'Well,' he said. 'The version I heard was that in the Interregnum, the Archpresbyter told the Mythoclast he could have the tribute, income and souls of all the monasteries he could raise his state coach above, using one horse. The Mythoclast accepted, founded this castle and erected this tower with foreign loans, and using a highly efficient pulley ( Read more... )

This morning I got a text on my blackberry from J:

J: Dududude
J: I think there's a squirrel inside the house
E: Oh no where?
J: I don't know I swear the kitchen
E: ? Have u seen it?
J: It happened as soon as i woke up
J: So I'm unsure the realness
J: But I swear I saw a squirrel
E: Oh
J: Tail and everything
E: Ummm let me know if u see it again? ( Read more... )

"It is evening. We are seated on the steps of your palace. There is a slight breeze"
- Marco Polo to Kublai Khan, "...", Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

To sniff across vast interstellar distances, sometimes you need a really big nose!

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NEWSWIRE: Operations Efficiency welcomes Engineer

July 12, 2011: Operations Efficiency, Water Treatment & Supply, is pleased to announce that Eliav Eini has been hired as an Engineer in the Operations Efficiency unit.

Eliav started with Toronto Water as a Developmental Plant Technician at the Island Water Treatment Plant in 2003 and joined the ( Read more... )

excited for new things on the near horizon ( Read more... )

"use the given Laplace domain model with the Cohen-Coon tuning rules to design a PI controller and discretize the result with 2s sample time then implement the digital controller on the continuous process and simulate the closed-loop system response to a unit step change using the pulse transfer function with a zero-order hold and plot the response ( Read more... )

My theory of time travel follows (iin part). I am looking for feedback so please let me know what you think.
Quite frankly i don't expect you to believe me but i have evidence of time travelers interfering with our natural time line. it begins with the simple premise that to travel through the time machine from the future to now, the time ( Read more... )

have you ever wondered why a barrel of monkeys is fun but a sack of cats is crazy?
at the central pump station i heard that a squirt is just a drip under pressure.
lately i'm a half-a-bubble off level
school drags on for us both, even on vacation we brought work to do.
anyways it was better than doing it at home.
school is pretty cool. in a few weeks ( Read more... )

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