Posts by GrimJack

Then here is your theme song.

I am the worlds champion at this sport.

The haterz gonna get me but I did like that vid.

I'm a jerk

Wow, just what we need! Religious fanatics citing Jeebus on devices designed to kill others. There does not appear to be much 'Christianity' in that - Plus there is the whole 'separation of church and state' thing along with 'Crusader' taint. Looks to me like this company needs to understand what is going on in the world and the military needs to put a stop to that bull-pucky.

Porterhouse steak broiled rare - from grass-fed steer, soon a bourbon and coke. (no veggies, nothing but steak - why, yes I did grow up in Montana)

Keep in mind that multiple births are clones - eg idntical twins or greater are clones. If you disagree, define your terms.

Most common computer problem is the interface between the chair and the keyboard

you studied quantum mechanic, Grim?

Nope, I have ADD, an insatiable curiosity and access to the interWebs.

Quite often, I am learning as I post here - sometimes, I even have to change my post because i discovered I was wrong. Rather than delete where I started, I will actually keep it and then show where I went and why I changed my mind.

If someone sees an error in my posting, show me the error of my ways - with links.

I follow way too many to list but I will mention the ones I watch every day:
http://thinkprogress.org/
http://wonkette.com/
http://blogs.savingadvice.com/baselle
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
http://johnhawks.net/weblog/
http://evolvingthoughts.net/

You will probably figure out that I am an effing liberal

Around 3am, I walked down into the student union of my college in 1969, stoned out of my gourd - the only person in the place, thinking I could get some studying done when the juke box kick on. The intro curled my hair!

Why do I always forget about SuperTramp until someone pokes me in the ear? I still love them.

they told us how it works, in Men In Black
aliens play marbles with galaxies

and we are stored in a locker in the bus depot.

>>the one I like is that the anti-particles behave like regular particles traveling backwards in time.
How would they know the particles time travel?

This is one of my favorite stories:
Whenever any of Feynman's co-workers had a question for him, he would chase them out of his office. Hours or days later, he would come back with an answer. During this time, whenever anyone approached his office he would hide something in his desk. As you can imagine, this intrigued his colleagues so one day they asked him a really complex question, waited 2 hours and burst into his office. They caught him with some scratch paper with squiggles on it. He admitted with a lot of embarrassment that sometimes he could not keep all particle activity in his head and was forced to draw some diagrams.

This genius's embarrassment were the Feynman Diagrams that no particle physicist can work without today. There is always a timeline associated with the diagram (usually the x-axis and up); when anti-particles appear, they can be read as either an anti-particle going forward or a regular particle going backwards. I have included the simplest FD I know of, and the simplest diagram of Feynman's behavior.

Pink is Queen

Hey, while you are working on that - can you fix the cup holder that came with my new computer? I put my large mug on it and it broke and spilled coffee everywhere.

Jim Baker and Jimmy Swaggert have written an impressive new book. It's called ...
"Ministers Do More Than Lay People"

I remember a t-shirt with a blurred, make-up caked look that read "I ran into Tammy Fay at the mall"

As those of you who pay attention to particle physics know, particles can appear out of nowhere in a vacuum, dance around a bit and disappear again as long as the equation always = zero (or, said differently, one side is equal to the other). One of the reasons that 'they' are looking for both 'dark matter' and 'dark energy' is that they expect the universe will add up to zero. At first they were expecting to find much more anti-matter to balance the equation. Take a look at some Feynman diagrams sometime and you will see a couple of really interesting events - the one I like is that the anti-particles behave like regular particles traveling backwards in time.

Of course I agree , these types monuments are everywhere in the world.
Even in the small Island that I live. But nothing can be completely
explained by the modern engineering and science today.

so your argument is that they are more spiritual than technological ?
In other words more close to religion than to the physical ?

Nope, my argument is that the monuments are technological feats well within human parameters; the religious element comes through in how the humans were brought together to build the items. Easter Island was completely denuded of trees to use to roll the stones from the quarries to their locations. It is thought that it took less than 2 generations to reduce a verdant tropical eden to a near lifeless island barley able to support a handful of people. On the other hand, the pyramids were a sort of WPA project to keep people employed but even that degenerated to slave labor.

Of course, we know very little about the builders of Stonehenge though they have found a couple of well preserved bodies in the neighborhood.

Read the below quote from an above post and you will see that god farted twice creating two gas particles then the gas particles collided making the universe.

Ya know, your 'god farted' wasn't funny the first time and it get less funny as you continue to beat that poor horse. Let it go.

I use to carry a couple of rolls of paper tape (much more advanced then punch cards) with all my D&D data on it.

To be honest I started this thread thinking someone will ask, but no one did, sigh!

If you vote yes then animals should have the same rights as humans. If you vote no then things should stay as they are. And the third answer is for those who don't want to scratch their head to get an answer.

What you are saying is that animals can own property, demand a trial by their peers, grow their hair long, marry your sister, sue you for cannibalism, demand a translator when applying for public assistance.

Animal rights = human rights is retarded and make no sense.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
-- Albert Einstein

Albert never saw "The Lord of the Dance"

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
-- Ronald Reagan

I have always said: I am a conservative, I am here to help" are the scariest words in the English language

You did not explain your poll very well. Do you mean giving animals the exact same rights as humans? As opposed to giving animals absolutely no rights whatsoever?

The polarity of your question leaves much to be desired - then the 3rd option is meant to demean anyone who does not take either of the other 2 positions. In other words your poll sucks because it offers nothing of interest.

The Earth is now considered to be somewhere around 5 billion years old, and inhabited by people for around 200,000 years. It would be interesting to know when the Earth is considered to be the Earth and not a bunch of stuff being pulled together.

Depending on what value assigned to 'human', Ardie has moved the timeline back to about 4.4 million years ago. She lived in a family group, walked upright, and used tools.

not my page.
and there are not only those reps , there are many more.
I don't know the truth of false of these facts.
do you believe these things ?
http://www.nibiruancouncil.com/html/felines.html

However if they got technology we should have to learn it.
no matter what is technology it will make your life longer and
comfortable.

great primids are just only one mistery there are many
resources on the earth. The actual truth is we have not
reverse-engineered those technology and resources well.

wow! That site is serious - they actually believe that crap! They should meet the Urantians - they have a lot in common. The Urantians are the people behind the weird messages on those boxes of Celestial Seasonings. Then there is JZKnight and Ramtha. Once you go down the road to wackiness, how do you know when to stop?

The great pyramids are not a mystery; the folks from "This Old House" did a show with NOVA called "This Old Pyramid" and, using the technology of the time, built the last 5 levels.

Every single Mystery has been recreated using the tools and technology of the time they were built - the pyramids, Easter Island head, Stonehenge - they are all monuments to humanities technical prowess (and religious wackiness). The people who try to say the humans could not have done it are just stupid twits with no clue.

From The Onion:

Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World

"I do not understand," reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. "A booming voice is saying, 'Let there be light,' but there is already light. It is saying, 'Let the earth bring forth grass,' but I am already standing on grass."

Moreover, the Sumerians were taken aback by the creation of the same animals and herb-yielding seeds that they had been domesticating and cultivating for hundreds of generations.

BART: Creationism says that cavemen never existed.

HOMER: Good riddance! Their drawings suck and they look like hippies!

BART: Creationism says that cavemen never existed.

HOMER: Good riddance! Their drawings suck and they look like hippies!

I kind of like 'McGruber' on SNL.

asking personal question from AD publicly don't get upset.
anyway acient dragon , you are a white men aren't you?, so you say
GOD to these type of ugly Reptilians? do you going to worship for
them to become a slave? http://www.greatdreams.com/reptlan/reps.htm

Your read that and didn't go blind? Why do the rat-*ssed crazy ones need such gawd-awful graphics?

Maybe we could start a what is the worst page you ever stumbled across thread. I am not sure which way to go with this: the worst ideas or the worst graphics - any suggestions?

You know what it means to 'shoot your cuffs'

The Sumerians were sitting around wondering what the guy in a beard was on about - what does he mean "Let there be light" - there's the sun yadda,yadda,yadda.

Bacon and eggs - had to finish the bacon before it went bad. Looking forward to a bourbon and coke.

At the risk of sounding fanatical, how do you know? I'm not saying that I agree that the universe is only 6k years old, but from a religious standpoint, God being all-powerful could have made Earth, the universe, physics, science, everything give humanity (and any other intelligent life elsewhere in the universe) the exact answers we've found. Not saying I believe that either, but it's an interesting view of religion explaining science rather than science attempting to disprove religion. Ultimately, I think that both science & religion are two fields of thought that humanity will never completely understand.

In order for the religious community to accept that god made the universe 6,000 years ago, they have to waffle around the fact that god would have to be a liar. He would have had to lie by creating an artificial age to the universe and the earth. And once you go down that road, then you might as well say that he created the universe 10 seconds ago including our memories etc. There is not way to prove or disprove either proposition - a 6000 yr old universe or a 6 second old universe so Occam's Razor says the universe is what we discover it to be.

Fugeddaboutit and wash it down with a soda

Heh,heh - burger/blogging make you attractive

It's only bad because you guys seem to want to live for awhile longer. It's like eating foods fried in fat. It might kill you faster but God in heaven does it taste soooo much better. So the main question is does it make the burger taste better?

Are you suggesting that ammonia-soaked beef by-product tastes good? Man, you gotta get out more often.

Sometimes, I think the free market is going to kill us all. Can you believe it - the lunch-ladies turned this crap away.

Hey, I have a job this year - I was unemployed for almost 18 months, this has gotta be a better year/decade.

In 1999, I moved back to Seattle and my computer career was dead. I had spent 20 years working on VAX/VMS machines and no one used them any more - couldn't adapt, ended up doing temp/contract work for the entire decade. I am back working for the Fed (my first VAX was with NOAA); I am in classes now and will go face the public next Thursday.

w00t! w00t!

Made and ate my first home-made pizza. I got the 'no-knead' bread book for Xmas. Started with flour,water, etc and ended with an okay pizza.

"We see in your file you were a COBOL programmer."

Isn't that what is in your file when you get sent to hell?

I worked with a woman who wrote her travel diary into her COBOL programs.

When
arrived_paris(day)
      do
         go_sub see_sites
         day = day + 1
       until day = come_home

It has been 30 years so I forgot all of my COBOL but I do remember that the variable name limit was about 70 characters; punch card limit of 80 characters - 10 characters for line count or something. Her programs were really fun and funny to read but anyone who did not know her personally could ever figure out what the programs did.

hmmm. I cannot remember much about heat death, but I believe it has something to do with one of the ways that the BB theory is impossible? the maths behind the likelyhood of life is so small that it is deemed impossible. let alone the maths behind evolution.

It is also called 'entropy' when all the energy in the universe is equally spread no work can be done. Currently, the average temperature of the universe is 3degs K. (-270 C). It is thought that if all the matter/energy in the universe were converted to heat, it would only raise the temp. by about .5 degs K; this implies that we are at the 'heat death of the universe' now.

The 3 laws of thermodynamics (paraphrased):

1) you can't win
2) You can't break even
3) you can't get out of the game

Even though, on the whole, we are on the entropic end of the universe - as long as there are areas of negentropy (ie, areas of higher and lower energy levels) work can get done and life can go on.

"She sells sea shells by the seashore" She was a real person named Mary Anning; she was struck by lightning as a baby but survived. She said that when she found fossils on the shore it was 'like the lightning' talking to me. She lived in the early 1800s (before Darwin published) and confounded scientists with the bones of no longer existent animals she found. She was a fossil hunter and supported herself by sell seashells. She is credited with discovering the ichthyosaur (between ages 10 and 12) and plesiosaur. She is one of the first to realize what coprolites are. She is lost to history because most of her discoveries ended up in private collections that did not mention her and, well, 'how could a woman actually do that sort of thing'.

She sells seashells on the seashore
The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure
So if she sells seashells on the seashore
Then I'm sure she sells seashore shells

It appears the Chinese new year is more accurate than the AD new year while using the AD numbering system. Amazing how smart the Chinese are.

Let me repeat myself - the calendar is an arbitrary numbering of the years so what you are saying is that the arbitrary Chinese new year is more accurate than the arbitrary AD yadda yadda yadda.

Wrap up the decade
Or just 07

The calendar is an arbitrary imposition of order onto civilizations blundering around the sun.

In general, rather than AD and BC - the years are numbered Common Era/Before Common Era (it is currently 2009 CE soon to be 2010). There are many cultures that do not accept the birth of Christ as a valid starting point but realize the we need a common calendar hence Common Era.

(Jews, Hindus, historian etc come to mind).

No - I didn't think I had run you off; I forgot the thread shortly after I posted - in fact, I surprise myself with my logic, lucidity, and command of the English language. But then I have ADD so if it is not in my face, it does not much exist.

I (re)read JTGs article; he makes some good points but leaves out quite a bit. I do not have the time or inclination to dispute his article other than say "so what?"; he offers nothing but 'bomb-throwing' - no ideas of what to put in place of the rubble he wants to create.

Compute likelihood quantum-mechanical gravitational tunneling from Earth to Jupiter
Check whether I am safe, or need to gain weight.

Everyone knows how rainy it is here in Seattle! When the ground is soggy and there is a hard frost, the water can't freeze because of the expansion so the water is forced out where it freezes into phantasmagorical crystalline shapes. But it all happens at the earth/air boundary so you have to pay attention (and get down on your hands and knees) to see them.

Minestrone soup - day 2