Yes, really. It is quite the story, perhaps if this weren't a public forum, I would share the details. My father, but a boy at the time, was likely inspired by this event, as he got himself a PhD in physics, and has been interested in rocketry and astronomy as long as he can remember.
For what it is worth, my grandfather was hit in the head by a meteorite once (and only once) during dinner. It was the size of a grain of rice, according to my Dad, and made a pinhole in the roof and ceiling. Hmm; both my grandparents are dead, I wonder whether that was kept or tossed.
Randall Hyde regularly said that in his Assembly Language courses. Be aware that there are still occasions when Assembly is all you get, like embedded systems.
I thought it was that pompous old jerk. God, I miss him. Reports from an old friend who still lives in Riverside say Randy was fired and never reached tenure. Reports also indicate that Gerardo Beni still has a job, so it sounds like business as usual in academia!
To this day, the lessons he taught me remain indispensable. For those who haven't taken a course from him, I suggest at least reading his writing pertinent to the development of skills as a programmer. Do not, however, take any lessons from him on the art of social graces.
I still think that the best course he ever taught was the one-shot CS 185, or commercial software development. There, we learned what it means to plan a project and be off by a country mile on how long it would take. Better there than in the real world.
Randy was quite the stickler on commenting code. I think that, more than anything else, is a testament to his vision of churning out disciplined programmers, even if it meant they hated his guts. I am only too sorry he didn't figure out how to interact with others like a well-adjusted adult, or maybe he would have kept his job at UC Riverside. In addition to being a student, I had the distinct displeasure to regularly interact with him on his Mirage+ research program (Distributed Shared Memory).
I wonder what he would have said about Java. Mr. Jones, you are right, he definitely made a great weeder course out of x86 Assembly. I was on a very short list of Art students to take the course. For me, the weeding worked the opposite direction. Six months after I took CS 13, I came back as a Computer Science student. I've met CS grads with master's degrees from a dozen supposedly more reputable who know less about operating systems, or programming in general than the average 2nd year CS student at UC Riverside. That is to say, someone who has passed CS 13!
Treasure your experience with Randy Hyde, good or bad you learned from it.
Nietsche is currently most known for the "life is meaningless" quote.
Secondly, Nietsche's father was a minister, and so he no doubt read and possibly obsessed over the book of Ecclesiastes (by King Solomon), which starts off with that quote in the first verse. I suppose we could end up discussing whether Daoist teaching predates the Hebrew Kings. Daoism seems to postdate Modernism, but I am Western, so that might be by observation.
You'd have more profundity with a.sig that says "Tech is meaningless," or "The internet is meaningless." I'd even go for "wrist TVs are meaningless," although that's one of those things that you don't need to say.
I am left to wonder if Douglas Adams fans have commented on your.sig as well. They would be the sort to attack a.sig saying "digital watches are meaningless," because earthlings are famous for the reputation of thinking digital watches are a really neat idea.
It is really sad to meet people who consider their life meaningless; typically, their life is meaningless to them much of the time. Not to be too pop-culture (forgive the pun here), but Obey Your Thirst. When you find what quenches the deep and constant thirst, you will find meaning to life. Try to learn from the failures of others, though. First, the meaning of life is not digital watches. Second, Nietsche was famous for drug binges, and it did not improve his views on life, so skip that one, too.
I'm the father of two, with a third on the way. As long as being a Dad comes first, you will be fine. Just try not to get caught up in too many time eaters, like all those hobbies which involve late nights. You only have one chance to be a Dad to a child. Your blog will always be there.
On the plus side, eventually you will have new opponents in head-to-head video games, and for a while at least, they are an easy victory. You'll feel old when you can't win against your own kid and you try your hardest.
Not to feed the FUD mentality, but just reading the FAQ of this company suggests you are on to something. The whole subsidy business is a loathsome whore of industry. It is on par with price controls. Ever wonder why dairy products are the most expensive in Wisconsin?
All of the sudden, kids will be dropped off at soccer practice by rappeling from Mom's combat aircraft. Look what you've started. Now I have to imagine what flying would be like with people on the roads in rush hour.
So, we aren't due for another ice age for another 14,000 years at that rate (assuming that an increase in temperature equates to an ice age, as some of the global warming crowd have claimed), if your comment is based on accurate, scientific information, which I would love to read if you happen to have it around. How do people arrive at that? Computational models? Reminds me of a quote: "lies, damn lies, and statistics."
I'm sure we will have lots of technology problems solved by then. We will advance beyond turkey guts processing. Whether the numbers of the turkey guts processor are as hyped and unuseful as the fuel economy on the majority of hybrids, or not, like with the hybrids, it is an advancement, be it for political or pecuniary gain.
If I'm not mistaken, Lumpy, he opened up the reserves this Tuesday. The reserves equate to about what, 30 days of consumption? Do you remember when Clinton opened up the reserves? It had only to do with riding a price spike. If you know about this particular price spike, it has to do with the demand from China growing exponentially.
If you have access to Science News, read here and stop talking about substantive Global Warming. 0.005C in 14 years is insubstantial. This is the only time anyone has bothered to "slip a thermometer under the tongue of the planet." Anything else is measuring the temperature of passing wind, or something localized, like melting ice.
You can read the abstract here out of Nature Magazine.
Try to get mentally naked for a second and strip off your political hat and think with me. How do you measure the temperature of the earth? Take a measurement of the air? Or, take enough measurements from the ocean's bottom, away from geothermal zones, to create an overall picture of the ocean's temperature.
We might be spicing things up with the atmosphere, don't mistake me about that, but we are not substantively warming the planet. If you want to talk air pollution, think back to the fires in 2003 in California, or 2002 in Colorado/Arizona. Or, my personal favorite, one kick-bang volcanic eruption. I had the distinct pleasure of discussing this very topic with a park ranger (the unforgettable, effervescent Ranger Chet, or something like that) at Mt. St. Helens last year. As a species, we cannot compete with the pollution of a catastrophic volcanic eruption.
I have thought for a long time that global warming was bunk. The only reason to get off of oil (in America) is that it isn't exactly renewable. I suppose the same argument could be made for nuclear energy, except for the fact that we can manufacture the fissive material. Hydroelectric (dam kind, not ocean current kind) is clearly an environmental disaster, and solar still uses noxious chemicals in its production, and is about as unfriendly as a traditional circuit board to the environment. If we can get energy efficiently from biology, then that's the way to go, because it is renewable and scalable. I am left to wonder how efficient this 80% via turkey fat really is, though. They heat and pump, heat and pump, but what is the energy intake to energy output here?
The underlying theme here is that the networks still believe there's a market for Sci-Fi, and maybe they just need to push the envelope a bit harder than "oh crap, our ratings, how they dwindle! Make the hot chick wear less, and let's bring out the Borg, that always packs 'em in."
Here's a better idea. Quit coming up with bottom-feeder narratives. As long as Paramount owns Star Trek, and as long as Paramount is a company in the business of making tv shows, that is all we will see, more of their formula. Until a network decides "whoa, take a chance on this," we are left with lowest common denominator pieces that fit the largest demographic. Budgets unleashed only make for eye candy, like the computer graphics festivals, and great props. They don't make for meaningful stories.
In short, they are "in power" so why create anything revolutionary? This is the wrong kind of conservatism. Its the "low fiscal risk" conservatism.
Here are some ideas which won't fly well with the Paramount executives:
Kill off main characters and NEVER bring them back, no matter how far-fetched and witty your approach may be. Show people as they adjust to loss, and have that actually last a few episodes.
Borrow heavily from the 'risky science' budget at NASA and actually put some of those off-the-wall concepts/realities like antimatter into common knowledge.
Show a downward spiral in someone's character, and how people react to it.
Explore and expose real, heart-kind evil.
Show amazing heart-kind love.
Carry on a dialogue which demonstrates something less than perfect communication.
Explore more than the command crew social circle, regularly.
To their credit, it was nice to see the Enterprise limp along for an episode after it received heavy damage. I particularly liked it when they had to participate in some colony fighting to get their rare minerals. The Voyager episode with Janeway wandering into what amounted to crewmen in "steerage" was unforgettable.
Hey, observation from the data management side is entirely different from "view from gamer interface" and that is the difference. As long as that is opaque, gamers are unable to discern between fair and foul play.
Everyone is going to think I'm a total dead-head gamer for this, but it has to be referenced. This is the same business attitude that Project Entropia used on resolving some fraud issues. Apparently, someone at one point was either using a fraudulent account, or had a hack they used to generate expensive game gear in this MMPORPG (or however that gets abbrev.). I briefly participated in one of those successful clans which had good business entrepreneurial spirit, making use of the real/in-game economy and acting as a trader of sorts. We ran into this as their reason for playing a variety of constrictions with our "banker" character. Eventually, the clan abandoned the game as a poor business model.
Oh, you dealt with a fraudulent individual, and bought an item which was obtained falsely/ sold an item to someone who had a fraudulent account. You must be in on it.
Right. Like you can always tell the difference in a computer game between a data set obtained through normal game play, or an observably identical one obtained through some loophole. This falls into the indefensible "guilt by association" category of law enforcement. I see no difference in the way Paypal decides things. I hereby coin the ToS summary: "Autocratic Draconian Whim." Avoid it if you can. Read that fine print, be it a return agreement on a box of steaks, or a business contract for hourly labor. If it smells suspect, you have to trust that inner prompting and keep walking.
Paypal sounds like a good idea, I hope this bad press garners some alternatives, like PayTrustedSoul, PayDearHeart, PayBosomFriend, or at the very least PayLongTimeBusinessAssociate!
A friend of mine corrected me. The Mark of the Beast is a sign of worship, which is also used for commerce. The Barcelona tags are only remotely a sign of worship: Bacchus. The sign of worship is to a living, breathing man, the antichrist.
I wouldn't mind a discussion on the evasive "clean coal" technologies. In the US, when a gallon is peaking now at $2.00 in the Midwest, you better believe people are vainly hoping to get better fuel economy, saving money. If that's not the result, then there really is no advantage with an HEV over say a Dodge Colt, Pontiac Firefly/ Geo Metro (my Canadian friend swears it was called the Firefly and went by the Pontiac badge), or even a decent TurboDiesel.
When I studied Bronze Age History in college, the claim by the professor was that it was the sunken atoll known as Hylaea. timjdot's post above makes the point that a slight change in sea levels reveals many sunken lands, although there are older cultures around the Mediterranean than there are are around the Bahamas. I remember a couple years back they found a lost city beneath the Black Sea, I beleive it was one from the Old Testament. That reminds me, I need to build that Remote submersible to explore my lake for lost cities.
I'm waiting for someone to develop an ink printing system that works on commercial porcelain. In addition to the possibility of having truly lovely bathtubs with durable artwork, we could also see urinals plastered with ads, which I think is far more invasive than a pop-up ad. The downside would be a lot of "targetting" accidents from being distracted. I can just see the dial-a-lawyer ads:
"Pissed off at your former employer? Call Duey, Cheatum, and Howe, labor attorneys!"
Still, I rank pop-up ads in the same category as those framed ads above the urinals in a public restroom.
Yeah, how many Jordanians was Sharon planning on killing with biochemical agents last week again? 40,000? That's FUD for sure. This Jewish fellow's post reminds me of some Egyptian Pharoah that didn't believe in miracles until all the first-born sons of Egypt died in the night.
back on topic...
A great resource on this topic is all the work done previously, like:
The 50-page journal available from the Ford Library: link
Turkey has its fun rejecting and approving then rejecting missions. They also have fun climbing the wrong mountain from time to time, claiming to find nothing. It is a pretty dangerous, rugged mountain, I doubt highly someone would have the resources or interest to be dragging the appropriate timbers up there, just for a hoax.
The last czarina of Russia was purported to have a cross pendant made from a timber from their expedition to see Noah's Ark over a century ago.
Researchers are focusing on the wrong Ark. They should be after the Ark of the Covenant. I can just see the ACLU screaming about that being on display at the Smithsonian, what with their self-fashioned "separation" nonsense (go read the Federalist Papers). If the Jews had that Ark handy, then they could really rule with FUD.
The running theory I have read is that the waters were trapped in two locations, below the earth's crust and up in the skies. Ignoring the rather difficult "canopy theory" and just assuming they meant the earth was a bit more steamy and muggy, focusing on water beneath the earth's surface, it certainly would explain the violent scarring visible in our bathyscapes not as a slow, mundane expansion in millions upon millions of years, but a tumultuous, fervent upheaval over the course of a year. If you consider that the waters of the planet were trapped under the crust, then the world would be much more condusive to natural springs sustaining life, and yet totally absent of rain storms or clouds. I'm trying to remember the name of the other planet in our solar system which has most of its water trapped beneath the surface, but it escapes me. We sent some probes there looking for water. What was it now?
Yes, Ethnic Studies, AKA "The White Man is evil" was taught. I loathed it, but it was a rite of passage in the CoE: if you did not get an A, you were inept at taking advantage of the grade-booster courses. We read Rain of Gold, a mildly vulgar prose treatment of a Latino who becomes a hooch runner. The comments I never got to make about that book: how is this a study of ethnicity? Mexico sounded like a horrible, poor place to live, and the immigrant in the book was a criminal. I never figured out why they chose that book, much of it had nothing to do with ethnicity. What you may not know about Ethnic Studies is that in a year I was there, the head of the department was hauled away in handcuffs for fraud with departmental money. Hmm. Might explain the book selection.
The greatest offender at UC Riverside outside of aforementioned "formulas" and inept instructors in the College of Engineering was the English Department. Often regarded as a front for GLB activitists, I was also present for when they hauled away no fewer than 40 of the muggers for holding the chancellor against his will, disturbing the peace, and trespassing. Their selection of texts was either pornographic or illiterate. Don't make a freshman English class read something by someone who has anything but competent language skills. I remember gleefully chatting with another classmate on this one book, pointing out the various grammatical errors. What was particularly amusing was that my classmate was not natively English-speaking and also recognized errors in the book.
If you ever want the ultimate scandal, try to dig up the genesis of the "Year of Respect" at UC Riverside. It involves an assassin from the NOI.
I must have contributed to that graduation rate, because I left nigh on a decade ago (Comp Sci); hard to justify paying such high salaries to such an inconsistent lot of educators (some excellent, majority were vile). Please tell me Gerardo Beni has left, there's a guy that defines nepotism like no other. I'm betting you also missed a few of the true charmers, back before it was accredited for Comp Sci. FWIW, in my class, there were a couple guys who dropped out and became millionaires. Others merely became successful upon dropping out. Vahid has been there a long time, you were fortunate to have him as an instructor. Doctors Chrobak and Fleisch were worthwhile in CS. I may never forget the day a CS professor, who will remain nameless (miserable with those Slavic names anyway) proceeded to spend 20 minutes explaining shortest-path algorithms, stop, stare at the board, leave the room for five minutes, return and restart the presentation.
Tell me, do they still have the Minority Study Room? It was a unique feature to the Bourne COE facility; quite the conversation piece.
I think the EE department definitely had more going for it, but unless I've missed my guess, the eBlock systems are somewhere in the pre-prototype phase, and they haven't built more than one category. It strikes me as an incredibly useful teaching tool, ala the aforementioned Raytheon product from decades back, which you oft can find lurking in science museum exploratoriums. I have long wondered when UC Riverside will make its educational mark upon the world, and join the ranks of UC Berkeley. Maybe the next decade will hold some promise.
When I was a student there, several projects were going on. Still, after all these years, this is the first time I've seen anything at all come out of Riverside, besides hot, dusty smog. There were quite a lot of false starts. The formula there was: pay your undergrads slave labor rates to do graduate research, hire the grad students to teach and grade, and then fritter your time away as a tenured professor, brooding about when you will take over the world with your swarm of army robots. Hmm. I do wonder if Gerado Beni resembled the mad scientist in Buckaroo Banzai, or if he was the character basis. Don't mod this up as funny, I genuinely feared the insidious Dr. Beni and his research, and am not the least bit sarcastic or dramatic in my views.
Sorry you are unemployed, try San Diego for EE work. Riverside has next to nothing for high-tech industry, except the Otter Pop factory, as I recall. Citrus trees and la'te's in the 909.
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Yes, really. It is quite the story, perhaps if this weren't a public forum, I would share the details. My father, but a boy at the time, was likely inspired by this event, as he got himself a PhD in physics, and has been interested in rocketry and astronomy as long as he can remember.
For what it is worth, my grandfather was hit in the head by a meteorite once (and only once) during dinner. It was the size of a grain of rice, according to my Dad, and made a pinhole in the roof and ceiling. Hmm; both my grandparents are dead, I wonder whether that was kept or tossed.
Randall Hyde regularly said that in his Assembly Language courses. Be aware that there are still occasions when Assembly is all you get, like embedded systems.
To this day, the lessons he taught me remain indispensable. For those who haven't taken a course from him, I suggest at least reading his writing pertinent to the development of skills as a programmer. Do not, however, take any lessons from him on the art of social graces.
I still think that the best course he ever taught was the one-shot CS 185, or commercial software development. There, we learned what it means to plan a project and be off by a country mile on how long it would take. Better there than in the real world.
Randy was quite the stickler on commenting code. I think that, more than anything else, is a testament to his vision of churning out disciplined programmers, even if it meant they hated his guts. I am only too sorry he didn't figure out how to interact with others like a well-adjusted adult, or maybe he would have kept his job at UC Riverside. In addition to being a student, I had the distinct displeasure to regularly interact with him on his Mirage+ research program (Distributed Shared Memory).
I wonder what he would have said about Java. Mr. Jones, you are right, he definitely made a great weeder course out of x86 Assembly. I was on a very short list of Art students to take the course. For me, the weeding worked the opposite direction. Six months after I took CS 13, I came back as a Computer Science student. I've met CS grads with master's degrees from a dozen supposedly more reputable who know less about operating systems, or programming in general than the average 2nd year CS student at UC Riverside. That is to say, someone who has passed CS 13!
Treasure your experience with Randy Hyde, good or bad you learned from it.
Secondly, Nietsche's father was a minister, and so he no doubt read and possibly obsessed over the book of Ecclesiastes (by King Solomon), which starts off with that quote in the first verse. I suppose we could end up discussing whether Daoist teaching predates the Hebrew Kings. Daoism seems to postdate Modernism, but I am Western, so that might be by observation.
You'd have more profundity with a .sig that says "Tech is meaningless," or "The internet is meaningless." I'd even go for "wrist TVs are meaningless," although that's one of those things that you don't need to say.
I am left to wonder if Douglas Adams fans have commented on your .sig as well. They would be the sort to attack a .sig saying "digital watches are meaningless," because earthlings are famous for the reputation of thinking digital watches are a really neat idea.
It is really sad to meet people who consider their life meaningless; typically, their life is meaningless to them much of the time. Not to be too pop-culture (forgive the pun here), but Obey Your Thirst. When you find what quenches the deep and constant thirst, you will find meaning to life. Try to learn from the failures of others, though. First, the meaning of life is not digital watches. Second, Nietsche was famous for drug binges, and it did not improve his views on life, so skip that one, too.
On the plus side, eventually you will have new opponents in head-to-head video games, and for a while at least, they are an easy victory. You'll feel old when you can't win against your own kid and you try your hardest.
Sounds complicated. I will look into it, and thank you.
Not to feed the FUD mentality, but just reading the FAQ of this company suggests you are on to something. The whole subsidy business is a loathsome whore of industry. It is on par with price controls. Ever wonder why dairy products are the most expensive in Wisconsin?
When did BP change their name to "Beyond Petroleum?" That's what I want to know.
All of the sudden, kids will be dropped off at soccer practice by rappeling from Mom's combat aircraft. Look what you've started. Now I have to imagine what flying would be like with people on the roads in rush hour.
I'm sure we will have lots of technology problems solved by then. We will advance beyond turkey guts processing. Whether the numbers of the turkey guts processor are as hyped and unuseful as the fuel economy on the majority of hybrids, or not, like with the hybrids, it is an advancement, be it for political or pecuniary gain.
If I'm not mistaken, Lumpy, he opened up the reserves this Tuesday. The reserves equate to about what, 30 days of consumption? Do you remember when Clinton opened up the reserves? It had only to do with riding a price spike. If you know about this particular price spike, it has to do with the demand from China growing exponentially.
You can read the abstract here out of Nature Magazine.
Try to get mentally naked for a second and strip off your political hat and think with me. How do you measure the temperature of the earth? Take a measurement of the air? Or, take enough measurements from the ocean's bottom, away from geothermal zones, to create an overall picture of the ocean's temperature.
We might be spicing things up with the atmosphere, don't mistake me about that, but we are not substantively warming the planet. If you want to talk air pollution, think back to the fires in 2003 in California, or 2002 in Colorado/Arizona. Or, my personal favorite, one kick-bang volcanic eruption. I had the distinct pleasure of discussing this very topic with a park ranger (the unforgettable, effervescent Ranger Chet, or something like that) at Mt. St. Helens last year. As a species, we cannot compete with the pollution of a catastrophic volcanic eruption.
I have thought for a long time that global warming was bunk. The only reason to get off of oil (in America) is that it isn't exactly renewable. I suppose the same argument could be made for nuclear energy, except for the fact that we can manufacture the fissive material. Hydroelectric (dam kind, not ocean current kind) is clearly an environmental disaster, and solar still uses noxious chemicals in its production, and is about as unfriendly as a traditional circuit board to the environment. If we can get energy efficiently from biology, then that's the way to go, because it is renewable and scalable. I am left to wonder how efficient this 80% via turkey fat really is, though. They heat and pump, heat and pump, but what is the energy intake to energy output here?
Here's a better idea. Quit coming up with bottom-feeder narratives. As long as Paramount owns Star Trek, and as long as Paramount is a company in the business of making tv shows, that is all we will see, more of their formula. Until a network decides "whoa, take a chance on this," we are left with lowest common denominator pieces that fit the largest demographic. Budgets unleashed only make for eye candy, like the computer graphics festivals, and great props. They don't make for meaningful stories.
In short, they are "in power" so why create anything revolutionary? This is the wrong kind of conservatism. Its the "low fiscal risk" conservatism.
Here are some ideas which won't fly well with the Paramount executives:
- Kill off main characters and NEVER bring them back, no matter how far-fetched and witty your approach may be. Show people as they adjust to loss, and have that actually last a few episodes.
- Borrow heavily from the 'risky science' budget at NASA and actually put some of those off-the-wall concepts/realities like antimatter into common knowledge.
- Show a downward spiral in someone's character, and how people react to it.
- Explore and expose real, heart-kind evil.
- Show amazing heart-kind love.
- Carry on a dialogue which demonstrates something less than perfect communication.
- Explore more than the command crew social circle, regularly.
To their credit, it was nice to see the Enterprise limp along for an episode after it received heavy damage. I particularly liked it when they had to participate in some colony fighting to get their rare minerals. The Voyager episode with Janeway wandering into what amounted to crewmen in "steerage" was unforgettable.Hey, observation from the data management side is entirely different from "view from gamer interface" and that is the difference. As long as that is opaque, gamers are unable to discern between fair and foul play.
Everyone is going to think I'm a total dead-head gamer for this, but it has to be referenced. This is the same business attitude that Project Entropia used on resolving some fraud issues. Apparently, someone at one point was either using a fraudulent account, or had a hack they used to generate expensive game gear in this MMPORPG (or however that gets abbrev.). I briefly participated in one of those successful clans which had good business entrepreneurial spirit, making use of the real/in-game economy and acting as a trader of sorts. We ran into this as their reason for playing a variety of constrictions with our "banker" character. Eventually, the clan abandoned the game as a poor business model.
Oh, you dealt with a fraudulent individual, and bought an item which was obtained falsely/ sold an item to someone who had a fraudulent account. You must be in on it.
Right. Like you can always tell the difference in a computer game between a data set obtained through normal game play, or an observably identical one obtained through some loophole. This falls into the indefensible "guilt by association" category of law enforcement. I see no difference in the way Paypal decides things. I hereby coin the ToS summary: "Autocratic Draconian Whim." Avoid it if you can. Read that fine print, be it a return agreement on a box of steaks, or a business contract for hourly labor. If it smells suspect, you have to trust that inner prompting and keep walking.
Paypal sounds like a good idea, I hope this bad press garners some alternatives, like PayTrustedSoul, PayDearHeart, PayBosomFriend, or at the very least PayLongTimeBusinessAssociate!
A friend of mine corrected me. The Mark of the Beast is a sign of worship, which is also used for commerce. The Barcelona tags are only remotely a sign of worship: Bacchus. The sign of worship is to a living, breathing man, the antichrist.
I wouldn't mind a discussion on the evasive "clean coal" technologies. In the US, when a gallon is peaking now at $2.00 in the Midwest, you better believe people are vainly hoping to get better fuel economy, saving money. If that's not the result, then there really is no advantage with an HEV over say a Dodge Colt, Pontiac Firefly/ Geo Metro (my Canadian friend swears it was called the Firefly and went by the Pontiac badge), or even a decent TurboDiesel.
I'm printing this one out and taking it to church, don't know what better would constitute fulfilling prophecy.
When I studied Bronze Age History in college, the claim by the professor was that it was the sunken atoll known as Hylaea. timjdot's post above makes the point that a slight change in sea levels reveals many sunken lands, although there are older cultures around the Mediterranean than there are are around the Bahamas. I remember a couple years back they found a lost city beneath the Black Sea, I beleive it was one from the Old Testament. That reminds me, I need to build that Remote submersible to explore my lake for lost cities.
"Pissed off at your former employer? Call Duey, Cheatum, and Howe, labor attorneys!"
Still, I rank pop-up ads in the same category as those framed ads above the urinals in a public restroom.
back on topic...
A great resource on this topic is all the work done previously, like:
- The 50-page journal available from the Ford Library: link
- this list of sightings
Turkey has its fun rejecting and approving then rejecting missions. They also have fun climbing the wrong mountain from time to time, claiming to find nothing. It is a pretty dangerous, rugged mountain, I doubt highly someone would have the resources or interest to be dragging the appropriate timbers up there, just for a hoax.The last czarina of Russia was purported to have a cross pendant made from a timber from their expedition to see Noah's Ark over a century ago.
Researchers are focusing on the wrong Ark. They should be after the Ark of the Covenant. I can just see the ACLU screaming about that being on display at the Smithsonian, what with their self-fashioned "separation" nonsense (go read the Federalist Papers). If the Jews had that Ark handy, then they could really rule with FUD.
The running theory I have read is that the waters were trapped in two locations, below the earth's crust and up in the skies. Ignoring the rather difficult "canopy theory" and just assuming they meant the earth was a bit more steamy and muggy, focusing on water beneath the earth's surface, it certainly would explain the violent scarring visible in our bathyscapes not as a slow, mundane expansion in millions upon millions of years, but a tumultuous, fervent upheaval over the course of a year. If you consider that the waters of the planet were trapped under the crust, then the world would be much more condusive to natural springs sustaining life, and yet totally absent of rain storms or clouds. I'm trying to remember the name of the other planet in our solar system which has most of its water trapped beneath the surface, but it escapes me. We sent some probes there looking for water. What was it now?
The greatest offender at UC Riverside outside of aforementioned "formulas" and inept instructors in the College of Engineering was the English Department. Often regarded as a front for GLB activitists, I was also present for when they hauled away no fewer than 40 of the muggers for holding the chancellor against his will, disturbing the peace, and trespassing. Their selection of texts was either pornographic or illiterate. Don't make a freshman English class read something by someone who has anything but competent language skills. I remember gleefully chatting with another classmate on this one book, pointing out the various grammatical errors. What was particularly amusing was that my classmate was not natively English-speaking and also recognized errors in the book.
If you ever want the ultimate scandal, try to dig up the genesis of the "Year of Respect" at UC Riverside. It involves an assassin from the NOI.
Tell me, do they still have the Minority Study Room? It was a unique feature to the Bourne COE facility; quite the conversation piece.
I think the EE department definitely had more going for it, but unless I've missed my guess, the eBlock systems are somewhere in the pre-prototype phase, and they haven't built more than one category. It strikes me as an incredibly useful teaching tool, ala the aforementioned Raytheon product from decades back, which you oft can find lurking in science museum exploratoriums. I have long wondered when UC Riverside will make its educational mark upon the world, and join the ranks of UC Berkeley. Maybe the next decade will hold some promise.
When I was a student there, several projects were going on. Still, after all these years, this is the first time I've seen anything at all come out of Riverside, besides hot, dusty smog. There were quite a lot of false starts. The formula there was: pay your undergrads slave labor rates to do graduate research, hire the grad students to teach and grade, and then fritter your time away as a tenured professor, brooding about when you will take over the world with your swarm of army robots. Hmm. I do wonder if Gerado Beni resembled the mad scientist in Buckaroo Banzai, or if he was the character basis. Don't mod this up as funny, I genuinely feared the insidious Dr. Beni and his research, and am not the least bit sarcastic or dramatic in my views.
Sorry you are unemployed, try San Diego for EE work. Riverside has next to nothing for high-tech industry, except the Otter Pop factory, as I recall. Citrus trees and la'te's in the 909.