The National Socialist party didn’t spring full-grown from the head of Zeus. The groundwork for the Night of the Long Knives was laid years before it happened.There are a lot of parallels between the increasing curtailment of freedom in the US and the laws in post-WWI Germany. We have not yet been punished by the […]
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The structure of snowflakes
The Hidden Messages in Water by Dr. Masaru Emoto, scientific researcher, healer, and popular lecturer. Masaru Emoto: Miraculous Messages from Water contains some beautiful photos of these snowflakes. For the engineers in the audience, perhaps you remember the discovery in the 1980’s of the Josephson Junction. The Josephson Junction is a silicon device that is […]
Linux laptop
Update: The laptop arrived and it knows both that it is a Compaq and that it currently is running Windows 98. I’ll spend a bit of time documenting the hardware configuration and obtaining drivers before starting the conversion to Linux. To reiterate, I bought an ancient laptop from Bob Johnson.com – a Compaq Presario 1235 […]
Are Animals Patentable?
34. lae Apr 25 1988, 4:03 pm From: l…@pedsga.UUCP – Find messages by this author Date: 25 Apr 88 20:03:56 GMT Local: Mon, Apr 25 1988 4:03 pm Subject: Re: Are Animals Patentable? in article <1…@qiclab.UUCP> leon…@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes: [It will be found] that there are some “humans” who don’t fit the definition … […]
Driving and Cell Phones
Drivers using cell phones more likely to crash – Wireless World – MSNBC.com. I don’t think I need to comment on the content of this article. It sure took MSNBC a long time to figure it out. driving + using cellphone = menace
Heart of the Beholder
Just found the web page for a new movie, Heart of the Beholder. It’s about a family-owned video store chain that is targeted by a religious cult for offering – supposedly – obscene videos. The story is true. The main video they objected to was Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ“, a movie that […]
Your Body is Your Subconscious Mind
My response to The Molecular Biology of Emotion. Just listened to Dr. Candace Pert’s new audiobook, “Your Body is Your Subconscious Mind.” Dr. Pert is the scientist who discovered the opiate receptors in the brain. She was prominently featured in the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?.” If you haven’t seen it yet, you […]
The Thousand Names of the New God
I have chosen to step out of the darkness and into the cold light of day. I am bipolar. Accept me or fade away. I don’t have time for shadows. I wonder about the wisdom of this decision, to embrace the bipolar disorder as part of who I am. Not to fight it, but to […]
Keeping Groundhogs out of the Garden
How to keep the groundhogs out of the garden: Stake a cat to the tomatoes.
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