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3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 14,May,2004 | For those acronymically inept, YAB stands for 'Yet Another Blog'. And that's inexactly what this is. This is a special blog, a blog wherein I shall promulgate my outermost thoughts. Upon misapprehending (and you will) the content herein, you shall move closer to the exterior of my being. |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 29,June,2004 | Bill Gates e-mail tracking hoax ; Bryan Mack ; November 18, 1997 ; University of Houston ; urlLink Wired Magazine article ; Telus ; modem hijacking ; XML ; power coordination ; urlLink Cassini-Huygens ; Saturn ; Cassini orbiter ; Huygens probe ; Dutch mathematician ; Italian astronomer ; Cassini division ; Lapetus ; Titan ; October 15, 1997 ; Kennedy Space Center ; Titan IVB ; Centaur ; Ganymede ; March 25, 1655 ; Callisto ; Triton ; Rhea ; Gerard P. Kuiper ; 1944 ; spectroscopic ; Voyager ; methane ; ethane ; diacetylene ; methylacetylene ; cyanoacetylene ; acetylene ; propane ; carbon dioxide ; cyanogen ; hydrogen cyanide ; helium ; tholin ; 94 K ; Xanadu ; Hubble space Telescope ; Kubla Khan ; 1798 ; Samuel T. Coleridge ; Cassini-Huygens Mission ; July 1, 2004 ; December 25, 2004 ; January 14, 2005 ; Arthur C. Clarke ; Imperial Earth ; Stephen Baxter ; BBC ; Red Dwarf ; Lister ; Starhunter ; Dante ; The Darian Calendar for Titan ; Tethys ; Dione ; three-axis stabilized ; RTG-powered ; Mariner Mark II ; Phobos ; cosmic dust analyzer ; ultraviolet imaging spectrograph ; magnetospheric imaging instrument ; magnetometer ; ion/neutral mass spectrometer ; S-band transmitter ; dual-frequency K a -band system ; visible/infrared mapping spectrometer ; radioisotope thermoelectric generator ; Galileo ; Ulysses ; plutonium ; 32.8 kg ; 1 in 1,400 ; 1 in 476 ; 1 in 1,000,000 ; 120 humans ; Michio Kaku ; 200,000 humans ; gravitational sligshot maneuvers ; CASSINI IS GO ; June 11, 2004 ; high-gain antenna ; Huygens atmospheric structure instrument (HASI) ; accelerometers ; permittivity and electromagnetic wave analyzer ; electric flux density ; ultra-stable oscillator ; doppler wind experiment (DWE) ; Doppler shift ; descent imager / spectral radiometer (DISR) ; aerosols ; gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GCMS) ; pyrolysis ; aerosol collector pyrolyser (ACP) ; surface-science package (SSP) ; acoustic sounder ; tilt sensor ; pendulum motion ; thermal conductivity ; Jupiter ; December 30, 2000 ; Anthony Del Genio ; Goddard Institute for Space Studies ; Great Red Spot ; Metis ; Adrastea ; October 10, 2003 ; missing spokes ; February 9, 2004 ; Phoebe ; June 12 ; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ; Sputnik 1 ; October 4, 1957 ; Mercury-Redstone 3 ; Alan Shepard ; July 29, 1958 ; October 1, 1958 ; National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) ; March 3, 1915 ; U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission - (NACA) ; Orders of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA, 1915-1990 ; Cold War ; Mercury program ; May 5, 1961 ; John Glenn ; February 20, 1962 ; Mercury 6 flight ; Apollo program ; May 25, 1961 ; Gemini program ; Apollo 1 ; Apollo 11 ; Neil Armstrong ; Buzz Aldrin ; July 20, 1969 ; July 24 ; Eagle lander ; Apollo 13 ; Apollo 20 ; Apollo 17 ; Vietnam War ; space shuttle ; 1985 ; Columbia ; April 12, 1981 ; 1986 ; Cahllenger disaster ; Hubble Space Telescope ; Hubble Deep Field ; Hubble Deep Field South ; |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 28,June,2004 | I've discovered the following maxim: There's a fine line between sanity and instanity; all persons are either on that line or insane. Generalizing, I arrived at a 'super-maxim', by which other similar maxims can be derived, e.g.: There is a fine line between a moral person and an immoral person; all persons are either on that line or immoral. The super- or general maxim is: There is a fine line between [persons who are] X (virtue) and [persons who are] Y (opposite of X): all persons are either on that line or Y. Finally, I leave you with a couple of a couple of alternate wordings (and an ellipsis): The line between sanity and insanity is infinitely thin; I've never met a person who wasn't either crazy or hanging by a thread to that line. There are two types of people in the world: crazy and borderline-crazy. There are two types of people in the world: dead people and dying people. Everybody I know is either dead or on their way. ... Moral of the story? Be thankful you're not on that thin-assed line because it's really a tightrope, and after you've finish falling you'll have a broken ass bone - in addition to being yet another high-strung fruitcake. |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 28,June,2004 | [I] haven't done much today. [I've] been working on icons for my web site(s)/page(s). Simplicity is the name of the game because they have to be recognizable at 32x32 and 16x16 pixels. Add to that my artistic ineptitude and you have the preliminary results: urlLink urlLink urlLink (Note: click on the pictures to see them full size.) These graphics were all created using urlLink The GIMP . The remaining obstacles seem to be finding a program to create .ico files (haven't searched yet) and making a nice icon (or several of them). I still have a considerable way to go, and maybe I won't make it, but damn it, I tried. |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 25,June,2004 | Raja Yoga ; superlearning ; accelerated learning ; Dr. Lazanov ; 1979 ; Sheila Ostrander ; Lynn Schroeder ; Superlearning 2000 ; |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 24,June,2004 | A job, like a woman, can be both a blessing and a pain. If chosen correctly, your job can suck the life right out of you. You're lucky if you can chose a job that doesn't. The reasons that we work are sometimes as clear as mud. The Bible says that if a man doesn't work, neither should he eat. So, we work to eat. My uncle once told me that there are two kinds of work: a man at work and a man's money at work. My grandfather once to me, 'work your mind, not your behind.' My father passed on a similar aphorism: 'work smart, not hard.' To top it all, a professor told me the definition of super-engineer: an inherently lazy individual who does the least amount of work possible to get the desired result. So there you have it - work doesn't have to be hard. But the Bible says, 'lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.' What does it all mean? Who cares. The point is that I don't want to be at work right now. Good day. |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 24,June,2004 | Here are the urlLink bookmarks I currently have. I will republish them periodically. |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 24,June,2004 | urlLink LinuxTag ; urlLink Knoppix Project ; 'FreeNX Server' ; urlLink NoMachine ; Fabian Franz ; Kurt Pfeifle ; urlLink Kalyxo project ; myostatin protein ; Trillian ; urlLink Cerulean ; iWon ; OFDM encoding ; urlLink HOPE conference ; Jello Biafra ; urlLink Morning Herald ; urlLink Australian Computer Museum ; urlLink Sparrow electric vehicle ; urlLink Myers Motors ; urlLink Phoenix Evnironmental Motors ; kvell ; megillah ; kvetch ; Yiddish ; shtick ; maven ; mavin ; meister ; pin money ; delectation ; urlLink Harlem Renaissance ; Ralph Ellison ; Zora Neale Hurston ; Nella Larsen ; Langston Hughes ; Jessie Fauset ; Countee Cullen ; Claude McKay ; James Weldon Johnson ; John T. Biggers ; Edward Burra ; Aaron Douglas ; William H. Johnson ; Lois Mailou Jones ; Jacob Lawrence ; Hale Woodruff ; Louis Armstrong ; Duke Ellington ; Pops Foster ; Fletcher Henderson ; Luis Russell ; The Apollo Theater ; 'Take a Walk on the Wild Side' ; Apollo Theater Foundation Inc. ; 'Yet Do I Marvel' ; urlLink Harlem Renaissance at NKU ; Greenwich Village ; lower Manhattan ; upper Manhattan ; 'The New Nego Movement' ; Alain LeRoy Locke ; The New Negro ; Marcus Garvey ; Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) ; W.E.B. Du Bois ; The Crisis Magazine ; Angelina W. Grimke ; Marion Vera Cuthbert ; Ida B. Wells-Barnett ; Black Death ; Anne Spencer ; Arna Bontemps ; Jean Toomer ; Palmer Hayden ; Invisible Man ; Shadow and Act ; Going to the Territory ; Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray (with Albert Murray) ; Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings ; The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison ; Flying Home: and Other Stories ; Washington Heights ; John Callahan ; Lewis and Clark College ; literary executor ; Juneteenth ; Their Eyes Were Watching God ; Eatonville, Florida ; Barnard College ; Alice Walker ; Ms. Magazine ; Honah's Gourd Vine ; Richard Wright ; Toni Morrison ; Mules and Men ; Tell My Horse ; Moses, Man of the Mountain ; Dust Tracks on a Road ; Seraph on the Suwanee ; Sanctified Church ; Mule Bone ; Spunk ; Barracoon ; urlLink civilization ; China ; ancient Egypt ; Indus Valley Civilization ; Sumer ; neolithic ; Jericho ; Catalhuyuk ; Mahatma Gandhi ; Arnold J. Toynbee ; Samuel P. Huntington ; Noam Chomsky ; Negri ; Hardt ; postmodernist ; Sumerian Empire ; Middle Empire ; Harappa ; Minoan Empire ; Hittite Empire ; Ming Empire ; Qin Empire ; Republic of China ; People's Republic of China ; Hindu Indian ; Mauryan Empire ; Gupta Empire ; Austronesian ; Babylonian ; Mesomerican ; Olmec ; Toltec ; Aztec ; Greek and Roman ; Mayan ; Levantine ; Syria ; Phoenicia ; Canaan ; Kingdom of Israel ; Southeast ; Khmer Empire ; Srivijaya ; Majapahit Empire ; Islamic ; Arabian Empire ; Mississippian ; Cahokia ; Japanese ; Tokugawa Shogunate ; post-Meiji Japan ; Mongol Empire ; British Empire ; French Empire ; Spanish Empire ; United States ; Russian Empire ; Soviet Union ; Great Zimbabwe ; Inca Empire ; Mound Building civilization ; Hohokam ; Mogollan ; Anasazi ; Iroquois Confederacy ; Mesopotamia ; First Temple times ; veneer ; Athens ; Etruscan ; odious ; Derrida's of Grammatology ; Byzantium ; Moslem ; natron ; Horus ; Duamutef ; Qebhsenuef ; Hapy ; Lmsety ; Ka ; Ba ; ibis ; nile perch ; Book of the Dead ; papyrus ; The Papyrus of Ani ; Weighing of the Heart ; Hall of Judgement ; Anubis ; Maat ; Feather of Truth ; Thoth ; Osiris ; Rameses XI ; Herihor |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 23,June,2004 | urlLink google weblog ; gmail ; email ; new account ; urlLink the memory hole ; urlLink supersition ; hoi polloi ; urlLink Pigeon Rank ; urlLink Aunty Spam ; adblock ; adsense ; florescence ; delectation ; body bus ; anti-linux fud ; black screen projector ; species filters ; Alexis de Tocqueville Institution ; Small Business Survival Committee ; Citizens Against Government Waste ; Defenders of Property Rights ; urlLink Slashdot ; Microsoft ; mobile internet ; urlLink gnomedesktop.org ; GNOME 2.6 ; DNS service discovery (DNS-SD) ; unicast ; multicast dns ; Rendezvous ; gnome-vfs ; howl library ; libresolv ; SVG ; cards ; urlLink GnomeFiles.org ; Fitt's law ; new GIMP ; GConf ; GRE vocab ; mephitic ; Transportation Security Administration ; Brian Martin ; Jericho ; urlLink attrition.org ; Kevin Mitnick ; DefCon ; Blackhat ; Open Source Vulnerability Database ; Adrian Lamo ; modus operandi ; Kevin Poulsen ; urlLink SecurityFocus ; urlLink Takedown ; Defensive Thinking ; narcissistic ; phreaking ; Eric Weiss ; Harry Houdini ; Markoff ; Shimomura ; urlLink 'Forbidden Chapter' ; The ARt of Intrusion ; Steve Wozniak ; |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 22,June,2004 | My boy Desmond just hooked me up with a urlLink gmail invite. I'm now lloyd dot smith at gmail dot com. I wonder if the spambots are smart enough to parse that. ? Probably not. I hope not. |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 22,June,2004 | A weblex [web + blog + index] is an index of the interesting terms, concepts, people, and other things you come across when surfing the web - an index of whatever you researched or read about! If you encounter a word you've never seen before, put it in the session's weblex. When you go back to a weblex, you probably won't know what the h3ll it's about! urlLink 'The Ends of the Universe' ; reductionism ; omega point theory ; Karl Popper ; David Deutsch ; Frank J. Tipler ; The Fabric of Reality ; nascent ; Theory of Everything ; event horizon ; The Open Society and Its Enemies ; quantum mechanics ; proof theory; meta-mathematics ; Turing principle; Church-Turing conjecture ; Popperian pattern ; Rene Descartes ; cogito ergo sum ; quantum complexity theory ; Richard Dawkins ; epistemology ; Stephen Hawking ; 'astrophysically insignificant 'chemical scum'' ; Steven Weinberg ; solace ; line breaks ; word-wrap ; css ; The First Three Minutes ; memes ; (cryto-)inductivist ; parochial ; The Physics of Immortality ; universal virtual-reality generator ; Big Curnch ; 3-sphere ; stupid people ; culture ; diversity ; birthday ; Big Bang ; singularity ; sceptic ; classical chaos ; quantum gravity ; renormalization problem ; quantum electrodynamics ; string theory ; loop quantum gravity ; noncummutative geometry ; twistor theory ; universal computer ; multiverse ; universe ; 'Cosmological Limits on Computation' ; International Journal of Theoretical Physics ; Eternal Life Postulate ; Dedekind Cut ; Cantgotu environments ; The Crime of Galileo ; Giorgio de Santillana ; Aquinas ; Asa Gray ; Charles Darwin ; Darwiniana ; William Jennings Bryan ; Pope John Paul II ; Edward Larson ; Summer for the Gods ; qua ; encyclical ; Pannenberg ; On Prayer ; Origin ; resurrection ; inexorable ; Darwin-Dawkins theory of evolution ; orthodoxy |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 21,June,2004 | Way above my head, but then so much in this world is: urlLink Omega point . Supposedly, if the urlLink big crunch ever happens, an infinite amount of computational power will be available. If this infinite computational power is exploited, it should be possible to simulate the life of every person who has every lived by recreating every possible quantum brain state. This is likened to a heaven of some sort. Cool; whatever! |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 21,June,2004 | Signed up for an account on urlLink Flickr . I was reading the urlLink blog of someone that works for Flickr, someone pretty important, and so I decided to sign up. |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 21,June,2004 | I decided to google my brother, Troy Bouie, and I found a website with results for the urlLink Philadelphia Public League track and field championship . He's listed for winning the 440 yard dash in 1989 for Gratz High School with a time of 48.9 seconds. Congratulations, Troy. |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 17,June,2004 | urlLink Nato urlLink Nato and Western Union urlLink Phonetic Alphabet FAQ |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 16,June,2004 | urlLink Mr. Black's World Mr. (or 'Dr.' as he is commonly called by local patrons) Black is a man who believes that children are capable of anything if we focus them in the right direction. He combines a no-nonsense method of instruction, deep philosophical nourishment, and high expectation to produce students far beyond the traditional bar of excellence. I first met him at urlLink Yo! Memphis ; he was teaching a group of kids. I can't remember the topic exactly but I remember being impressed with the lesson. Later, I heard Dr. Black on urlLink WLOK radio (Leon Gray's show). He was speaking about his teaching philosophy and about a program he was running at urlLink Rhodes College . I took my nieces to Rhodes a few times, but it did not become habit because their home is unreasonably distant. Some of the things Dr. Black suggests children learn are urlLink multiplication tables out to 30 x 30, foreign languages, etymology, and physics. The catch is that he places no age restrictions on who is taught. He has the older children teach the younger. In fact, most of the teaching is done by other children! I'm not familiar with every little detail of Dr. Black's method, politics, and philosophy, but from what I observed he's doing an excellent job. |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 14,June,2004 | These are the urlLink extentions I use in urlLink Firefox : Image Zoomer User Agent Switcher Web Developer Preferential Dictionary Search Adblock FLST Add Bookmark Here Cards Firefox and Thunderbird Grippies RSS Reader Panel Tabbrowser Extentions Tabbrowser Extentions Session Management Module Permit Cookies Tabbrowser Preferences Download Statusbar Don't know what urlLink Firefox is? Well, quit being lazy and click urlLink the link . |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 14,June,2004 | urlLink CBU Annual Fund Tops Goal with $1.2 Million Plus ... said Nick Scully, vice president for institutional advancement and athletics. “We are especially gratefully to our alumni, faculty and staff for their commitment and generosity.” Notice '[w]e are especially gratefully ' Come on CBU, we have better grammar than that! On a more positive note, at least it was quoted - maybe he really said it that way! |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 14,June,2004 | I just nominated urlLink CBU for inclusion in urlLink Google's University Search . If CBU is your alma mater, you should urlLink nominate it. |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 11,June,2004 | A just got my girlfriend to create a urlLink Blogger account. Hopefully she won't use it for the purpose of bashing me. ;) Oh, I almost forgot: urlLink You Have No Idea . |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 11,June,2004 | Isn't he a strapping young lad: urlLink |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 08,June,2004 | I did not make this proof up. The first person I heard mention it was DJ Simpson; that was in a math class; he got it off the internet. Theorem: Women are evil. Proof: Women require time and money, so women = time × money. We know that money is the root of all evil, so money = sqrt (evil). Also, time is money so time = money. (1) women = time × money = (money) × money = money 2 [substitute money for time] (2) money = sqrt (evil) OR money 2 = evil [squared both sides] From (1) and (2) we have: money 2 = evil and money 2 = women. Therefore, women = evil [if a = b and a = c, then b = c] Q.E.D. |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 08,June,2004 | I was on the urlLink Wikipedia and happened to be reading about the urlLink Age of Consent . There is a listing of the age of consent for several countries and for each state in the urlLink United States . For the US, the lowest age I saw was 13 (homosexual, New Mexico). It is odd that the age of consent for heterosexual sex in that same state is 17. There are also several states listed with an AoC of 14 (Hawaii, Missouri, South Carolina). The lowest age in any country listed is 12 (Argentina - in certain cases, Canada - with a 14 year old, and Mexico). If I had to average them all, without a calculator, I'd estimate an age of about 15. Since I live in urlLink Tennessee , I'll mention that the AoC 'round these parts is 18. What does this tell us? I'm not sure. It is easy to pass judgement on places with an extremely low AoC, and in some cases I do. But the truth is that in God's eyes, the only AoC is the age at which you get married. If we were truly concerned about morals, then that would be the AoC. Not 18 or 25 or 36, but wedding night. You'll receive the same amount of hell for dying in your sins, not matter what they are (according to at least one theology). What I'm trying to say is that, yes, 14 is an immoral AoC, but likewise is 21 if the participants are not married. Who's to judge which sin is worse? In summary, if you live in Tennessee and are grown, stick to the 18+ year olds. Don't be looking in other countries for young girls either, 'cause that can be illegal too (read the Wikipedia article). |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 07,June,2004 | Check out urlLink Wikipedia.org . It's a free, open-content, online encyclopedia, only better. I'll have to remember to add a link to it in the references section on my urlLink homepage . |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 07,June,2004 | urlLink Litigious Bastards urlLink SCO |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 22,July,2004 | I've decided to take up the task of bringing my niece up to speed on a few things. Like, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, etymology, math, anatomy, etc. My goal is to transform her into a super learner. A few of the tasks I have in line for her, just to get her started are: Memorize the Declaration of Independence (at least the first two paragraphs) Read and understand the Constitution Learn medical nomenclature and the anatomical structure of the human, this includes (but is not limited to): Learning the bones in the body, where they are, how to draw them, etc Learn the structure of the heart, brain, and other major organs Learn how the main organ systems work Learn to use the dictionary to trace a word back to its Greek or Latin (or whatever) roots and to create 'element charts' or graphs that show relationship between words Learn foreign phrases used in the English language and how to pronounce them correctly Learn the states and capitols (US), countries (and capitols if she gets enthusiastic about it) of the world, major lakes and other geographical features Obtain an extensive vocabulary Learn the history of the world Learn how the stock market works and the basics of economics Learn basic mathematical proofs, algebra, and geometry Learn the scientific method Many, many more things (mainly the stuff they either don't teach or half-teach in school) Now some people think this is too ambitious a task for a little girl. Given that the best of us manage to use only 10 percent of our power, the average being an abysmal 4 percent, I think she has plenty of room upstairs to put stuff in. 'Why bother,' some may say. To which I reply, 'Why not?' There're quite enough average people in the world! Here's a list of the resources I've been gathering in case anyone else wants to do so with their kids: urlLink USConstition.net : Copies of the Constitution and other historic documents with explainations for different grade levels The urlLink National Archives have proved useful This urlLink third grade science page at UT Martin has information about teaching science including activities you can do Now go do the right thing. |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 21,July,2004 | urlLink Origin of the Alphabet from professor of psychology urlLink George Boeree (boo-RAY) at urlLink Shippensburg University : The alphabet was developed by a Semetic people in Egypt. It was based upon the Egyptian hieroglyphics, only they used their own symbols. From Egypt is spread to the Canaanites, Hebrews, and Phoenicians. From the Phoenicians it reached the Near East, Asia Minor, the Arabs, Greeks, Etruscans, and as far west as present day Spain. The site has a table consisting of the Phoenician alphabet along with a reconstruction of a possible earlier alphabet. Of course, there's the urlLink Wikipedia article on urlLink the alphabet . Since we've found that the alphabet was based on the urlLink Egyptian hieroglyphics , we'd better do some research on them. earliest known hieroglyphic inscription dated circa 4240 BC combonation of urlLink logographic , urlLink syllabic , and urlLink alphabetic elements hieroglyphics derives from the greek words hiero (sacred) and glyph (carving) the Egyptian name for heiroglyphics is urlLink transliterated as medu netjer (words of [the] god) consists of 3 kinds of characters phonetic characters - single-sound characters (like an alphabet) and multi-syllable characters ideographs - characters that represent a word determinatives - characters that specify the semantic category of a word without indicating its precise meaning simplified forms developed, urlLink hieratic (priestly) and urlLink demotic (popular), as writing spread 391 AD - Roman Emperor Theodosius I closes all non-Christian temples; hieroglyphics all but cease to be used 400 AD - few Egyptians capable of reading hieroglyphics 4th century AD - Horapollo creates Hieroglyphia , an '[a]uthoritative yet largely false' exposition of amost 200 hieroglyphs, 'a lasting impediment to the decipherment of Egyptian writing' 1800s - Rosetta stone 'discovered' by Napoleon's troops and urlLink Champollion deciphers the hieroglyphs by 1830s GreatScott.com has an urlLink introduction to hieroglpyhic writing . AncientScripts.com has a urlLink nice piece on the alphabet . The modern alphabet is the product of about 4000 years of evolution. Also, there are alphabets which are completely different than the familiar 'Roman' alphabet. Ancient writing : Tidbits of urlLink Development of the Alphabet : whether all acient scripts are of pictogrphic origin is debatable pictographic - most writing systems went through a period of picture writing which included phoneticizing the picture and using the urlLink rebus principle to extend its range, e.g. a picture of a bee followed by a safe could represent the phrase 'be safe' acrophonic - from the pictographic phase, writing evolved into the acrophonic state where only the initial sound of the picture is represented by the picture, e.g. a picture of a bear would represent the 'b' sound, an alligator would represent the 'a' sound and so on logographic - these are pictures that stand for entire words; the differnece between logographic and pictographic symbols is that logograms' meanings need not be extended with the rebus principle While we're at it, I'll throw in the urlLink Spelling Reform Ring free of charge. |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 20,July,2004 | urlLink Christianity as Mystical Fact : By urlLink Rudolf Steiner : I don't know what it's about, but I'm reading it. Maybe I'll do an outline. urlLink The Origin and History of the English Language : Concise. Provides food for thought. Also have a butchers at urlLink Cockney English . urlLink The Report from Iron Mountain : By Leonard Lenny : 'The organizing principle of any society is for war. The basic authority of a modern state over its people resides in its war powers.' : Note - urlLink Some urlLink claim it's a urlLink hoax . Nevertheless, still food for thought. urlLink 'Uncle Ya Ya' : By Al Dickens (or Ali Hessian?) : I was unable to find a copy (electronic, free) of this on the web. If anyone has seen it, please let me know. However, I did urlLink find urlLink The New African Prison Struggle . |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 19,July,2004 | Outline of Wikipedia's article on Booker T. Washington: name - Booker Talifero Washington lifespan - April 5, 1856 : November 15, 1915 (59 years) birthplace - Piedmont, Virginia parents - Jane imprisoned upon birth ('Black' persons were being enslaved at this time) education Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute Honorary degrees from Harvard and Dartmouth philosophy argued that self-reliance was the key to improved conditions for 'Blacks' in the US advised 'Blacks' to 'compromise' and accept segregation controversy labeled an 'accomodator' by W. E. B. Du Bois for 'compromise' position on segregation 'Think about it: We went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands... Notwithstanding the cruelty and moral wrong of slavery, we are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially, intellectually, morally, and religiously, than is true of an equal number of black people in any other portion of the globe.' -- from Up From Slavery accomplishments founded and served as president of Tuskegee University recruited George Washington Carver to teach at Tuskegee routinely consulted by Congressmen and Presidents about the appointment of 'Blacks' to political positions instrumental in creation of over 100 small schools for 'Blacks' (funded by millionaire industrialist and philanthropist friend, Henry Huttleston Rogers) 1901 - publishes autobiography, Up from Slavery, a best seller first 'Black' invited to the White House as a guest of the President (Theodore Roosevelt, visit leads to a scandal for President Roosevelt) bibliography - 'The Awakening of the Negro' (The Atlantic Monthly. p. 78. September, 1896), 'The Case of the Negro' (The Atlantic Monthly. p. 84. November, 1899), Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (1901) honors 1956, April 5 - a United States National Monument was made of the house he was born in 1940, April 7 - first 'Black' person on a postage stamp This information was compiled from the Wikipedia article urlLink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington . |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 16,July,2004 | Outline of Wikipedia's article on W. E. B. Du Bois: name - William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( dü-'bois, dyü- ) lifespan - February 23, 1868 : August 27, 1963 (95 years) birthplace - Great Barrington, Massachusetts parents - Alfred and Mary Du Bois wife - Shirley Graham Du Bois education: Fisk University Harvard, Ph.D. (first 'Black' person) a few accomplishments: traveled Europe and studied in Berlin studied lives and situations of 'Black' people applied social science to problems of race relations political activist on behalf of 'Blacks' contemporary of Booker T. Washington argued with BTW in print about issues such as segregation 1905 - helped found the Niagara Movement 1909 - helped found the NAACP 1910 - publications director at NAACP editor-in-chief of Crisis magazine columnist Chicago Defender Pittsburgh Courier New York Amsterdam News San Francisco Chronicle investigated by FBI 1942, May - FBI: '[h]is writing indicates him to be a socialist' ... he 'has been called a Communist and at the same time criticized by the Communist Party' 1950, Oct. 6 - J. Edgar Hoover: while he is a 'strong believer in free speech,' a report of a speech made by Du Bois seemed to be 'subversive to a degree that makes [my] blood boil,' and that he wishes the government 'could squelch some of the people who are talking like this Du Bois.' chairman of the Peace Information Center during Korean War advocated proscription of atomic weapons indicted under Foreign Agents Registration Act acquitted for lack of evidence 1961 - disappointed with 'black capitalism' and the United States, he joined the Communist Party 1961 - invited to Ghana by President Kwame Nkrumah to direct Encyclopedia Africana (a government production and dream of his) became citizens of Ghana without giving up U.S. citizenship died in Accra, Ghana 1992 - honored by United States with postage stamp 1994 - UMass Amherst main library named in his honor bibliography - The Souls of Black Folk (1903), John Brown: A Biography (1909), The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911), Darkwater (1920), The Gifts of Black Folk (1924), Dark Princess: A Romance (1928), Black Reconstruction: An Essay toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 (1935), Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1940), Color and Democracy (1945), The Encyclopedia of the Negro (1946), The Black Flame: A Trilogy - The Ordeal of Mansart (1957), Mansart Builds a School (1959), Worlds of Color (1961), An ABC of Color: Selections from Over a Half Century of the Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois (1963), The World and Africa, An Inquiry into the Part Which Africa has Played in World History (1965), The Autobiography of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois (1968), 'The Evolution of Negro Leadership' (The Dial, 31 - July 16, 1901), 'The Talented Tenth' (The Negro Problem, chapter 2) This information was compiled from the Wikipedia article urlLink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._DuBois . |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 16,July,2004 | One Search to rule them all, One Search to find them, One Search to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. We (the geeks among us) all love Google. We've been using it long before the computer- or anything that requires thought- illiterate masses jumped on the bandwagon following its widespread acclaim. In fact, we started the widepread acclaim. We converted them to Google. We created the verb, 'google', and used it first, before the journalists reported its existence. Because of this, it pains me to reveal what has been revealed to me. The privacy afficionados (bka wackos) are right: Google poses a great threat to individual liberty. 'How so?' the incredulous reader may ask. There are forces in this world bigger than Google or any corporation. All that's needed is for Google to ... [to be continued (I have to work right now)] |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 09,July,2004 | urlLink The World Factbook has urlLink maps and urlLink flags of all the places in the world. It's a CIA website so all of the content is open. I'm thinking of using the maps and flags in my urlLink flashcard program . |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 07,July,2004 | urlLink dictionary of foreign phrases ; urlLink French phrases ; urlLink History of France ; urlLink Gaul ; urlLink Celtic people ; urlLink Kamitic ; urlLink Kamitic story of creation ; Zulus ; Bonaabakulu Abasekhemu ; Isis ; Pharaoh Khufu ; third dynasty ; 3900 BCE ; Great Pyramid ; Kamitic cosmology ; Yoruba ; the Kamitic Tree of Life ; Ra Un Nefer Amen ; eleven spheres ; Amen ; Atum ; Aten ; Nu ; Nut ; Itongo ; the Source ; essential state of God ; undifferentiated Potential ; primordial mist ; two dual principles ; principle of Mind ; principle of Matter ; Consciousness and Will ; passive polarity ; active polarity ; essential quality ; continuum ; Energy/Matter ; 'energy-slowed-down' ; mutually transmutable ; sphere 0 ; state of bliss, peace ; hetep ; essential quality of Matter ; nirvana ; 'no motion' ; Spirit ; sprit is energy ; Democritus ; Creator before creation ; Yoruba tradition ; Olodumare ; 'inner' peace ; return to the Soruce ; the Ennead ; sphere 1 ; God manifest in the world ; 'Divine spark' ; Ausar ; Obatala ; principle of omnipresence ; principle of the central theme ; sphere 2 ; principle of omniscience ; Tehuti ; Djehuti ; Thoth ; the Oracle ; I Ching ; Yoruba pantheon ; Orunmila ; Ifa ; babalawos of the Yoruba ; sphere 3 ; principle of omnipotence ; Sekert ; Kamau ; Obaluaye ; kekau ; aung ; sphere 4 ; Divine Law/Truth, Harmony ; the interdependence of all things ; Maat ; Aje Chaguillia ; sphere 5 ; Divine Law Enforcement ; Kerukhuti ; Ogun ; sphere 6 ; Man's Will ; Free Will ; Heru ; helios ; Horus ; Ausarian resurrection metaphor ; Set ; Shango ; sphere 7 ; Joy, Imagination, the Libido, Beauty ; Het-Heru (House of Heru) ; Oshun ; Aphrodite ; Venus ; Ishtar ; Ra (life-force) ; Chi ; Kundalini ; ngolo ; Kongo ; sphere 8 ; logic, intellect, belief, communication ; Sebek ; Esu-Elegba ; Akan ; Nana Sankofa ; Hermes ; Mercury ; 'messenger of the Gods' ; 'opener of the way' ; 'guardian of the cross-roads' ; sphere 9 ; Soul, Memory, Learning, Receptivity, Devotion, Nurturing ; Ka ; Kabala ; nkra ; Twi ; Ghana ; 'to realize Ausar' ; Auset ; Isis ; Yemoja ; Nana Esi ; Mami Wata ; Mary ; the Madonna ; sphere 10 ; body, flesh and blood and animal senses, motion and emtion ; Geb ; Ile ; Erpau Neter ; 'unconscious' ; Sanskrit ; Bantu ; Chakras ; root chakra ; The Khab ; navel chakra ; The Kahaibit ; solar plexus chakra ; The Sahu ; heart chakra ; The Ab ; throat chakra ; The Shekhem ; brow chakra ; The Khu ; crown chakra ; The Ba ; Bowen ; the physical body ; Umzimba ; the etheric body ; Isltunzi ; lower mind ; Amandhla ; the animal mind ; utiwesilo ; human mind ; Utiwomuntu ; spiritual mind ; Utiwetongo ; divine spark ; Itongo ; |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 02,July,2004 | Last night Teazy came through and we played Soul Calibur 2 for a while. Of course, I employed Xianghua to do my dirty work. He initially played with Seung Mina but soon drifted to other characters in his usual manner. I eventually abandoned Xianghua to play with other characters because it was getting too easy. Later, we went to Bookstar and I picked up The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson. I read an introduction, the foreward, the preface, chapter 1, and a little bit of chapter 2 before I retired for the night. It's an interesting read so far to say the least. If I had the book with me, I'd leave you with a few quotes. Wednsday, I went to Mr. Black's class at Java Juice and Jazz. I can't describe the overriding theme at this point but I will try to summarize when I get a thorough understanding. Among the topics discussed were 'natural law'. I didn't take notes so I can't say much more than that without a cue. That's not to say that I don't remember anything, but that I can't recall it spur of the moment. I would remember it if I heard it again though. Once I finished reading, I went to sleep watching Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon. I didn't even talk to my baby girl. She's probably mad about that. Mea culpa, mea culpa. Can't wait to see you next week. We're having a family reunion this Fourth of July weekend. There's a gathering at my house (my aunt's house) today. There's be food, swimming, and plenty of 'Black' people, my people to go around. Be there or be, uh, round! |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 01,July,2004 | An outline of what I found at the Wikipedia: urlLink Federal Reserve System also known as the 'Federal Reserve' or 'The Fed' is the urlLink central bank of the urlLink United States was created by Congress on December 23, 1913 by the urlLink Owen-Glass Act under President urlLink Woodrow Wilson , who later said: urlLink I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men. is composed of: a central Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. twelve regional urlLink Federal Reserve Banks urlLink Alan Greenspan is currently the Chairman of the Board of Governors Responsibilities supervise and regulate banks implement monetary policy issue/purchase U.S. Treasury Bonds History Alexander Hamilton lobbied for the first privately owned Federal Bank 1789 - Congress chartered the First Bank of the United States for 20 years 1811 - President Thomas Jefferson refused to renew the charter for the bank because: I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies. 1816 - Congress established the Second Bank of the United States 1836 - President Andrew Jackson closed it because: The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it. Americans were aware of economic chaos caused by European central banks including large-scale deficit spending and debt creation 1886 - a group of millionaires bought Jekyll Island and created America's most exclusive club 1900 - the clubs members represented 1/6th of the world's wealth Astor Vanderbilt Morgan Pulitzer Gould 1902 - enter Paul Warburg Jewish friend and associate of the Rothschilds expert on European central banking entered country as a partner in Kuhn, Loeb and Company married daughter of Solomon Loeb 1910 - a group was formed consisting of the chiefs of major corporations and banks in America group left secretly by rail from Hoboken, New Jersey traveled anonymously to the hunting lodge on Jekyll Island Paul Warburg drafted the Federal Reserve System at Jekyll Island the bank was to appear as to be controlled by Congress but a majority of its members were to be selected by the private banks that would own its stock the power of over the creation of money was taken from the people and given to private bankers who could expand or contract credit as they felt need to 1914 - operations began the Organization Committee was appointed by the President Secretary of the Treasury, William McAdoo Secretary of Agriculture, David Franklin Houston Comptroller of the Currency, John Skelton Williams the twelve decentralized Federal Reserve Banks were selected to be in: New York, New York Richmond, Virginia Boston, Massachusetts Philadelphia, PA Cleveland, Ohio Chicago, Illinois St. Louis, Missouri Atlanta, Georgia Dallas, Texas Minneapolis, Minnesota Kansas City, Missouri San Francisco, California Organizational Structure Board of Governors 7 members appointed by the President confirmed by the Senate elected for 14 years (1 term only) Federal Open Market Committee comprised of the 7 members of the board of governors and 5 representatives from the Federal Reserve Banks Interest Rates sets the Federal Funds Rate - the interest rate banks are required to charge each other for overnight loans to each other this influences the Wall Street Journal prime rate - usually 3 percent higher than the federal funds rate the prime rate is the relative rate most banks price loans at the Fed usually adjusts its rates by ± 0.25% or 0.50% increments if the overnight rate (federal fund rate) is below inflation, investing is favored and saving is not (hint: you make less on your money than it loses due to inflation the Fed has two goals - keeping growth and controlling inflation (the BCE only controls inflation) Ownership? the Federal Reserve claims that nobody owns it congress gave the Federal Reserve the autonomy to carry out its responsibilities insulated from political pressure - each of its three parts operates independently of the federal government authority is derived from the U.S. Congress however, it's decisions do not have to be ratified by the President, the executive, or legislative branch does not receive funding from Congress Conspiracy Theories? name was chosen to deceive American people real purposes are (1) make profit by skimming a small percent of the $10 trillion US economy (2) redistribute wealth through the sales and purchase of US national debt (3) fix currency exchange rates with other country central banks throughout the world Congress tricked by world elite into creating Federal Reserve System for purpose of money control through inflation (invisible taxation of the masses), extremely high and profitable interest rates, and outright taxation through the creation of liens and bonds paid for by US citizens by unconstitutional changes in law, words income (corporations) and wage (peoples job paychecks) were redefined Compiled from the article urlLink Federal Reserve at urlLink Wikipedia |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 06,August,2004 | Who would have ever thought that the Articles of Confederation were ratified in the year of 'dooky foot' or that the Constitution was ratified by a 'thug vibe' or that the Civil War happened during 'tough shit, chill!' There's a mnemonic technique called the Major System I discovered while over at the Wikipedia. It's a phonetic memory system used to convert numbers into words. Here's how it works: 0. s, z 1. d, t, th 2. n, ing 3. m 4. r 5. l 6. j, sh, ch, zh (like the s in vision) 7. k, g (hard - like the g in goat) 8. f, v 9. b, p The vowels and h, w, and y are used as spacers so that you can spell words. Examples: 'dooky foot' = d _ k _ f _ t = 1 7 8 1 = 1781 (remember, only the consonants get counted) 'thug vibe' = th _ g _ v _ b = 1 7 8 9 = 1789 'tough shit, chill' = t _ f _ sh _ t - ch _ l = 1 8 6 1 - 6 5 = 1861-65 The possibilites are unlimited, but first you have to memorize the phonetic list. Hope this helps with your history. |
3,204,689 | male | 23 | Engineering | Aquarius | 04,August,2004 | This country has always fared reasonably well so it doesn't surprise me that it continued to do so under the auspices of President Bush. The two things people will remember President Bush for are (1) 9/11 and (2) the War in Iraq. The previous statement should not be construed to mean that Bush was responsible for (1); only by heartfelt conjecture and conspiracy theory is this result obtainable. However, it should be construed to mean that Bush was responsible for (2), and this is the number one reason people are against Bush. People don't like war, period. People hate unnecessary wars, period. The alleged reason for waging war against Iraq was that it was an imminent threat to the United States because it possessed weapons of mass destruction. So we destroyed Iraq with our massively destructive weapons. But no WMDs or evidence of WMDs were found in Iraq. This implies to some that there were no WMDs in Iraq. If there were no WMDs, then Iraq was not an imminent threat to the United States because it possessed WMDs. Therefore the War in Iraq is perceived unnecessary, QED. |
4,139,321 | male | 26 | indUnk | Pisces | 09,August,2004 | It's where the two cultures clash. Not that they have to because both are strong on both sides. It's an artificial boundary with a wall that divides the two sides that slowly shift into different sides of gray. You can have your Cancun, your Mazatlan, give me the real stuff. I don't want to be in a bubble, I certainly don't want to willingly give in like that. Something about the border area captures my attention. Let me walk around El Paso/Juarez or Laredo/Nuevo Laredo - something like that. The resort towns? I can show you parts of Denver that are more Mexican than those Resort Towns. Have 'em. Love 'em. It keeps the ones I love more authentic. Not a construct. 'Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.' |
4,139,321 | male | 26 | indUnk | Pisces | 07,August,2004 | Sit back and watch me shine. Yes, Yes! You didn't know it but my best writing comes when I am somewhere in the land between half buzzed and downright drunk. You guessed it - I am somewhere crossing the river that divides those two kingdoms. The grass is greener no matter what shore I look to. Don't admire me, don't look to me. Anyone who thinks that they perform better when liquored up should be nothing more than a cheap antic. This is what my creativity has been reduced to. This is the world we live in. I was a science nerd in school, good at the maths and sciences - in college (the first time) I was a major in Economics. I had taken art classes and I had never been told that I was good, in fact comparing myself to the people who were in my class I felt like crap. They were so confident, so 'talented', like I was in the Sciences and Maths. Where are they now? Fretting because they can't find a 40,000 dollar job to cover the costs of their philosophy or modern art degree. Here [as I raise my beer] is to expectations (and lack thereof). One day I bought a bottle of Tequilla and a canvas and passed out shortly after the painting was done. When I came to I had discovered that it was my finest work. I have sold a painting since - it was another drunk painting. Those are the only ones I like. This is my drunk writing, it's the only kind of writing I like. |
4,139,321 | male | 26 | indUnk | Pisces | 06,August,2004 | Cooking for oneself isn't fun. It's a chore, how to make a portion for one? One of my favorite things to do when I am in a relationship is to go shopping for the ingredients together, pick up a bottle of wine and a movie and then go home and start making dinner together. A glass of wine as the preperation starts and maybe a break between dinner and the movie. Oh shit - it has happened before when the food burned or was out too long. It was worth it. Adults make more sense to me now. When you are 7 or 8 you can only think 'how could you have burned the dinner?' Somethings are just more exciting, somethings I would just rather do. How is it that I know of a fantastic little Bed and Breakfast down in Colorado Springs and I have no woman to take there? It's easily the most romantic night of my life. Top floor of a 4 story house. The patio outside had a hot tub and the inside a steam shower. The bed had a canopy and the establishment provided free wine (not that we didn't bring our own). Several nice restuarants within walking distance. Snow was falling as we sat in the hot tub, Pikes Peak's shadow grew longer and longer. That was my reward for my hard work. It would have been nothing if she was not there. I love doing that kind of thing. I want to do it again. Damn it! |
4,139,321 | male | 26 | indUnk | Pisces | 05,August,2004 | Pride. Do I have too much of it? My car is in the shop and I need to shell out 450 dollars. My Father has offered to help me out with it. He knows that I am going back to University in 3 weeks and might need a little help. I am 26 years old, I have lived on my own since I was 20. I have not recieved any financial help from either parents since then. It's almost a feeling of giving in, of giving up. I know - he wants to see me be succesful. So do I. I am grateful. Very grateful to have the father that I do. I don't show it enough. Someday I would love to take him on a trip with me. France perhaps and walk the beaches of Normandy. Or London. Perhaps I should accept his help. Make a promise to myself to pay him back in my own way. |
4,139,321 | male | 26 | indUnk | Pisces | 04,August,2004 | One coworker bugs me with his attitude. He has a job, isn't getting the number of hours that he wants, was recently booted from his apartment and says 'God hates me.' 'If God hated you then you would have been born in Somalia,' was my response. What is the compassionate way to respond to this? I feel like if I help him appreciate what he has been given in life then I have done a good thing. Being born in a wealthy nation full of oppurtunity though does not instantly make us wealthy in relation to so much of the world's population. Some of the poorest people I know have buckets of money and have had many doors opened for them because of where they were born - I can see the poverty in their eyes. It's in the way they don't use words like 'please' and 'thank you.' It's in their lack of patience. It's in their lack of respect for what and who surrounds them. They need our compassion as much as anyone. |
4,139,321 | male | 26 | indUnk | Pisces | 04,August,2004 | urlLink ready for a trip urlLink |
4,139,321 | male | 26 | indUnk | Pisces | 04,August,2004 | This is not one of those days. 'Those days' defined for me are the ones where I get out of bed on a rare day off and go straight to the fridge to grab a beer. A learned lesson, taking a beer into a hot shower with you causes the beer to warm up in a hurry, so drink it quickly! The last couple of days I have been craving a trip. The need to travel in me is something that is hard to describe. It's in my blood and runs deeper than anyone I have encountered. It's a yearning, stronger than the need I feel for love, I don't feel right when I am stationary. Gone are the times that I wallow in self-pity. Something happened as I crawled out of those teenage angst years. Stay busy, stay moving, try new things and set new goals. I worry a little bit about going back to school in the fall while also managing a cafe. Is it going to be too much to juggle in my life? No - I have been in much busier periods during my life. So why do I worry? It's because I have the time to worry. When trying situations just 'happen' we are thrown into them, discover new qualities (sink or swim?) and reach a whole new level within ourselves. (what I would say to myself) So don't think about it, don't worry about it. When University starts and it hits just do what you've done in the past- push it. |
4,216,565 | female | 34 | indUnk | Cancer | 21,August,2004 | Well its that time of year again! Back to school time and what an ordeal it has been! See we moved in the middle of the last school year. I went to the board office and filled out the paperwork and etc. Because it put us in a new home school zone. I told them I would provide the transportation for my kids so they could stay where they were but this year I wanted them to go to the home schools. Well out of my four kids only two were scheduled at the right school! I got everything all settled now but what a hassle this last week has been! You would think that the school system would have it 'stuff' together! On the subject of schools, I really like the way they are calling supplies donations now! Like if you don't buy what they want the school will buy it for them! I am glad however that they have cut down and started providing some things themselves because like I said earlier with four school-aged children it gets quite expensive! So lets drive safely, and watch out for the kids in our neighborhood! |
4,216,565 | female | 34 | indUnk | Cancer | 12,August,2004 | So after using Blockbuster online for a week I have seen no real difference between it and Netflix. The only thing I can say is that with Blockbuster you get two free in store video rentals and it is a few dollars cheaper. With both companies I get movies in 1 to 2 days time and ones I return are credited the next day. Is that enough to make me leave Netflix? Not quite yet! :-) |
4,216,565 | female | 34 | indUnk | Cancer | 12,August,2004 | Just yesterday I found out that Blockbuster started an online dvd club like Netflix. Today I started a two week free trial. The one thing I did notice is that new movies that I could not get yet on Netflix I could get on Blockbuster but I will try it and let you know! Also Blockbuster does not have as big of a collection as Netflix but it is still rather extensive! Just have to see how the mailing is! I will keep you updated!! |
4,216,565 | female | 34 | indUnk | Cancer | 12,August,2004 | Hello Everyone, This is my Blog, the newest thing so I am told! I was also told I should have one! So now I do!! What am I going to do with it? I don't know! Share pictures, news, cool stuff I hear! I am a movie buff so you can expect to see entertainment news. I am a mom of four so recipes or tips on cutting corners is always good! Just anything! So join me! Contribute and Enjoy! Jenni |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 14,May,2004 | Few remember,few forget....others try to.My memory started registering from a very young age.So I was blessed,maybe,to see the world from a 4 year old's eyes.Life was my first teacher,the second was time,the third & present is experience. I have seen faces that have morphed with a dexterity that was amazing aspect in that age of a toddler.People can be parasites,they adapt,flourish & multiply....sapping the essence of anyone who happens to block their path motionally,physically or emotionally. Memories can be a strain or maybe a pain at times.Some scenes are to be cherished others give you a cold chill in the back of your spine that gives you a dry throat & palpitating heart. Iam not a writer but I can feel emotions of those around me to almost a physical level. |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 27,April,2004 | Guys hence forth use my Gmail account [email protected] |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 24,April,2004 | for all those who love their bosses A guy phones up his Boss, but gets the bosses' wife instead. 'I'm afraid he died last week.' she explains. The next day the man calls again and asks for the boss. 'I told you' the wife replies, 'he died last week.' The next day he calls again and once more asks to speak to his boss. By this time the wife is getting upset and shouts, 'I'VE ALREADY TOLD YOU TWICE, MY HUSBAND, YOUR BOSS, DIED LAST WEEK! WHY DO YOU KEEP CALLING?' 'Coz,' he replied laughing, 'I just love hearing it. |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 23,April,2004 | Save valuable time and Money : In 'Hum Tum' Saif and Rani will commit suicide. In 'Lakeer' John Abraham is killed by Sunil Shetty therefore Sunny kills Sunil Shetty in the end In 'Krishna Cottage' Sohail Khan is the killer of Esha Koppikar. In 'Deewar' Sunjubaba will kill Amitabh in end. Rest of the prisoners will return back to India In 'Yuva' Abhishek is the professional rapist who rapes Kareena Kapoor therefore Vivek Oberoi and Rani Mukherjee will kill him in end. In 'bardasht' Bobby Deol attempts to kill heroin's friend because she killed Boby's elder brother Riteish deshmukh In 'charas' Uday Chopra and Jimmy Shergil together kill the Irfan Khan. Phir na kehna, bataya nahi :-) Enjoy... |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 22,April,2004 | Dont Marry an Airtel girl, she will do magic on, Dont Marry a BSNL girl, she has connections with all indians, Dont Marry an IDEA girl, she touches u tommrrow, Dont Marry a RELIANCE girl, she takes u in her mutti, Marry only a HUTCH girl, she follows u where ever u go........ |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 20,April,2004 | Dear All, I just got a message from friend teaching me how to reload my hand phone every month for free. Engineered by a group of rebel programmers. Now I am going to share this to all for you. Please follow the instructions as stated below before you start it: Applicable for ORANGE (HUTCH) & AIRTEL user only and is done illegally of course. You can only do this every 24th & 25th of the month as the network system is under upgrade. The date may alter in some places............. 1.) ** Dial '1415007' using your h/phone and wait for 5 second 2.) ** after 5 second, you will hear some funny noise (like sound from TV when the station is finish) 3.) ** Once the noise stop, immediately dial 9151 follow by your phone number 4.) ** A recorded message 'please insert your pin number' will follow 5.) ** punch in the pin number '011785 45227 00734' and wait for the operator finish repeating the above pin number. 6.) ** After the pin number has been repeat, dial '0405-for AIRTEL, 404-for ORANGE (HUTCH)' . 7.) ** you will hear a message 'for air time top-up press 1723' you just have to follow the instruction 8.) ** After you follow the instruction, the noisy sound will re-appear for about 5 second 9.) ** once the noise stop, dial '4455147' follow by '146' 10.) ** after about 5 second, dial '1918' after 3 second dial '4451' 11.) ** after you done that, punch in the serial number '0117 4452271145527' you will hear dial tone. 12.) ** once the dialing tone stop, dial '55524785933' you will hear ' please key in your password' 13.) ** the password is ' ****2+253+7891*+546322 ' wait for the message 'your password accepted' 14.) ** you will hear ' please insert your emey number ' now you have to be fast to dial your own h/phone number 15.) ** you will hear a dialing tone, when the call is answered, dial '1566' and you will hear 're-confirm emey number' 16.) ** once you hear that message, dial '6011556 2245334 follow by your h/phone number' 17.) ** after a while, you will hear a message 'your pin number is accepted' you have to dial '1007' 18.) ** after you done that you will hear 'your emey number is accepted' 19.) ** continue dial '4566' you will hear 'your password is accepted' 20.) ** once the second message finish, immediately dial your own h/phone number 21.) ** Now you will receive a message saying ........... 22.) 'NOTHING IS FREE IN THIS WORLD, EVEN GOING TO SOME PUBLIC TOILET YOU STILL HAVE TO PAY 10 CENTS. SO, GET BACK TO WORK AND DON'T WASTE COMPANY MONEY!!' |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 20,April,2004 | i always suspected parvez to be a sadistic person ..dnt worry man i am going to live for another 100 yrs and trouble ... |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 20,April,2004 | http://www.csl.sri.com/users/mwfong/Sidewalk_Flats/ |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 19,April,2004 | http://www.doesyourappthinkinink.com |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 19,April,2004 | Not as fast as you, Parvez. |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 18,April,2004 | contactman is none other than the great GOUDA Hey guys also do let me know if you will die fast |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 18,April,2004 | SouthIndians We are the best http://www.indiainfoline.com/news/news.asp?dat=38176 |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 18,April,2004 | good for kau and mithun. wipro hasnt given us anything. :(. whoz contactman? |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 18,April,2004 | Guys check when you will die http://www.deathclock.com/ Me and some Colleagues checked with people who are already dead it was quite close good luck |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 18,April,2004 | Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q126/4/49.asp&NoWebContent=1 |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 18,April,2004 | In YUVA Vivek oberoi murders RANI MUKHERJEE..!!!....in turn...Kareena kills Vivek!!! In Murder ....murdered person never dies !!!...... In Main Hoon Na....Shahrukh is a hired killer !!!!..... In Lakhsya....Amitabh is Pak Agent who is killed by Hrithik Roshan!!! Now one ticket at REX costs MORE THAN Rs.100 ..n u'll obviously go to the movie with ur best buddy/gurl friend/boy friend.... so u'll spend 200 each time...so thatz a clear saving of 800 RS.!!! Thank Me! |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 18,April,2004 | Hi , Jews are the people who run this world by proxy..mahathir mhmd(Ex Pm of Malaysia)...i fully endorse his views..wish i was a nazi hehe just kidding. Well congrats to infy guys kau and mithun ..its the sweat shop pgmers who make tech companies rich ;).We r waiting for the treat and also kau hasnt said anythg abt his champagne bottle lying at his home which is waiting for me..kau man am having sleepless nites thinking abt it LOL Lots of things r going on in this world which is so bad..palestine stuff...Iraq stuff..i mean y dnt people do smthg to stop it...there was some 1 responsible for it..he is called GOD..hello u there wake up |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 16,April,2004 | Guys I saw this movie “Passion for Christ”. Mel Gibson has done good job. The movie was is some European language but had English sub title Well lots of blood shed. Well I guess that someone was right in saying “it is as it was” Guys do watch it. |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 15,April,2004 | http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6537/index.htm |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 15,April,2004 | --------------------Runs---Balls---Fours Pakistan------------224----439----33 Dravid--------------224----448----31 |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 15,April,2004 | Hey guys be reday to take party from kau and mithun Infy has given all its employes 1000$ ( 45,000 INR ) and a watch and a T-shirt Kau keep 5000 INR apart we need that to party |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 14,April,2004 | Hey raghav can u remind me the program name that you and amol used to use, back in Pune, to keep small notes on the desktop some yellow colour stuff These days i need to remmber way too many small small things which i tend to forget when the release comes |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 14,April,2004 | Hey parvez hi r doing man For all others let me introduce myself iam raghav from pune. To be or not to be sounds interesting . I want to share something i read somewhere. How to make your life count then .Here is the way People always feel that they gonna live forever !!! but the fact is You may never know when you will die!!! today can be ur last day, so are u prepared for it.? so what i mean to say once the man feels this ,that the every body is not going to live long ,he tries to make the life more meaningfull and concentrates on the things that really mean to him.so do this think that there is a bird that comes daily and perches on your shoulder and asks you 'IS TODAY UR LAST DAY'.This thought would make you more concentrated on your things to do in life it reminds you to make more of the day that is ahead.Follow this i will tell you you will be happy.Bye keep posting |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 14,April,2004 | Hi Guys, This is Chandru. Thanks Parvez for inviting me into the Blog. Hope to read some interesting messages on this. |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 13,April,2004 | Very imp any idea how do i post a tecnicle article on developers IQ, Linux for you magzines etc |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 13,April,2004 | Hey any guys have a Soft copy ( means jpg,bmp, etc ) of the farrari logo As big as tofit A4 size |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 13,April,2004 | Well to answer mudgals query...its not that simple dude..still lot of aspects havnt been looked into ..like hedging of funds and trading in Futures also ..so infy is taking risk with such matters ..will explan in detail later |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 13,April,2004 | I am using citibank credit card.. have limit upto 80k as of now.. but the fuckup is they never send the bill when the billiing cycle gets over and that means we have to pay a fine of 250 + 4%interest on the money that we have used up in the credit card..we have to call them up and ask them wht is the amt i have used up each time etc..so many hidden charges also in it... icici bank is even better..u never knw y they have charged u at all no explanations ..they simply charge u under all kinds of categories as far as i have hrd..standard charted is suppose to be the best but the fuckup is u need to pay 3k per yr as charges |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 13,April,2004 | hey guys which bank has the best Credit Card service. any idea |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 13,April,2004 | Many more will Join gouds. |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 04,April,2004 | Hi , i had read so much stuff abt blogging ...hmm finally am here..thx for inviting me ..wht u guys upto Me working on a new microwebsite all by myself...kinda scared bcs i dnt knw some stuff and has tight deadlines...so need to spend weekends reading stuff ...hrd amit is going onsite..when do u guys going onsite hehehe (Freddy smiles mischeaviously and ponders over the nesxt move) |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 02,April,2004 | parvez, who else is on this. only me and u, then im out. kishor |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 01,April,2004 | Hey guys hi there |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 31,May,2004 | Few years back I met this girl, who I would never understand. Well today her words make sense but she is not there. Like u cannot see anything that’s in the same dimension or any dimension that’s higher than u. If you say u cannot understand what some one else says then u r in the same dimension or in lower dimension, than him. Some day his words will make sense and so will mine and yours also But the one that makes sense, later in time, is in higher dimension Please note your words do make sense to me. Rest you guys can guess Fuck this dimension think, Guys post on what u feel like Hey ambala how about posting u r photo along with the car u purchased A guy who ever has permission to blog to this account will get a free gmail invite from google. Once u log into the blogger account try roaming u r eyes in the whole page and locate a word called gmail Assi I look forward to see more from you and all the rest of us Enjoy Madi BABA |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 30,May,2004 | Look whose here..ambala the man himself .. well as we all knw assi takes LSD and posts blogs.. wht happnd to baba now... |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 28,May,2004 | hey baba ! wht in the world was that...do expect us to read that whole shit,coz i dont think u wud hav read it urself. BTW...howz going guys? hey assi....stop taking LSD pills.....i dint undersand a single word u wrote.... as always...ambala |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 27,May,2004 | Guys this is getting too much lets discuss some thing else If you continue this it wont be late when u will write this Its good one Please read or visit http://www.oxfordmuse.com/selfportrait/portrait4.htm -- |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 25,May,2004 | Ahem errr...emotions are not abstract its subjective...u knw wht emotions u have towards a person..it changes with time and circumstances..(just like abstract class in JAVA) not believing in abstract metaphysical theory indicates that the person has sound logical and sense of questioning things and not go by flimsy theories which do not have a sound logical base... All of us knw that the 'truth is out there'..so y jump the gun ...we knw just 5%..we knw that we dnt knw anther 10%..wht we dnt knw is that we dnt knw abt the stuff we dnt knw is 85% ;)... Mind is not a stallion which u can control neither is it strong ..its like a monkey with no strength and direction..its how the individual utilizes it makes all the difference... ..Harish |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 24,May,2004 | Critics are well wishers in disguise Hey Hash everything meta begins from something abstract...coz even emotions are abstract! Few run away from what they feel is true coz they want to believe it otherwise and hoodwink themselves.But truth is something like an air packet under a water body...itz gonna come up and burst your bubble. Chitter chatter thats all you may asuume and write off my fragment of meta....Lemme wish 'Let your belief save you'. Did I go off my rockers? Well mind is a wild stallion racing against the wind...it takes paths unassumed.Do hop in & pen your tracks Hash & the rest of you folkz out there... -Diablo- |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 23,May,2004 | well some words of advice for Diablo and BABA ..man u guys talk so meta physical ..its so hysterically rubbish ... its more like u guys talking on a topic like 'PHYSICS OF SCIENCE' even though its crazy u can just bluff abt it and make it sound sensible ..LOL hehehe ..dnt take it personally Assi can be a good writer..he shldnt waste his talent.. |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 18,May,2004 | ......A PORTAL is created for everyone to commune & share their vibes...alas mortals are always tied to a materialistic bondage....commitments & expectations pull them apart from what they are destined to commit & act....for itz only after death they realize their chance has slipped...& all they have got is eternity to atone their sins....do remember life is brief but after death lies the real test! |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 16,May,2004 | just for smiles Hey guys Please give due credit to Mr Rao, he has this to say regarding a blog post about microsft. Baba,a few days ago i sent u MICROSOFT full form and u posted it on blogger.com and didnt give due rights to the original developer(me) of the acronym.Patent infringement. Will be sued in federal court of justice in Washington D.C of U.S.A. There was nothing better to write so wrote this as time pass. Just joking. Chill out and chill till u can Ajay Rao |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 15,May,2004 | U know Diablo every person has a aura (I mean the one that is seen around the head of great people) Now only children see this aura and when u grow up will not be able to see it. There are many techniques to again learn how to see aura (I wont go into it) Now the aura will be good and to look only if u r a good person and have not done any sins and if u r bad person u r aura becomes bad a terrifying with increase in sins So u might have seen small children cry when they see some people and smile sometimes and neutral some other times and that says how is u r aura U know Diablo some time children cry when they see me(just joking) Guess we can change name. U Baba me Diablo This weekend sucked big time. It rained whole week and we could not go out and nerdy (mudgal) gave hath after raising hope, to top it all Some times I sit by the window and gaze at the rain, no though pass me.strange i have become numb Hay gouds is have used this PDF thing I used iText api/jar, its a song to use it, but it takes time for comlex pdf |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 15,May,2004 | Life is indeed a funny musical chair competition....the music keeps ringing in your ears ripping your tender ear membranes....for a few,Lady Luck smiles & they get a seat...others keep running in the dark...banging their heads..bruising their bodies..wrecking their confidences...they just keep running hoping that the music is going to stop the next instant! Alas mortals are blessed only with that...HOPE! -Diablo- |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 14,May,2004 | Hi people , Hw u guys doing??? i wanted to knw who is Diablo aka Dreamer_80 A couple of things. has anyone worked on Jmeter,PDF generation using Java API ,Struts 1.1 i am doing design using these..wanted to knw if any one has used it b4.. Wel from my side things r cool ...delhi is getting hotter..day by day ...its hitting 45 c now..heat waves expected in june ...i am hunting for a new house... planning to come to blore for a couple of weeks...kau saale make it to blore..i have ur phone numbers... chalo bhayya me got to get back to work Harish A Reddy |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 11,May,2004 | Babies find my face funny.. Every time I get the privilege to go coochie coo a small baby am the one who gets butterflies in my stomach soon as I get into the scope of his/her vision....There is a half baked burp & a sudden gumless smile do find babies cute,adorable & yes, extremely huggable.Adorable is fine with me...But why do they laugh when they see my face? Most of my pals say its actually a gift to make someone laugh,but babies..Its hard to digest for me.Maybe they are a more intelligent class than what they subtly portray might say it reflects on my insecurity or whatever...But its not a particular baby...Its the whole clan. Making a beautiful gal laugh,cheering up a sad pal...That's all o.k,I presume..but what makes them laugh? It really do haunts me....Its like an itch where you cant reach..Am still wondering what impairment in me tickles them off? |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 10,May,2004 | Hey, nice Cyber shack to voice our ruptured thought fragments....thankz roomie.....itz like goin to the Gym once more right,Kau? TDH back in action....bulletins are gonna flow from my quiver all over...hang on! -Diablo- |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 10,May,2004 | hello how are you people |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 09,May,2004 | good one baba..say hi to roshan rao.. |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 07,May,2004 | hi |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 06,May,2004 | What if the I.T. industry starts producing movies? Some Film titles may be like these : Hang To Hona Hi Tha !!!!!!!!!!!! ,Meri Disc Tumhare Paas Hai ,Aao Chat Kare ,Programmer No.1 ,Mera Naam Developer, Java Wale Job Le Jayenge ,Hum Apke Memory Mein Rehte Hein , Do Processor, Baarah Terminal ,Tera Code Chal Gaya ,Har Din Jo Mail Karega ,Network Ke Us Paar ,Debugging Koi Khel Nahi ,Jish Desh Mein Bill Gates Rehta Hai ,Raju Ban Gaya MCSE ..! ,Client Ek Numbari, Programmer Dus Numbari, Login Karo Sajana ,Naukar PC Ka ,1942 -- A Bug Story ,Kaho Na Virus Hai ,Crash Se Crash Tak ,Haan Maine Bhi Debug Kiya Hai ,Shaheed Hacker Singh ,Password De Ke Dekho ,Terminal Apna , Login Parayi ,Mr. Network Lal ,Terminal Sajaake Rakhna ,Hackers Ka Raja, Debuggers Ki Rani |
3,080,267 | male | 23 | Engineering | Capricorn | 05,May,2004 | Good morning to all, has any one worked on Dynaforms and beanutils..me doing some R n D on it...any pointers would be appreciated.. also something called WASBUILDER(it is suppose to create action ,accessor classes ..) Thx in advance Harish A Reddy |
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