myblog -march '07

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

[20:18:30]

lots of fun pics (no reading required!!!)
nuns with guns, and having fun, vw beetle mods, If the world was made out of rubber, Ghost Cars of the World, The Most Dangerous Roads in the World (three pages.. check them all out!)

[18:27:24]

Banned UN Speech: "Human Rights Nightmare"

UN Watch director Hillel Neuer really unloads on the blatantly corrupt UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva—and then is denounced by furious council president Luis Alfonso De Alba, who threatens to remove Neuer’s statements from the record.

[13:55:29]

how do you cross a road in india??? (this is friggin nuts.. yeah, like scientologists.. except instead of people, its the concept of doing this that is crazy)

[13:30:02]

*gasp* holey, scientologists are nuts!!!

"what are your crimes?? huh?? what about your crimes???"

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

[7:32:44]

"they are ordinary people, with ordinary skills.. they are zeroes" (haha this is great, if you watch heroes, this will amuse you for sure)

Monday, March 26, 2007

[20:22:27]

how your ps3 (aka playstation 3) can help cure cancer

This is a project “people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world” in order to help in the study of of protein folding and protein folding disease. But why is it even better with the PS3? “This advance utilizes the new Cell processor in Sony’s PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) to achieve performance previously only possible on supercomputers. With this new technology (as well as new advances with GPUs), we will likely be able to attain performance on the 25 gigaflop scale per computer. With about 40,000 such machines, we would be able to achieve performance on the petaflop scale.”

[13:36:46]

so, a creationist walks into a library, sees all the books and says:

"wow, obviously someone must have written all these books, and stacked them in such an organized way!"

Thursday, March 22, 2007

[14:05:42]

haha more fun on wikipedia.. Adam's Curse.. the extinction of male humans.. (hahah)

Adam's Curse: A Future Without Men (...) is a 2003 book by Oxford University human genetics professor Bryan Sykes expounding his hypothesis that with the declining sperm count in men and the continual atrophy of the Y chromosome, within 5,000 generations (approximately 125,000 years) the male of the human species will become extinct.

[14:02:03]

for you guys who talk to atheists who make fun of christians (erroneously) saying that its because of the "church" (read: catholic church) that said things like the earth is the center of the universe.. or even that it was the bible that stated this.. *scoff*:

"If Copernicus had any genuine fear of publication, it was the reaction of scientists, not clerics, that worried him. Other churchmen before him — Nicole Oresme (a French bishop) in the fourteenth century and Nicolaus Cusanus (a German cardinal) in the fifteenth — had freely discussed the possible motion of the earth, and there was no reason to suppose that the reappearance of this idea in the sixteenth century would cause a religious stir."

[13:57:44]

ok holey friggin crap, my probably number one annoyance in life, is when people misspell my friggin name!! hoooley! how hard is it to READ MY NAME off the previous email and respond with THAT!!?? geeeze! its like if i signed an email with

-bob

[12:51:43]

still more examples of the "religion of peace", the story of Ayaan Hirsi Ali:

Her older brother Mahad regularly picked on her and once pushed her into a feces-laden outdoor latrine. Her devout Islamic mother, who called her "dumb as a date palm," beat her throughout her childhood.

"Ma" tied Hirsi Ali's hands to her ankles with rope, put her on the floor on her belly, then whipped her mercilessly with a stick or wire.

[...]

Other not-so-sweet memories of childhood? Hirsi Ali's math teacher in Kenya beat her with a black plastic pipe. Her Kenyan Koran teacher, infuriated by signs of defiance, cracked her head against a wall, fracturing her skull and bursting a blood vessel in her eye. She had to undergo an operation on her skull.

[12:13:07]

English schools get right to ban Muslim veils

In February, the trial of six men accused of plotting suicide bombings in London on July 21, 2005, was told by prosecutors one of the suspects had escaped disguised as a woman in a burqa after the failed attacks.

Two months earlier police said a man wanted for questioning over the murder of a female police officer could have fled the country disguised as a Muslim woman wearing a full veil.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

[14:24:13]

in russia, what can you expect when you buy atlantic herring? well, obviously this monstrosity in a can (this is truly gross.. not what i would want to find in a can)

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

[14:47:14]

Catholic church collects money for mosque... what???

[12:51:32]

a bridge for a bridge?? no wait, a bridge for a river? a river on a bridge?? A RIVER ON A BRIDGE???

Who ever said east is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet? Water Bridge in Germany.... What a feat! Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long. Joining the former east and west Germany by water...take a look!

Friday, March 16, 2007

[14:41:27]

hoooley, the japanese are nuts!! iPod headband featuring bone conduction

[...] A company called Thanko has come up with a rather interesting new headband which acts as a set of headphones without requiring you to put anything in your ears.

Their new product, the VONIA headband, uses bone conduction to send the music through your skull to your brain. This means you don't have to wear anything over your ears, leaving them free to appreciate the sounds of chirping birds and oncoming traffic, or dogs.

[11:22:19]

or this one is especially good:

"if you were put on trial for being a christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you??"

[11:14:49]

i like this quote

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives" -A.SACHS

Thursday, March 15, 2007

[12:28:19]

ok, time to tell you my weird weird dream of the day, (but not before noting how my time stamp is off by 2 hours on the blog.. hmm.. should say 2pm.. oh well) so my dream.. ohhhh man this dream.. im not going to go into much detail.. but heres the main part, or should i say "first" part.. of the parts i remember.. ok,
so, i was with my wife, and i had already woken up (in the waking life) once already, so i was aware that i had to be awake, but i went back to sleep, and this is where the dream begins.. i was getting ready to go, and my wife was basically ready.. and for some reason there was something to do with socks.. either she was looking for her socks or i dont know what.. i remember it had something to do with specifically black socks.. so it had to be hers.. (i wear white socks).. and we were just getting ready to go to the beach (even tho its a weekday and we have to work).. but it was really oddly gray and gloomy (probably because of the twilight of waking up in the morning and my room being dark) in any case i think we were also waiting for my sister or something.. but i dont remember.. in any case at some point the dream became about me hanging out with jennifer lopez (aka j.lo) and there was some other blonde girl (actually lady.. same age group.. probably a famous actress... but i couldnt recognize who she was) but in my dream, j.lo was much thinner.. and was like a maid, and married.. as was the other lady.. and they sort of felt really close to each other.. (which will make the last part of the dream be much weirder.. or maybe it will give it meaning and sense?)in any case.. it became progressively more obvious that they felt really close to each other, such that at some point we were all in a pool, and j.lo was like wading towards the other lady, until they were next to each other, and then i looked away for a moment and when i looked again, *kabam!* they had had an operation to join themselves to each other.. siamese style.. they shared everything below the belly, but had two trunks.. i know.. it was the friggin weirdest thing ever.. j.lo on the left, and the other lady on the right.. and oddly enough.. wait for this now.. after that.. i heard the lady say something else (dont ask me what.. cuz i dont remember, not that i refuse to say) and she was saying it from the left side!! at this point i looked and noticed that their lower half belonged to my wife. (at this point something else happened and then i woke up).. gah, my dreams are weird..

[8:12:25]

im starting to grow a great affinity for awk.. which will prove to be very useful once i get the basics for it.. sed just feels too limited sometimes..
and in other news, i finally got my first official development task assigned to me yesterday or was it monday?.. no yeah it was monday.. i remember because yesterday we had some meeting, and the day before.. no wait, no yeah, monday, because tuesday we.. nono, it was tuesday.. yeah, because on that same day, they held a meeting specifically to show me what to do, and explain some stuff.. and.. maaan if i wasnt soo exhausted that i was falling asleep!! my head was bobbing up and down.. but i never really fell asleep.. yeah, really great example im setting here.. after the meeting one of the guys was like "you can wake up now".. ohhh so embarrassing.. i was falling asleep in my office before the meeting.. so its not like the meeting was sooo boring, but rather, i was just zero-energy.. probably due to the fact that i was still recuperating from my week of illness last week.. and that i had slept nothing from saturday to sunday..

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

[18:58:38]

sometimes i like to post links to really visually cool stuff.. much like this one right here.. dont forget to click on the stars on the bottom for different effects..

Saturday, March 10, 2007

[0:32:37]

hahah ohh man.. reading this breakup letter would be just a pointless waste of time.. unless.. someone else was reading it for you!! ... dramatically!!

Friday, March 9, 2007

[20:55:18]

watch the horror as two people get trapped on an escalator

[12:01:12]

holey, i had this dream this morning (by the way im back at work.. not sure how good an idea it was to come in today, but alas, here i am.. i almost passed out on my way out of my office.. so i walked back, ate half a banana.. and went to the meeting) and in the dream, i was holding (or for some reason had hanging on me) two small scorpions, a white one and a black one.. which both decided to sting me.. so i got my brother to try to give me the antidote (some shot that required assembly.. with needle and this other thing that you had to light on fire and put on a small metal thing) but he kept fumbling around with it that i decided to do it myself, but then it was almost too late, and i could no longer put it together, and my hand was turning purple (if it went black, it meant it was too late.. im not sure if it meant i would lose my hand or die.. ) and i saw my mom and my sister there, and i kept telling them to help me.. but, and this is the clencher, they didnt care!! like they would just look at me, and my hand going slowly black.. and they had his expression like "so what??" and they wouldnt help me.. there was some other stuff that i dont remember right now, but i woke up all oddly sweaty.. like only on the "palm" of my elbows and knees (if you understand what that means) and certain other parts where skin folds.. like around my armpits.. it was weird, and i realized i had been sleeping on my hand (which explains the scorpion stings.. but not why there was two.. or why they were small, or why one was white the other black, or why the HELL my family didnt care!! (but this is sort of a recurring theme in my life tho.. heh.)) so yeah.. that was my morning. did i mention that i missed CAKE at work this week?? yeah, they gave away gifts and cake and who knows what other great things went on that i missed out on.. all cuz i had to be sick... i better see all my family members up there in heaven when die.

Thursday, March 8, 2007

[9:41:44]

what do you do if the fbi arrests you and finds pr0n on your computer?? well, you sue microsoft, of course!

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

[23:28:59]

ok, so heres the dilly, ive been soo terribly sick this entire week, like nothing before.. i was fasting on sunday, and i was leading the special once-a-month service that we have here called a "concierto de oracion" or "prayer concert" which is usually just a way of doing things a bit different that day instead of a sermon and worship, we mix it up and have worship interspersed thoughout service and small bits of message-type things, and some other stuff.. well this time, we had the prayer wall going (large sheets of paper where people write down the names of people they want to be saved, and then they pray for them.. its really nice) and then hand washing (where the leaders of the church wash the hands of the rest of the members) and then the Lord's Supper, with flatbread and grape juice.. honestly its one of the most beautiful things ever.. and then followed by a ring of people around the whole church holding hands and dancing in a circle.. it was really great, and people were really enjoying it. and so since this is evangelism month at our church, we also have a month of fasting, where at any given day, at least one person is fasting, so, sunday was my day, and that, added with the fact that we were worshipping like crazy.. well, lets put it this way, i expended lots of energy.. (thats in case you needed a worldly explanation to the next part of my story) so, sunday was dedicated to fasting for my dad.. and last year, i dont know if i blogged this or not, but i also fasted for my dad (and brother and sister and both grandmas) and during my fast for my dad, my body went berzerk, and i can honestly say it felt like my body was being used as a battlefield for my dad's soul.. i had a cold sweat, my stomach had such piercing pain as i cannot explain, i was vomiting so much that eventually i began vomiting bile, all the while having diarrhea, and apparently i looked like a ghost too.. samo said i was really pale.. and i basically could not stay in the same position for more than a few seconds without feeling completely uncomfortable.. it was just soo terrible.. i tried breaking my fast, but i kept throwing up.. that it just didnt make sense.. so i kept the fast going.. well, that was last year.. this year.. its a bit different.. after only a day and a bit of fasting, i woke up at 5am.. feeling terrible.. i was shaking and just feeling way too weak.. one thing i forgot to mention above, fasting is not a new thing for me, ive fasted for 5 days before without a problem at all.. so the fact that this would have happened at all, and especially after only the first day, it speaks volumes as to the significance of what i was doing.. and fasting in general. anyways, so i wake up at 5am, weak, shaking, and generally feeling like crap.. so i decide to break fast, (the bible says you should break fast if its affecting your health) and i ate a little bit.. bad idea? a few moments later.. mope my way over to the washroom (man, im soo canadianized now) and sit my bum and just release.. my wife eventually woke up.. i flushed and went back to the living room and lay there.. feeling terrible.. a moment later hurriedly mope my way back to the washroom and i was feeling it, so i brough my barf-bowl along.. and indeed, i needed it.. it was coming out of both ends.. and with some incredibly sharp stomach pains.. however, unlike last time, this was the only time i threw up.. after i was done, i flushed and went back to the living room.. this continued for the rest of the day until the afternoon.. i was feeling a bit better. i actually planned on going to work the next day.. nope, no dice, woke up at around 5am, and back to it.. sharp stomach pains, and more diarrhea.. [oh, and note to self, when having incessant diarrhea, there is no such thing as a fart.. only more diarrhea.. lesson learned] now, it would not cease.. and right up until today.. i tried calling my doctor (because obviously, with diarrhea every 15minutes, its impossible to leave the house, much less to go sit for an hour waiting to be called on), but apparently, it is currently unheard of that doctors should make house calls... (really???) i tried searching all over the net, i called hospitals etc.. nobody could give me a single number of a doctor that does house calls.. so i called my pastor to see if he had a number or something, but nothing.. i called joelie, and he said he would ask someone and then said something about a pharmacy.. and i thought "of course! they would know!!" so i call the pharmacy and they tell me to take some immodium.. so joelie calls back, and i tell him, and he hooks me up, drives all the way here and gives them to me.. almost immediate relief.. i took the first dose of two pills, and while the sharp stomach pains continued i no longer had diarrhea till later that night.. hours later.. however, and this is just what leads me to believe that it cant just be one of those "things".. on monday and tuesday i remember actually making note to myself that i wasnt at ALL coughing.. which for me, apparently, is really odd.. (i get those 3-month long coughs) then today, after the end of the diarrhea episode, the coughing began. hoo boy.. i had coughed a few times i think earlier that day.. and i had a really horrible headache every time i did.. (yeah, anything else to be added to the experience?) but now, it was a barrage of coughs each with its own little headache, just for kicks.. if i didnt talk the coughing receded.. but if you know my wife.. shes very inquisitive, and constantly forced me to answer something or another, after a while i just told her, "youre making me cough more".. so she toned it down, then the pastor called to see how i was doing, and i coughed his ear off.. i almost talked.. he passed by and dropped off some cough medicine.
at this point i make a break in the story (since its almost over anyways) to mention, i am not a fan of medicine, my official policy regarding medicine is, i wont take it unless its vitamin C or alka seltzer, or if its on doctors orders. so me actually taking cough medicine is pretty serious.
this whole post to say one thing, i think fasting is a powerful thing, and the things ive seen happen in my dad's life reassure me of this. i will continue to fast for those i love until the Lord moves their hearts towards repentance.. i offer up my food as sacrifice, and instead of food, i offer up my prayer, in hunger pains, i pray, every time i remember what im doing, i pray. i offer up my body as a battlefield for the souls of my family members, may they learn to love the Lord as i do, and change their lives around and start living in Him. (i want to say amen here, as it should be a prayer, but im telling you guys. ill pray it up as well.)

Monday, March 5, 2007

[16:49:19]

oh my goodness this is the coolest drawing thing ive ever seen.. its like, you draw lines on a constantly spinning invisible surface.. its really cool..

Friday, March 2, 2007

[15:50:36]

wow, this stuff is really really interesting, how about the following Conspiracy of Science - Earth is in fact growing?? ignore the millions/billions of years talk, but the rest is really interesting

This video is a Neal Adams animation about his theory that the Earth is growing. This collides with the Pangea theory. Watch it, you will be amazed.

[15:49:46]

(i know for sure bahb will enjoy this one) LOST - John Locke - Speed Painting

[14:55:15]

more cool stuff, cuz you cant get tired of linking away.. GLAT - Google Labs Aptitude Test -- have you ever wanted to know what questions google would ask of a prospective employee of their google labs?? well, how about: "write a haiku describing possible methods for predicting search traffic seasonality".. or "whats broken with unix and how would you fix it?".. well, my answer to the last question would be, "multimedia, especially sound.. and user-friendliness.. but ubuntu is taking that to hands, so i would fix it by sleeping 5 years, and when i wake up *poof* its all fixed!!" now will they hire me??

[14:50:36]

hahahaha ive never heard the original, but this stuff makes it clear without it.. and hilariously so.. "'help' the police" ("'f' the police" remix.. )

[14:01:17]

ohhh goodness those swiss!! Swiss Accidentally Invade Liechtenstein

Thursday, March 1, 2007

[14:45:07]

is she (Jordan's Queen Rania) the first to say this?? cuz its the first time i hear it, (from the mouth of a muslim, i mean)

Jordan's Queen Rania said, during a conference in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: "We must deal with the frightening reality that most of the terror operations in recent years have been carried out by individuals claiming to be acting in the name of Islam... It is our moral responsibility to oppose the violent and extremist voices that are emerging from our home."

[14:41:34]

now, where did all the water that flooded the earth in noah's flood go?? huh? huh, you christians?? perhaaaaaps part of it is in a Huge Underground "Ocean" Found Beneath Asia

Researchers found the underground "ocean" while scanning seismic waves as they passed through Earth's interior.
[...]
"It isn't an ocean. [The water] is a very low percentage [of the rock], probably less than 0.1 percent."
Given the region's size, however, that's enough to add up to a vast amount of water.
[...]
The water got there by the process of plate tectonics, in which sections of the Earth's crust shift. This process caused the ocean bottom to be pulled beneath continental plates all around the Pacific Rim.

[10:49:19]

The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation has sued to get rid of crosses in city parks, to end Good Friday public holidays and, most vigorously, to thwart President Bush's faith-based initiative.

Now, the group that for 30 years has sought a firm divide between church and state will be at the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a case that could affect taxpayers' ability to challenge — and government's ability to defend — a multitude of public programs that involve groups with a religious affiliation.

The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives was set up in 2001 to help religious groups compete with secular organizations for federal grants to provide social services.

[9:09:32]

"time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." --some guy's signature on USENET