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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…
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:
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.
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!
[NSFW] Correlation between ample warm water supply and male primate behaviour
Interdisciplinary Studies of Flora and Fawn Today (2012), volume XXII-III, pp. 27-33, published on 1st March 2012.
Correlation between ample warm water supply and male primate behaviour
Edited by I. M. Uhjeanyus
H. Luiyui [1], D. Frutysx [2], S. Ortiz-Rodriquez-Compadre [3]
[1]. University of Open University of You, Interdisciplinary Studies Department, Atlantis Floating Ocean Platform, Earth.
[2]. Institute for the Study of Institutional Studies, Basement Office, Moon Base Gamma, Moon.
[3]. Applied Scientific Hypothetical Conjecture Centre, International Space Platform 21-D.
ABSTRACT
Males of the primate species, Pan troglodytes, when placed under a stream of warm water, display strong characteristics of predisposition toward the desire to mate. If given these “showers” on a daily basis, the males will develop first an aggressive attitude when mixed with the general population. Over a period of months, the aggressiveness reduces to a passive-aggressive behaviour and eventually lethargy or malaise. The use of warm water in the primates’ daily grooming ritual requires a source of heat, which, in small quantities, may derive from solar radiation of waterfalls. However, when all males acquire this habit of penile erection and subsequent masturbation, warm water sources are depleted rapidly, requiring the primates to develop the skill of building larger water basins.
Applied to the primate species, Homo sapiens, interdisciplinary research has pinpointed the cause for Earth’s abrupt climate change during the Anthropocene Epoch to a similar trait in the male gender as the population depletes natural sources of warm water and seeks larger and larger quantities of warm water in which to perform the simulated act of sexual intercourse (i.e., masturbation) on a regular basis.
For further details, read the full report in Interdisciplinary Studies of Flora and Fawn Today.
CONCLUSION
More experimentation is needed to understand whether this phenomenon is innate or an example of unobserved learned behaviour. In either case, feedback data given to the test subjects of both species, especially at a young age (with preadolescent subject training the most effective) indicated a clear decrease in the use of warm water and thus an increase in the species’ survival rate due to fewer environmental resources used for nonreproductive or nonchild-rearing behaviour. Also, as in most scientific research studies, females were not included, which might shed light on an additional area where energy use has been diverted from the purely biological aspect of basic grooming behaviour for species breeding and child/brood care in a primate social setting.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors refused to divulge any conflict of interest they may have in writing this report.
REFERENCES
The authors refer the readers to all previous issues of Interdisciplinary Studies of Flora and Fawn Today, since they are also the owners of the scientific magazine. Oops! They just also revealed their conflict of interest. [Note to editor: remove the last two sentences, as well as the last phrase of the first sentence, “since they are also the owners of the scientific magazine” (replace with “where similar reports have been published and same references cited”), before publishing this abstract]
















