Safety and health are here…at a price
I’ve recently begun to notice a disturbing trend: anything that’s good for you will cost you more. The most serious infraction comes from the food supply. When I go to buy ground beef, cheapest of the...
View ArticleWelcome to your Lucid Dream
Yesterday I was doing looking for the website to Wikipedia and came across Wikibooks, which happens to be run by the same group, The Wiki Media Foundation. Since I knew what Wikipedia was, I decided to...
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“Please See A Psychiatrist…”
That’s what the computer told my fiancee. “You have been classified as having the symptoms of being bipolar,” it continued. A friend of mine had recently taken an online diagnosis using the school’s...
View ArticleSad without the sadness…
This week my grandmother will probably be diagnosed with lymphoma, cancer of the lymph nodes. This is one of the worse types of cancer for two reasons. First of all, it is attacking the very part of...
View ArticleProof of God in a commercial?
I was watching a commercial today on MSNBC for a knee replacement technology. The ad had some woman who lives in San Francisco and the infinitely large hills there were just killing her knees because...
View Articlethe end is here
If you are in a hospital, you will know you’re about to die when your entire family suddenly starts coming in with more and more frequency. My grandmother died today after nearly eight decades of life....
View ArticleHeart Attacks
A study my fiancee shared with me: A series of epidemiological studies were conducted. The results were as follows: -Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or...
View ArticleMy first 911 call
Today I made my first 911 call ever. Of course, the events leading up to this event were the most surreal of my life. As I was waiting to cross the street into the Gun Hill parking lot, a bunch of cars...
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Bird Flu
Bush asked Congress to earmark approximately $7 billion to help save us from a bird flu pandemic. I think this is good, but with the regular “plain jane” flu season around the corner, I think we’re...
View ArticleLinux in a surgeon?
Recently you’ve read about Linux in computers, servers, cell phones, Playstation 3, and the Nintendo Wii. But did you know about Linux being put into a surgeon? The Oct 2006 issue of Spectrum includes...
View ArticleMy Pathalogy
According to the latest issue of IEEE Spectrum, I suffer from completism. Completism is when you have to have all of a collection. It’s true I’m always get annoyed whenever I have only one DVD of a Tv...
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Why do donations require special events? (or presents)
The trinkets I received for becoming a member of the Free Software Foundation. I’ve been wondering about a peculiar aspect of human motivation. Why do we require a present of some sort in exchange for...
View ArticleSo, how much free will do we have?
Here’s an email I sent to some of my friends based on an piece I heard on The Naked Scientist: This group did a study and found that women who were lap dancers and not on the pill (ie they had a normal...
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