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| Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 | | 4:19 pm |
| | Friday, August 28th, 2009 | | 10:42 pm |
Soon
I will post this weekend. Really, I will. | | Monday, July 6th, 2009 | | 11:40 pm |
| | Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 | | 8:31 pm |
Far sighted
I've decided that I could use a -1 to -5 in glasses. That corrects for farsightedness. I need this to use computers as much as I do. I used to be incredibly farsighted - and still am. Sadly, I can't push the monitor far enough back. Now, if I can just keep god forsaken optometrists from prescribing standard reading glass prescription strengths (+1 to +5). | | Thursday, May 7th, 2009 | | 9:02 pm |
Reviews
As I enjoy Simon Pegg's acting, I Netflixed the series Spaced. While kind of dry and boring at first, the last episode on disc 1 (episode 7) kind of started turning the whole series into something a bit better than I was expecting. Now, to see if I survive the next 2 discs of the series and get my Netflix queue back into motion. | | Monday, May 4th, 2009 | | 7:09 am |
| | Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 | | 10:51 pm |
The lack of updates
I've been "offline" and may continue to do so for the foreseeable future. New job. New location. Movies to watch, books to read, bars to discover, pubs to crawl, and people to do. Add in a few entrepreneurial ventures... and I'm busy. I haven't fed my CNN addiction in over 6 weeks. I'm also at 6-12 cigs a day (down from the 20 per pack). No Starbucks in... I know I snuck one in... I don't remember when that was.... I think that was back in March. | | Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 | | 11:29 am |
Time
You know what is bad is that the way you've been describing how the universe is becomes proven mathmatically by physicists (finally). http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16796-fasterthanlight-tachyons-might-be-impossible-after-all.htmlThey've discovered the two-dimensional dual-cone construct! (similar to what thye refer to as the "light cone" dual-cone construct) In their model, all the trajectories get bundled up into two cones meeting at a point. It looks like one set of trajectories coming in from the past, passing through a point at the present, and heading out again into the future. Something equivalent to time has emerged.
In fact, this bundle of trajectories mimics the "light cone" of relativity, traced out by the paths in space-time of particles travelling up to and including the speed of light. The light cone also divides past from future.
In relativity, it is possible to conceive of tachyons, travelling outside the light cone. But in Wheeler and Spencer's model, that is inconceivable, since the cone is actually defined by the set of all possible trajectories.I wonder if they will get to the 3 cone construct, the "one-point", and how all space-time is sort of illusionary and we actually exist at all points at all times. Now that they are getting step one of the logic chain established with math and physics, I might get to observe "one-point" definition in physics in my lifetime. I'm not getting my hopes up. They will likely be reluctant to want to prove these things. Mainly due to: The consequences could be profound. The timeless space can't change, so that could mean that our universe is deterministic, with the future set in stone.
Wheeler suspects that our perceived "time" corresponds to the distance from a special point in the four-dimensional timeless space he modelled. If so, that point might mark the apparent beginning of time at the big bang.Without some willingness to believe, the entire concept of "one-point" and cone-based future/past projections imposes limits on what we can do (mainly, we're on a vector path and have certain boundary limits -- kind of like driving on a road where we have to stay in the lanes.) That is not entirely correct, as that is why it is a cone instead of a flat plane. Most of our limits are "reality" defined and establish the external boundaries of the cone. That means we can go up, we can go down, sideways, off the road -- but we're always limited by the imposed limitations of "reality". In other words, it is deterministic on a large scale (planetary, over billions of years). On the small scale, it is limited in its deterministic properties. Again, though -- people behave in what I refer to as the rule of momentum of personality. People will continue to do that which they feel is successful, even if more successful or less successful opportunities present themselves. I'm no exception to the rule. Once a behavior-set is established, people will continue to behave in that manner. Usually, an external catalyst/stimulus is required to change the momentum of personality. This is one reason why I tell people, "Don't just dream, dream bigger!" All in an attempt to change the direction the momentum will carry someone. Still, I do think it is kind of neat that they got the first step mathematically modelled. | | Thursday, January 15th, 2009 | | 8:09 am |
| | Saturday, January 10th, 2009 | | 11:56 pm |
New Dipping Sauce
WASABI BURN Ketchup, Wasabi, and Soy Sauce Stir some wasabi into ketchup (to taste & tolerance) Add some soy sauce (to taste & adds a little liquid back to the paste) Dip boiled shrimp in it! Delicious!!!Warning: WASABI BURN is a potential outcome! | | Friday, January 2nd, 2009 | | 10:31 pm |
Must See Movies
If anyone has never seen it, I HIGHLY recommend the movie, Stardust -- screenplay based on the work of Neil Gaiman. The cover lists Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro (in one of the BEST De Niro roles, ever!!!)(*arrr*). The cover, amazingly enough, does not list the actual star of the movie, Charlie Cox. Check out the IMDB on it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486655/Oh, one absolutely must check the Special Features: Deleted Scenes: The Next Ruler of Stormhold!!! | | Saturday, November 29th, 2008 | | 11:04 pm |
| | Friday, November 28th, 2008 | | 7:43 pm |
Brain works
I will know it when I see it.... The brain functions such that if we do not know it, we do not see it. This is historically documented from the ancient Aztecs, who did not see the Spanish Conquistador ships. They had to invite a shaman out to view the ship before the rest of them could see it. The function of the mind that does this involves visual pattern recognition. If a visual image is not put into a recognition pattern, then the mind can not "see" whatever that visual image actually is. This means that if we do not recognize an image, we do not see the image. One resolution of this involves keeping the mind open to all possibilities. Likewise, this translates into other patterns. How can we feel an emotion we have never experienced before? How can we identify a situation if we have never been in that situation before? No matter how well trained I am, even I am susceptible to this working of the brain. | | Thursday, November 27th, 2008 | | 9:24 pm |
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Epiphany
I will know it when I see it... is false. The brain functions such that if we do not know it, we do not see it. | | Thursday, November 20th, 2008 | | 9:50 am |
| | 8:12 am |
Grraargh
All set. Getting out the door to go to work. Things looking good. Put key into door to lock it and..... WTF?! It would seem that something was jammed into my lock that prevents my key from going all the way into the lock. As such, my front door will not lock. Now, I sit at home briefly. I wait for the apartment maintenance to get here to fix it. Whee! (note: I really hate being late. Especially being late to work) | | Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 | | 8:31 am |
Winner of successful Stem Cell application, not the USA!
Barcelona, Spain - FTW! http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/19/windpipe.transplant/index.htmlThe hospital that used a patient's own stem cells (grown from bone marrow) successfully used those stem cells and organ-stripping/matrix building in transplant. The process involves stripping down replacement tissue to a collagen layer ("scaffolding") and applying the patient's stem cells back onto that tissue layer (where the stem cells regrow the remaining tissue). Combine that with Portugal's regrowth of injured spinal cords by using stem cells from the upper nasal cavity. Doesn't it feel nice to be a third world! Doesn't it feel nice to be all wrong! Doesn't it feel nice to see the USA fall behind in these kinds of things due to religious dogma? (that question is rhetorical & sarcastic) | | Monday, November 17th, 2008 | | 8:34 am |
| | Sunday, November 16th, 2008 | | 10:17 pm |
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