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Thanks to mememachinego for this creepy video. When keepers at the Seattle Aquarium moved an octopus into a tank with sharks and other large fish, they hoped the octopus would be ok. They should have worried about the sharks . As you can tell, I’ve been reading the feeds this morning and checking out some of the non-technical articles I might gloss over during the week. And just generally dicking around on the computer. And seriously boffing up the router settings. I’ve straightened that mess out. Bah, still haven’t convinced the wireless to play nice with my PDA/phone. Thank goodness for reset buttons. Got it working. You Passed 8th Grade Science Congratulations, you got 8/8 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Science? Blogthings: Our Quizzes Weren’t Written By Bored 12 Year Olds MSNBC Space News has an article called 7 myths about the Challenger shuttle disaster . What interested me is that I never even heard any of these myths. There was a brief re...

“God must be greater than the greatest of human weaknesses and, indeed, the greatest of human skill. God must even transcend our most remarkable – to emulate nature in its absolute splendor. How can any man or woman sin against such greatness of mind? How can one little carbon unit on Earth – in the backwaters of the Milky Way, the boondocks – betray God almighty? That is impossible. The height of arrogance is the height of control of those who create God in their own image.” — Ramtha, in “What the (#$%&) Bleep Do We Know”

Ah, yes, server logs. These are my favorite searches today. I hope they found what they were looking for. ice pick lobotomy where can i find the plan of a pendulum

Someone asked me, in response to a previous message, whether I am predator or prey. My reply: Yes, you are *exactly* right. Humans are capable of being either. This means that we can switch from one set of neurotransmitters to the other set in an instant. Deer can’t do that. Lions can’t do that. They mostly use one pathway or another. You see the implications of this with regards to bipolar disorder? The problem isn’t the switch for us, it’s that we switch for no reason and the chemicals take a lot longer to dissipate than non-bipolars’ do. Our non-bipolar friends seem to have a lesser response to a sudden fright too. That’s my opinion. Predatory behavior is useful in the business world – but *modulated* to help you achieve career goals. You can’t litter your cubicle with the gnawed bones of the competition. But you don’t get to be a corporate CEO by cowering at staff meetings either. Stress is the result of long-term ex...

Natural Terror | The Zucchini Patch Update 9/22/2007: Jessica retooled her blog over the summer. Do be sure to check it out. Here’s the new link to the post above. Natural Terror | The Zucchini Patch A quick search for the toothmark photo below turned up a couple of interesting blog entries using the same photo. I include them here to bore the disinterested: Who, or What, Killed the Australopithicine? – which added the phrase “Osteodontokeratic industry” to my already useless vocabulary. IIDB > IIDB Philosophical Forums > Evolution/Creation > The wiring of the eye: Is it poor design? to which I answer, no, not a poor design but the prototype for the real thing – if we can evolve it before the Creationists destroy the world – to prevent it from happening, I suppose? IIDB > IIDB Philosophical Forums > Evolution/Creation > Early Humans on the Menu One of Jessica’s recent posts reminded me of Paul Shepard’s eye-opening...

This Hotspot Locator is coming in very handy, given the exorbitant price of Cingular’s GPRS service. Republished with permission from JIWire.com. Hotspot Locator Address Zip Code / Post Code State / Province Country -Select a Country / Region- Andorra Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Australia Austria Bahamas Bahrain Belarus Belgium Bermuda Bolivia Bosnia And Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Cambodia Canada Cayman Islands Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Estonia Finland France French Polynesia Gabon Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Grenada Guatemala Guyana Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kenya Kuwait Latvia Lebanon Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macao Malaysia Malta Martinique Mexico Monaco Morocco Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria Northern Mariana Islands Norway Oman Pakistan Panama Peru Philippines...

Google flagged me on the 11th page of results for doing an exhaustive search. If I’m a virus, why do they want to see me again? I hope this isn’t a ploy to force users to download their branded apps. G o o g l e   Error   We’re sorry… … but we can’t process your request right now. A computer virus or spyware application is sending us automated requests, and it appears that your computer or network has been infected. We’ll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your computer is free of viruses and other spurious software. We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we’ll see you again on Google.

Bipolarhead suggested some light reading for the darkness. My favorite for falling into the void is Victor Hugo’s La Fin de Satan : ET NOX FACTA EST I Depuis quatre mille ans il tombait dans l’abîme Il n’avait pas encor pu saisir une cime, Ni lever une fois son front démesuré. Il s’enfonçait dans l’ombre et la brume, effaré, Seul, et derrière lui, dans les nuits éternelles, Tombaient plus lentement les plumes de ses ailes. Il tombait foudroyé, morne silencieux,   Powerful stuff,. My poor translation: Et nox facta est For four thousand years he had fallen into the pit. He was never again able to soar to the heights, Nor even once to raise his foul visage. He was surrounded by the twilight and the mist, frightened, alone in the eternal nights, and behind him the feathers dropped slowly from his wings.  

Santa wasn’t very good to me this year. I suspect that he heard me accidentally call him Satan the week before Christmas. Or maybe he figured out that I’m a techno-Pagan. I bought myself a toy instead. It’s better that way… I got exactly what I wanted and I didn’t have to be a good girl to get it. :-) My latest toy is a Siemens SX66 PDA phone . I needed this phone, really I did. My old Toshiba e310 is still in great shape, but it doesn’t have enough RAM. My old cell phone was one of Cingular’s freebies. It’s not cutting edge, but the SX66 is still an impressive little device. It runs the Windows Mobile 2003 OS, so I didn’t have to RTFM. Yeah, ok, you want some more details. 400MHz X-Scale processor, 128M of RAM and 64M of flash. For reference, my spare computer is only marginally faster and originally had less RAM. 128M of RAM doesn’t hold much in the way of fun, but the SX66 has an SD slot so I can carry around vid...

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