The IT budget is under the dreaded "expense" word on balance sheets. Expenses are the bad neighborhood of the accounting balance sheet.
That's a brilliant point you bring out suggesting that "potential loss" be brought into account. If potential loss evaluation is such a rare concept in today's management world, should it then be patentable?
Then a couple of years ago. I lived your story. Too old. Younger person made mistakes. Blamed on me. How dare you, bye bye from management. Know what? That manager in turn was deemed too expensive and "bye byed" himself by more management. Are we are getting back to the tried and true Roman galley ship management style?
Seems like your RFID scanner had its eyes open too wide.
Then I have seen the inside of a modern distribution center. Rather jaw dropping to see all those conveyors looping around everywhere and to imagine the amount of goods moved.
Then with multiple RFID scanners they might need to be linked. I imagaine a solution is available but would be exponentially expensive.
As for the mistake of putting tags on bicycles. Think lowest common denominator in everything that prevails on the manufacturing side; low labor and country culture of allowing bad mistakes. Yes that's China. So some production run will surely come back with RFID tags plastered on the metal parts. Result is wacko RFID as you say.
Stellar comments so far. This has been the most refreshing thread response in a long time.
MY SUMMARY then WHAT GOODNIGHT FORGOT TO INCLUDE.
1. An iPod plus cellphone does not equal genius. Lack of underlying technology. Thanks AC & Jonathan.
In grade school, I built my own crystal radio, then a diode one. I wish we all had a vague idea of the electrons running around inside our devices.
2. If someone designed a math program that trained a kid from kinder garden to calculus.
Yes yes yes! And the best interface would be the greatest game ever played. I could go for that as an adult. Gaming REALLY IS THE answer. And its not just mental or watching a screen. Go for kinetic too. Throw kids into one of those Universal City rides for their gaming math lesson. Miss an answer and your world really turns upside down.
3. School is boring. Yes it has to compete with the empty glitz on TV and the rest of the time with distracting cell calls.
4. Immediate reinforcement at home. Inappropriately too. Splashes of color and sound teach what? Brain blowouts?
5. And all the rest of your great comment stuff. Thanks folks!
WHAT GOODNIGHT FORGOT TO INCLUDE.
Its easy to point out problems. So what's your idea of a solution Dr. Jim? Let us know!
Re the possible bicycle %100 read rate. Think of radio reflections. A triggering or reading signal goes out. Then all that metal in the bicycles might reflect and scatter responding RFID signals. We with human eyes can indeed see the individual bicycles by counting tires or handle bars or something. RFID readers have limited visibility; is that faint reflected signal an original signal or another read's reflected one?
Then am I ever %100 right on everything? Never! So I invite any actual RFID engineer readers to comment.
Having worked IT for JCPenney, we heard a lot about RFID. The concept behind RFID is the holy mantra of supply chain logistics IT staff - VISIBILITY!!!!! However bicycles are a perfect example of semi visible. Picture a pallet of these, all with little RFID tags here and there. Then the RFID reader squirts out a radio signal which bounces merrily around (Mathematica, do a graph of this one!). It might miss some bicycles and have trouble reading others. So POOF, there goes the validity of supply chain visibility.
And lets not even talk, much anyhow, about a pallet full of cans of soup. RFID visibility is not good amongst cans. If its supposed to always be on a visible side, how do you target the one in the middle? What about mis-stacking with RFIDS hidden? Besides cans provide an example of economics. I understand that Wal Mart pays something on the order of six cents per soup can. If RFID is ten cents. Do you want to "pay" more than a can of soup, 1/24 of your cost for visibility. Perhaps not when profits are measured to much smaller decimal points.
Kadin, you are right. Slide rules were the tools that built the first model of everything. Stephen Covey says everything is built twice; once in the mind and once for real. Slide rules parallel the great manufacturing era of the United States and other places, France, Russia, UK, that also produced slide rules. Like Kadin says, slide rules were the tools of people who realized great dreams.
Most slide rules are accurate to three significant digits (not two digits).
My 20" Keuffel & Esser 4181-5 says the answer is 7.43. Not bad and very quick to come up with an answer. Another advantage is with that 7/5 ratio, you can see any like ratio all up and down the scale. So slide rules help me learn the math that I should have learned back in high school and college.
Also some Faber Castell slide rules have multiple line sliding glass/plastic cursors that allow more complex math.
Try the Oughtred Society site www.oughtred.org for their swap sheet if you want a slide rule.
So Pix it is. Today I read the Dallas Morning News (print) which had a picture. That same picture is also on Flickr. Note the HEAVY editing; 1) The white sleeve is to the left instead of right as in the original picture. 2) a brick wall has been added 3) a caption has been added "Dump Your Pen Friend".
From DMN. "Alison's feelings are on view at Flickr.com, where she kicked off a three-month discussion of privacy and copyright law with a post below a picture of the ad that reads, "Hey that's me! No joke. I think I'm being insulted.""
Congratulations on your country house. All the below is old hat and obvious. My apologies. 1. Find an astronomy club where you live. Go to their out of town observing site and get advice on equipment. 2. Look a lot at other equipment in use (not the showroom) before you buy anything. Used equipment is OK. 3. Going directly for CCD pictures might be a bit over your 1K investment plan. But lots of people try this and give up and dump their equipment. 4. A laptop attached to the scope works wonders for broad views. You can also see the image move as you step on the cement telescope slab. 5. Start out with a lawn chair and binoculars and a star chart to get an idea where the constellations live. 6. Anticipate a mobile home with a guard light moving in next to your site. So be prepared and polite and helpful getting them shaded lights.
A Hispanic in Arlington TX tried to sell me a stolen laptop once. He worked in a hotel and that's how he got it. I supported PC's at the time and wanted to see if any information was left that might point to the actual owner. BUT IT HAD BEEN LOW LEVEL FORMATTED. Surprising for someone who had not gone through high school - yes? So this thief and others do indeed know people who will "clean up" a PC.
Another point. Today there are organized groups. Some loosely organized but indeed organized. Petty crime is their livelihood. The context discussed here is that of a random crackhead thief. But even crackheads have contact with others who will fence the thing. Or others connected to an organized group. I was on a Grand Jury for three months earlier this year. There is a lot more crime going on that anyone realizes (and grand juries only see the tip of the crime iceberg).
You may be right on Lufkin being located within the Western District of Texas. Even though its actually deep in the Eastern piney woods of Texas. Reason is, sometimes in Texas, election districts are stretched so that narrow corridors link other areas (i.e. gerrymandering).
I hope somehow that sanity prevails in the trial location. Network Applications Inc filed their case in Lufkin TX.
Lufkin is very long way from anywhere. I live in Dallas TX and Lufkin is a long 3hr 18m trip South and East from here. Yet Network Applications Inc is a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company. Both Sun and Network Applications Inc are based in California.
Formerly the haven for patent pirates was Marshall TX. The same thing is probably going on in Lufkin TX.
Check out this article. "A Haven for Patent Pirates In one federal court in East Texas, plaintiffs have such an easy time winning patent-infringement lawsuits against big-tech companies that defendants often choose to settle rather than fight." http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech-Software/ wtr_16280,300,p1.html?a=f
About five years ago, a chunk of cement about the size of a football fell on a buddy's car in the parking garage. At that time, the garage was a few years old.
Engineers were called in and placed acoustic monitors all over the place on many of the beams. Then drove vehicles over them on a couple of weekends.
Evidently acoustics found anomalies. They determined that the interior cabling was insufficient.
After a couple of different fix attempts engineers decided on the following.
Added two reinforcing high tension cables to the outside of each approximately 60 foot beam in that huge parking garage. This involved drilling two six inch holes at the ends of each beam. A heavy wall pipe was put into each hole. Them flanges were welded to the ends of each pipe. Then cabling was strung on each side of the beam. The beams were curved so at the apex of the curve were placed hangers that the cabling went over. This way the cabling did not go directly to the other side but roughly followed the beam's curve.
This was at headquarters of a national clothing retailer JCP.
Ouch, you are sitting quite firmly on the horns of a dilemma! That hypothetical but most painful beast.
Pointy Horn One. You were denied getting the item at a good price. Ouch.
Pointy Horn Two. Then it won't work if you insist on getting the item anyhow. His excuse was it was broken. So out comes his hammer to pulverize your purchase. Ouch again.
Just to fill out the story. What was the item description? Still findable on eBay (the item number)? Approximately what was your bid?
The original poster has a valid point regarding "cheap".
The hard stuff and the expensive work has been done. So its somewhere along the probability line now that someone could copy Saturn V on the cheap. That is they stand on the shoulders of Saturn V giants and do their cheap work.
For Christmas 2006, I built my very own blinking LED Christmas lights for my little tree. Got a nice Digi-Key power supply and a bunch of powerful blinking LEDS from various suppliers.
First attempt was WAY OVERPOWERED. Especially the blinking blue. The net effect was like a police light bar - in your own room right in front of you. On an 24" tree. Way too many photons. Instead of gentle blinking there were all these blasts of light. Not all my LEDs were this way but the blasters were the superbright LEDs that were indeed the brightest.
I used LEDs that are clear yet generate different colors. These are the neat ones over the old fashioned colored plastic ones. Helps to have a LED tester to see what color you have.
And the light was a bit disorienting. I saw blue spots for quite a while. It does no good really to close your eyes. your thin eyelid cannot hold back all those eager photons.
Thanks for the health encouragement. Interesting, more information please on your blood pressure reduction. I consume eight cans of Dr Pepper a day plus blood pressure meds (160mg Diovan/day). I imagine a number of other/.'rs are in the same condition.
For your blood pressure to go down did you change anything else in your diet, or environment, or exercise? For example, eliminate french fries? For example move to a six story walk up?
Then please quantify your blood pressure drop. What was your blood pressure on caffeine? Then what is near normal? Both systolic / diastolic if possible.
One way to reduce or eliminate the caffeine headache is to first consume omega3 fish oil for a couple of weeks. I use 1 teaspoon of Dr Sears EicoRx (omega3) along with 2 tablespoons of SeaHealth all in one of his protein shakes (this to prevent fish oil runs). Try something like this with your own favorite brand of high grade omega3. But do use the good stuff.
Previous poster is correct, Jackie Collins and her ilk. Hey I just PROVED I have a garbage brain by dredging Joan Collins out of it!
Also eBay is not the top of the world for old books. Amazon and its sellers do quite well also. If you are looking for really out of it books, those beneath Amazon's top million list, try Alibris.com
A couple of years ago someone who sold on eBay gave me lots of hints for selling books. Basically estate buy anything but Joan Collins type books because all 999,999 of her true believer readers buy every book in the first printing. So there is zero residual interest in a Joan Collins style book.
The KC gentleman picked awful places to dump his books. He mentioned libraries. Libraries are going digital now. By the way, this very second is a most EXCELLENT time in ALL OF HISTORY to load up on bound magazines that libraries are dumping. Pick your favorite magazine and go check eBay when you are done here.
So the guy seemed to be a bit odd. And I guess that is the very definition of small shop bookseller today. Not so long ago, production of books in the USA in 1966 was a mere 68,175. So a shopping mall B.Dalton or Kansas City shop could carry most of them through the year. In 2006 yearly production of USA books was 172,000. That means an average of 472 new books EVERY DAY. How do you pick what people want out of that number? UK had an even larger increase. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_c ountry_per_year
The "light" spectrum or energy spectrum is vast. Starting at the upper end with Gamma rays (10^-11 meters) on down to radio waves (10^-1 meters).
So if some people want to make their homes free of intruding energy waves, that's their thing and maybe we can learn something.
The above is not an easy task for two reasons. First energy spectrum our society produces. We are quite dependent now and getting more so on these. From cell phones to RIFD to WWV time updates to plain old electric power (ever stuck a tubular fluorescent bulb under a large multi KW power line? Lights up quite well). Second the energy spectrum of nature. We need some of the sunlight spectrum. So how to filter undesired spectra? That would be perhaps UV, gamma rays, or cosmic rays? Each spectra involves different strategy to avoid. The beekeeper microwave hat was an example. Sure protect your brain but leave the rest of your DNA to bake a little bit.
Wait a minute, the above might seem more a bit ridiculous. What would a picture of a planet of energy wave avoiders look like? Should we instead emulate the energy spectrum exposure that our paleolithic ancestors adapted to? Or should we emulate the energy spectrum exposure of long lived peoples like the Okinawans?
Taking my tin foil hat off now, have a great weekend everyone, Jim
I am gone from my previous IT job. Two years gone now. My goal now is to learn what I should have learned instead of wasting time during the endless 12-14 hour days performing IT work. And I LOVE heretic's list! Life is too good not to enjoy every second of it!
So my list reads like . Clean house really clean - ongoing task . Learn Latin . Learn Greek . Review Math - learn ins and outs of slide rules - working on a little article/book here. . Find my old friends and learn what they like. I now have new hobbies from this. . Eat healthy, lots of antioxidants . Assemble electronic kits and build it myself over buying on basic electronic items.
Currently I am on a Grand Jury. This is very interesting. Three month term for three days a week. Reviews District Attorney felony cases and evaluates if sufficient cause exists to go to trial. A great chance once in a while to practice your persuasion skills. Unlike a trial, we jurors can question the witnesses and detective presenter. We are treated quite well. Our break room refrigerator has a whole shelf of chocolate milk, another of white milk, finally one of apple juice. I can recommend this, contact your local District Attorney office. In Texas they are happy to take your name and put you on a voi dire list.
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Missing from the story are important and obvious details.
1. Electrical output efficiency compared to a correctly aimed flat solar panel.
2. How are tiny silicon balls connected to produce electricity?
Any other questions, please chip in.
Thanks, Jim
The IT budget is under the dreaded "expense" word on balance sheets. Expenses are the bad neighborhood of the accounting balance sheet.
That's a brilliant point you bring out suggesting that "potential loss" be brought into account. If potential loss evaluation is such a rare concept in today's management world, should it then be patentable?
Then a couple of years ago. I lived your story. Too old. Younger person made mistakes. Blamed on me. How dare you, bye bye from management. Know what? That manager in turn was deemed too expensive and "bye byed" himself by more management. Are we are getting back to the tried and true Roman galley ship management style?
Thanks,
Jim
Seems like your RFID scanner had its eyes open too wide.
Then I have seen the inside of a modern distribution center. Rather jaw dropping to see all those conveyors looping around everywhere and to imagine the amount of goods moved.
Then with multiple RFID scanners they might need to be linked. I imagaine a solution is available but would be exponentially expensive.
Good luck in your work,
Jim
As for the mistake of putting tags on bicycles. Think lowest common denominator in everything that prevails on the manufacturing side; low labor and country culture of allowing bad mistakes. Yes that's China. So some production run will surely come back with RFID tags plastered on the metal parts. Result is wacko RFID as you say.
Thanks,
Jim
Stellar comments so far. This has been the most refreshing thread response in a long time.
MY SUMMARY then WHAT GOODNIGHT FORGOT TO INCLUDE.
1. An iPod plus cellphone does not equal genius. Lack of underlying technology. Thanks AC & Jonathan.
In grade school, I built my own crystal radio, then a diode one. I wish we all had a vague idea of the electrons running around inside our devices.
2. If someone designed a math program that trained a kid from kinder garden to calculus.
Yes yes yes! And the best interface would be the greatest game ever played. I could go for that as an adult. Gaming REALLY IS THE answer. And its not just mental or watching a screen. Go for kinetic too. Throw kids into one of those Universal City rides for their gaming math lesson. Miss an answer and your world really turns upside down.
3. School is boring. Yes it has to compete with the empty glitz on TV and the rest of the time with distracting cell calls.
4. Immediate reinforcement at home. Inappropriately too. Splashes of color and sound teach what? Brain blowouts?
5. And all the rest of your great comment stuff. Thanks folks!
WHAT GOODNIGHT FORGOT TO INCLUDE.
Its easy to point out problems. So what's your idea of a solution Dr. Jim? Let us know!
Thanks,
Jim
Re the possible bicycle %100 read rate. Think of radio reflections. A triggering or reading signal goes out. Then all that metal in the bicycles might reflect and scatter responding RFID signals. We with human eyes can indeed see the individual bicycles by counting tires or handle bars or something. RFID readers have limited visibility; is that faint reflected signal an original signal or another read's reflected one?
Then am I ever %100 right on everything? Never! So I invite any actual RFID engineer readers to comment.
J
Having worked IT for JCPenney, we heard a lot about RFID. The concept behind RFID is the holy mantra of supply chain logistics IT staff - VISIBILITY!!!!! However bicycles are a perfect example of semi visible. Picture a pallet of these, all with little RFID tags here and there. Then the RFID reader squirts out a radio signal which bounces merrily around (Mathematica, do a graph of this one!). It might miss some bicycles and have trouble reading others. So POOF, there goes the validity of supply chain visibility.
And lets not even talk, much anyhow, about a pallet full of cans of soup. RFID visibility is not good amongst cans. If its supposed to always be on a visible side, how do you target the one in the middle? What about mis-stacking with RFIDS hidden? Besides cans provide an example of economics. I understand that Wal Mart pays something on the order of six cents per soup can. If RFID is ten cents. Do you want to "pay" more than a can of soup, 1/24 of your cost for visibility. Perhaps not when profits are measured to much smaller decimal points.
Good luck,
J
Kadin, you are right. Slide rules were the tools that built the first model of everything. Stephen Covey says everything is built twice; once in the mind and once for real. Slide rules parallel the great manufacturing era of the United States and other places, France, Russia, UK, that also produced slide rules. Like Kadin says, slide rules were the tools of people who realized great dreams.
Most slide rules are accurate to three significant digits (not two digits).
My 20" Keuffel & Esser 4181-5 says the answer is 7.43. Not bad and very quick to come up with an answer. Another advantage is with that 7/5 ratio, you can see any like ratio all up and down the scale. So slide rules help me learn the math that I should have learned back in high school and college.
Also some Faber Castell slide rules have multiple line sliding glass/plastic cursors that allow more complex math.
Try the Oughtred Society site www.oughtred.org for their swap sheet if you want a slide rule.
Cheers,
Jim
So Pix it is. Today I read the Dallas Morning News (print) which had a picture. That same picture is also on Flickr. Note the HEAVY editing; 1) The white sleeve is to the left instead of right as in the original picture. 2) a brick wall has been added 3) a caption has been added "Dump Your Pen Friend".
/. discussion.
From DMN. "Alison's feelings are on view at Flickr.com, where she kicked off a three-month discussion of privacy and copyright law with a post below a picture of the ad that reads, "Hey that's me! No joke. I think I'm being insulted.""
Your obligatory pix is below.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sesh00/515961023/
Then the Dallas Morning News article, sans pix. And registration is probably required (don't you hate it?). There are some good privacy quotes in this article that haven't yet been covered in this
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/ptech/stories/DN-suevirgin_21bus.ART.State.Edition1.35bdb09.html
Cheers, Jim
Congratulations on your country house. All the below is old hat and obvious. My apologies.
1. Find an astronomy club where you live. Go to their out of town observing site and get advice on equipment.
2. Look a lot at other equipment in use (not the showroom) before you buy anything. Used equipment is OK.
3. Going directly for CCD pictures might be a bit over your 1K investment plan. But lots of people try this and give up and dump their equipment.
4. A laptop attached to the scope works wonders for broad views. You can also see the image move as you step on the cement telescope slab.
5. Start out with a lawn chair and binoculars and a star chart to get an idea where the constellations live.
6. Anticipate a mobile home with a guard light moving in next to your site. So be prepared and polite and helpful getting them shaded lights.
Best wishes,
Jim
A Hispanic in Arlington TX tried to sell me a stolen laptop once. He worked in a hotel and that's how he got it. I supported PC's at the time and wanted to see if any information was left that might point to the actual owner. BUT IT HAD BEEN LOW LEVEL FORMATTED. Surprising for someone who had not gone through high school - yes? So this thief and others do indeed know people who will "clean up" a PC.
Another point. Today there are organized groups. Some loosely organized but indeed organized. Petty crime is their livelihood. The context discussed here is that of a random crackhead thief. But even crackheads have contact with others who will fence the thing. Or others connected to an organized group. I was on a Grand Jury for three months earlier this year. There is a lot more crime going on that anyone realizes (and grand juries only see the tip of the crime iceberg).
Good luck and back that data up,
Jim
You may be right on Lufkin being located within the Western District of Texas. Even though its actually deep in the Eastern piney woods of Texas. Reason is, sometimes in Texas, election districts are stretched so that narrow corridors link other areas (i.e. gerrymandering).
Just kidding of course,
Jim
I hope somehow that sanity prevails in the trial location. Network Applications Inc filed their case in Lufkin TX.
/ wtr_16280,300,p1.html?a=f
Lufkin is very long way from anywhere. I live in Dallas TX and Lufkin is a long 3hr 18m trip South and East from here. Yet Network Applications Inc is a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company. Both Sun and Network Applications Inc are based in California.
Formerly the haven for patent pirates was Marshall TX. The same thing is probably going on in Lufkin TX.
Check out this article. "A Haven for Patent Pirates In one federal court in East Texas, plaintiffs have such an easy time winning patent-infringement lawsuits against big-tech companies that defendants often choose to settle rather than fight."
http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech-Software
May the company with the best case win,
Jim
Thank you for the Hubble version of the Cat's Eye Nebula picture.
1. Slashdot introduction summary should say not as good as Hubble (HST). Instead mistakenly says better than Hubble.
2. The TFA linked site should (chuckle) show Hubble pictures along with the other ground based pictures.
God bless John Grunsfeld and the other NASA space walking astronauts who fix HST. Also the vast supporting cast for those missions.
Thanks for the update.
Jim
This is a parking garage story.
About five years ago, a chunk of cement about the size of a football fell on a buddy's car in the parking garage. At that time, the garage was a few years old.
Engineers were called in and placed acoustic monitors all over the place on many of the beams. Then drove vehicles over them on a couple of weekends.
Evidently acoustics found anomalies. They determined that the interior cabling was insufficient.
After a couple of different fix attempts engineers decided on the following.
Added two reinforcing high tension cables to the outside of each approximately 60 foot beam in that huge parking garage. This involved drilling two six inch holes at the ends of each beam. A heavy wall pipe was put into each hole. Them flanges were welded to the ends of each pipe. Then cabling was strung on each side of the beam. The beams were curved so at the apex of the curve were placed hangers that the cabling went over. This way the cabling did not go directly to the other side but roughly followed the beam's curve.
This was at headquarters of a national clothing retailer JCP.
Thanks,
Jim
Ouch, you are sitting quite firmly on the horns of a dilemma! That hypothetical but most painful beast.
Pointy Horn One. You were denied getting the item at a good price. Ouch.
Pointy Horn Two. Then it won't work if you insist on getting the item anyhow. His excuse was it was broken. So out comes his hammer to pulverize your purchase. Ouch again.
Just to fill out the story. What was the item description? Still findable on eBay (the item number)? Approximately what was your bid?
Thanks,
Jim
The original poster has a valid point regarding "cheap".
The hard stuff and the expensive work has been done. So its somewhere along the probability line now that someone could copy Saturn V on the cheap. That is they stand on the shoulders of Saturn V giants and do their cheap work.
For Christmas 2006, I built my very own blinking LED Christmas lights for my little tree. Got a nice Digi-Key power supply and a bunch of powerful blinking LEDS from various suppliers.
First attempt was WAY OVERPOWERED. Especially the blinking blue. The net effect was like a police light bar - in your own room right in front of you. On an 24" tree. Way too many photons. Instead of gentle blinking there were all these blasts of light. Not all my LEDs were this way but the blasters were the superbright LEDs that were indeed the brightest.
I used LEDs that are clear yet generate different colors. These are the neat ones over the old fashioned colored plastic ones. Helps to have a LED tester to see what color you have.
And the light was a bit disorienting. I saw blue spots for quite a while. It does no good really to close your eyes. your thin eyelid cannot hold back all those eager photons.
Thanks,
Jim
Hi Garcia
/.'rs are in the same condition.
Thanks for the health encouragement. Interesting, more information please on your blood pressure reduction. I consume eight cans of Dr Pepper a day plus blood pressure meds (160mg Diovan/day). I imagine a number of other
For your blood pressure to go down did you change anything else in your diet, or environment, or exercise? For example, eliminate french fries? For example move to a six story walk up?
Then please quantify your blood pressure drop. What was your blood pressure on caffeine? Then what is near normal? Both systolic / diastolic if possible.
One way to reduce or eliminate the caffeine headache is to first consume omega3 fish oil for a couple of weeks. I use 1 teaspoon of Dr Sears EicoRx (omega3) along with 2 tablespoons of SeaHealth all in one of his protein shakes (this to prevent fish oil runs). Try something like this with your own favorite brand of high grade omega3. But do use the good stuff.
Thanks and keep on getting better, Jim
GREAT comment. Soylent Green economics is interesting. This is probably Dr Death aka Dr. Jack Kevorkian's next death trick.
Back to the glucose oil energy topic. I suspect oil from glucose might be the dawn of a very bright new age. Grow your own road trip.
A breakthrough like this is in the offing. We have had too many tiny incremental steps with energy.
Thanks,
Jim
Please let us of /. know what genetic projects are out there that can sequence or look for these problem genes.
Its nice they found a few problem genes. Now we have to turn around and find them within ourselves.
Thanks in advance,
Jim
Previous poster is correct, Jackie Collins and her ilk. Hey I just PROVED I have a garbage brain by dredging Joan Collins out of it!
Also eBay is not the top of the world for old books. Amazon and its sellers do quite well also. If you are looking for really out of it books, those beneath Amazon's top million list, try Alibris.com
Thanks for the correction, always welcome,
Jim
A couple of years ago someone who sold on eBay gave me lots of hints for selling books. Basically estate buy anything but Joan Collins type books because all 999,999 of her true believer readers buy every book in the first printing. So there is zero residual interest in a Joan Collins style book.
c ountry_per_year
The KC gentleman picked awful places to dump his books. He mentioned libraries. Libraries are going digital now. By the way, this very second is a most EXCELLENT time in ALL OF HISTORY to load up on bound magazines that libraries are dumping. Pick your favorite magazine and go check eBay when you are done here.
So the guy seemed to be a bit odd. And I guess that is the very definition of small shop bookseller today. Not so long ago, production of books in the USA in 1966 was a mere 68,175. So a shopping mall B.Dalton or Kansas City shop could carry most of them through the year. In 2006 yearly production of USA books was 172,000. That means an average of 472 new books EVERY DAY. How do you pick what people want out of that number? UK had an even larger increase.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_
Thanks,
Jim
The "light" spectrum or energy spectrum is vast. Starting at the upper end with Gamma rays (10^-11 meters) on down to radio waves (10^-1 meters).
So if some people want to make their homes free of intruding energy waves, that's their thing and maybe we can learn something.
The above is not an easy task for two reasons. First energy spectrum our society produces. We are quite dependent now and getting more so on these. From cell phones to RIFD to WWV time updates to plain old electric power (ever stuck a tubular fluorescent bulb under a large multi KW power line? Lights up quite well). Second the energy spectrum of nature. We need some of the sunlight spectrum. So how to filter undesired spectra? That would be perhaps UV, gamma rays, or cosmic rays? Each spectra involves different strategy to avoid. The beekeeper microwave hat was an example. Sure protect your brain but leave the rest of your DNA to bake a little bit.
Wait a minute, the above might seem more a bit ridiculous. What would a picture of a planet of energy wave avoiders look like? Should we instead emulate the energy spectrum exposure that our paleolithic ancestors adapted to? Or should we emulate the energy spectrum exposure of long lived peoples like the Okinawans?
Taking my tin foil hat off now, have a great weekend everyone,
Jim
I am gone from my previous IT job. Two years gone now. My goal now is to learn what I should have learned instead of wasting time during the endless 12-14 hour days performing IT work. And I LOVE heretic's list! Life is too good not to enjoy every second of it!
So my list reads like
. Clean house really clean - ongoing task
. Learn Latin
. Learn Greek
. Review Math - learn ins and outs of slide rules - working on a little article/book here.
. Find my old friends and learn what they like. I now have new hobbies from this.
. Eat healthy, lots of antioxidants
. Assemble electronic kits and build it myself over buying on basic electronic items.
Currently I am on a Grand Jury. This is very interesting. Three month term for three days a week. Reviews District Attorney felony cases and evaluates if sufficient cause exists to go to trial. A great chance once in a while to practice your persuasion skills. Unlike a trial, we jurors can question the witnesses and detective presenter. We are treated quite well. Our break room refrigerator has a whole shelf of chocolate milk, another of white milk, finally one of apple juice. I can recommend this, contact your local District Attorney office. In Texas they are happy to take your name and put you on a voi dire list.
Thanks,
Jim