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.

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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.