Pertinent post for professional American football fans (with note from mon père/mein Vater):
Ode to my father, continued…
Here are some images in a continuing series of an ode to my father — the days when he and I attended automobile races together.
Today’s feature race:
the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
(with a side visit to the Richard Nixon Library and birthplace);
memorabilia attached below…
Numerologists share their excitement
Amazing the good luck numerologists felt today when their prediction that their supersecret number, 250, which translates to the expression 5^2x2x5, is also the most probably place where one will find the God particle, a/k/a the Higgs boson, in the range of 115-135 GeV.
Don’t get it, do you? See, 115 plus 135 equals 250.
Aww, you ejits can’t add, can you?
Well, the numerologists have got more up their sleeves than arm hair, so don’t go ’round making fun of their predictions that six sigma’s not that far behind 2.2 sigma, which leads to five sigma and you know what that means!
Solar storms and asteroid hits in the next few decades putting major crimps in me plan to dominate the solar system, that’s what!
So I’ll raise a cautious pint to them numerologists and hope their predictions are right on, if not Right on!
Night, y’all!
One more from Punch…
…and then I’m done with them for a while. A piece of a piece from 1851 that rings as true today as it did then, names, places and religions changed to accuse the guilty, of course (the innocent can defend themselves on their own time):
The joy of OS resets
While I watch Windows 8 play funny games with my ancient laptop PC, here’s another in the series of “The More Things Change…,” brought to you by the cartoonists of Punch magazine — Vital Discussion, circa 1961.09.20:
Classmates/neighbours in office
Political news of the day:
I saw where one of my wife’s secondary school classmates, “Nobody doesn’t like” Sarah Lee Davis, was elected in yesterday’s election at Hawkins County, Tennessee, to the office of Clerk of Courts. In addition, according to the Kingsport Times-News, another of my wife’s classmates, Hannah Boyd Bell, a former member of Reagan’s West (or was it East?) Wing staff, has a brother, Daniel Boyd, who was also elected uncontested to the Hawkins County Juvenile Court judge seat, receiving 5,189 votes. I didn’t even know he was running.
More from Davis:
Davis said the first person to sign her candidate petition for clerk of courts was her father, Jackie Lee, who passed away five days later on Sept. 15. Davis, who received 3,932 votes ahead of Cradic’s 2,966, said she dedicates the victory to her father, who gave her the confidence to run for the clerk of courts office.
“I took the petition to him and he signed it, and he told me that when I started work there he told his wife that I would have that office someday,” Davis said. “He looked at me and he said, ‘I have all the faith in the world in you, and you will run that office someday.’ And I’m going to get that chance thanks to my dad for having more faith in me than I did myself. He was really my driving force, and that’s what carried me through it.”
Davis said she attributes the victory to hard work.
“I went door to door, and I didn’t buy one advertisement in the newspaper because I felt like I was asking the people of Hawkins County for a job, and when you ask someone for a job you do it face to face,” Davis added. “I would say I’m here for my job interview because I’m asking you for a job.”
When Davis takes over in September, she said her number one priority will be doubling collections. She also plans to cross-train every deputy clerk to do every job in the office so they can provide better customer service, and she intends to improve public relations.
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Voter turnout for Tuesday’s election in Hawkins County was 7,985 out of the county’s 35,017 eligible voters, or 22.8 percent. As for partisan turnout there were 7,606 Republican votes cast and 379 Democratic votes cast.
I’m not paranoid but entities are tracking me!
Finally, after all these years!
You know what they say, just because you don’t believe people are tracking you doesn’t me they aren’t.
Well, here’s the proof. I read an article about Collusion and downloaded the app. Attached below is a chart of the entities that’ve tracked me while I surfed the interwebs in firefox for a few minutes. Imagine what yours will look like after a few weeks!
A reader asks…
A reader asked, when calculating departure and arrival times between two undisclosed locations in Iran and India, why are the time zones only a half-hour apart?
Good question.
Here are some answers for your reading enjoyment (truth/fact verification is up to the reader):
- Only the Swiss can make perfect timekeepers so the rest of the world’s clocks have drifted with time.
- The Iranian nuclear research programme has been going on longer than we thought and messed up many atomic clocks in the Middle East. Same for India and its clock-based relationship to Pakistan, Nepal and the rest of the world.
- The Einsteinian gravitational wave spacetime field bending theory never really caught on in certain parts of the globe and thus seems to have a weaker effect there.
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There are many nations that opt to follow a different time zone than is common elsewhere. Some locations opt to observe times that are less than a full hour off of neighbouring time zones — Nepal for example is a quarter hour off India, which is a half hour off the normal pattern. Nepal does not recognise summer time and never alters the clock during the year. The abnormal time zone settings are not limited to Asia — the State of South Australia, for example, opts to use a half-hour time zone rather than a full hour. [Read more: Why is India, Nepal, Iran, and Kabul thirty minutes off of the rest of the world’s time? Ex. It’s 7:18 pm in Houston Texas, 1:18 am tomorrow in London, 7:18 am tomorrow in Bangkok, 10:18 am tomorrow in Sydney, and 4:48 am in Kabul. 4:48. Why 30 min diff? | Answerbag http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/909906#ixzz1oTCYg64d]
- The Chavez Rule: It’s my country and I’ll do what I want to distinguish my people’s proper sense of time from yours.
- Forget about me. Ask you average basement geographer.
If that doesn’t answer your question, nothing will because, quite honestly, time is irrelevant in this day and age of GPS where we can precisely tell you what time it should be in relation to your geographical location and the position of Sun/Moon/stars. Hey, you astrologers, step away from this blog entry very slowly, hands in the air — you’re not needed here to answer this question.
When an artificial hand cuts off your finger…
Wow! Now I know what it means when the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.
I was tweaking some code in the Arduino servo subroutine to pull a thumb and forefinger together, totally missing the fact that the artificial hand had decided to pick up an X-ACTO knife on its own initiative.
Well, you can guess what happened. I’m using my one-handed keyboard from Matias to complete this blog entry.
As soon as my iPad 3 arrives, I’ll download the half-keybd app to write the next blog entry while my scientists regrow a pinky finger for me, with nearly identical prints to the one that’s no longer attached.
But now is not the time to count the number of confessed Democrats who switched sides and voted for Rick Santorum in the Tennessee election yesterday, led by famed anarchist XYZipper, a part-time paid volunteer for pharmaceutical test labs, whose intake of every failed drug has turned the anarchist into a genderless zombie unable to feel sympathy and thus willing to vote willynilly, as the wind blows or the politicos crow.
I exchanged texts with him earlier this morning:
ME: Yo, it’s me.
XYZipper: Yo, me. is it really me or are you someone else?
ME: It’s me.
X: Whoaa…i’m tawking to myself again.
ME: Maybe. Say, you voted yesterday?
X: I did?
ME: That’s what local news outlets reported.
X: Kewl. What does voted meen?
ME: You got in line with people and selected names on a ballot.
X: Oh, yeah. Did i win?
ME: Win?
X: Yeah, that was lottery ticket, right? Powerball’s up to $300 m, ain’t it?
ME: A lottery to some, not you.
X: I didn’t win?
ME: No.
X: So thinking I selek names insted of numbers don’t werk in the lotto?
ME: No.
X: Bummer. Hey, u wanna score some weed? I gotta pay rent.
ME: No thx. CU later.
X: Bye.
What can I say that XYZipper didn’t say already? With his mohawk haircut and totally tattooed body, he could probably win any number of elections, except where adverts blast the airwaves with “I’m more conservative than myself.”
Gotta go. The scientists have rigged my solar-powered pinky with a laser cutter and ad-hoc wireless hub that I requested. Let’s see if it fits!
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Days 1-7: Orientation — physical fitness examination, G-force simulation routines, safety procedures
Days 8-9: Travel to first destination — launch from spaceport, short G-force experience followed by two days of weightlessness, sightseeing from viewing ports, preparation for docking
Day 10: International Space Station excursion — shuttles will take those who paid for this 8-hour tour of the ISS, starting with a quick Q&A session between you and the ISS crew members (subject to crew member availability; specific crew members requests cannot be made at this time), introduction to the features of at least two modules and more as time permits
Days 11-12: Travel to Bigelow Space Hotel — in-flight entertainment includes an acrobat show, singalongs and 3D roulette wheel gambling, not to forget the 24-hour freeze-dried food buffet!
Days 13-19: Your ultimate destination for luxury space accommodations, BIGELOW SPACE HOTEL!!! During your stay, your personal assistant — programmed to look like the person of your choice, including a wide range of celebrities or a “friend” from your past — will provide anything and everything you want to make your stay the guaranteed most wonderful experience of this or any of your previous/next regenerated lifetimes!
Days 20-21: Return to Earth.
Days 22-24: Gently reintroducing you to the drudgeries of your daily life, including Earth’s painful gravitational pull, global warming and overcrowding, just enough incentive to get you to book your next trip with us very, very soon! We guarantee it because we have your personality profile on immediate e-memory recall!
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