wordwolf posted this a couple years ago. I read it again and decided it was worth more thought. All truly great revolutions occur outside the circle. They are usually brought about by great and quiet people working hard for many years in quiet rooms. Everyone else just rides the wave, or runs from it. You will be the wave.
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He's all over the Health section of Google News today. Experimental Cancer Therapy Stops Man's Melanoma at WebMD; also see the BBC, ABC, Wall Street Journal, US News, and many others. He's been working on this line of immunotherapy research for many years.

I can't tell you how proud i am to be related to this guy. :)

I'm giving the musical tuning lecture again! Enough people missed it, and wanted to see it, that i decided to schedule a second run. Tomorrow night (Tuesday), Kingman Hall, 8:30pm in the fireplace room. Feel free to drop by.

The lecture went well! I had a good, engaged audience - a little over a dozen people, i think - and they put up with the multiple glitches in my presentation software. I wrote the software to do these animations using Pyglet, a multimedia library for Python.
Here's a condensed version of the first part of the lecture. It isn't quite the same ( Read more... )

I'm giving a lecture at Kingman tonight at 8 pm on musical tuning systems. Ever wondered:

• ...why there are 12 notes in an octave?
• ...why there are 7 notes in a major scale?
• ...why they have the pitches they have?
• ...what pitches the Ancient Greeks used?
• ...what notes make a scale in Arabic music?
• ...what music in a 13-note scale sounds like?

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Consider this a sincere form of flattery, then.

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If you have ever loved or cared for me, i would like to say thank you. I realized i wanted to say this a little while ago, when i was cleaning up my room and came across some of the letters and notes i've received from people who were close to me. They reminded me how incredibly lucky i've been ( Read more... )

This is one of the funniest and most awesome things i have read in a long time. Definitely worth checking out, especially if you ever wonder about the nature of consciousness.GENERAL FRED: Are you sure?

SCIENTIST: As sure as we can be in the total absence of evidence.

When i arrived at the Intercontinental Hotel i was pleasantly surprised to run into tongodeon, who was there with a plan of his own. He brought the Attorney General a nice present - a Casio F91W wristwatch, with a polite and gracious note ( Read more... )

I found out that Attorney General Michael Mukasey is speaking at the Commonwealth Club tomorrow. I decided to buy a ticket and attend, figuring i might not get a chance like this again. I hope to ask him:Title 2, Section 192 of the U. S. Code says that refusing to testify or produce documents in response to being summoned by Congress is a ( Read more... )