Wondering what is happening in Shreveport? Shreveport City Council to consider saggy pants ban. A city council with nothing to do.

I know what I am going to be when I grow up an Quantum Cosmologist and study Loop Quantum Gravity

Hey Auto Tuner, I have been thinking of your concept that we are all dasies and that God is the gardener, that God has the right to pick whatever flower from the flower garden with the consequences of the actions being irrelavant, or of no repercussion. You can not equate the life of a flower with the life of human beings there is no comparision. A flower has no mother, father, siblings, or relationships outside the family body. So when you tell me that God has the authority to pick a flower in reality God is breaking up family relationships, and that if God put together a marriage that is under the Christian umbrella of marriage the marriage is being broken by God; for example when MM said that God took his friend home, that says to me God killed the guy, broke a marriage and left some children without a father. You cannot equate that to a gardener just picking some flowers.

I am buying one of these.

I thought of a new dating system for History: BCP and ACP.

1. BCP -- Before Cell Phones
2. ACP -- After Cell Phones

What triggered this is that I am watching all old TV shows (we have Netflix) that I used to watch, and what I noticed right away is cell phone use in todays TV shows. In the pre-cell phone TV shows the means of communication was the pay phone, or just regular phone.

I had a friend in Grande Prairie that I always played chess with in school. His name was Wayne Showalter, and we always had a great time playing chess, he beat me more that I beat him, but by playing him so much it made me good. When I played other players I usually won. I remember the one chess game where I was getting wiped of the map and then I saw my chance, I scarfice my queen, and by doing the I created a trap for my opponent and I won; such a great feeling-- defeating someone on the chess board. I miss playing chess, I have tried playing over the internet, but it is not the same.

Anyways back to my story, last year I was looking through my yearbooks, and I came accross Wayne's picture, so I decided to "google" Wayne's name to see if I could find him. I came accross a Wayne Showalter, but I was not sure if that was him, but for whatever reason I dropped my search. Then this past Mondy I thought of Wayne again, so I decided to find Wayne's email address and email Wayne so see if this was the Wayne that I played chess with in school. End of the story, it was him. It has been about 35 years since I have seen Wayne, the net is cool.

Euclidean geometry has 5 postulates

1. Any two points can be joined by a straight line.

2. Any straight line segment can be extended indefinitely in a straight line.

3. Given any straight line segment, a circle can be drawn having the segment as radius and one endpoint as center.

4. All right angles are congruent.

5. Parallel postulate. If two lines intersect a third in such a way that the sum of the inner angles on one side is less than two right angles, then the two lines inevitably must intersect each other on that side if extended far enough.

It was by trying to prove the 5th postulate false that lead mathematician's to discover hyperbolic geometry. In fact Jesuit Girolamo Saccheri (1733) I guess is considered the father of hyperbolic geometry, he was trying to do just that.

All through High School and College I never considered that trig was really about objects on a 2-D plane. You plot points on a cartisian x-y plane, and draw your f(x) or object, but that really does not represent real world, because we live in a 3-D world, plus time, so you can consider that we are living in 3-D, space-time existance. From what little I understand of hyperbolic geometry, that is a more accurate representation of the universe that we live in.

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

Normally you have a problem in a trig math book were you figure out how high the plane is in the air. This formual does not take in to account the curvature of the earth, so what you are doing is finding a close approximation of how high the plane is above the earth. Also the plane is following a curved path, not straight. I need to learn more about hyperbolic geometry.

I am reading a new book -- "The Road to Reality; A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe" by Roger Perose. He is a mathmatician at Oxford ( in England ). I just read a chapter on Hyberbolic Geometry, and it was fascinating (now I want to take a class on HG). There is so much neat math to learn, a person could take math classes the rest of their lives. The mathmaticians that live in the 1700's and 1800's that developed that math that we do today, they were truly geniuses. Once a person had taked Calc, and DE, and other higher math classes, a person can appreciate the development and the thought that went into creating all the different math that exists today. I do, math is cool.