I'm working for Intel now building Servers. It's an easy job, I've built thousands of desktops before working for Cutting Edge Computers. Desktops have around 10 parts, some servers have hundreds of parts including cooling pumps and regulators that look like auto parts more then computer parts, but the challenge is enjoyable. The pay is good ( Read more... )

Went to Tall Ships Tacoma today. There is nothing quite as beautiful as an old square rigger.

They had three nice square riggers there, one that came up from New Zealand and leaded the parade coming from so far! Then there was the huge Mexican ship with cyrillic writing all over it, and the majestic Pallata from Russia, also with cyrillic writing

I found the entire RYT Hospital website to be quite entertaining actually.

To quote from the website By implanting human brain cells (grown from a human embryo's stem cells) into a mouse engineered to have Alzheimer's, Dr. Keyes inadvertently made a remarkable and startling discovery: she not only cured the mouse's Alzheimer's Disease, but the ( Read more... )

I want a custom tailored business suit made of the fabric of space and time, woven with the cosmic threads that bind the universe.

Went to Whidbey Island today to a party at Rick and Tess, and Cat's place.

Many thanks to long_tail for helping with car troubles so that I could not only make this event, but have a working car which is a requirement in my line of work.

Drove there with Rockyr, long_tail rode his BSA there the whole way (except for the ferry of course) in the downpour because ( Read more... )

Heh, I know Memes range from passe to annoying, but I found this one highly amusing, especially in what it dreged up as interestes from myself and my friends.

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I'm going to bring up a subject that will make all of you hate my guts. It's a very controversial subject. Racism ( Read more... )

There sometimes can exist a unfilled rift in the soul until one realizes that the spiritual void can be filled by Faith.

Hail Eknar Lord of viscosity!

All Worship Eknar!

None shall speak against Eknar without facing the wrath of mighty Eknar!

You too must accept the supremacy of the mighty Lord Eknar.

Unfortunately it was in a Laotian meat market.

The article calls it a new species, though it's not new, or even newly Discovered really. How can you discover something that people already have a name for. But the kha-nyou is new to western scientists, and that's interesting.

Went to see Sleepytime Gorilla Museum tonight. The first incarnation of the band was called Idiot Flesh and they played in Tacoma, blowing everyone away with their stage show and amazing music. Their sound was as disturbing as their message of "Black Math" and the founder of this practice, dark mathemetician John Kane. Aldous Huxley called John ( Read more... )