The Scientific Consensus

"Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had."
- Michael Crichton

Fashionable to be Unfashionable

Fashion's sense of fashion is as faddish as itself. If you're worried about how any period will view the way you looked or what you did, just wait long enough; it'll come back into style or there will be no style to speak of for it to be on the outside.

What this means is that you should do whatever you want. If you're the kind to be concerned about image, do it anyway and be ahead of your time...again.

It's a Miracle!

Miracles seem to be branded out of an act of selfishness. In essence, miracles are things we can not humanly control or produce at will. Unexplained healing is a miracle. Sunsets are a miracle. Gestation is a miracle (we can be vessels of this, but we do not control what goes on inside). Life is a miracle; we live it, but we do not write our DNA, we do not make our bones grow, our hair, develop our capacity for thought and our abilities for caring.

So miracles are events that we are not capable of doing at will. It's outside of our scope; somewhere in nature; super nature!

This is a selfish thought. If we, rulers of the universe, can not do something at will, it must be supernatural. It must only be accomplished by that one, necessary existence right above us...and only that one. There are no more existences because perhaps our pride couldn't handle if there were a super-supernatural. We just need the supernatural to explain why we can't do everything.

It is a very big (read: divine) deal if we are not able to accomplish something. It must be! To call something a miracle is almost the same as saying, "That's not fair! I can't do that!"

So it's been awhile since I've given you a personal update and almost a year exactly since I've posted a personal snapshot. No time like the present.

I'm still at the same job I've been it for the last nine years. I've got a 2.25 year old daughter and another human on the way. Still married. Still the same house I've been in for the last seven years.

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Snapshot


Market:
DJI 13308, NASDAQ 2561, SP5 1506

#1 Movie at the box office:
Spider-Man 3. Biggest opening ever, $150 million.

Last movies I saw at the theater:
Hot Fuzz
300

Last movie(s) I saw not at the theater:
Benchwarmers (Starz)
Doom (HBO VOD)

Books I'm currently reading:
Woe Is I, The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English by Patricia T. O'Connor
Imagining the Tenth Dimension: A New Way of Thinking About Time and Space by Rob Bryanton

Albums (cd/mp3) I'm listening to:
The Sweet Escape, Gwen Stefani

Video games I'm playing:
World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade (70 Druid, 70 Warlock, 37 Priest, 12 Shaman)
Wii Sports
Just finished Zelda: Twilight Princess (Over 50 hours of gameplay).
Super Paper Mario

Price I'm paying for gas:
$3.00/gallon

Last several Google searches:
service samba

samba
share permissions on network drive
windows mmc
windows changing share permissions
using rsh with passwords
using "rshd/nt"
rshd
unc windows
sanyo db-l40
ubuntu
anagram maker

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Sueisside

My daughter is quite find of Dr. Suess books. I, however, am not.

The man made up words to rhyme with other words. A wocket in my pocket? A gellar in the cellar? It's embarassing to stumble through a book that my daughter can't read when I can barely read it myself. Shouldn't we teach our kids the real language first before making up words?

Worst invented Suess word: Thneed.

IMing Mom

An IM conversation between me and Mother Lock about my daugher (her granddaughter).

Parents: Hows [Mrs. Lock] and [Daughter Lock]?

Lock: They're good. [Daughter Lock] is so funny around other people. I had a friend over the other day and she climbed into his lap and wanted to play.

Parents: That's good, she is developing her own personality. She is a personable little girl. I was suprised about it when you guys were here, because she was always very quiet...She always seemed to me that she was a very deep thinker...She is very intelligent...I love her so!

Lock: Yeah and now that she's noisy and friendly she's turned dumb. That's why we're having another one.

Parents: She is diffently not dumb...That girl will go far in this world, she is a leader, but at the same time she is content being herself...Very Good Caulities in human...She's very pretty too,{not just because she is my grandaughter}, but people usually have only one of those qualities, but she has all three. Looks, Brains, and Personality...Look out Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey...My Tess is coming on the scene

New Look For Old House

Our house got a makeover in late March (No Oprah). We noticed many of our neighbors were cashing in on hail storm damage from almost a a year ago and getting new roofs. Mrs. Lock inquired about us getting a new one but our insurance adjuster said there wasn't enough damage to the roof to warrant a new one. He did however, give us new siding saying it had enough hail damage on it.

The multi-talented roofers became our siding installers instead and went to work replacing all of our old aluminum siding with brand new vinyl and did it all in a single day (very fast).

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt

Actually Used Geometry Today

My teachers from high school were right. As students we thought classes like geometry were useless but twenty years after taking the class, I used geometry today. I needed to figure out the incline of a touch panel unit used by the air traffic controllers so we could replicate one for our system. It's a rectangle shape recessed into a table with the triangle portion of it sticking above the table (the other half below the table). I took the measurements of the rectangle, figured out the length of the side opposite of the right triangle, figured out the other two angles and bam, got the incline.

Once over twenty years time.

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! What a ride!"
--Dean Karnazes