just opposite, but the problem is that the egges can only develope in a narrow temperature range, if it to hot or cold then the egges die.

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.

You Are 72% Gentleman

You are definitely a gentleman. You're very considerate and you have excellent manners. Occasionally, you slip and do something foolish... but usually no one notices!

Are You A Gentleman?

Let me get this straight, God creates Adam, God sees that Adam is lonely, so God in his wisdom then creates Eve from Adam's rib so that Adam will not be alone. Then God creates the snake which inturn deceives Eve, then Eve causes Adam to sin so that forever mankind is dammed. In retospect all God had to was not create the snake and everything would be fine. God's solution to the problem is to make the man and woman suffer( curse the ground so people starve to death, and make childbirth painful so that some women die from it), and thus forever doom mankind to mindless suffering of innocent people( mainly women and childern) through out history, and as an added bonus many people will be killed in "God's" name by the church and other various organizations. What a plan! What a wonderful life here on planet Earth.

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.

If there are facts which are in conflict with what I believe then I have a choice. I can evaluate what I believe and modify my belief, or choose to believe and ignore the conflict. Since I am the kind of person that can not ignore facts when they are revealed I have to reavaluate my position, then synthesize and if need to I will modifiy what I believe. I really did not intend to get into a theological debate. One of the reasons that I have changed what I believe is that one day I asked myself, "Self, why do I believe what I believe? Do I believe because I really believe that or do I believe because I have told to believe that?" I came to the conlusion that what I believed was because I had been told what to believe with no real thought on my part of what I believe. So I started to reavaluate and figure why I believe what I believe about God and life. Plus, this has been a jouney that me and Lily have been walking together because we both look at the world, and the stuff that has happened in our life together, and what we had been taught, and what we believed just did not make any sense anymore. So we/I started looking for anwsers.

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.

The Oilers lost. The last 1:30 Edmonton pulled the goalie at about 1:13 the Hurricanes put the puck in the empty net. The final score was 3 to 1.

It's Christmas, I recieved my new link runner today. :)

I am reading a new book, "Adam's Curse." Lily bought this book a while back. I was looking for some thing to read and I remembered this book that she had read some time ago. When Lily was reading this book she talked to me about what the author was stating and it sparked my interest at the time, but I was reading another book. It book is about DNA, and how the Y chromosome could destroy men and other stuff that DNA controls.

I still do not really understand why the population of the world is so large. We have recorded history for about 5000 to 6000 years, so man has been on the earth for some time now. Is it that because of the modern world that we are able to produce excess food and then ship it to other countries which then equalls population growth? I know that people are starving in other countries, but what is driving the population growth of the world? India has 1.1 billion people, China 1.3 billion people. I know that I blogged about population growth about China, but I am not satisfied with my answer. Here in the US we have no population control yet the population does not seemed to be overwelming problem as China is facing. Why from the 1800's to the present has the population increased to 7.1 billion people? Why was there not this population growth 4000 years ago? Man has been on the earth for a long time, what has made the difference between population growth now and then? I guess one difference is medicine, we have inoculations for various diseases, maybe understanding how to combat situations like the plague has driven up the worlds population. Just thinking.

I just finish reading "Collapse -- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" by Jared Diamond. The book was filled with interesting facts concerning past societies and how they managed their natural resources or mismanaged them. I thought the last 3 or 4 chapters of the book were the most enjoyable, and from those last chapters I expanded my knowledge about Australia and China.

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.

Go Oilers!!! They dominated tonight -- 4 to 0. A shutout. Back to Carolina where the Oilers will take it all. I watched a few NHL games a few years ago and all they were doing was hooking, whoever had the puck was hooked right away. I guess the NHL put stop to that, because these have been great hockey games. The action has been quick with both teams taking the puck up and down the rink. It makes me want to play again. I really loved playing hockey.

There is no way that Spiderman would take off his mask. He knows that if people (enemies) know who he is, then the people who he loves and the people who love him would not be safe. His days of fighting crime would be over. I do not understand how the comic world can do THIS. Spidy has just died.

What a game, Edmonton won 4 to 3 in overtime. They are going back to Edmonton for game 6. Go Oilers !!!!!

Not looking good for the home team, Oilers lost last night they are down 3 games to 1.

This just not seem right, too many secrets.

Lord Stanley's Cup

The Edmonton goalie won the game for Oiliers the other night. The 4th game is tonight. Edmonton is down 1 game to 2. Go Oilers!!

Who are they to discuss public policy in private?

Chapter 12 of “Collapse” deals with China and the different environmental problems that China has to contend with as the country try’s to become a 1st world economy. I have always thought that the reason that the rainforest in Brazil were being cut down was because Brazil wanted, desired more land for economical development and farming. That is not the case, as China develops an environmental conscience to save its own ecosystems from destruction; China is plundering Brazil and other tropical countries for wood because wood provides 40% of the energy for rural areas. Aside from the energy that China consumes as I was reading this chapter I started wondering why China has such a large population. What are the factors that caused China to have 1.1 billion people? And what effect will China have on the world as China becomes a 1st world nation.

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.

I am going to be working hard in July, I will be spending 2 days at Saddlebrook. They are hosting a computer/ audio visual exposition and I will be attending a few seminars and free breakfast and lunch. Somebody has to do it, and I get free toys.

I listen to the The Bear a lot at work, and even though I have not lived in Edmonton for some years now when the radio station starts talking about Sherwood Park I find myself thinking that I still live there. Just for a second or two, and then I realize that I am in Florida. The radio station will start giving traffic reports, or just start talking about places that are familiar to me and for a few seconds I am transported back -- it is a strange but familiar feeling. Growing up I think that Edmonton was one of my best times in my life. It was fun, and I loved it and I knew how good of time it was. I love my room, and my cat. There were a lot of times that I stayed up all night reading, or watching movies with my cat. Hanging out with Randy was great fun, since he had the car; we were gone a lot to Edmonton hanging around with some girls that we knew from another church. When I would take off for the weekend I used to ask dad for $2.00; that was all I needed for a Big Mac, fries, and a strawberry milkshake. I have been working out so I do not eat as many big Mac’s as I used too, but I still love big Mac’s.

I was active duty Army for 8 years and National Guard for 4 years, I still go through times were I miss the military, it’s in my blood. I miss the Army more then then the National Guard, being in the Army was a cool experience. Even though I took crap in the Army, I am glad I served in the Army, me and my wife move from Shreveport La, to Ft. Riley then to Ft. Wainwright AK.; I served in 1st ID (Ft. Riley KS, The Big Red One) and 6th ID (Ft. Wainwright Alaska). In 1st ID I as assigned to the 1st Engineer Bn (they were combat engineers ), working in the S-3 shop. One of my duties was to operated and maintain a Armored Command Post Carrier M577A2, I loved operating that machine in the field, it was great fun to drive on the tank trails. I had one scary event though, it was January or February and I was bring my track down an inclined slope what I did not realize was that the ground was frozen at the time, my track started to slipe and slide, but once I realized what was happening I was able to get control of track and get my track to the bottom of the hill safely.

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.