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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

ENGINEERS' DREAMS - [7.14.08] By George Dyson

found this on slashdot, and i laughed at the "too technical for fiction magazines, and too fictional for technical magazines"...
enjoy!

ENGINEERS' DREAMS [7.14.08]
By George Dyson


Friday, July 25, 2008

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Eisenhower's Farewell Address is Ringing...

As we peer into society's future, we – you and I, and our government – must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for, for our own ease and
convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without asking the loss also of their
political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


The Long Now

ever think about time?  how long ago?  back to jesus? 
how long forward?  forward to prince lucas of tanith? (scifi reference)

well, danny hillis has a clock, a 10,000 year clock...
it bonged twice on january 1st, 2000.
and he's gonna build a big one, cool huh?

wonder if there is an easter egg for 2012?
;)

Friday, July 18, 2008

monkey dream...

ugh, i dunno if this is gonna be funny when i wake up...
just had a dream, and i woke up, cuz i had to pee.

ok, so, in my dream i'm one of several guys who is filming a reality thing, behind the scenes shoot, of a band.
(no i'm not a musician, it's a dream, follow me here)

we take the stage, somehow the 3 guys morph into actors, i think it's jack black on lead guitar, that guy he did
the movie with (where they don't want the americn pi guy to marry the hot controlling beesh) on rhythm,
and me / keanu reeves on base and drums (really weird huh?), and the cameras roll...

jack gets an introl solo, david? gets a solo and a spotlight, then keanu (me) runs on stageright,
crosses the whole stage playing ripping base solo (?) with a single white drum slung across his back,
spotlight following him across the stage to a huge drumkit setup with a curtain behind it.
and a little drum kit to the right.

sitting at the huge drumkit, in the spotlight, is a monkey, a young chimpanzee ( iwatched gramma's boy the other day ).

the monkey tears into a fabulous drum solo and i (keanu) go sit down at the little drumkit and start ripping the same solo too.
the monkey stops, gets pissed and starts smashing all of the drums, throwing them around, throws the sticks into the audience,
and rushes downstage to where i'm at and takes away my sticks, and throws them into the audience.
pause.

keanu (me) reaches backwards over his shoulders, grabs two more sticks from outta a hidden thingy,
triumpantly raises them in a V and starts hammering drums again!
monkey grabs sticks and howling throws them into the audience again!
smashes drumset, throws around.

keanu(me) stands up, pulls single drum around, pulls sticks from hidden pouch,
starts running thru some kinda cool solo from that drumcorp movie.
monkey goes nuts, grabs sticks, throws, tears drum off, jumps into it smashing the skins,
pulls it up around him, depression barrel style, and runs offstage, spotlight following.

moment of silence, all pause, i wake up.

this seems funny now, i can't believe i actually got up and typed it in...
/yawn
going back to bed...

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Monday, July 14, 2008

ever hear the phrase "do no harm"?

it's like they are trying to cram thru every single obligation to their dark supporters, in the next 5 months...

from this CNN article...

also:
"In his statement last month, Bush also renewed his demand that Congress allow drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,
clear the way for more refineries and encourage efforts to recover oil from shale in areas such as the Green River Basin of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming."

i wonder if this administration ever heard the phrase "do no harm" ?

Friday, July 11, 2008

the electric mini cooper petition

first, i saw the EV mini article...
cool!
then, i saw the disclaimer...
bummer!!
finally, i see some guy getting mad, and starting a petition...
awesome!!!

here it is.

Pickens Plan

this makes me happy: Pickens Plan.

it's not really that i buy into the rhetoric, but i'm happy to see someone,
anyone, really make a serious jab at renewable energy, and the media bite it,
rather than all the doom & gloom that they typically "sell papers" with.

so, next we need the big B.G. to throw some of his enormous wealth into the fray.
and why would i think that's important?  cuz he's another media darling.
and he's supposedly close friends with Buffet, another wizgaffer.
toss in a few mouthy actors, too.

it may be too late, i dunno (some of those youtube ppl think so).
but once we get a little momentum, who knows?
the tipping point may have been reached,
but until the snow drifts in phoenix,
i think there's hope.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

read between the lines

there is more than a little bit of wrongness in this.

the fed is bailing out the corporations who effectively caused the problems.
nobody is bailing out the people who have lost their homes due to shady lending practice.
these bailouts were available immediately.  tell me those in foreclosure are getting immediate relief.
i personally know ppl who are in trouble now, due to those criminal refi's.

how many of you lost 10's of thousands of dollars in the tech-bubble burst?
how many of you invested what you had left in property thinking it would be safe?
how many of you are slowly slipping down that slippery slope?

we are slowly & surely heading toward the feudal state.

who's running the show?

sorry, i have to point this article out...

to me, this isn't politricks, it's much deeper.
it's at the core of our existence.

Friday, July 04, 2008

Independance Day

every 4th of july, my mind wanders to thomas jefferson,
one of the founding fathers of our great country.
( and whom i admire quite a bit ).

i was googling for some good t.j. quotes, to throw on the blog here,
and i found this site: Quotes Daddy (http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/Thomas+Jefferson)
it's very cool...

here is my selected quote for today, from that site:
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
~ Thomas Jefferson


happy fourth, my friends.
peace,


ps. kids and i went to see Hancock last night, good fun!
are they kali and kulkan? 
that's my guess.


Wednesday, July 02, 2008

it's Broccoli - eat it!

so, i wonder if i can still have it smothered in cheddar?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080702/hl_nm/cancer_prostate_broccoli_dc_1

Wowzers! Who's been looking into my cluttered bedroom?

not to mention my messy car...

here's my horoscope today:
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July 02, 2008

TaurusTaurus (4/20-5/20)

Having a messy car or cluttered bedroom isn't exactly the end of the world, but this kind of disorganization in your physical world could be symptomatic of some disorder in your emotional world. Make an effort to pick up after yourself today and get things nice and tidy. You will find that once you do, your inner thoughts and worries should line up in a neat and orderly fashion, too. Learning how to feel better sometimes requires learning how to live better.

:-/