Fish:1 Randy:0

In all the hamburgers that I have eaten around the country, I must admit that "Popa and Company" hamburger joint here in Shreveport has one of the best hamburgers that I have ever dined on. It is 1/2 or 3/4 pound hamburger that has all the fixings that is between homemade bun, it is juciy, and what ever sauce they use--- just makes the hamburger scrumptious. Then if you get fries with it --- what can I say, you are stuffed-- they are home made fries, delicious.
The only problem is that they have Coke; I hate Coke.

Went fishing; caught a tree. The tree was so small that I let it go back to the wild.

I want this computer.

Discovery Of The Oldest Adornments In The World

Science Daily — The discovery of small perforated sea shells, in the Cave of Pigeons in Taforalt, eastern Morocco, has shown that the use of bead adornments in North Africa is older than thought. Dating from 82 000 years ago, the beads are thought to be the oldest in the world. As adornments, together with art, burial and the use of pigments, are considered to be among the most conclusive signs of the acquisition of symbolic thought and of modern cognitive abilities, this study is leading researchers to question their ideas about the origins of modern humans. The study was carried out by a multidisciplinary team made up of researchers at CNRS, working with scientists from Morocco, the UK, Australia and Germany.Read more, if you are not afraid.

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Happy Father's Day

Earlier Water On Earth? Oldest Rock Suggests Hospitable Young Planet

Science Daily — Geological evidence suggests that Earth may have had surface water -- and thus conditions to support life -- billions of years earlier than previously thought. Scientists reconstructed the portrait of early Earth by reading the telltale chemical composition of the oldest known terrestrial rock. The 4.4-billion-year-old mineral sample suggests that early Earth was not a roiling ocean of magma, but instead was cool enough for water, continents, and conditions that could have supported life. The age of the sample may also undermine accepted current views on how and when the moon was formed. The research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and is published in this week's issue of the journal Nature.Read the rest

There is one downside to learning science -- physics in particular. Science fiction movies are not viewed the same as when I was a kid. I still love and enjoy Scifi movies and shows, but I have an understanding now of the universe and the laws that govern the universe.

For example I like how scifi movies and tv show overcome interia, Star Trek I think was the leader in addressing the physics of space travel. How did Star Trek overcome this problem -- "interia dampers" this way when the star ship dropped warp speed to sublight speed nobody was crushed into the hull of the space ship. Now "interia dampers" are reference in all scifi movies and shows.

In Star Trek the way people were transported was by beaming them around by the "transportor." This device took matter comverted it to energy then back to matter so the scifi writers had to address the problem of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Bascially the principle states that you can know the speed of an elemently particule, but not precisely the position, or you can know the postion, but not know the speed of the particule. Sooooo, you may be asking what did Star Trek do to overcome this by creating a device called "the Heisenberg compensator"

As a sidebar a few years ago I read of an experiament in Australia where a photon (I think, it has been a few years) was transported some distance, but I have not read anything else on the subject.

For a transportor to work it would require enormous amount of memory, but the cool thing would be copy and paste. Theoretically speaking once the matter was converted to energy the Star Trek people created the pattern buffer which stored an image of the object, so since our bodies are symetrical if a person lost an arm, in the pattern buffer you could copy the one arm and paste it where the missing arm is.

You can not hear sounds in space, it sounds really nice but in Star Terk and Star Wars the sound of lasers being fired and the sound of space ships flying around the galaxy you just can not hear it. Speaking of lasers, you can not see a laser like in the movies, it just does not work that way. To see a laser light you would have to defuse the laser, which defeats the priciple of the laser because a laser is a coherent beam of light.

I still love scifi movies and shows though.

Climate Change Pushed Neanderthal Into Extinction In Iberian Peninsula, Spanish Researcher Says Climate Change Pushed Neanderthal Into Extinction In Iberian Peninsula, Spanish Researcher Says

Science Daily- Climate – and not modern humans – was the cause of the Neanderthal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula. Such is the conclusion of the University of Granada research group RNM 179 - Mineralogy and Geochemistry of sedimentary and metamorphic environments, headed by professor Miguel Ortega Huertas and whose members Francisco José Jiménez Espejo, Francisca Martínez Ruiz and David Gallego Torres work jointly at the department of Mineralogy and Petrology of the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada) and the Andalusian Regional Institute of Earth Sciences (CSIC-UGR).Read the rest.

Window Vista -- Even though a profile can be set up as an administrator, that does not mean you are an administrator and that can do anything to the operating system. Microsoft in their wisdom decided not to give the user as an adminstrator full access to the operating system to configure as the user wishes or desires. I am thinking about either loaded XP on my laptop or Linux. I can do everything free with Linux, plus Linux comes with a compiler, you can not beat that.

I really do not understand why Microsoft configured Vista so an administrator does not have full control of the operating system, other then Microsoft has decided that users are idiots and to keep their bloated operating system operating, this way keeps users from trashing Vista. There is a way to create a administrator profile and to do that, a user has get into "safe mode," then bring up the command promt and say;" net use andministrator / admin" ( I think, I am going have to google that again), anyways then an admin account is created. I thought "fine" I can now configure my laptop for PHP, but even after creating the admin account it still did not give me full access to the operating system. I still could not configure the ISS file because even as logged as an admin I still did not have the rights to modify the file. I could call Microsoft, but they want 59.00 for 1/2 hour. Why should I have to pay Microsoft money to tell me how to configure their stupid operating system when they are the ones that locked users out out by default, and then keep it a secret. Then Microsoft wonders why people are mad and then look for alteratives to Microsoft.

There is a Adam and Eve museum, I do not remember were it is located, but it has scientific inaccuracies. It does not matter what you believe, emperical truth is "emperical" there is no debate. This is just like the Catholic Church in the face of the truth stating that the Earth is the center of the our planetary system. This museum states that the earth is only 6,000 years old, and that man walk with the dinosaurs-- this is just wrong and the museum is wondering why they are getting flack from the scientific community. For the record the earth is 4.5 billion years old, and there have been no human foot prints discovered with fossil remains of dinosaurs.