Hey AutoTuner, there was bike night out at Plant City, the city is about 30 miles from Tampa. The city has bike night every first Saturday of the month. There was one bike there that had a car tire for a back wheel. Here are some pics. You can click on a pic if you want to see more detail.

You may be wondering why I posted these I.T. rules, well let me tell you. I was told by my boss to go and install a printer in this person's office the other day. I person had given their permision to enter thier office and for me to install the printer which was fine by me. I entered the office to discover that the computer I was to install the printer on was a labtop, but the laptop was at home. The person did not know that the computer had to be there so I could install the printer, sometime PhD means "pizzia hut dude" since I am surrounded by them. Life of an I.T. person.

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 tropies and childern'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 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 are 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 server.

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 a I.T. person's chair with no name, no phone number, and no discription 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 will be there shortly, reply in a scathing tone of voice, "And just how many weeks do you mean by shortly?" That really motivates us.

12. When the printer won't print, resend the print job 20 more times. Print jobs frequently get suck into black holes.

13. When the printer still won't print after 20 times, sent the job to all 68 printers in the company. One of them will 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 online help, online help is for wimps.

AutoTuner we had a big motorcycle meet for the SuperBowl, they said that there was 3900 bikes there.

Hey AutoTuner what about this Volkswagen!

The Democratic Party has expanded its membership by about 300 - 350 people today with the stroke of a pen.

I finally understand the difference between a closed, flat, or open universe. In a flat universe a triangle equalls 180 degrees I did not understand meaning of that statement. I just finnished reading a book by Leonard Susskind; "the father of string theory." Anyways a flat universe means that the expansion rate of the universe is constant, a closed universe means that the universe is shrinking and a open universe the expansion is accelerating. With a flat universe the triangle is not being distorted so sum of all the angles equal 180 degrees.

Medieval tech support.

Today begins the Democratic dictatorship.

GS-1000 1978

It has been a long time since I have ridden a motorcycle. The first motorcycle I had was a Suzuki GS-1000 which I bought from Blackwolf. I am not sure why Blackwolf himself bought the bike or why he sold it to me ( it was a long time ago ), but I ended up with the motorcycle and I road it a number of years until we moved to Alaska (Ft. Wainwright) that was 1988. I sold the motorcycle and have not been on a bike since. For the last few years I started missing ridding a motorcycle, and when I was driving around I would spy every bike on the road. I have a Honda VT 750c.

Autotuner this is what I bought: 2008 Honda VT750C


Engine: 52° V-twin, SOHC, 3 valves per cylinder
Displacement 745 cc
Bore x Stroke 79 x 76 mm
Compression Ratio 9.6:1
Carburetion Single 34 mm CV type
Cooling Liquid-cooled
Ignition CD with electronic advance, 2 spark plugs per cylinder

DIMENSIONS
Wheelbase 64.5 in.
Fuel Capacity 3.7 gal. including 0.9 gal. reserve
Seat Height 25.9 in.

DRIVETRAIN
Transmission Wide-ratio 5-speed
Final Drive Shaft
Suspension
Front: 41 mm fork; 4.6 in. travelRear: Dual shocks with 5-position spring-preload adjustability; 3.5 in. travel

BRAKES/WHEELS/TIRES
Brakes
Front: Single 296 mm disc with twin-piston caliperRear: 180 mm drum
Tires/Wheels
Front: 120/90-17Rear: 160/80-15

LHC -- Large Hadron Collider at CERN was fired up, and we are still here. There is a big controversy surounding the LHC that it will create quantum black holes thus destroying planet Earth. But, we are saved now because the collider will be down for 3 or more months, it was a large helium leak, and some kind of electrical problem.

There are some law suits againest the collider, these people have no understanding of the physics of the collider. I think that these are the same doom and gloom people world wide that believe that what ever man does somehow it is going to destroy the earth. One of the people bring a law suite againest the collider is a chemist, he probably had 2 physics classes in his life, a real expert. When they get the collider working it will be cool.

Dear Diary,


For my fiftieth birthday this year, my wife (the dear) purchased a
week of personal training at the local health club for me. Although
I am still in great shape since playing on my college football team
30 yrs ago, I decided it would be a good idea to go ahead and give
it a try.

Called the club and made my reservation with a personal trainer
named Belinda, who identified herself as a 26 yr old aerobics
instructor and model for athletic clothing and swim wear. My wife
seemed pleased with my enthusiasm to get started! The club
encouraged me to keep a diary to chart my progress.

MONDAY: Started my day at 6:00am.
Tough to get out of bed, but it was well worth it when I arrived at
the health club to find Belinda waiting for me. She was something of
a Greek goddess -- with blonde hair, dancing eyes and a dazzling
white smile.

Woo Hoo!!!!!


Belinda gave me a tour and showed me the machines. She took my pulse
after 5 minutes on the treadmill. She was alarmed that my pulse was
so fast, but I attributed it to standing next to her in her Lycra
aerobics outfit. I enjoyed watching the skillful way in which she
conducted her aerobics class after my workout today.

Very inspiring, Belinda was encouraging as I did my sit-ups,
although my gut was already aching from holding it in the whole time
she was around. This is going to be a FANTASTIC week!!

TUESDAY: I drank a whole pot of coffee, but I finally made it out
the door. Belinda made me lie on my back and push a heavy iron bar
into the air, and then she put weights on it! My legs were a little
wobbly on the treadmill, but I made the full mile. Belinda's
rewarding smile made it all worthwhile. I feel GREAT!! It's a whole
new life for me.

WEDNESDAY: The only way I can brush my teeth is by laying the
toothbrush on the counter and moving my mouth back and forth over
it. I believe I have a hernia in both pectorals. Driving was OK as
long as I didn't try to steer or stop. I parked on top of a GEO in
the club parking lot.

Belinda was impatient with me, insisting that my screams bothered
other club members. Her voice is a little too perky for early in the
morning and when she scolds, she gets this nasally whine that is
VERY annoying.

My chest hurt when I got on the treadmill, so Belinda put me on the
stair monster. Why would anyone invent a machine to
simulate an activity rendered obsolete by elevators? Belinda told me
it would help me get in shape and enjoy life. She said some other
useless stuff too.

THURSDAY: Belinda was waiting for me with her vampire-like teeth
exposed as her thin, cruel lips were pulled back in a full snarl. It
wasn’t my fault I was a half an hour late; it took me that long to tie
my shoes.

Belinda took me to work out with dumbbells. When she was not
looking, I ran and hid in the men's room.. She sent Lars to find me,
then, as punishment, put me on the rowing machine -- which I sank.

FRIDAY: I hate that Belinda more than any human being has ever
hated any other human being in the history of the world. Stupid,
skinny, anemic little cheerleader. If there were a part of my body I
could move without unbearable pain, I would beat her with it.

Belinda wanted me to work on my triceps. I don't have any triceps.
And if you don't want dents in the floor, don't hand me the *&%
#(#&**!!@*@ barbells or anything that weighs more than a sandwich.

The treadmill flung me off and I landed on a health and nutrition
teacher. Why couldn't it have been someone softer, like the drama
coach or the choir director?

SATURDAY: Belinda left a message on my answering machine in her
grating, shrilly voice wondering why I did not show up today. Just
hearing her made me want to smash the machine with my planner.
However, I lacked the strength to even use the TV remote and ended
up catching eleven straight hours of the Weather Channel.


SUNDAY: I'm having the Church van pick me up for services today so I
can go and thank GOD that this week is over. I will also pray that
next year, my wife, will choose a gift for me that is fun like a
root canal or a vasectomy.

"Iell be back"-- the Terminator; well here is the start: Big Dog Project. Then comes "Sky Net."

The concept of gravity is really not comprehended because it is not understood how gravity is created, mass = gravity and are there little "gravitrons?" Gravity moves at the speed of light and is through out the universe. Before Einstein there was Newton who discribe gravitatation attraction between objects with the following formula:

F_g= G m₁m₂/r²


G = universal gravitational constant

m = mass

r = seperation between the two masses


On first look at this equation you just assume the attraction is intrinsic with the two masses and nothing else involved, and the equation works. Then along came Einstein and redefined gravity and space = space time, Einstein showed how gravity was warping space, and that warping of space created the orbit the planets around the sun because if that warping was not happening the earth would be traveling the Milky Way in a straight line. So then is gravity really attracting another object or does Newton's formula describe the warping of space that mass objects create and that the effect that the warping of space is creating the attraction on two objects?

I have finished reading the book, "Barbarians" by Terry Jones and Alan Ereira and then watched the DVD's that were part of the book and then shown on the History Channel. The premise of the book was challenging the ideas that the Romans were not civilized but they were the Barbarians not the other nationalities that the Roman's conquered and then the Romans considered them to be barbarians. The nations that surrounded the Roman Empire were in more ways more civilized then the mighty Roman Empire. The best example that exemplifies the point is the Roman coliseum and the thurst for the blood that the Roman nation satisfied there. Nowhere else in any other nation was the killing of innocent people by lions, or by gladiator’s to the amusement and enjoyment of the Roman people that filled the coliseum. I remember studying the Roman Nation in one of my Humanity classes and that my professor said that near the end of the Roman Empire the coliseum was in use 260 days out of the year. That is allot of death for the amusement of a nation. No other nation that surrounded or that was conquered be the Romans made death a national past time. The Romans also treated knowledge from other cultures as either relevant to their needs or irrelevant so it was discarded, which means they burnt libraries. Rome was an Empire for 1000 years and in that time so much general knowledge was lost because it did not serve the Empire. The Catholic Church also bears some blame because when it came to power as the Holy Roman Empire beginning with Charlemagne if the knowledge did not benefit the Church, or in a act of holy rage to stamp out paganism; burn the libraries.


I had always wondered what caused the "Dark Ages" and I think that I stumbled onto one possible answer. The Roman Empire and the Church burnt the world’s libraries that contained the world's knowledge which resulted in man having to rediscover information and ideas that were lost for hundreds of years.


In the TV show a Roman boat was discovered in the Mediterranean and some artifacts were recovered but one artifact was thought insignificant until someone decided to x-ray the artifact. It was then discovered that there was an intricate gear formation that the x-ray picture revealed. Once the machine was recreated it was discovered that the motion of the planets and their position to each other could be revealed with this device. Here is a machine that was created 1000’s of years ago by the Greeks that the plans were no doubt in some library that was burnt by the Roman Empire.

Burning books is not right even if you do not agree with it, you have the power to accept it, or reject it, but burning a book is not an option.

On Aug. 23, 2008 I am going to see Boston and Michael Sweet of Stryper will be playing with Boston.







Stryper




So I might hear some Stryper songs which would make it a great concert.

Here is something for you Autotuner 1 (a little Stryper drum action):

It looks like the whole idea of dying and then being raised from the dead was there before Jesus talked about it.

Yea, it's "CANADA DAY."

This is the day that Canada invaded the America Colonies in the war of 1812 and burn't down the then not American (which was not white color at the time) "White House." This action resulted in the Americans rebuilding the burn't White House and then painting the president's house "white," resulting what reguarded now as the "White House." Yea, burning down the house!!!!!! Party, party.

Some cool NASA space shuttle pictures. You can click on a image for a bigger image.

On of my HP printers in one of my computer labs went down and it had a error code, so I went HP web site to look up the error code. I already kind of knew what the code meant, but I wanted to be sure, so I found my printer on HP web site and low and behold the defination for the error was not listed. So I decided to call HP support to confirm what I thought the error code meant, this was the conversation:

me: I have a printer error that I would like you to tell me what it means?

HP: Can I have the serial number of the printer?

me Ok, it is xxxxxxxxx.

HP: That printer is out of warranty, you need to pay 21.00 for support.

me: Are you saying that I need to pay 21.00 so you can tell what your error means that is not listed on your web page?

HP: yes

me: You have got to be kidding!!!!

HP: You can try our online web support, it's free.

me: Ok

I bring up the HP web site on my computer and navigate to HP's web support page and then log onto the web support page.

me: I have a printer problem and I am not sure of the error code.

HP: Can I have the serial number of the printer?

me: Ok, xxxxxxxxx

HP: That printer is not under warranty any more you have to pay 21.00 for support.

me: Are you telling me that I need to pay 21.00 so you can tell me what HP's error code means?

HP: yes, or go find the error code on the HP web page

By this time my German temper (which you know most of the time I am calm and collect) I am irrate.

me: thanks for the non-support, the error is not on HP's web site

I then close the web page thinking some choice (like in Star Trek) colorful adjectives.

This is just crap. Why do I have to pay HP for information that is indigenous to them, dealing with their equipment and error codes that only they know?

Father's Day

Ode to a Father:

Who I am today is influenced, shaped, and molded by my relationship I had with dad. Dad's sense of humor, and desire to have fun has had a direct impact on my life and how I raised my own childern. The humors tricks and pranks that dad played on me, I passed onto my children. For example my kids would take off out the door, and then I would call them back and then asked that all important question,"How far would you have gotten if I would not have called you back?"

I love roller coasters, and that love of ridding rollercoasters is because dad loved to ride them, and he loved to take me and I love the feeling of loosing my stomach on that first big fall of the coaster. One time when were vacationing in California me and dad ventured out our own without mom's knowledege and found a rollercoaster on the beach, we rode about 5 times ( I really do not remember how many times, but it was alot ). It was sooooooooo much fun, as soon as we got of the rollercoaster we ran back to get inline so we could ride it again. I have done that with my kids, one time we were at Bush Gardens, and there were not many people, the coaster was open so, me and my kids did the same thing, we got off and then ran to get back on the rollercoaster and rode it numerous time; sooooooo much fun.

Dad would take me with him to the oil riggs and that was fun too, the food, the apple pies. I loved the noise of the oil rigg and big diesel engines that drove the drilling, I always slept best out there, I guess that is why I like my fan so much, the noise.

The one thing that I could not do with dad was to discuss intellectual ideas or the "meaning of life" and I do that with mom now, but dad just had not desire to contimplate the issues, I guess he just did not have it in him. I feel sad the way dad's life ended, I am not sure why his life ended the way it did, but I am sure some of the choices that he made in his life had a direct impact on the way his life ended, but I am glad of the time and fun that I had with dad.

I have not had my own cat since "Panther" to name. We have had cats, but not my cat. Anyways here is my cat, still thinking of a name. I have always liked cats better than dogs, cats reflect my personality I guess that is why I have always liked cats better than dogs. Lilly has the sister.

"The mitochondrial genealogy of humankind has three main branches, know as L1, L2, and L3. L1 and L2 are confined to Africans who lived south of the Sahara. The L3 branch gave rise to a linage known as M, and it was the descendants of M who left Africa." (Before the Dawn, pg 58)

Life started in Africa.

I was conversing with AutoTuner the other day as he was celebrating that he had just joined the 21st Century by have just bought a broadband/cable/phone system. Surfing the internet cyberspace waves. Where is Blackwolf????

SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2007

Scenario! : Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.2007 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.2007 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charged them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.1957 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.2007 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful! busine ssman.2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.

Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.1957 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.2007 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.1957 - ! Pedro g oes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.2007 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.

Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.1957 - Ants die.2007 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings! remove d from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy. I wish this could hit every e-mail

Hockey

Autotuner asked me the other day if I was watching the NHL playoffs, and I told him that I was watching some of the playoffs but not like years ago. There is no Bobby Orr, Bobby Hull, or Bobby Clark. The players that I knew when I was playing hockey, plus that game that I watched recently there was nothing but hooking, so to me hockey is not as exciting as when I was playing hockey. I have to admit I still miss playing the game, I loved playing hockey, being on the ice. What I did not like was though was Dad refereeing my games, the other teams always thought Dad was harder on them, then us.

I might feel different or excited about hockey if I lived in Edmonton, here in Tampa football is the big thing here, plus it is hard to freeze water in your backyard to create your own rink.

The Olympic Games


I think that it is wrong that the athletes have to sign a piece of paper that basically states that the athletes will not criticize the Chinese government on human rights, or anything else the Chinese Secret Police deems not in the Chinese political interest. The Olympic games in China are to symbloize China becoming a 1st world nation, but at what price. As you know China is one of the world's top polluters, and that is the reason that the world's top marathoner is not running in Beijing, for fear that his lungs would be harmed by the pollution.

For the games to take place the Olympic area where all that athletes are lodging need food, water, and breathable air. So what is the Chinese government plan to accomlish master plan. First, shutdown a few powerplans ( in a 75 mile radius ) it does not matter if the local people have no power for 2 weeks, but it will cut down on the pollution. Second water (H2O); that plan is to divert enough fresh water (from the same 75 mile radius) to enshure that the athletes have enough water, it does not matter if the local people do not have enough water for two weeks. In short China does not have the infrastructure to host the Olympic games or the freedom for people for which I thought the Olympic games represented.

This is cool link.

The Flood

There is no evidence that a world wide flood happened, but there is evidence that localized flooding happened, that at the time people would have thought that the whole earth was flooded because to them what they perceived (their surroundings) was the whole earth. Anyways, if whole earth was deluged by water, here is the math.

Since the Earth is only 10,000 years old not much geological change has happened, so I took Mt. Everest as the tallest place on earth, and then added 40 cubits to that height. There is some contention of what a cubit so I just took an average. They think a cubit was between 43 to 56 centimeters long so:

43 + 56 / 2 = 49.5 cm
49.5 cm = 0.000495 km

first the volume of the earth:

V = 4/3 x pi x r³
= (1.3 ) (3.14) (6,371)³
= 1055591332674.502 km³

second, volume of earth plus added the height of Mt Everest

Mt Everest = 8.848 km, add that to the radius of the earth
6371.0 + 8.848 + .000495 = 6379.85 km

V_{earth + Mt. Everest} = 4/3 x pi x r³
= (1.3)x(3.14)x(6378.85)³
= 1059995436864.56 km³

Volume of water fallen = V_earth - V _{e + Mt Everest}
= 4404104190.06 km³

converting that to gallons of water = 1.163 x 10²¹

That is one more decimal place that all the water on the earth, and if that much water vapor was in the atmosphere, the atmospheric pressure would have been so great that life could not exist on the earth.

The world is going to end --- 7.6 billion years from now, when the sun engulfs the earth in a supernova. Life on earth only has 1 billion years left, buy then the expanding sun will have boiled the oceans away (fish fry). You will still be able to get a tan though, burnt to a crisp -- toasty; just like Quiznos.

The Sun is 4.5 billion years old, and since the birth of the sun it has consumed 1/2 of the hydrogen in the Sun's core. The temperature of the sun is 15.6 million degrees Kelvin at the core which converted to Celcius is 15,699,726.85 C. At the surface the temperature of the sun is 7000 degrees Celcius.

There was Adam and Lilith, before Adam and Eve.

I was surfing the web, looking for information on a book that I am reading, and I came across this:

The word "Lucifer" in Isaiah 14:12 presents a minor problem to mainstream Christianity. It becomes a much larger problem to Bible literalists, and becomes a huge obstacle for the claims of Mormonism. John J. Robinson in A Pilgrim's Path, pp. 47-48 explains: "Lucifer makes his appearance in the fourteenth chapter of the Old Testament book of Isaiah, at the twelfth verse, and nowhere else: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!" The first problem is that Lucifer is a Latin name. So how did it find its way into a Hebrew manuscript, written before there was a Roman language? To find the answer, I consulted a scholar at the library of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. What Hebrew name, I asked, was Satan given in this chapter of Isaiah, which describes the angel who fell to become the ruler of hell? The answer was a surprise. In the original Hebrew text, the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah is not about a fallen angel, but about a fallen Babylonian king, who during his lifetime had persecuted the children of Israel. It contains no mention of Satan, either by name or reference. The Hebrew scholar could only speculate that some early Christian scribes, writing in the Latin tongue used by the Church, had decided for themselves that they wanted the story to be about a fallen angel, a creature not even mentioned in the original Hebrew text, and to whom they gave the name "Lucifer." Why Lucifer? In Roman astronomy, Lucifer was the name given to the morning star (the star we now know by another Roman name, Venus). The morning star appears in the heavens just before dawn, heralding the rising sun. The name derives from the Latin term lucem ferre, bringer, or bearer, of light." In the Hebrew text the expression used to describe the Babylonian king before his death is Helal, son of Shahar, which can best be translated as "Day star, son of the Dawn." The name evokes the golden glitter of a proud king's dress and court (much as his personal splendor earned for King Louis XIV of France the appellation, "The Sun King").

billmcelligott; a member of AboveTopSecret.com", and include the title of the message thread, Masonic Sun Worship; and this full link URL to the post: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread29329/pg2#pid633405.

That verse was used alot in many sermans that I listen to in church describing how Satan challanged God's authority in Heaven. I just read a book a few months ago detailing how the scribes from all the 6000 manuscripts that the Bible comes from and how verses were changed because that particular scribe thought it need to be changed to conform to what he thought was right.

How Big is the Universe?

I have never really ever thought about "How Big the Universe" was until my physics teacher asked that simple question, which I readily anwsered about 26 billion light years in diameter, but as soon as I have anwsered I knew I was wrong. What I was stating was that the observable universe is about 26 billions light years ( because we can look back about 13.4 billion light years), assuming that the earth in is the middle of the universe, but even if the earth is not the universe is so vast I really do not think that it matters. Anyways, we have a horizon (so to speak) of light that we can observe, but buy the time the light reaches the earth the universe has expaned from where the light has not reached us yet.

Photons

Photons are massless and travel at the speed of light; approx 186,ooo miles per second. Since photons travel at the speed of light, time = 0 in reference to the photon. I have been wondering if you were on a photon would you be aware of the velocity that you are traveling at. What I mean -- velocity = distance / time. If time = 0, then your velocity = ??? well I guess your velocity would be undefined since you can not divide by zero. From the perspective of the earth it takes light approx 8.5 mins to reach the earth, so the photon has a velocity relative to the earth, but what of the photon it's self? how does the photon perceive it's self? If you were on top of a photon would you be aware of motion? and how would you perceive the universe?

The State of Physics -- String Theory or I guess M-Theory

From all the books that I have read on string theory (the ones by Brain Greene), and the shows that I have seen on NOVA about ST I had always thought that there was some underlying emperical evidence that was pointing to ST but ST is not that cut and dry. The book that I just finnished reading "The Trouble with Physics" by Lee Smolin has painted a dark picture for ST. ST has taken on some religious connotation's that can be eximplified by the argument that took place between the Church and Science, when the observations confimed that the Earth was not the center of the Solar System but the Sun was. When the Earth was the center of the Solar System, the system was so complicated to explain the motion of the sun and planets that it was ridiclous, but once the Sun was place at the center of the Solor System the motion of the Sun and Planets became simplified and able to make accurate prodictions relating the to Solar System.

With ST instead of epicircles you have dimensions, and with these dimensions you have equations that are so complicated that they can not be solve. From what I understand right now there are 11 dimensions in ST, in some other books of ST I have read that there are 16 dimensions; that just seems to complicated to me, and it does not represent the universe that I live in. The other problem that ST has is that the theory does not make any predictions and it is untestable. Once the new super collider comes operational, maybe ST can be tested and evaluated like other theorys have been.

Cool computer, check it out.

There sure is a lot of grey hair on MM's blog.

Another Church.

CW was a funniest Missionary that I ever new, he was cool.

MM, these are the kind of churchs I did missionary work in.

Here is a blast from the past.

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Ancient Manuscript Suggests Jesus Asked Judas to Betray Him.

Shadowpaint99, I had said that string theory was in a dissarry a while ago, and I think that I can answer your question as to why now. I am reading a new book, "The Trouble with Physics" by Lee Smolin, he is a theoretical physicist living in Canada. He worked on ST and now he is working on Loop Quantum Gravity which seems to give results relating to the real world. To the basics of science and how it relates to ST.

The basics of science -- the sceintific method:

1. Ask a Question
2. Do Background Research
3. Construct a Hypothesis
4. Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment
5. Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion
6. Communicate Your Results

Example:

1. "Is the earth 10,000 years old?"

2. The earth strata, dinasours seem to indicate that the earth is older then 10,000.

3. I think the the earth is older then 10,000 years.

4. Determine how hot the earth is after 10,000 years by using heat equations -- yea that's that anwser.

5 & 6 After working out the heat equations, if the earths was 10,000 years old the earth would be 15,000 degrees C, so the earth is NOT 10,000 years old because the earth is colder then 15,000 C.

Will back to string theory, right now there is no way to apply the sceintific principal to ST, I emphasis there is NO empirical evidence for string theory, it is all math, and right now there is no way to do any experiments to prove string theory. This is causing some people to rethink their position and wonder if they have spent their lives for nothing because there is no hard evidence or experimental data for ST. When the new particle accelerater (the biggest) which is being built in Geneva, Switzerland it could provide the first emperical evidence for string theory or againest the theory but even that is not sure.

Brian Greene is the person I guess you could (lead physistics person on string theory), he is the person who did the show on NOVA said in his book "The Fabric of the Cosmos"; "Even today, more then three decades after its initial articulation, most string practitioners believe we still don't have a comprehensive anwser to the rudimentary question, What is string theory? ... Most researches feel that our current formulation of string theory still lacks the kind of core principle we find in the heart of other major advances."

There are equations in ST that are so difficult that cannot be solved. I think that the real problem is that ST does not model the real world, and lacks real empirical evidence.

You Are an Alien

You're so strange, people occasionally wonder if you're from another world. You don't try to be different, but you see most things from a very unique, very offbeat perspective. Brilliant to the point of genius, you definitely have some advanced intelligence going on. No matter what circles you travel in, you always feel like a stranger. And it's a feeling you've learned to like. Your greatest power: Your superhuman brain Your greatest weakness: Your lack of empathy - you just don't get humans You play well with: Zombies

What Kind of Monster Are You?

Boat Owners

There were these two twins Jim Ryall and Bill Ryall. Jim was the owner of an old dilapidated boat. It just so happened Bill's wife died the same day Jim's boat sank. A few days later a kindly old woman saw Jim and mistaking Jim for Bill stated "I'm sorry to hear about your loss. You must feel just terrible." Jim, thinking about the boat said, "Hell no, fact is I'm sort of glad to be rid of her, she was a rotten ole thing from the beginning. Her bottem was all shriveled up and she smelled like an old dead fish, she was always losing water. She had a crack in the back and a pretty big hole in the front too. Every time I used her, her hole got bigger and she leaked like crazy. I guess what finally finished her off was when I rented her to four guys looking for a good time. I warned them that she was'nt very good, but they wanted to use her anyhow. The damn fools all tried to get in her at once and she split right up the middle. "

The old woman fainted!!!

NOVA had a show the other day about what happened in Washington State about 15,000 years ago, how glaciers from Canada created a huge dam ( Glacial Lake Missoul ) with trillions of gallons of water or 500 cubic miles of water estimated. When the dam broke it created the Scablands about 200 miles east of Seattle. The interesting was part was how the scientest discovered the process by which water (which is supercooled, below 32 C) interacts with the ice breaking the glacier apart which then creates deluge of water and ice. The process was discovered I think they said Greenland; in 1993 there was a glacier/water flood on a smallar scale but it was discovered that water under tremendous pressure water will not freeze, it then becomes "supercooled" and then starts running through fissures in the glacier, this in turn starts to weaken the structure of the glacier which then results in the water and ice creating a flood. This is what happened in the Scablands, but on a much larger scale it created valleys a 1000 feet deep, a waterfall 5 times wider then Niagara Falls and the evidence seems to point that is all happened over a 48 hour period. Interesting show.

J's new duty station will be Ft. Lewis, Washington. I will think he will have s good time there, he may end up with a cushey job, maybe. Ft. Lewis was the place where the some drug pushers decided to take on the Rangers that where stationed at Ft. Lewis. I do not remember all the details, it happened between 1989 or 1990, somewhere in that time frame, anyways from what I remember one of the Ranger's wives, or home was threated by some not too intelligent drug dealers that where in the neighorhood, and thought they owned the block. Idiots, do not threated Rangers, where there is one, there is many, they are brother's in arms. So, about 30 Rangers (if I remeber right) came armed with a basic load, and cleaned out the drug dealers. The dealers did not know what hit them, the neighborhood was cleaned out and everybody was happy except the police, and the CG. I do not remember what happen to the Rangers.

My first duty station was Ft. Riley, KS. I was with 1st Engineers ( 12B's Combat Engineers ) I was working in the S-3 shop, or operations for the Battalion (that is what S-3 does), or command and control. This where I drove a track vehicle; M577A2, Command Carrier, 13 tonnes of fun. Other then that, I really did not like being there, but the housing that me and Lily lived in was great, we really like our quarters after the new living room was added on. For the most part I was gone from 5:00am till about 6:00pm, I usually was home by 6:30. We had a idiot major who did not want to go home, it seemed that 4:30pm (when everybody else was going home) was time to start work with him, so we always had to do crap for him.

One weekend the whole Battalion was locked in because some idiot lieutenant, and sargent tried to steal M16A1 and colt .45. That Friday about 12:00pm a rumor started circling that a weapon was missing from one of the line companies arm's room. At 4:30 the whole Battalion was marched down to the motor pool for formation and the Battalion commader was there, since he was there we knew something was up. Anyways he said that a M16, and .45 was missing and we could not go home until it was found. Everything in the motor pool was tore apart, all storage containers emptied, but no weapons. So we had to go back to our offices and lay everything out and be inspected, and no weapon. So the whole Battalion stayed in the barracks Friday and Saturday night. On Saturday we had to walk the whole route by foot from the firing range to the barracks. On Sunday morning an anonymous phone call (so we were told) told where the weapons could be found, so once the weapons were recovered and secured in the arms room, we all went home. Fun in the Army.

J is still at Ft. Jackson going through AIT or Advanced Individual Training, in other words he is learning how to do his job which is "Light Wheel Mechanic." Basically working on Hummers, and other SUV's in the military motor pool's. I have talked to him a few times and things seem to be going alright for him.

I took my AIT at Ft. Belvior, Virgina and I had a blast. We had weekend passes all the time, and we (my class) all the time went into Washinton DC. I went to the Smithsonian and went through all the exhibits plus I saw all the other things to see in DC. You may be wondering how we got there since no one had a car, well there was this guy that we called Mr. Bill and he had a old school bus. I am not sure who or why he did this but he would come around on the weekends and pick up the GI's on post and then pass a hat around and everybody would put in a few dollars for gas and he would take us to DC. He had regular stops in DC at specific times, so that is how we travelled from the post to DC.

There was this guy who was in the National Guard and he was from the Virgin Islands, he never come out of his thermal underwear. He said that he was always cold, and we thought that is was hot at Ft. Belvior. Every night at last formation we had 13E (MOS) I forget what their job title was, but they were some kind of Nuclear specialist, anyways they allways ended formation by saying:

"Nuc them until they glow, and then shoot them in the dark"

I always thought was quit humours, Lily did not think so, ooooowellllll.

Your Five Variable Love Profile

Propensity for Monogamy: Your propensity for monogamy is medium. In general, you prefer to have only one love interest. But it's hard for you to stay devoted for too long! There's too much eye candy to keep you from wandering. Experience Level: Your experience level is high. You've loved, lost, and loved again. You have had a wide range of love experiences. And when the real thing comes along, you know it! Dominance: Your dominance is low. This doesn't mean you're a doormat, just balanced. You know a relationship is not about getting your way. And you love to give your sweetie a lot of freedom. Cynicism: Your cynicism is low. You are an eternal optimist when it comes to love and romance. No matter how many times you've been hurt - you're never bitter. You believe in one true love, your perfect soulmate. And if you haven't found true love yet, you know you will soon. Independence: Your independence is high. You don't need to be in love, and sometimes you don't even want love. Having your own life is very important for you... Even more important than having a relationship.

The Five Variable Love Test

Taken from the Other World.

I am reading the book "Science a History 1543 - 2001" by John Gribbin. There was a mathemation who lived from 1768 to 1830 and his name was Fouier and he developed equations that dealt with time varying phenmena, which means he developed heat equations, how much time if takes for things to cool off. So googled Fouiers and found his equations and then did the math for if the earth was 10,000, let me tell you; NO I will show you.

1. I will use present day values (so I will not here any crap about things were different back then, which means that God can not create a consistant system, or he is playing games for the Baptist) of heat production from radioactive decay in the earth produce by ²³⁸U, ²³⁵U, ²³²Th, and ⁴⁰K and has a value of 6.18 x 10^-12W/kg (Turcotte and Schubert, 1982)

2. If you only take inaccount for agument sake heat flow from the mantle and crust

(6.18 x 10^-12W/kg) x (4.0 x 10²⁴kg) = 2.47 x 10¹³W

Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction

Q = K dt/dz

k = thermnal conductivity of rocks W/m ^oC
dt/ds = geo thermal gradiant or "rate of change"
Q = W/m²

total surface of the earth = 5.1 x 10¹⁴m²

2.47 x 10¹³W
----------------------- = .048 W/m² surface heat flow
5.1 x 10¹⁴m²

3.00 W/m ^o is a average thermal conductivity of rocks

dt/dz = .048 W/m²


500 years will be used as 1/2 life for the radactive elements listed above

Now figure out the decay rate constant labda (ʎ) so we can caclculate the heat producdion of the past

t = ^1/2 ln 2/ʎ or

ʎ = ln 2 / t^1/2

using 500 years for t^1/2 ʎ = 1.38 x 10^-3

H^past = H^present x e^ʎ(t-10)

H^present = 6.18 x 10^-12W/kg

t - t₀ = 10,000 years & ʎ

(6.18 x 10^-12) x (e^{1.38 x 10-3 - 10,000})
= 6.08 x 10^-6 W/kg

H_past x (mass of mantle and crust) = total heat production

H_past = (6.08 x 10^-6W/kg) x (4.0 x 10²⁴kg)
= 2.43 x 10¹⁹W

2.43 x 10¹⁹W
Q = --------------------- = 47724.58 W/m²
5.1 x 10¹⁴m²


47724.58 W/m²
------------------------ = 15,908^oC/km
3.00 W/m

Which means if the earth was 10,000 years old the surface of the earth would be as hot as Hell (15,908 degrees Celsius).

New citizenship exam emphasizes principles. MM study hard.

It takes light (photon) from the Sun approximately 8.5 minutes, but from the reference of the photon no time has passed at all. If there was a clock on the photon, "time = 0" or the clock would not start.

The middle bear cub has completed Basic Training at Ft. Jackson, SC. Basic Training is one of those things that it is you are glad that your did it, but you never want to do it again. I did basic at Ft. Dix, NJ, and that post is nothing but sand. We marched everywhere and it felt you were taking 2 steps forword with 1 step back. Before we graduated, the last thing we had to do was a 12 mile road march with full ruckstack (about 40 to 50 pounds), and we had time limit of 4 hours. By the time we made it back to the barracks, I was dead tired, but there was a Eskimo in our platoon and he was tough. At the end of the roadmarch, as we were recovering( in our beds) the Eskimo(I do not remember his name) was walking around wondering what to do. I think he was the toughest person I ever met.

To me the toughest part of Basic Training was staying awake, and finding time to rest in the restroom. If we were in class and were falling asleep we were to stand up and move to the wall, or stand up and say" ZZZZZ monster get off by back" which we did alot. Since we were always marching, or sleeping or in class (believe me your 24 hours are filled up) it was hard sometimes to find time to go to the bathroom.

I had never fired a gun or in the Army a "weapon" until I join the Army. I am glad I never had to fire on somebody in my 12 years in the military, but I loved going to the firing range. It was fun shooting different types of weapons, and I like shooting the pop up targets with a M16A2, the best I ever did was 37/40, I missed 2, 300 meter targets.

I just wish that the little bear cub would have went in as an Officer, life is easier as an Officer in the Army.

Auto Tuner, I think that this is what I am going to buy. What do you think? Kawasaki’s newest version of the Z1000 offers style, fun, and performance

Sooooooooooooooooo what kind of Hog does Hogrider have?

Sooooooooooo, what kind of Hog does Hogrider have?

Burger update: Whataburger has really delicious bacon, oinion ring, ranch burger right now, I give it two thumbs up. I was talking to a Whataburger representative and she said that in November Whataburger is bringing back their honey barbque chicken sandwich, which is most excellent. I highly recommend the chicken sandwich.

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.

Tonight there was some Country Western music award show tonight (or some kind of country music show),the main caption -- "Country will rock tonight." Since when does country "ROCK"???????!!!!!!!!!! I am offended that country music is being equated with rock music, me being the rocker that I am. We all know that rock music especially "Classic Rock" is tons better then old nasty hillbilly country music. I must admitt though, Faith Hill -- a 10.

Remember there is that old Country Music expression, "sex, drugs and country music." NOT.

We are remodeling our house, I put in a door that has a decorative oval glass middle to the door. When we bought the door, I thought we just bought a door, but the door was framed in and the hinges were already attached. I just had to attach the frame of the door to the framed out opening of the house. At first I thought it would be alot more work then just hanging a door, but this turned out better, because it was easier to install the frame, then just hanging a door and then adjusting the hinges on the door. Gampa's hammer sure comes in handy.

The Corner.

Bless the Beast and Children.

Not for the faint of heart. People that do this kind of stuff do not deserve to live no matter what country they live in.

The Transformers movie was great, I might see it again.

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.

I thought I was going to attend USF, but I read an science article that mentioned The University of Central Florida. I decided to check out their physics department and they have an astronomy section to go along with a physics degree. Sooooooooooo, I will be attending UCF in the near future, the classes that I will be taking are:

• Astronomy
  
• Techniques of Observational Astronomy
  
• Stellar Astrophysics
  
• Galaxies and Cosmology
  

I can hardly waite until I am taking these classes, I will be in heaven.

Well, I had my final in Linear Algebra today. I am always glad when class is over, but usally in a few weeks I start missing going to class. Since I change majors I have to go back and pick up a few classes; Chemistry, and Physics w/calculus. On to the stars!!!!!

Coffee flavored jelly beens are the worst. They just are!!!!!!!!!!!

I am reading another book on the history of the Middle Ages, this book is more indepth, more detailed in the history of this time period. The Germanic tribes that invaded during the last days of the Roman Empire were a lose confederation of tribes, they had a simple code of laws.

1. They would tie you up, and then drop you into a river, if you floated then you were innocent, but if you sunk then you were guilty. The thinking was that water was pure, so if you were pure, innocent, then the water would reject, but if you were guitly then the water would sollow you up and you would die, justice would be served.

2. A person could kill another person as along it was done in the open. That means two warlords, or what ever could be feuding and if people were killed ( or villagers were caught up in the conflict and they died) that was "ok," but if a homicide was commited in secret, then that was wrong, in the eyes of the law. This kind of like the code of the Wild West era.

The good thing about this is that there are no lawyers.

What is real? Are we really perceiving reality as we walk through the cosmos by using our 5 senses? Since our senses are converted to electrical impluses and then processed by our brain, is that not like Plato's cave wall. Are we just seeing shadows?

I have been watching some of the NHL playoffs, and I must say the hockey is subpare. The fights are inconsequential to the game(not quite true, it gives the other team the advantage when the result of the fight is that someone is in the penalty box), plus when your team is down a few games you would think that the penalties would be kept to a minimum, but noooooooooo. I was watching the playoff games between Calgary and Detroit, and all I can say is that Calgary desired to lose by the way they played the game.

All through Hockey School it was drilled into us take the person out of the play, and DO NOT PASS IN FRONT OF THE NET. What did Calgary do, let themselfs be out skated( not taking the person of the play), and passing infront of the net. Added to that, Calgary was taking more penalties then Detroit, which resulted in goals for Detroit, I really do not understand what the players on the Calgary team were thinking.

Then the last game between Calgary and Detroit, Calgary lost and what happen the last 30 seconds of the game; the Calgary goalie took his hockey stick and chopped a Detroit player in the stomach, why???? The goalie was ejected from the game, and then the players still in the player's bench patted him on his back, like he was unjustly ejected from the game. It was stated later as an excuse "the frustation level was so high, everybody wants to win." There no reason to purposely take a goalie stick, and chop someone in the stomach because you are losing. These are grown men being paid millions of dollars to play a game, only a game, and they do stupid stuff like this. There is no excuse, and the fights take away from the game.

What is mom looking at that is making her smile like that?

MM, I went to KFC and bought myself Big Box Meal.It was soooooooo good, I am going to have to eat another one.

Hey MM check out this web site. What do you think? I have never understood why Islam spread the way it did becasue Mohammed had to kill and destroy to spread his message. I do not understand why people accepted it. I think in the modern world, religion is more about money and poltical power then anything else.

I was friends with Ken through hockey, that is how we met. I am not sure why Mom and Dad became good friends with the Rudlands, but because Mom and Dad became good friends with them , me and Ken became better friends. Once the Rudlands moved to Sherwood Park, me and Ken hung around together at school. We also had a few jobs together; we worked together at Maid Marions( we had a lot of fun there, great eating), and we also worked at Bonanza( we had ice fights late a night there).

Then there was the year that I lived with Mr. and Mrs. Rudland, Ken and Vivian. One thing that I remember best about Viv was that she bought the "Saturday Night Fever" record, and everytime me and Ken came home from school were heard a million times; you know it--- The Beegees. Viv does not remember this, but I dooooooooo. Me and Ken came home for lunch sometimes, and what did we eat?????? Macarroni and Cheese!!! He would eat box, and I would eat box. Even now when I make a box Mac and Cheese I still think about those times that we would eat lunch together. That year was also when we started to make goofy noises together, it was goofy, but we injoyed and laugh together.

Then there was the trip to Arizona, and for whatever reason Mr. Rudland was drinking and driving, and Mr. Rudland did not were he was going. I think that we were looking for Mom and Dad, that is were we were going to meet. Anyways me and Ken were on the top part of the camper watching the road, and cutting up, joking around, singing "Airazonnna" I still sing "Airazonna," no one in my family really knows why I am singing that, but it creates a warm place in my heart; it makes me think of Ken and all the fun we had together growing up.

There are many more memories, but as I write this, these are the memories that stand out as I reflect back to my life in Canada. See you later Ken.

Ken Rudland died last night in his sleep, they do not know why he died. The EMT's tried to revive him 4 different times, but no success. We were friends for a long time, played hockey together, and lived together. Next to Randy; Ken was my next best friend, we had a lot of fun together, and worked the same jobs together too. We even got into trouble together, it was fun trouble though. I must say that I am in shock, I was not expecting this, Ken has been on my mind the last few days and I was thinking about all the time we spent together, and the stuff that we did together.

I will write more later. This just sucks.

Certain segments of the world society believe that we should not be drinking milk as adults. If that is true, then why do we have Oreo's, or donuts. Everybody knows that you have to have a cold glass of milk :)

If you drive slow, you will drive less miles then driving fast.

Been doing the Blackwolf thing, remodeling our bathroom. Glad I only have to do that once.

MM, I am sorry that you lost a friend.