Motorcycle Man

Wealth

2010-10-04T10:21:00.000-07:00

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
- Jack Handey

Top 25 Engineering Expressions

2010-07-26T09:00:00.001-07:00

From Evernote:

Top 25 Engineering Expressions

Clipped from: http://www.robwoolley.com/2006/07/24/engineering-secrets-revealed/

Top 25 Engineer's Terms and Expressions

A number of different approaches are being tried.
(We are still guessing at this point.)
Close project coordination
(We sat down and had coffee together.)
An extensive report is being prepared on a fresh approach.
(We just hired three punk kids out of school.)
Major technological breakthrough!
(We don't know how it works ourselves!)
Customer satisfaction is believed assured.
(We are so far behind schedule, that the customer will take anything.)
Preliminary operational tests were inconclusive.
(The darn thing blew up when we threw the switch.)
Test results were extremely gratifying!
(Unbelievablely, it actually worked!)
The entire concept will have to be abandoned.
(The only guy who understood the thing quit.)
It is in process.
(It is so wrapped in red tape that the situation is completely hopeless.)
We will look into it.
(Forget it! We have enough problems already.)
Please note and initial.
(Let's spread the responsibility for this.)
Give us the benefit of your thinking.
(We'll listen to what you have to say as long as it doesn't interfere with what we have already done or with what we are going to do.)
Give us your interpretation.
(We needed a good laugh anyway.)
See me or let's discuss.
(Come to my office, I've screwed up again.)
All new.
(Parts are not interchangeable with previous design.)
Rugged.
(Don't plan to lift it without major equipment.)
Robust!
(Rugged, but more so)
Light weight.
(Slightly lighter than rugged)
Years of development.
(One finally worked)
Energy saving.
(Shuts down without warning.)
No maintenance.
(Impossible to fix)
Low maintenance.
(Nearly impossible to fix)
E-mail me the data.
(I'm too lazy to write it down.)
We are following the standard!
(That's the way we have always done it!)
I didn't get your e-mail.
(I was hoping that if I didn't respond, you'd forget.)

Lawmaker Loopholes?

2010-06-16T15:10:00.001-07:00

clipped from www.factcheck.org

Lawmaker Loopholes?

Q: Is Congress exempt from "many" laws including one against sexual harassment?

A: No. The latest e-mail rant against Congress — proposing a "28th Amendment" to the Constitution — is full of false and outdated claims.

FULL QUESTION

A chain e-mail (copy below) claims members of Congress can retire after one term with their same pay and, while serving, pay no Social Security and exempt themselves from some laws, e.g., sexual harassment and health care legislation. A 28th Amendment to the Constitution is proposed barring Congress from enacting laws applying to its members and not equally to the "citizens of the United States."

Are the facts right?

FULL ANSWER

That’s a lot of very old baloney packed into a few words.

HP DreamScreen 100 NEW (KY616AA#ABA)

2009-12-14T15:02:00.001-08:00

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BOOBIES

2009-10-26T14:09:00.001-07:00

Boobies

Memory

2009-09-15T21:59:00.000-07:00

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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2009-04-21T18:00:00.001-07:00

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Clark 40: Ramona 16 - pingg.com

2009-03-13T11:51:00.000-07:00

Watchmen (2009) -

2009-03-07T11:12:00.001-08:00

Kick ass!!!

Anger, Origins Of

2008-12-06T14:32:00.001-08:00

We become angry* because of fear. We are afraid that the person we must correct will bridle at our correcting them. So we become angry as a way of cowing them into submission, because we are afraid.

The solution? Come to the situation prepared. Reflect on the inevitability of the instruction that must be imparted - by someone - to the hapless soul who has done something incorrectly. How they react is their business, but there is no way out for us giving the necessary instruction if it is out duty.

A pill of chill: We do our duty and let the chips fall where they may. We don't need to become angry or fearful. Take it as an adventure.

Cheers!

* There are varieties of anger experience, this post addresses a particular kind of angry expression, and does not address all of the varieties of anger.

I am better than your kids.

2008-12-03T14:31:00.001-08:00

I am better than your kids.

Fringe

2008-11-30T20:36:00.001-08:00

Palin Panel

2008-11-30T13:42:00.000-08:00

YouTube - Two young Alaskan women speak out on Sarah Palin

2008-11-28T22:01:00.001-08:00

Two young Alaskan women speak out on Sarah Palin

YouTube - Two young Alaskan women speak out on Sarah Palin

Expensive Pants!

2008-10-20T11:14:00.001-07:00

'Spensive pants!

Did You Know...

2008-09-14T10:00:00.000-07:00

That poppy seeds are shaped like kidney beans?

Drikable Energy Drink

2008-08-22T15:57:00.000-07:00

Just discovered an energy drink that is drinkable. Amp Energy Overdrive Turbo Boost Yerba Mate, Intense Hit of Cherry. Think floral perfume meets cherry soda.

Most of the energy drinks I've had in the past tasted like recycled bubble gum. This stuff is more like a Shirley Temple, with an extra something. The kicker is that it is actually nice.

Quotes for Wednesday 25 June 2008

2008-06-25T11:05:00.000-07:00

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
- Aldous Huxley

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."
- Ray Bradbury

Quotes for Thursday 19 June 2008

2008-06-19T15:57:00.000-07:00

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
- Kurt Vonnegut

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
- Thomas A. Edison

Quote for Wednesday 18th June 2008

2008-06-18T11:15:00.000-07:00

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
- George Orwell

Quotes for Tuesday, June 17th 2008

2008-06-17T11:40:00.000-07:00

"There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause."
- PJ O'Rourke
"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."
- Alice Kahn
"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."
- Charles M. Schulz

Lorem Ipsum text

2008-05-18T12:49:00.001-07:00

Lorem Ipsum - All the facts - Lipsum generator

THE LETHAL SCIENCE OF SPLENDA, A POISONOUS CHLOROCARBON

2008-05-06T12:43:00.000-07:00

THE LETHAL SCIENCE OF SPLENDA, A POISONOUS CHLOROCARBON: "'Sucralose is a molecule of sugar chemically manipulated to surrender three hydroxyl groups (hydrogen + oxygen) and replace them with three chlorine atoms. Natural sugar is a hydrocarbon built around 12 carbon atoms. When turned into Splenda it becomes a chlorocarbon, in the family of Chlorodane, Lindane and DDT."

Sweet Deceit: Splenda Health Concerns Surface

2008-05-06T12:36:00.000-07:00

Sweet Deceit: Splenda Health Concerns Surface: "Splenda chemically resembles the controversial pesticide DDT (found to cause organ, genetic, and reproductive damage) more than it does sugar."

A Tombeek sign?

2008-03-19T13:56:00.000-07:00

overijse_011__800x600_.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x600 pixels)

Big Diamond!

2008-03-05T06:36:00.001-08:00

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

Diamond star thrills astronomers

Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered.

The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.

Don't Let Work Take Over Your Soul!

2008-02-20T10:35:00.001-08:00

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Smart and Lazy Ways to Save Your Workday

OpenID Gets Giants as New Board Members

2008-02-10T16:20:00.001-08:00

Impressive and encouraging for open source advocates that VeriSign is committed to open standards.

clipped from www.internetnews.com

VeriSign also has a long partnership with OpenID, said Nico Popp, the company's vice president of innovation. Popp told InternetNews.com that in the future, a top priority will be to ensure that the standards and protocol of OpenID remain open.

Minimalist

2008-02-07T10:35:00.001-08:00

minimalism at its chic best

clipped from www.nightlight.ws

you turn me on

Googlygoogly

2008-02-05T14:35:00.001-08:00

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clipped from www.google.com

Myths About Water, Poor Light, Shaving, and Percentage of Brain Use

2008-01-31T15:28:00.001-08:00

clipped from well.blogs.nytimes.com

Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe

The North Dakota Conspiracy

2007-12-04T11:04:00.000-08:00

Can you prove that North Dakota exists? This is a great website for a break in your day.
The North Dakota Conspiracy

Pop China: Chinese People Do Like Zhang Ziyi

2007-11-27T16:19:00.000-08:00

China has a pop culture that is amazingly vibrant and connected with the rest of the world.
Read about it:
Pop China: Chinese People Do Like Zhang Ziyi

Any type of chocolate rules. But dark chocolate is emperor

2007-10-05T11:34:00.001-07:00

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

A daily dose of dark chocolate may help reduce the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome, say UK researchers.

researchers from Hull York Medical School said the results were surprising but dark chocolate may be having an effect on the brain chemical serotonin.

Study leader Professor Steve Atkin, an expert in endocrinology, said the idea for the study came after a patient reported feeling much better after swapping her normal milk chocolate for dark chocolate with a high cocoa solid content.

Those taking dark chocolate reported significantly less fatigue and reported feeling more fatigue when they stopped eating it

"Dark chocolate is high in polyphenols, which have been associated with health benefits such as a reduction in blood pressure.

Also high polyphenols appear to improve levels of serotonin in the brain, which has been linked with chronic fatigue syndrome and that may be a mechanism."

"If you derive benefit, then it's a no-harm, no-risk situation

Most detailed images of earth yet

2007-08-03T11:44:00.001-07:00

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk

These spectacular images are the most detailed true colour pictures of the Earth that we have ever seen.

The clear images, released by NASA, were pieced together from observations taken from a satellite of the land surface, oceans, sea ice and clouds.

Using a collection of these satellite-based observations, NASA scientists have stitched together months of observations of the earth's surface and combined them to create a colourful mosaic of our living planet.

The result from using these collection of images is a complete and detailed glimpse of every square kilometre of Earth.

Most of the information contained in these image came from a single remote-sensing device known as Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS.

7.11.07 - UC Berkeley on Chinese TV

2007-08-03T11:28:00.000-07:00

7.11.07 - UC Berkeley on Chinese TV

Yahoo opens up e-mail APIs to outsiders | CNET News.com

2007-08-01T10:23:00.000-07:00

Yahoo opens up e-mail APIs to outsiders | CNET News.com: "Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) or JSON, a JavaScript-based method."

2007-06-28T13:45:00.000-07:00

Mattar Paneer
Ingredients
1 block of paneer, cut into cubes and deep fried
1 cup of frozen thawed green peas or 1 cup of de-hydrated
green peas, soaked in water overnight and then boiled
1 small onion chopped finely
2 tsp ginger-garlic paste
1 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp dhania (coriander)powder
1/2 tsp cumin powder
1 cinammon stick
1-2 cloves
1 cardammom
1 tablespoon cashewnuts, powdered
2 tomatoes, pureed
1/2 tablespoon whipped cream or malai
2 tsp finely chopped coriander leaves
1 tablespoon ghee
Salt to taste

Method
Heat the ghee and add the cinammon, cardamom and cloves.
After 10-20 secs, add the onions and ginger/garlic paste.
When the onions turn light brown, add all the powdered
spices and cashewnut powder.
Fry for about 1/2 a minute.
Add the tomato puree and salt to taste.
Fry on high heat till the mixture thickens.
Now add the peas and enough water and bring to a boil.
Add the malai and paneer cubes.
Mix well.
Stir in the chopped coriander leaves.
Serve hot with paratha or nan.

Take HTML Seriously! - HTML Dog Blog - HTML Dog

2007-06-19T15:08:00.000-07:00

Take HTML Seriously! - HTML Dog Blog - HTML Dog

" It’s very hard for many to accept that you really need to know what you’re doing to build a good website. I find that a bit strange. After all, most people accept that you need a driver’s license before you’re allowed to drive a car, or that becoming a world class athlete requires talent and countless hours of practice and training. "

AJ Playing Piano

2007-06-09T17:24:00.000-07:00

AJAX in the Future

2007-06-06T15:09:00.000-07:00

AJAX in the Future
Increasing adoption rates of AJAX are related to an ongoing paradigm shift in web development from traditional, action-based web sites to smarter, event-based applications with fewer limitations and greater corporate value. So while the current impact of AJAX is undeniable, most industry experts agree that AJAX will continue to rise in popularity and that its foothold on the web development community will only get stronger in the months to come.

The Semantic Web: Scientific American

2007-06-04T15:53:00.000-07:00

The Semantic Web: Scientific American

HTML Color Chart

2007-05-17T15:42:00.000-07:00

AJ in Red Hat

2007-05-11T12:25:00.000-07:00

From Baby

Programming Wisdom Center

2007-05-10T11:08:00.000-07:00

Programming Wisdom Center

Material © Copyright 1998...2005 by Findy Services and B. Jacobs

Very cool web site for coders.

DHA and ARA Sources

2007-04-15T09:24:00.001-07:00

Crypthecodinium Cohnii and Mortierella Alpina oils. Where do they come from? Read on!

clipped from www.enfamil.ca

Q: Does cow's milk contain DHA and ARA?

A:

Cow's milk does contain small amounts of DHA and ARA. However, the DHA and ARA are in the fat component of milk and not found in the milk used in infant formula which uses non fat milk and whey.

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

2007-03-30T14:17:00.000-07:00

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Google

2007-01-17T17:03:00.000-08:00

Google

Vegetarianism and Cow Protection

2006-11-12T08:44:00.000-08:00

Vegetarianism and Cow Protection

Poetry - Good and Bad

2006-03-21T22:40:00.000-08:00

Bad Poetry

A LETTER TO CONGRESS

2006-01-29T08:38:00.000-08:00

ON NSA SPYING: A LETTER TO CONGRESS
By Beth Nolan, Curtis Bradley, David Cole, Geoffrey Stone, Harold Hongju Koh, Kathleen M. Sullivan, Laurence H. Tribe, Martin Lederman, Philip B. Heymann, Richard Epstein, Ronald Dworkin, Walter Dellinger, William S. Sessions, William Van Alstyne

Published in the current issue of The New York Review of Books. A response to the Department of Justice's December letter to House and Senate leaders.

Kate Daniels (TPM Cafe) wrote an interesting article about this article.

It's a flower!

2005-12-30T22:18:00.000-08:00

It's a flower!

Panda, do you see what icy?

2005-12-30T12:28:00.000-08:00

Panda, do you see what icy?

Flckr has some gifted photographers!

New Ring around Uranus

2005-12-27T06:52:00.000-08:00

Devotees and Death

2005-12-15T22:50:00.000-08:00

    Amy's step-mother, Shirlene, just passed away. Shirlene was one of the nicest people I have ever known. She made people feel welcome and at ease. It is at times like these that I am especially glad for the years I spent in sadhana, for the austerities I performed on traveling sankirtana, which helped me to realize that I am different from my material body. It is one thing to read philosophy and profess faith, another thing to put it into practice. By the austerity of preaching, one becomes self-realized. Other elements are kindling for a fire. But without a spark, there is no fire.

In the Bhagavad-gita Sri Krishna says that whatever state one remembers when he quits his body he attains without fail: (Chapter 8, Text 6):

yam yam vapi smaran bhavam
  tyajaty ante kalevaram
tam tam evaiti kaunteya
  sada tad-bhava-bhavitah

Srila Prabhupada explains in the purport: "Of course the cumulative effect of the thoughts and actions of one's life influences one's thoughts at the moment of death; therefore the actions of this life determine one's future state of being."

So what happens if someone dies while in a coma? The cumulative effect is what matters, not exactly the neurons firing in the organ of the brain. The mind can exist without the brain, as has been shown by those who hovered above their bodies during surgery and have accurately recounted things that happened when their brains were immobilized by anesthesia. So a person's state of mind is durable, regardless of the state of the physical brain and body.

Even a humble bumblebee can distinguish and recall different human faces, according to UK researchers.

2005-12-14T22:08:00.000-08:00

"Smart" Machines

2005-12-09T23:35:00.000-08:00

One of the problems of having computers do things for us - like recognize our speach - is that we wind up spending too much time giving instructions to the machines on how to do the job. I just loaded dishes into the dishwasher and was imagining what that simple task would have been like if the machine had had 'intelligence' built into it.
"That glass looks dirty still. Would you like me to wash it again?"
"No goddamit it's not dirty it just has a logo on it!"
You get the idea.
So how to avoid this?
Got me. But I was sure relieved that I didn't have to have that talk with my dishwasher tonight.

Mobster Teddy

2005-12-06T16:15:00.000-08:00

http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/humor/web_animations/1.swf

Nude Cousins on MET ART: Lena & Lena: "Sarum" By Goncharov

2005-12-04T17:26:00.000-08:00

Nude Cousins on MET ART: Lena & Lena: "Sarum" By Goncharov

How Many Germs?

2005-12-01T06:03:00.000-08:00

HOW MANY GERMS? Match them up!
____Telephone		A. 1,676 germs per square inch
____Desktop		B. 49
____Keyboard		C. 925, 127
____Mouse (Computer)		D. 3,295
____Toilet Seat		E. 20,961

Answers:
__C__Telephone - 925, 127
__E__Desktop - 20,961
__D__Keyboard - 3,295
__A__Mouse (Computer)- 1,676
__B__Toilet Seat - 49

low culture: Unintentionally Hilarious Archives

2005-11-11T15:35:00.000-08:00

This site is hilarious!
low culture: Unintentionally Hilarious Archives

Dark Movies

2005-11-06T00:24:00.000-08:00

Sin City is almost too dark for my taste. Thursday is another one of those good but too violent movies. I liked it, but I am hessitant to recommend it. The Matrix is dark, but in a different league from the first two.
Anyway, here is a list of film noir and black comedies I consider worth watching (in no particular order):

Salton Sea
Kill Bill (I & II)
Thursday
Sin City
Snatch
Fight Club
A Simple Matter of Procedure French with subtitles
Female Trouble
Grosse Point Blank
Ninth Gate

Pupil: Perceptions: Engineers from India

2005-11-02T22:41:00.000-08:00

Funny, true, poingant...the future is coming. Hare Krishna.

Browse Happy

2005-10-31T22:27:00.000-08:00

Safari and Internet Explorer suck ass.
Safari doesn't support the Google Bar, nor enough JavaScript to use the editing features or shortcuts for Gmail. IE lacks tabbed browsing.
FireFox, aka Mozilla Firefox, is the new standard. It's open-source, multi-platform, and free. Oh yeah, and it kicks ass.

Neither Newton nor Leibnitz - The Pre-History of Calculus and Celestial Mechanics in Medieval Kerala

2005-10-30T09:05:00.000-08:00

Madhava: a Mathematician

Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350-1425) was a major mathematician of the Kerala school who is considered the father of mathematical analysis for having taken the decisive step from the finite procedures of ancient mathematics to treat their limit-passage to infinity, which is the kernel of modern classical analysis.

He invented the series popularly attributed to James Gregory, three centuries before Gregory. Using this series he gave a value of the number pi:3.14159265359 - correct to 11 decimals. His techniques were expanded upon by the mathematicians of the Kerala school which made major inroads into Calculus that were not repeated anywhere in the world until the 17th century by Newton and Leibnitz (who are popularly known as the inventors of calculus).

Tubby Meowing Movie

2005-10-24T14:21:00.000-07:00

For cat lovers only...

Sanskrit and Sanskriti (Culture)

2005-10-15T00:53:00.000-07:00

Heart of Hinduism: Sanskrit and Sanskriti (Culture)

Welcome to the Heart of Hinduism

2005-10-15T00:51:00.000-07:00

Comprehensive and easily navigable Website about Hinduism.

Cal Student

2005-10-08T06:29:00.000-07:00

Junior at UC Berkeley. English. Full scholarship. Ouch! Very cool. Students are cool. Professors are awesome. Workload is awesome. More later.

Working at Safway Corporate Headquarters

2005-02-23T20:40:00.000-08:00

No kidding. My title is Database Category Analyst, or something like that.

What We Think

2004-12-23T17:30:00.000-08:00

It's one of those axiomatic things that no matter what it is that you are trying to aschew, give up, or renounce, that is what will occupy your thoughts, which is perverse. Where is the logic in remembering what we would rather forget?

The universal and annoying, although well-meaning advice is, "Don't think about it." Or just as annoying and just as well-meant, "Try not to think about it." It's like when you've just lost something and are busy in visualizing your previous steps and some well-meaning idiot interrupts with, "Where were you last? Just retrace your steps."

Going East

2004-10-14T09:09:00.000-07:00

The leaves are changing on the East Coast of the US - in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachussets. Yee ha.

There may be pictures, or links to pictures.

How Microsoft Lost the API War

2004-09-29T11:21:00.000-07:00

Web and application developpers will also find this site of interest: http://php.weblogs.com

People and Things

2004-09-28T05:32:00.000-07:00

When you start to treat people like things, it's time to reconsider.

More to the point: when you become enraged by a thing, and transfer your rage onto a person, especially a loved one, it's time for a retreat. It's time to go up to the mountains and fast for forty days and nights. Or whatever it takes. People must get the difference between a person, what to speak of a loved one, and a thing.

Why?

If you find yourself not getting the difference between your feelings about a thing or event and your own kind - sentient beings - then you have taken an exit toward disaster. You will see signposts - guilt, unhappiness, self-hate. And if you don't stop and reorient yourself, even ask for directions, you will stay lost, and will end up at an ever-unpopular destination.

Disaster = ruination of your plans. You will lose any gain or comfort, and be alone in your pain.

So next time you feel rage rising in you about burnt toast, or a broken toaster, understand that it's between you and the toast. There isn't a person on earth who is responsible for your feelings. How you move from your annoying inconvenience and meet with the next person in your life is what decides: disaster or success, defeat or triumph.

GMail - Google's New Free Email Service

2004-09-20T21:16:00.000-07:00

If you don't trust them with your mail, don't send to people on the service. But why all of the complaining? It's not like the people complaining the most have been forced to sign up. It's voluntary and free.

I would understand if Gmail were a draft, or a forced government program, or even if it were paid for with taxes. People who like lots of free space love this business plan. And the interface rocks. It's Java based - very little client-side code - so it is soooo much better (read faster with more functionality) than anyone else's webmail server - I know, I've got a Gmail account. Compared to Gmail, the other webmail services just suck; hotmail, yahoo!, ... every other one, including AOL's.

If you want to be concerned about your privacy, start closer to home, like with the carbon-copies of your credit card imprints that end up in department store dumpsters, supermarket servers, and your own garbage cans. Get worked-up over the supermarket savings-card programs that log every purchase you make. Who gets to see that data? What is being done with it? What if you went on a binge and bought a lot of liquor, and then decided to run for public office. It wouldn't take rocket-science for your detractors to get hold of some pretty embarassing data about you.

Privacy is an issue. No one at Google or any other legit business is saying that it isn't. But if I offer you free email, and tell you when you sign up that one of the conditions is that I will have my computers analyze your messages in order to put relevent text ads in the margins to pay for it, and you agree, then folks, that's just plain old business. It's the American way. It's smart capitalism. It's hecka cool. Don't like it? Don't sign up.

Squirrel X ... recondite, rural varmint

2004-09-20T17:52:00.000-07:00

My kids love this site! Do you love squirrels? If not, pass this up.

Google Ads

2004-09-20T10:10:00.000-07:00

I've signed up for the text ads, so as soon as I get the code onto my template you will see them in the margin. But I got to say that I don't hold much hope for early retirement based on these ads. First of all, who clicks on them? I guess someone must or Google wouldn't be so hot and bothered by them, but I mean, I never click on ads unless there is a scantily dressed female model on the button (not naked or crotch shots, which to me are gross). Unelss it was for somthing that I was looking all over for and hadn't been able to find, or something I really wanted and the Google folks read my mind and put the ad up there just in time. Free, hot sex, now, across the street in five minutes. Right.

If Google reads this I may get cancelled from the program. Or maybe they will explain to me, show me studies, and convice me that there are legions of people who click on their text ads and that I am providing an invaluable service to them, and getting rich in the process.

For now, maybe I'll make enough to support my latte habit.

A Message From Ian

2004-09-20T08:50:00.000-07:00

Middle C on my Upright Piano

2004-09-19T13:04:00.000-07:00

This is useful, right?

The Future of Search

2004-09-19T12:34:00.000-07:00

Watch, and be amazed

Unlocking the Secrets of Animal Locomotion

2004-09-17T16:48:00.000-07:00

Cruising through blogs, I find bitchalicious, which is cool enough one day, and while the links I find this site on animal locomotion, complete with movies of robots that move like bugs. These things are so much fun it's freaky. Cute too.

Eat Your Peas

2004-09-16T23:53:00.000-07:00

I've always hated cooked frozen peas; I've hated them since I was less than two years old. I remember shoving peas off my plate into the floor vent when I was two. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this movie as much as I did.

Knowledge is Good

2004-09-15T19:50:00.000-07:00

The Croatian name of Croatia is Hrvatska, and the language is Hrvatski.

Caste System

2004-09-15T14:43:00.000-07:00

People associate Hindu castes with perversions of Vedic class sociology.

The original class system is not based on birth, but on a person's qualities and capacity for a certain type of work. In Sanskrit that's guna and karma. As described in the Bhagavad Gita (4.13) (click on the text to hear it):

catur-varnyam maya srstam
guna-karma-vibhagasah

catur-varnyam--the four divisions of human society; maya--by Me; srstam--created; guna--by temperment; karma--and work; vibhagasah--are divided.

And you thought you weren't interested.

AudioBlogs

2004-09-15T13:58:00.000-07:00

1 - 6 6 1- 7 1 6 - B L O G (2 5 6 4)
This is the number for AUDIOBLOGGING.

Plot Points

2004-09-15T13:33:00.000-07:00

In modern cinema there is a concept known as plot points. Basically, the major money producing films have been analyzed and their plots reduced to a formula. According to the formula, popular and successful films have plot changes at certain points in the film, according to minutes. That is, after a certain number of minutes the plot changes in a certain way. This gives producers a way of gauging the possible success of a film for a certain genre. This formula is most usually applied to new films and new material by unknown writers and directors, but it is used across the board for big-money films.

I am working on a screenplay about a newbie to hollywood who accidentally writes a screenplay with killer plot-points. Producers clammer over his material, as agents race to sign him. Is his talent accidental, or schemed? The attraction of the film, at least its hook, is that the audience sees a film about plot points whilst experiencing them in the film itself.
(c) Tom Beek, 2004

The Official Dune Website

2004-09-15T11:18:00.000-07:00

The Official Dune Website

Currents

2004-09-09T18:41:00.000-07:00

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