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Qualifier Exam Passed, with Distinction

2007-09-24T11:09:00.000-05:00

Ok, so the moment finally came:
10 years, 25 days, 20 hours, 10 minutes and 63 seconds after not passing my last qualifier at Texas A&M...
I passed the Physics Phd program qualification exam at UT Dallas, with distinction.

The stress involved has been a monkey on my ethereal back for the entire length of that time,over the past 10 years... and it is now past (or passed as it has become). GTA wants to celebrate.
I'm still experiencing stress about the whole thing -- I was already stressing about my dissertation proposal this afternoon and the infinity of work I have to do this weekend to not die academically by Monday.

But it's over,,, and now I can go on with my PhD life.

:)

YouTube Madness, Moohoohoohaahaaaa!

2007-06-26T11:11:00.000-05:00

Ok, look. This is the way it is.

I only meant to use YouTube and other video-depositing sites like it to find the occasional video or post-up for my MySpace site. I was happy enough when I found the long version of the 'Fruit of the Loom' Commercial "Blue", the various "Star Wars Kid" adaptations and other obscure bits of released stuff. I also used to go to Retrojunk.com to giggle at all the old 'Sid&Marty Krofft' intros I used to watch religiously and had been posted there.

However, my addiction to YouTube did not truly run deep until I discovered someone had posted the last couple seasons of Red Dwarf on there. OMG! If I ever get a few minutes, I just load them up and watch. It's been getting worse, I have been watching full episodes of "Land of the Lost" (which I have a complete set of on DVD), "HR PufNStuf" and even "Elektra Woman & Dyna Girl".

And now, my subconscious mind wants more. I am starting to finally see the value of the "torrent" stream. I have an odd feeling I may not be able to refuse. There is another season of 'Battlestar Galactica' being made, but I can't wait until the US release in January... uuuuggh *shiver*... I have resisted so long. I suppose I could freeze myself, but knowing my luck, I'd be found in 5,000 years and used as a museum piece.

Anyway, let me know if anyone else is having the same trouble. :)

4.0 Number 2!!!

2007-05-14T11:12:00.000-05:00

Wooohooo! It looks like my 4.0 luck has continued one more semester!

As a celebration of our wedding (over 4 years ago), my 4.0 and her new job, GTA and I went to Orlando to see Disney World again, and visit my sis and her husband. It was soooo much fun, but now I have to study and research again. :( I just want to go back.

Hmm,,, but on a secretly happy note, I got my static universe emission theory model to produce the inflation redshift curve for the he universe for certain reasonable conditions... Very exciting. Too bad it's not my research and I would get crucified if I ever published. :)

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr Day!

2007-01-15T08:13:00.000-06:00

Besides getting the day off, I will be watching any footage of MLK's many speeches and public demonstrations as I can get my hands on. I will be driving 300 miles on ice too, unfortunately, but that shouldn't be too bad if they've sanded the roads.

My quote of the day is one of MLK's that I think of every day and night. It's one I wish others would think about at least once in their life:

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

There are so many more, but this one strikes a chord with me. This simple observation could transform the world if everyone took life this seriously, and didn't leave all of their beliefs up to pseudo-prophet tele-evangelist types and unduely over-bearing authorities. People should think about things. In my life's experience, if you don't think about an obvious problem and how you might help solve it, it won't get solved by anyone.

Of course, the man, MLK was not perfect in his personal life, but like Ghandi, I consider him one of the great peace-makers of our time.

I will try to post some video here as soon as I find some below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAKnMLPus1M

Enjoy!

Scrubs Scrubs Scrubs!!!

2007-01-04T08:00:00.000-06:00

My addiction to Scrubs goes as follows:

It was once something that I would consider to be moderate and nothing to be embarrassed of. However, over the past two weeks I have watched sooo much Scrubs that my eyes are falling out. I have now seen every single episode from seasons 1 - 4 (more than once), alot of season 5 and quite a bit of the latest season.

It all started when GTA and I got married on 1221/2002 - coincidentally, on the winter solstice, just before Christmas and picked in such a way that I would never have an excuse not to remember, due to its uncanny mathematical regularity. We've had a rough time money-wise, with massive school debt and moving to Seattle and back, so anniversary presents from me have been small, but extremely heart-felt. This was the first year that I thought I could really get GTA exactly what she wanted, so I got her the first 4 seasons of the show 'Scrubs'. Conversely, she got me the entire collection of Star Trek movies and the opening season of Sci-fi channel's new version of 'Battlestar Galactica'.

Anyway, I've found myself subconsciously mimicking Dr. Perry Cox's mannerisms and not missing a beat with the rest of my usual reactions.

AKA. Waaaaaaaaaaaay too much Scrubs!

…If there is such a thing.

4.0 Baby!!!

2006-12-06T13:14:00.000-06:00

As I headed back to graduate school at UTD this fall, I knew I was ten times more serious than when I was working toward the degree at Texas A&M, 10 years ago. However, I had no idea I was actually capable of doing well. The resulting grades as they were submitted this morning show "A" for all three courses. Sure, I studied for 2 days straight for my E&M II final, more than 24 hours for Solid state, and 12 hours straight for Material Science, but I still had no idea I was actually capable of doing well.

I was so worried that my being away from my GTA was not going to make any difference, and I would just feel crappy for the rest of my schooling. I guess maybe it might be working.

Anyway. If you're reading this, just remember that you can always improve things, no matter how overwhelming the bulk seems... and always shoot for the 4.0 baby!!!

Finally on Myspace!

2006-11-03T23:02:00.000-06:00

After much prodding, and finally finding that I could not socially function outside the physics nerd-realms without a myspace page, I have one. I "pimped" it the best I could by hand (too cheap to get a pro job). Anyway, you can find it at:

http://www.myspace.com/thecitizenbob

enjoy

2006-09-29T09:20:00.000-05:00

Weird Al Yankovic's new Album is finally out - "Straight Outta Lynnwood"

I wanted to buy it on Tuesday at Best Buy: Al, but I've been too busy. So I am heading there right this minute, because I have a few minutes. I hope there are still CD's on the Shelf.

You can download a few of the songs for free from Al's Myspace Page.
Also, do a search or Weird Al on You-tube and I think I've found 5 of them.

*The one disappointment was that Atlantic records sent him a letter, effectively saying that they would sue the crap outta him if he released "Pitiful" -- based on "Beautiful" -- funny! Al has made sure, therefore, that there are plenty of places to download it for free!

Happy Hunting!

2006-08-31T11:21:00.000-05:00

Yes! A moral statement from Canada. And a good one too that any "shmo" can learn from. I'm hoping that free-market-force turns to the light-side, producing more commercial-wonders like this one.

http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=2&guideContext=65.491&pmmsid=1702402

2006-08-20T23:34:00.000-05:00

No Kings in America
[Check out one of many articles: here]

Unfortunately, the Roman Senate said the same thing in the years leading up to Caesar Augustus' taking the created leadership position of 'Imperator', which was essentially a king without actually being called a king. Heh,,, heed the warning given by George Lucas in his stories, Please!

*That's all I am saying about that today.

UTD is great so far! Taking E&M II, Solid State and Material Sciences. It looks like the TA is coming through too. Now all I need is to set up a work-out plan and see if I can get the housing thing done.

2006-08-08T11:27:00.000-05:00

Racially Discriminated

Well, it had been been a long time since I was openly racially discriminated/slurred. Back at Texas A&M, it happened a couple of times and got me all heated into saying things I didn't mean, but this time, I handled myself more quietly.

I was running down the street from the Dell Jewish Community center and some rednecks stuck their whole bodies out of the window and started screaming at me. At first I just thought they were screaming at someone else, but I was wrong. I didn't hear the beginning, but the last part was "$#$%#% Jew,, you run like you've got Down's Syndrome." Granted, I'm getting over a nasty illness and was taking it easy yesterday. I should have stuck up my middle finger and brought on the fight, but I held my emotions and pretended I didn't hear them.

This issue is really starting to piss me off. At A&M, I was discriminated against by a student and a few internet authors for "NOT being" Jewish, and I am discriminated here for "being" Jewish. As most of you know, I have no documented Jewish background, but have often been told by students that I remind them of particular Jewish actors. As far as I know, I am definitely less than 1/64 th,, probably even less than 1/256 th Jewish. However, from how my family traveled around and inter-married approaching the 1700's, I bet there was an inquisitional conversion somewhere.

I'm used to getting the "white boy" routine from my Mex-type associates and clients -- but this was the first "hate message" in a while, and it sucks. It just reminds me how nice it is to have a beaurocracy of law,,, so that it all doesn't fall apart in a chaos of hate-scape-goating (See 'The Monsters are due on Maple Street' - Twilight Zone). How big of a moron do you have to be?

Anyway, the moral of my story, I hate people that hate! and it is my job to make their lives miserable if I ever catch their sorry asses again.
:)

2006-08-03T21:09:00.000-05:00

The looooong-awaited live-action Transformers movie is in production an planned for release next year.

They recently signed Peter Cullen (The Original Optimus Prime voice) and if rumors are close to the mark, they are hunting Frank Welker (The "Voice God" of Hollywood who did Megatron, Galvatron, Rumble... as well as more than 15 other transformer voices).

You can visit the official site for the trailer: http://www.transformersmovie.com
For Regular Updates and tasteful rumors: http://transformerslive.blogspot.com/

Fanatics on Youtube:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B45xdKewFwA
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05BFqg9ktWg
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9q2zjSpH10

For future trailer CG stuff: http://www.jesterpictures.com/

In practicing for building quizzes online, I actually made a "Which Transformer are you?" quiz a couple of years ago. I am in the process of upload the silly thing.

I Can't WAIT!
Enjoy!

2006-07-29T20:17:00.000-05:00

Ok, whilst milling about YouTube the other day, I stumbled across a project submitted by a few female UD students (living in Jerome, apparently) for Dr Kavenaugh's course.

When I first saw it, I just thought "Give me a break!"... but as I watched, I was consumed with the familiarity of the UD drivel, I often overheard as UD girls would bander about relationship limitations. I actually think this film captures a small bit of character from the UD experience that I figured would have been long dead after 11 years or so.

Enjoy. I'll look for more!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5_RSeM-LCE

2006-06-26T21:56:00.000-05:00

Back to Grad School I go...

For anyone out there who is curious, I have been teaching General Physics I at Austin Community College for the past couple of months, plus the added lab for Conceptual Physics I. Everything was last minute and I had to quit DELL quickly to take advantage of the opportunity. Needless to say, I will not be using DELL as a reference with my less-than-24-hour-notice to leave.

I am also discontinuing my grad-school-hiatus this fall and returning to the PhD program in Physics. The new location will be UTD. My mouth is zipped, glued, barred and stamped shut - I intend to behave myelf *sniveling hands*. The goals will be propulsion and nano-tech. I've heard it will be really hard to do propulsion because the funding has dried up in the past 6 years.

Politicaly speaking, I can't wait to see who will beat Perry this fall (please please please), Grandma or Kinki. Also, I've decided to start referring to Fox News as "liberal media" because as my awareness has increased over the years, I've realized that they follow the same traditional model, with their own slant of course. They are just as stupid and silly as the rest - how can one get too angry at the same old drivel. If you watch too much of any of it, your brain will fry.

I'm still waiting for how mainstreamers are going to interpret the data from Gravity Probe B - the analysis is long awaited.

2006-05-16T17:28:00.000-05:00

*HAPPY BIRTHDAY GTA!!!!!!
Many kisses and MP3's :)

Ok, so I haven't posted in a while. Here's what's up.

1. I will be attending UTD in the fall. I will restart my PhD journey.

2. My big birthday #33 on 6/6/6 is coming up. I have been dreading this day since I was a child! Oh well, GTA and I will have to go see the remake of "The Omen" which happens to come out on my birthday.

3.DELL is pretty cool. The adaptation from real estate to computer sales has been (surprizingly) not easy. Usually I've been legally bound to the people I'm talking to and helping. However, now, my ultimate allegiance must be to the company, while still making the consumers happy. I've been forced to attempt numerous fine-tunes of my sales technique that I had been putting off as a realtor. My RE licence just expired, so I need to take 2 classes and pay a fee to reactivate.

4. DELL has a 7-minute-long X-men promo on their web-site. Check it out:
http://thelaststand.dell.com.edg...eek/

5. Other than that, I'm glad to see that a great many others see the Neo-cons (aka, Bush/Limbaugh-type crowd) for the Soviet-style freaks that they are, and that religion to them, is just the ultimate Red Herring. I just hope that people don't start to think that the traditional Democratic party pushers are much better. If we could get a centrist who understands the use of freedom, th necessity of taxes (in moderation), cooperation, anti-corruption, and responsibility (it'll never happen of course, but I can dream, can't I), things will be allowed to get better. Ok, that's my only rant.

6. The logistics of this fall are making me dizzy. Back to planning.

2006-02-14T11:20:00.000-06:00

Ok, my web page is up. It's still under construction, but I have been practicing my javascript skills so please forgive any inconvenience.

Note: It may take a few seconds to load (depending on your connection) - but I've added personal touches. :)

http://www.nautmile.com/citizenbob

GTA has also begun posting our pictures from trips - she has two or three of our trips in there currently.

http://www.sname.com

Enjoy!

2006-01-03T00:02:00.000-06:00

I am posting my New year's resolutions of 2006, so that I may view them from anywhere, and be reminded more easily.

Resolutions:

1. Lose 20 pounds - If I can reach 165, I will be back to where I was 10 years ago.

2. Get over all life-threatening illnesses.

3. Be happier - less of an angry person. Try to find more ways of helping people.

4. Return to Graduate School - UT preferrably, but I wouldn't be too unhappy with the others.

5. Get my foot in the door at ACC.

6. Mass-search for school-related grant programs.

7. Create business models for online implementation.

8. Start posting solutions to the Brainmass - at least one in the library every week.

9. Review all problems with current Fusion tech and attempt at least one solution to the anomolous migration problem.

10. Finish a short paper on Galilean capture statistics, Shapiro time delays, the solution to Olber's Paradox, and try to derive multi-body orbittal stabilities in the macroscopic regime (better than the Bodes' Law match I already have) - "Tell no-one".

11. Brush up on Java, C++, VB, Perl and Fortran.

12. Learn Spanish

2005-12-09T15:08:00.000-06:00

I know I'm hard to please politically. I think Bush is brain crapped, I don't trust Democrats, I am angry at avid Nationalists and Communists, and I usually think Libertarians are out of their mind, crazy. This only leaves a few individuals that I find in the creases which I feel would be a "breath of fresh air" or "Now, for something completely different". I consider myself a conservative, but J's LEO test seems to indicate a centrist with a liberal leaning.

Check out Kinky for Governor! I think, at the very least, you will be entertained that someone like him would even try. :) I would love to see the major corruption parties get put in their place. :) :)

2005-12-05T10:24:00.000-06:00

Heh. An interestingly crazy doomsday-folker said I should watch the "messiah-cam" pointing at the gates of Jerusalem, to be ready when he comes on Dec 25, this year. Check it out: Messiah Cam!

2005-11-09T09:37:00.000-06:00

Thursday, November 10th at 8pm - need I say more?

2005-09-02T11:55:00.000-05:00

Apology:

To anyone who read my "Katrina Blows" article, I do sincerely apologize. It was my silly little response to CNN, FOXnews, etc who put their reporters in harm's way and reported numbers and ideas they knew nothing about.

Well, now we know the numbers... and it is certainly a shame that an uncalculateable number of lives are among the ruins of this storm. Those that survived the storm are desperately looking for help. This satellite image from Grand Isle says it all - http://www.nautmile.com/images/katrina_help.jpg

*My wife, GTA has also resurrected her website specifically for the reason of showing some of the technical damage the storm has created, that may affect her work off the coast of Louisiana, later this year.

Go to: http://www.nautmile.com/blog/myblog.html

Thanks, and my thoughts and best wishes go out to those affected in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.

-The Citizen Bob

2005-08-29T23:50:00.000-05:00

KATRINA BLOWS MISSISSIPPI BASIN

IAMSAMIAM (Freudians) - Hurricane Katrina recharged on Friday for a second and potentially more powerful reach-around assault on the Mississippi basin after pounding Florida in the ass on a rampage across its most densely populated southeast region (We all know how places become densely populated, heh). Katrina was briefly downgraded to a tropical Tart as she churned across the swampy Everglades after dousing IAMSAMIAM and shopping in Fort Lauderdale, but turned back into a horriffic bitchfest with 100-mph (160-kph) bladder winds as she moved over warm Gulf waters.

Katrina was projected to become a dangerously powerful wind-source of at least 131 mph (210 kph) by late Sunday or early Monday, threatening U.S. fallic and anal rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and already ass-scarred Gulf Coast communities from the Florida dickhandle to low-lying NOWrleans."We have ample sexual resources to meet whatever she brings," said Florida Gov. Bush.

"I worry more about the strains on family-creating in our state. I worry more about communities being pounded in the ass already, preparing for yet another shit-storm. Such is the physical cause of psychological impotentence, it wears you down."The Dickhandle area was hit in July by Hurricane Pennis and last September by Ivan the Terrible. Many buildings there remain obliterated or covered in love liquid.

Katrina dumped up to 12 inches after coming asshore south of Fort Lauderdale on Thursday with 80 mph (130 kph) anal winds. She then made a slow and punishing Dominetrix-trek southwest across IAMSAMIAM, the U.S. National Bitch-A-CANE Center said.Insured losses from Katrina's first escapade could reach $1 billion to $2 billion in alamony, said Dick Management Solutions, a Newark, California-based foreskincaster. Dick estimator AIR Worldwide foreskincast $600 million in insured poundings.

SHEETS OF URAINE

Sheets of URAINE flooded communities and fierce anal wind-gusts stripped moles off duffs, tore away mosquito bites and tattered ass-pimples.Floodwaters were thigh-high in the Buttler Ridge area south of IAMSAMIAM, where at least one person jet-skied down a private area for fun.

"There's debris, and **** limbs all over. Terriffic lights are out," Downward County Sheriff Ken Jerkoff said. "Don't blow in your car."Seven people were fatally pounded by the Katrina -- three of them by splintering on trees, officials said. One elderly man died when his car struck a wood planck. Police recovered two bodies from a smelly nether region and a wife-battered man-whore anchored offshore near IAMSAMIAM's City Hall, and police in Florida City south of IAMSAMIAM said a man there also appeared to have drowned in ass water.

A couple and their three sex-aids aboard a 24-foot (7- meter) thing off Cape Moral on Florida's southern Gulf coast were rescued by a U.S. Boast Guard assicopter.An underpass under construction collapsed west of IAMSAMIAM, blocking the city's main ass-wet highway.

Schools, businesses and government bullshit-athons in southeast Florida were closed on Friday. Winds were so strong that a giant boob was having sex sideways at IAMSAMIAM International Airport.Infiduciary officials reported more than 2.4 million people without the power to propagate in Florida -- a state punished by four powerful hurricannic bitchings in a sex-week period last year.

Sex oil companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico said they evacuated jerkers from offshore shit-platforms as a precaution, but only one, Total of Farts, said their member had been cut. Sex Oil prices slid more than a $1 a barrel after dealers bet Katrina would not go further than Florida's Dickhandle and would miss the heart of sex oil and fart gas production in the Gulf.

But foreskincasters warned on Friday that models were predicting that the storm's sex-tract had shifted ominously westward. By 5 b.m. (2100 GMT), Katrina was about 70 miles west-northwest of Key INTHEASS and moving her nether-regions west-southwest at 8 mph (13 kph). She was expected to take a more westward sex-trek on Saturday and eventually loop her ass northward.

Anyway, the left-over troubles from Katrina will last much longer than most expect. Alamony payments will extend until the end of time.

2005-08-01T20:58:00.000-05:00

CONGRESS NARROWLY PASSES GAS BILL

WASHINGTON (AFRT) - The US Senate passed a portentously overblown gas and energy bill, jam-packed with billions of dollars in hindquarter industry subsidies. Critics claim the measure is a weak movement to wean America off gas imported from exterior sources. The vote was a victory for President George W. Bush, who had lobbed for the measure since taking his bent position in 2001. The bill includes incontinence from Vice President Dick's energy task force.

"I personally broke wind for today’s' passage of gas and energy bill that will help secure our energy future," Bush said in a statement. But the bill was stripped of a key goal of anally opening Alaskan Arctic wildlife in Alaska to drilling. Critics branded the legislation as a cheeky attempt to inflate natural gas production while poorly addressing perverse electricity concerns. It also included an instrument, inserted at the last minute, which could toot the takeover bid by China Affshore Corp. Association (CACA), for US oil giant Unanal Corporation ahead of a brown holders' vote next month. A plan to take an inventory of offshore beans and intestinal gas reserves, manipulated by the legislation, sparked some explosive concerns of future drilling in dorsal areas. The United Retentive Decay Society (T.U.R.D.S.), a frontally prominent group of old farts, branded the bill as "catastrophically explosive." "This bill -- butt-hatched four years ago in a dirty, fecal infected, backroom meeting between the Bush administration and CEOs from companies like Bentron and FlexxonassMobil -- funnels billions of taxpayer dollars to air polluting gas shenanigans," a T.U.R.D.S. statement warned.

The trade agreement, CFARTA, provides a loop hole that would allow the free trade of gas producing beans from countries from the bottom hemisphere. Bush's turd-throwing agenda has kept this issue from changes during legislation.

The bill, also included anal provisions designed to flatulate new sources of energy, passed through the bowels of congress by 76-24 in the Senate, after being forced 275 to 156 out through The House of Representatives (The H.O.R.), late Thursday night. Athletic supporters say the bill is a trumpeting triumph for bifartisan horse-trading in The H.O.R., usually a bitterly divided chamber.

Many independently flatulant analysts say the legislation does little to boost domestic production of gas, and will fail to reduce high dependence on succulent foreign beans. Even the Shite House admits the existing flatulation will not immediately reduce prices, but one of the co-sponsoring farts vigorously defended his work from the rear. "We cannot order Americans to have larger expulsions, and we can't order them to stop producing juicy ones," said New Mexico member of The H.O.R., Ima Pfukked.

Senator Auntha John though voting for the bill said it also represented a missed opportunity to butt-putty the situation. "I would insist that, in the next year or two, we legislate bean quality to increase flatulence control while reducing dependence on foreign imports," he said. The gas and energy bill provides around 14.5 billion dollars in wind-breaks, most going to traditional gas producing individuals, though some will be funneled through alternative wind farms for energy.

It provides a poop credit for the production of flatulations to make solid additives to gas, which could eventually save thousands of barrels or imported prairie coal. The nuclear power industry will also benefit, with incentives which could lead to the flapping production of nuclear butt fudge for the first time in many years.

People who eat hybrid materials can produce a poop surplus of up to 3,400 kilos after flatuation, and there are also incentives for people who outfit their homes with crap-preserving windows and extra crapulation. It is still possible that anally drilling Alaska's Arctic Wildlife will be inserted into the rear of legislation later this year.

The bill includes a proposed flatulation that would postpone the US government review of newly produced turds by CACA. That amount of dookey would likely weigh heavily in the shareholders' pants as they decide whether bids from China will cause fierce explosive Methanol competition.

Those supporting the bill hope that the legislation clears the air on this issue, once and for all. It has been proven; time and again that fart gas can be processed into a safe, clean, efficient fuel. Bush finished with "You see its simple science. The gas is already there, you just have to take the gas. It's like you have to harness the power from within instead of depending on foreign sources."

"Had your vitamin F lately? Do your part to make the new energy bill work.”

2005-05-16T00:04:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude: [HAPPY HAPPY, JOY JOY!]

Today is GTA's Birthday!!! I am busy trying to think of ways [last minute as usual :)] of making this day as wonderful and fun-filled as possible. I just want to remind GTA-girl how important she is to me!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GTA!

With Love, Citizen Bob

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2005-05-04T20:58:00.000-05:00

Old Decided Case - Eye-witness Evidence Final-freakin-ly!

An American&European Consortium, using the Spitzer Space Telescope, have entered yet another claim as being the "first" to have actually observed a planet around a star ~225 light years away. The NASA release can be found at:
Spitzer First Light
Giant Plaet

*Note: From what I understand, they are still trying to get a good photo/digital reconstruction that they can publish. Until then all we have is:
Release

Which is pretty cool anyway!

For those astronomically inclined, check out more Spitzer images - all cool!
Images

Enjoy!

2005-05-02T13:41:00.000-05:00

Hey, Have I mentioned that I feel GREAT today! And you look beautiful too.

If you've got some time to check it out, look at the 'GUIDE TO HOOPY COOKIES AND OTHER NEAT STUFF TO GALACTIC OLYMPICS ':

http://community-2.webtv.net/Timeloyd/GALACTICHITCHHIKER/

And ya'll tell me what you think!

-The Citizen President of Weirdsville

2005-04-30T10:17:00.000-05:00

Hitchhiker's Guide: Fuuuuny!

Warning: Spoilers below...
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I never thought I'd be saying this about the only fiction book I have ever read cover to cover for pleasure, but I can honestly say that I thought the movie was at least as good as the book, with some very nice plot patchwork to make it fit in 2 hours and great visual commentary added. The "Guide Remarks" had cartooning that just made me laugh until I was in tears.

The casting for Arthur, Marvin's voice (Dr Lazarus from 'Galaxy Quest' also Snape from 'Harry Potter'), Trillian and Zaphod ("Guy" from 'Galaxy Quest') were exactly as I imagined. Ford (played an alien assassin in '5th Element') was a bit different than I had expected, but it really works for him. 'Jim Henson Animation' created most of the other aliens (without the recent Lucas Star Wars cheezy CG, thank GOD!!!!!!!!) and they were perfect!

Some of the effects seemed very high-end BBC - a mixture of the best of Dr Who and Red Dwarf effects, one one they must have blown the rest of the money on.

Oh, and the movie only covered a small portion of the story; it's only under 2 hours after all. I've not been able to dig out my Douglas Adams compendium yet, but it looks like that's all they did - just the first book, 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'... but the plot patchwork made it a perfect ending for a movie. I can't wait for 'Restaurant at the end of the Universe' - I will also be there on opening night!

There were a couple of parts where I started to feel the bore-tug (because of what I knew was going to happen, or NOT going to happen, as the case may have been), but a little plot-patch here and there and a scene I had thought was boring in the book, turned funny quick. Oh, and listen closely to the Dolphins singing at the beginning and at the end, "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish" - It was GTA's favorite part of the movie, by far. We were singing it for hours after the movie was over.

Anyway, my recommendation is to see it whenever you can. It's my quess that Lucas will still find some way to push me into Star Wars mentality in 3 weeks when 'Revebge of the Sith' comes out. *Yes!, The Effects from the trailers have already blown me away... The guy must be dumping Buck$$$ into 'Revenge of the Sith'.

2005-04-06T00:01:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude: [Looking Forward]

Pope John Paul II did such a good job of keeping Catholics peaceful in a quickly changing, technologizing and potentially alienating world --- I am spoiled. I fear the next one could never measure up.

I sternly believe that his last words would have been similar to Yoda's last words..."And beware... anger, fear, aggression... the dark side are they... and do not underestimate the powers of the dark road, or suffer your father's fate, you will."

Cheers and good fairing. May the great benefactor invite you to his eternal feast.

2005-03-28T20:16:00.000-06:00

Today's Attitude: HAPPY!!!!

FOX HEADLINES:
"Tru Calling" makes a comeback this Thursday [7pm-9pm]. It is one of GTA and I's favorite Fox shows of all time next to Simpsons [and 'Malcolm in the Middle' which was created by Disney for the Disney Channel]. The tapes for the show must have been sitting there on the chopping block at Fox and by some weird chance spelled out the words "Help Me". :)

[Indian Accent]: I can't beliieve it, man!

2005-03-02T12:37:00.000-06:00

Rule of the Day

Ferengi Rule of Acquisition (22):

- Wise men can hear profit in the wind.

Ok d$#%#%! I wanna hear this! I suppose it takes a long time of listening to hear it for sure. If anyone can truly hear it, let me know.

2005-02-16T07:28:00.000-06:00

Rule of the Day

Ferengi Rule of Acquisition (14):

- Anything stolen is pure profit.

Shameful Fact of the Day

StarFox: Assault is out this week for Gamecube.

What is shameful about this is that I have a bunch of games here that I need to finish, but I have this uncontrollable urge to spend my last dollar on this silly game.

2005-02-15T11:59:00.000-06:00

RULE OF THE DAY:
Ferengi Rule of Acquisition (13)
-Anything worth doing is worth doing for money.

2005-01-28T11:50:00.000-06:00

I REALTOR

In case you haven't noticed, the Bushie-Kerry (Rep-Dem oligharchy) types have stopped pushing major scientific projects (per population %) other than military and big-govt projects in the past few years (I'm still pissed about the SSC falling through). As well, the same bureaucrats have been making it harder for people who have real-world experience in a subject area to become certified teachers. [BTW Quick note: If you have extra time in the stilly watches of the night, and you want to see what I have said taken to a horrible extreme, try Alex Jones - prisonplanet.com - I think he's a nut, but his observational basis is similar to mine.] Anyway...

My response, as some of you know, was to take up a business field -- apparently without honing such skills, I'll never get anywhere in my career unless I move to Europe or Canada. The business field I chose was that of Real Estate.

As of three weeks ago, today, I have been a Certified Real Estate Sales Professional in the great State of Texas. I am also a member of the Austin Board of Realtors. I have two front-end appointments on Monday,,, and I am going to sell some freakin' houses! If you know anyone in the Austin area who might be looking for a home, please forward their info (or go to www.sname.com).

Nicola Tesla's biggest mistake (besides irratic/absent notes) was using/relying on JP Morgan's money -- he got screwed repeatedly for that -- being the inventor of radio, radio control, etc --- Marconi wasn't forced to release the false patent until the year of Tesla's death (1941). Even Einstein was someone else's scientific patsy most of his life because he only was able to make money by being paid by people getting infinitely wealthy off of his scholarly work. I will not make the same mistake. My research tells me that I must take the stab... and fund myself.

Call me crazy, irresponsible,,, that's fine... I want to be the big guy on all of my projects,, or no one will be. :) I will not make the same mistakes as Tesla and Einstein.

2005-01-21T21:05:00.000-06:00

Today's Attitude: [Angry/Crazy]

Bush gives the Sign of Satan to the World

This article is a mirror of an 'Associated Press' article today. The implications are just too eerie: (Original Artricle)

NORWEGIANS CONFUSED BY BUSH SOLUTE

OSLO, Norway (AP) - President Bush's "Hook 'em, 'horns" salute got lost in translation in Norway, where shocked people interpreted his hand gesture during his inauguration as a salute to Satan.

That's what it means in the Nordics when you throw up the right hand with the index and pinky fingers raised, a gesture popular among heavy metal groups and their fans in the region.

"Shock greeting from Bush daughter," a headline in the Norwegian Internet newspaper Nettavisen said above a photograph of Bush's daughter Jenna, smiling and showing the sign.

For Texans, the gesture is a sign of love for the University of Texas Longhorns, whose fans are known to shout out "Hook 'em, 'horns!" at sporting events.

Bush, a former Texas governor, and his family made the sign to greet the Longhorn marching band as it passed during the inaugural parade through Washington during Thursday's festivities, explained Verdens Gang, Norway's largest newspaper.

01/21/05 12:51

2005-01-19T22:09:00.000-06:00

Today's Attitude: [Frustrated/Perplexed]

A New Titanic Consiracy Theory by Bob

Ok, This is what I was freaking out about yesterday. I searched through my archive and found a few pictures. I then haphazardly wrote on them with paint (e.g. the Area 51 pointer needs some work). I know that the laws of physics don't play favorites (in theory) - maybe the same processes are in place on all three. Take a look at these pictures below.

1)Upper-left: Mountains above Area 51 (picture taken by illegal hiker).

2)Lower-left: Submitted by NASA as a Radio-reflection scan during decent to Venus (Magellan Mission)
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3)Lower-right: The most recent Huygens photo as it plummeted.

I just don't know... I wanted this to be a pure and fun mission to Titan and now I'm a skeptical conspiracy freak!!! It just seems like somebody's sick game. I hope there are more pictures to prove me wrong.. but we will see.

2005-01-05T10:29:00.000-06:00

Today's Attitude: [Studying Like Crazy]

Huygens Probe is Due on Titan

Since the Cassini Probe was lunched in December of 1997, it has been traveling toward Saturn for it's observation schedule of Saturn's Moons and Rings. Piggy-backing on Cassini was the Huygens probe -- yes, yes, named after Christian Huygens, the Ether-theorist who first succeeded in challenging Newton's Particle Theory of Light and, of course, plotted out a number of Saturn's moons (including Titan). The Huygens Probe is meant to fall through Titan's atmosphere (with a progressive parachute system) for a few hours and land taking lots of data.

Titan is one of the oddest moons in the solar system. It is the largest natural satellite of Saturn and even bigger than both planets Mercury and Pluto. Because of Titan's unusually thick atmosphere (even by Earth standards), it is difficult to measure anything of significance on its surface (if it even has a well-defined surface). If calculations are correct, the air pressure at the surface might be as high as 1.5 times Earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level. Because of Absorption curves and reflection factors, it seems as if the atmosphere is made of an odd concoction of simple Methane, Nitrogen, Argon, Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Cyanide. Though approximations of temperatures are much cooler than the Earth (~ -290 F), it is thought that some of these atmospheric elements may act much like water does near 30 - 50 F. The Hubble Telescope has shown evidence of clouds and possibly a sea of some liquid - but nothing absolutely definable. The Huygens probe has a transmitter powerful enough (it is hoped) to penetrate the atmosphere from inside.

The Huygens Probe is due to hit Titan's thick atmosphere on January 14th and take data the whole way down to the surface, using a high powered transmitter to send the info back through the atmosphere. Since NASA scientists expect the atmosphere to be difficult to penetrate, they only believe the batteries will only allow about 2-3 hours of transmitable operation.

I have been waiting for this since just after graduation from UD in '95. I hope the wait is worth it. Many fringe scientists hope to find more than just data but weird new self-replicationg molecular forms (aka, a weird definition of Life) using one of its odd atmospheric elements as a base, much like water is used on Earth.

I'm excited!!! I hope you are.

2005-01-03T12:40:00.000-06:00

Today's Attitude: [Exasperated]

Einstein's 'Miracle Year' Centennial Begins

All I can say is,, "Please make it stop!!!!' I've already heard of the discovery channel, History Channel, Nova, et al preparing tributes to the man who "revolutionized science and the way we think in the 20th century."

A few comments I feel like belching up here:

1. I do appreciate what the man did for scifi writers, in general. The interest in science and science fiction that resulted from his odd theories. He contributed to physics by not fighting the fall of belief in the "AEthereal Fluid" was a great thing.

2. He's just a freakin guy that had the next better theory than "Static AEther", and that's all. He declared the Ether defunct but then re-established a modified version of it (aka, his "Fabric of Space-time"). He tried like heck to see ways of theoretically violating things people took for granted with the old theories -- that's what drives every crackpot.

3. His math is impeccable. Everything is self-consistent. The lying lawyer in court can do that,,, it proves intelligence, but not genious or morality.

4. He destroyed the essence of Physics.
Physics is the study of how things work. Most of Einstein's work has never been observed working. Everything has been indirect consistencies. I have learned many valuable lessons in life - consistency is not truth (again, imagine the "lying lawyer"). As a result, he widened the schism in Physics between "experimental" and "Theoretical" physicists - neither trust each other, now. Einstein was not a good philosopher, so he was not able to "feel" out whether his theory was actually true to a deeper common sense or not. He just followed all paths tho their results and then told people about his screwy answers, and that they MUST be true with his assumptions -- AH YES,, the assumptions. Einstein's hairbrained assumption that the universe psychotically forces every frame of reference to see light moving at the same speed is (I am not kidding here) what he used to derive all of Special Relativity (time dilation, contractions, frequency differentials). Self-consistent, yes... true,, no,, like the lying lawyer telling the perfect elusive story.

5. Idiots who don't understand Einstein see him as an endorsement for Post-modernism. They think that Relativity means Relativism... completely ridiculous!

Anyway, expect to see plenty of specials celebrating his 1905 paper in which he outlined much of the initial ideas of Special Relativity and his 'Miracle Year' where he took every elses theories about E&M and space and tweaked them to plug into his new reality HUB.

That's my angry two cents about this coming year. :)

2004-11-22T08:44:00.000-06:00

Today's Attitude: [Worn out]

JFK ReLoaded

Company Launches JFK Assassination Game
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - A British company said Sunday it was releasing a video game recreating the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy... Today's Article

Check this out. Being a GTAuto fan, I am intrigued. Having done research on Kennedy Assassination Geometry, I am intrigued. However, creating a Presidential assassination game does seem as if it may have crossed some invisible line somewhere. The makers are convinced of the "lone-gunman" theory and challenge players to do it in the time window from the depository with the given gun.

You Decide.

2004-11-02T13:15:00.000-06:00

Today's Attitude: [Rabble Rouser]

YES, I VOTED LAST WEEK... SO WE'LL SEE TONIGHT,,
oh, wait, maybe we won't (see 'America, the Book').

Pope Accepts that Evolution May be True
Below is an article from nearly a year ago:
-Snip: Exerpt from Texas Catholic, Editorials Page, 12-19-03 -

No Catholic support for fundamentalist
creation views in Texas science books
Aug. 29, 2003

That God created the earth and all things on it, we have no doubt. However, how he did that is one of the wonders that scientists explore. Their discoveries become a source of fascination to most people.

Pope John Paul II, seeking to end some ignorance of the past on the part of Christians, said in his 1998 encyclical, “Faith and Reason,” that there is no conflict between science and religion — that they are of different but mutual spheres. What conflicts that we have had in recent years, like cloning humans, are about capabilities that create moral dilemmas. Even there, it is not the knowledge, but the use of knowledge, that is at issue.

With a proper Christian understanding of why scientific theories about evolution are no threat to faith, Catholics ought not to be among any group seeking to include some theory of creation that vies with evolution in science textbooks.

There is again in Texas another battle waging over what should be taught in biology textbooks for the public schools that will come to a fever pitch this fall.

We Catholics are not biblical fundamentalists in the sense that we interpret the Bible to mean that creation took place in some instant of time when all plants and animals were made distinct from one another. The Catholic point of view is that such literal interpretation of the Bible in this case is imposing a human view that limits the capability of God.

God can create evolution, too. Charles Darwin and his successors in science have enlightened us about the natural processes. Evolution is a fact in the minds of the scientific community, which is now only trying to figure out the details.

Therefore, no Catholic should join any group seeking to inject religious fundamentalism into Texas school science books.

In fact, we ought to oppose it.
—BLH

-Snip-

I've been wanting to send this up for a while, but I've been side tracked.

2004-10-27T16:13:00.000-05:00

In other News: Brent Spiner Wouldn't Shake My Hand!

At the Comicon in Plano this past weekend, I got to see many, many celebrities and artists. From Star Trek, there were Brent Spiner (Data), Micheal Dorn (Worf), John DeLancie (Q), Will Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) and Chase Masterson (Leeta, the Bajoran Dahbo girl from DSN). They were all mildly entertaining, but all of them (except Brent Spiner with his new appearances on Enterprize, of course) seemed strangely worried/negative. John DeLancie has a million different running gigs with Disney and other groups outside of Star Trek, so he seemed relatively comfortable with himself. Dorn, made some comment about shooting himself in the head if he knew when he started that it would go for 11 years (7 STNG and 4 DSN). Wheaton seemed amused that people came to his book-reading... I must say, I was pleasantly surprized with the exerpts from his new book about being a geek.

Anyway,, I did not approach the tables, a couple of times, because there were so many people present and Joe (GTA's brother) had not seen everything yet. After a horrible Cabaret-musical bit by Masterson, I stumbled back to the tables just as Brent Spiner was getting up. His publicist was busy and everyone was clearing out, but I was going to congratulate him with a simple message, "Save Enterprize, please!" But, that would not be delivered. As I approached, he said, "Oh, I'm done shaking hands. They are Pureed by now." as he backed away from me like I had the freaking plague.

But then he froze and took a good look at my shirt, (probably thinking, "crap, I've just offended a fan") and responded, "oh, heh!, it's a 'Weird Al' shirt, I know him and think he is very funny." as he nervously backed out the door with a quick wave to Masterson, now that his publicist was on-the-ball. Message undelivered, hand unshaken...

Now, I realize actors are not the smartest people in the entertainment business (take Adam West for instance) besides producers. They don't write stories, they don't invent their character's traits really, they just "go to work" and follow the given script with great spirit, like a manufacturing technician... but still, I can't help but feel a slight blow-off. Anyway, wherever you are, Mr Spiner, follow your script, and please use your figure-head status to save 'Enterprize' from horrible crapitude.

2004-10-27T16:09:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude: [Addictiooooon!]

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is out!

Yes, GTA and I spent the better part of last night playing that aweful game. The cursing in the game is a bit more than 'III' or 'Vice City', and it is MUCH harder! We considered it a gift to ourselves for voting early... ugh!

2004-10-22T12:34:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude:
[Still Laughing, but with a hint of depression]

America, the Book: Funny as he##!

GTA and I stumbled down to Barnes&Nobles last night and picked up a copy of 'America, the Book' written by the 'Daily Show' crew from Jon Stewart's Comedy Central fake-news show.

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The book, from the get-go, is obviously mocking public-school history textbook standards. It even has that stupid "This book belongs to" page, complete with "used by" sections, in the front cover. I can guarantee that nearly every fact and quote in the book is certainly wrong,, but that makes almost every word funny. You really have to know your history to catch all the funny stuff -- there were a couple that even took me a few seconds to get. Definitely a worth-while buy for a first-time read, or potential party entertainment... right down to Bill O'Reilly's favorite part - the naked supreme-court justices that you have to cut out clothes for tham and place them on the figures.

Anyone attempting to learn history from the book will gain nothing... and kids will NOT get any of it - like the witty humor in all of Jim Henson's work, behind the muppets... BUT, that doesn't matter. Thomas Jefferson writing to Comedy Central to help him hunt "FMILFs" (no, that wasn't misspelled) and then signing his name to the book, is just the icing.

So, like Team America, if you love historical sarchasm in the extreme, Jon Stewart Style, this book is definitely for you! So I leave you with one last quote from the back cover:

"I would certainly read this book if I were alive today, which, for all you geniouses out there, I am not." - Abraham Lincoln

2004-10-11T16:49:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude: [Laughing]

I saw 'Team America: World Police'... and it was good.

Over the weekend, GTA and I had the pleasure of catching a sneak preview of 'Team America: World Police'. Those of you who have watched "South Park" know that the creators love to p@ss everybody off, no matter what your point of view or racial/ethnic background. In "Bigger, Longer and Uncut - The SouthPark Movie", they made their intent extemely evident and they have done it again in this movie.

I laughed the ENTIRE time (All 90 minutes of it!) - I think there must have been a sum-total of five minutes when I didn't laugh. Even during the odd moments when they were attacking my own point of view, I was laughing my @ss off. The late 60's 'Thunderbirds are Go!'-style Marianettes were used - they get burned, shot, exploded, crushed, washed away, nuked and sexually molested with extreme prejudice. The sound track, alone, includes rediculous topics that keep you laughing even during pseudo-serious moments -- I WILL be buying Sound Track that by the way. Many of the puppets were also created with the mentality of "DC Follies", so many famous people get killed (as mentioned above), with extreme prejudice. I think the surprize ending will make everyone laugh -- and if you stay through the closing credits, THE LAST SONG IS A TREAT!

DO NOT LET CHILDREN WATCH THIS MOVIE! Like anything else created by these guys, you will easily screw up a child or young adult under the legal supervision of anyone else -- I've heard it is skirting an NC-17 rating. I've heard that in the regular release, they may remove it.

I recommend going to see it, but, as usual, be prepared to be offended. In the 'Making of "Team america"', the creators said that the movie was not really their point of view, necessarily. It is a representation, more of, how they felt about things going on in the world, and how silly the whole thing looked to them.

Good viewings! If you learn to laugh at your own views, I beleive you have the ability to learn more about them.

2004-09-23T08:41:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude: [The job-hunt is in over-drive!]

Team America: World Police

I saw the commercial for a new movie coming out in early october that looks funny funny funny. Team America uses the dummies from the original pre-henson show "Thunderbirds are go!" from the early 70's. Though the original show was horribly campy, the creators of South Park are using the "Park side of Campy" to their advantage.

I cannot wait to see this freaked out movie!

2004-08-31T05:27:00.000-05:00

MOVING DAY!!!!
SCREW SEATTLE DAY!!!!

SEE YOU IN TEXAS!!!!

-THE BOBINATOR

2004-08-13T16:36:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude: [Superstitiously cautious - Friday Aug 13]

Bob's Blog in a Parallel Universe

Today, I was surfing and decided to go look at my own blog to see if anyone had left anymore 'Farscape' Messages besides JPW,,, and a very very religious-Christian fundamentalist site came up... and I started freaking out... had someone mutinied my web site?

When I calmed down 15 seconds or so later, I realized that I had mis-spelled "Blog" in the URL... I had gone to the site http://weirdsville.blgospot.com instead of http://weirdsville.blogspot.com.

"So" I said to myself, "there is a parallel universe waiting for anyone who misspells my blogsite." Later, I realized that this is for ANYONE... apparently, the site is trying to SAVE bloggers should they misspell their own blogsites. For example,,, try http://satan.blgospot.com and you get the same thing. Ok,, at least I am not special,, someone else is there to keep me warm.

Silly silly!!

2004-08-09T14:13:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude: [Ecstatic]

New Farscape Episodes in October

Yes! Season 5 begins with a miniseries in October. Happy Happy joy joy.... I do want to see how they explain away the very last episode of season 4 - cubification of the happy couple to be.

Check out the latest: http://www.scifi.com/farscape/

2004-08-05T09:42:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude: [Freaking Ready to Leave Seattle]

The Laundered Thumb-Drive

Last Friday, I left to teach at ITT and could not find my precious 128_Meg Thumb-drive that I usage carry around in my pocket. As I soon realized, I had not backed up the information on the drive, so I did what I could, expecting to find it when I got home.

When I got home, I tore up the place... nothing. When I went back to work on Saturday, I tore up my desk at ITT... nothing. When I came home again, I tore through all of my hiding places, hoping I had accidentally used one... nothing. GTA and I cleaned the entire place... nothing. I was going to go down and sift through the dumpster -- I thought the cats had knocked it off into the trash inadvertantly... but GTA stopped me.

With my entire collection of lesson plans for 6 six of my classes were on that disk with no back-up, I was without a clearcut path, other than re-typing the whole thing... anger followed denial, then depression.

I HAD checked my pants pocket, but not too well (as I was remembering later)... but I had washed ALL of my clothes over the weekend. So, comes Wednesday night and I was pondering all of the places I could have left it -- was it in the trash somewhere, had one of these d@mn workers who have been pounding on the walls for 3 months come though and grabbed it, what?! But the one thing that stuck in my mind was that I had not checked the pants thoroughly.

With that in mind, I went to the closet where they were hanging and thrust my hand as deep as I could into the side pocket -- and twisted up inside the pocket inside was my FREAKING THUMB-DRIVE. YES!, I had washed it, dried it and then plugged it in!

Indeed! It had survived! My Freaking Thumb-drive survived a wash and dry cycle. Truly amazing!!! A standard floppy would have never made it.

2004-07-01T12:09:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude:

[Frustrated Physicist]

The Last Bastion of Relativity: Fizeau

After all these years battling Einstein's Relativity, there is one major city that refuses to fall -- The Experiment of Armand Fizeau [1819-1896] on the Entrainment of Light by Water(1851). This experiment was not simple to set up in 1851 (easier now with lasers), but should have had a simple answer/solution. My mentor, Walter Ritz [a reference to whom Einstein cut from his manuscript for his book because he worried about defending himself from those who agreed with Ritz (yes I have a copy of the original)], was not able to crack it by 1909 when he died, and I am now stuck holding the same stick.

Einstein used the experiment to prove that velocities don't add directly (giving immense support to a fundamental unusual result of his theory). Einstein's interpretation of the result was that light will refuse to travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, no matter how fast the speed of the water is. The result was originally based on reading the phase-difference of photons from (roughly) coherent light, using rotating mirrors and peg-wheels.

Alternative solutions that others are satisfied with:

A guy by the name of JG Fox [phys rev letters, 1965] has a proof, but in it, he believe he uses E=mc² which Mr Fox does not prove outside of relativity -- so I am forced to be skeptical of his solution.

Curtis Renshaw has a disproof, but it is full of approximations that I can't feel good about.

There are others, but there is always one thing I don't like about each.

In order to move on with my field calculations (for application), I must get Fizeau's experiment straight - I have no choice. I'm not sure which has surprized me more, the fact that I have not solved the scenario successfully yet, or the 3 different potential mechanisms I invented to fundamentally describe the transmission of light through a substance (Einstein traditionally used the Ether-model to structure transmission theory) -- but I don't believe in the Ether either! :)

If anyone has an idea, I would be greatful for a hint. I've actually been able to get the right answer two or three different ways, but each time, the assumption scheme is no better than Einstein's or anyone else's -- always holes... Like a giant logic sponge,, vaguely verifying everybody,, but never working completely with anybody. Please let me know.

2004-06-01T23:20:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude: [Wiped Out]

I'm too Old for All-nighters

Well, it's done! I did all of the final grading for all 8 classes over the past 24 hours - and submitted my grades. I started grading at about 6PM on Monday, May 31 (yes, memorial day), and worked straight through to 6PM, June 1. This effort of mine at the age of 30 even puts to shame my tradition of waking up at 5AM and writing a Lit-Trad paper stem to stern before 5PM and running like I was going to die if I didn't get to Braniff in time, and slipping it under the prof's door with a secretary's stamp.

When it was all done, my hands were shaking and I kept talking slowly. I also kept stressing - my subconscious mind just could not get it that I was done. The mental calus from pounding my mind away on calculations and red-marks for 24 hours left a lasting impression. I was happy that Vanilla-flavored Vodka releived me of my occupation with the stress.

My question today is, Why can't I do this with stuff I care about, normally? Why do I have to procrastinate until I am "under the gun" to exhibit extended jolts of what might almost qualify as super-human dedication? Please help me with this! I'm worn out and must, now, catch a plane to Vermont to see GTA's grandmother's funeral. Is this what Bruce Banner was looking for? or Will I experience a Jekyll/Hyde complex if I attempt to follow up? Just curious.

2004-05-20T08:16:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude: [Peaceful, de-stressed]

All Is Quiet on the Western Front

Have you ever had one of those days that was a dead-zone for stress. Today is , in fact, one of those for me. Today is my one day off for the week - yes, I have to work Saturday :( - with a reduction in stress, prospects for a second job and a relaxing morning to sit back, watch Star Trek and play some Sid Meier!

But today is only a small island. Tomorrow, I have to teach three classes: two 4-hour classes (College Math I) and a 3-hour one (HTML and Web Developer) ... I have to grade papers tonight for those classes... I will have to put up with whiney students tomorrow who haven't done homework for the whole quarter AND skipped class so I couldn't tell them that they were failing because they have never turned in any homework (such is life at ITT). You try to call,, but must leave a message.

I still have to make sure that I can put into place the massive number of corrections to next week's corporate final exams and keys because the silly people in Indiana (and those out-sourced from India ~60%) who create ITT's Physics curriculum don't know cr@p from crayola.

Ahhh! 9 hours of relaxation, but then back to the grind.
GTA has nearly forbidden me to work another 8-class load next quarter because it's left me working around the clock. From what I can tell, they will only want me for 7 classes next quarter -- better :) .

*And, yes, by some crazy, purely statistical compilation, I have won "Instructor of the Quarter" yet again for the Spring term, no money for that, though :( . I just have sooo many students that it's a statistical certainty that the 50% of every surviving class would have voted for me.

Well, good luck all,, I hope I can radiate as much anti-stress that I can, until I too, fall back into my world of a horrible, inhuman work-load later this evening.

2004-05-10T17:49:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude: [strangely curious]

I'll be happy to be Worth Nothing

Over the weekend, I was brooding over the depth of my debt when I came to an incredible realization. If GTA and I stay as frugal as possible, one day we may be worth nothing.... and I was soo happy at that thought.

We would have to shell out some serious money before it happens, but I dream of that day. When/if Zero net worth gets here, I want to throw a HUGE party declaring that I am worth nothing.. and hope that everyone will be so proud of us for buckling down. The thought of that day brings happiness and smiles to my face -- when my personal debt and equity are at least equal. I would invite any reader... I hope we are back in Texas by then... uumm aaahh worth nothing,, I sooo can't wait!

I realize that from a certain point of view, this post is sick -- but it's really how I feel! I can't wait to be worth nothing! If you also intend to have a "Worth Nothing" party, let me know!

2004-05-03T17:42:00.000-05:00

Read today's Tabloid Physics and leave a comment. I think you will find it very intriguing!

2004-04-29T13:38:00.000-05:00

Today's attitude: [Angry]

A Man without a Party

Once upon a time in an amazing land far away, at a small school on top of a hill. I joined a community of aspiring scholars most of whom were Republican. At the beginning of my journey, I was peripherally Republican, with accompanying views. Yes, I attended Saturday-morning anti-abortion demonstrations in front of a number of medical-"family planning" institutions and swore by government control. However, as my intellect grew, I began to notice the gaping moral cracks in the president of the time (Pres. Bush Sr.), the stupid Limbaughnator, and various other programmers of men. Their obvious and fairly blatant lack of morality and basic humanity slowly wore on me. But what to do? I could not jump on the Democrat bandwagon because they were more "pro-abortion" and, I well-knew then, Clinton was no better morally either. Okay, so there wasn;t one party that reflected all of my views,, but it didn't bother me quite as bad then - I had never studied 'The Titanic'-type more stories, so I wasn't horribly worried about the future.

So what to do then? Ross Perot? -- a weasley business man to solve our county's economic-woes? Maybe,, but he's fishy and manipulatable and interested, still, in more money... And how to see through the Crap-Smoke-screen the press-media puts up "so YOU don't have to think at all" (-John Stewart[Daily Show] :) ).

And then it happened again in 2000, who to pick, AL BORE or W Bushie II? I was able to predict 2 days before the election was complete (to GTA) every single thing that has happened to this country economically and militarily should Bushie II be elected -- and I'm no historian... (give or take the year and method of Sept 11).

And now,, the immoral, butt/war-mongreing crap-for-brains Bushie and his pile of cronies, or the flatterer, can't trust, cant-make-up-his-freaking-mind-about-anything rich-boy Kerry.... Good God!!

Though I know that Ralph Nader is vastly more intelligent than either of the others, I worry that he would develop a Jimmy-Carter-Syndrome -- poor/light charisma fomenting too many disparities in ones own party as well as potentially acting too fast on things that may need to change, slowly.

So what do I do? With certain government mods followed-through with, a certain governor of Arizona might have set the apple pie on the window-sill of the Republican party... but no... not even the slightest temptation in the end. ooo gggrr and there's no way in h-e- (double hockey sticks) I would consider Nazi-man-Buch.

I guess I'm just going to have to Deal with a group of people less intelligent, less moral, less __anything__ than myself or any one of my own friends so these freaks can pay money to _____ (you fill in the blank.. East-coast schools, bribery, advertisements,, etc.)

There is an election coming up for the leader of my own country and I think every last one of them will drive this country into the ground (crappy Atlantis relived). What do I do? No clue here.

2004-04-26T00:01:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude:

[Alien-Dazed/Confused]

The Aliens Must be Crazy
[A little Bob-history and a problem with teacher-student ethics]

There was a time in my life (which I rarely admit to) between 1985 and 1990 when I was a serious UFO/alien freak. I wasn’t just a little bit of a freak, but a lot. I watched all of the documentaries available and as much UFO video I could get my hands on, even keeping track of crop-circle occurrences. In 1989 as the Eastern Communist Block began to fall apart, I began studying physics like a crazy-man with the goal of achieving warp drive or time travel before I was old (30 years old – sorry, didn’t happen except in one of my stories  ). As I dove into relativity, I slowly became painfully aware of the self-limitations involved in Einstein’s version of the theory. At the same time, I was trying to reverse-engineer UFO stuff, but I kept coming to the same horrible realization - I was also figuring out how to fake every single one of the films I was watching. By the time I entered UD, I was fairly jaded toward these ends, but I still kept tabs, and watching with delighted sarcasm as experts on NOVA also were able to reproduce fakes as I predicted – but I figured ALL of them out (to date).

Anyway, my point with all of that – I now (2004) have a student at ITT who believes “the aliens are watching”. He was in my Math I class over a year ago and I always see him in the student lunch-room. For a long time, I thought he was just a very creative person, talking in non-stop metaphors – you know, like that Star Trek The Next Generation episode (“Darmok and Gillard @ Tanagara, on the ocean, his arms wide”, “when the walls fell”, etc), so I played his little game. When he would make an alien or scifi reference, I would place myself temporarily in that state of mind I remember so well and respond in terms of what I uncovered in the late 80’s. Although my information was older than his 20 year old mind contained, I could keep up with his Matrix, X-files and Borg-speak as well as his OMEGA Document #V stuff. Having been disparaged by the Texas A&M campus Hillel (Hebrew Society) for an online relativity article I began to write in ’95, I also understood the feeling of being in trouble by unseen forces that are affecting me, so I threw ambiguous references at him as he threw colorful verbalisms and paranoid thoughts at me.

It is slowly occurring to me that maybe all the other students were right – the guy does talk to himself constantly and has recently mentioned that violence might occur to him within a two-month span from now. Sure we, as Americans, are currently worried about terrorism, nuclear threats, etc but he seems to genuinely believe that there are aliens watching his every move and prodding him when he doesn’t do what they want. Yes, it does sound like some of the Abnormal Psych documentaries I’ve seen as my dad reviewed them in the 70’s and 80’s as well as stuff I’ve seen on TLC.

My Ethical dilemma: I am in pretty deep because of the way I have been the only one who seems (from his point of view) to understand what he is going through – or even talk to. I would like to mention that he does still function, easily passing classes, eating and the basics. It is possible that this is his best/only way of getting attention. However, what I am worried about is that maybe he really does have a deep separation from reality. Have I done damage by throwing odd ambiguous answers to his freak questions? I cured my odd paranoia through extensive study about the phenomena involved, should I encourage him to do the same? I looked into groups that he has mentioned before and it’s pretty dark, psychotic online drivel. My question is, do I allow him, as long as he is functioning normally to develop out of it permanently on his own, or send him to somewhere for psychological help that may inadvertently allow him to revert back later?

2004-04-22T11:21:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude:

[Happy]

Teacher of the Quarter!

I figure it won't last long so I might as well gloat while the getting's good: Yesterday, my picture was officially posted at IIT-Seattle as the first "Teacher of the Quarter" in over a year. Apparently I impressed some students - I wanna know who they are... All I know is that I'm pretty hard - lots of students fail and have to retake my math classes and there's always one in every physics class... You'd think that they'd hate me...

I guess the ones who respond to student surveys are the same maticulous ones who do all of the homework and test corrections when I offer them -- my tests are d@m& hard.

I figured someone in the office would hold a grudge because GTA and I snagged the walmart-high-end digital camera at the Christmas raffle-party... or hmm, maybe they thought I might be swayed to stay since they now know of my efforts to leave and move to Texas.

2004-04-18T00:28:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude: [Crazed/Ecstatic!]

The DARK CRYSTAL LIMITED MUSIC DOUBLE-CD SET IS OUT!

I just bought me a copy! I have been waiting for this for years. Stephanie's first gift to me was the Vinyl Record Original Sound Track to the dark crystal. I also had half-no-good copies from Napster way-back when. I am a serious Trevor Jones fan and I've waited for 10 years for this - I am soooo happy!

It's got the original soundtrack on one CD and the entire movie (final cut) score on the other. I am in hog heaven - and have been listening to it all day - It's simple pleasures that bring me smiles!

You can buy it on 'BuySoundTrax.com' or 'Ebay'... oh, and rock stupid students - thanks for seeing that with me when it came to the Inwood a few years ago - and JPW, thanks for the paperback :) ! It may be some silly Jim Henson creation to some but it was my very first inspiration toward the wilder world of physics I now find myself in. Maybe I'll blog about it later if you are interested.

2004-04-16T10:34:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude: [Humerous/weird]

UD's New President

Yesterdey ushered in yet a new era at UD. In the past ten years, UD has been plagued by wild, weird things - Sasseen's UD-property inequities and the opus dei vs. Fr. Milam Joseph crusades going back and forth - but this time, 'GalaxyQuest's' lead doctor has been appointed - Dr Lazarus. So, I say "By Grapthar's Hammer, I will follow you to the end!"

:)

2004-04-13T19:12:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude: [sad]

Weird Al Yankovic's Parents Killed in Home Accident
Mirrored from http://www.weirdal.com/msg.htm

"On April 9, my mom and dad, Nick and Mary Yankovic, passed away in their home in Fallbrook, California. It was the result of a terrible accident – that morning they had started a fire in the fireplace with the flue closed, and were asphyxiated by carbon monoxide poisoning.
Suzanne called me that afternoon on the bus to give me the news, so that I would hear about it before the wire services picked it up.

Needless to say, I feel pretty much the way you would expect me to feel – shocked and devastated beyond words. I loved my parents so much, and this all still seems like a horrible nightmare that I can’t wake up from.

I want to thank my family, friends and fans for the incredible outpouring of love and support that they’ve shown me. It’s wonderful to know that there are so many people around the world who truly loved my parents, and also nice to know that I am not alone in my grief.

I take some small measure of comfort in knowing that they died peacefully, and that they never had to suffer through the pain and loneliness of living without each other. I'm also grateful that they both lived long enough to see me happily married to Suzanne, and particularly happy that they got to meet our beautiful baby daughter Nina. She filled their lives with so much joy this last year. Nina may be too young to remember playing with her grandparents when she gets older, but don’t worry, we’ll have some great videotape to show her.

Many people have wondered what’s going to happen with the tour. I briefly considered canceling some shows, but I ultimately decided that it would be better for me personally to continue working. Plus, I’ve heard from so many people over the years that my music has cheered them up in times of tragedy… well, I thought maybe my music would help me too.

So far, it has. Going up on stage in front of thousands of supportive fans is a cathartic and somewhat therapeutic experience for me right now. I don’t know if I can say that the concerts really take my mind off of the tragedy, but at least they give me a break from sobbing all the time.

Anyway, I have decided not to cancel any shows – the tour will continue as planned. However, I have decided to put a moratorium on all interviews and meet-and-greets for the time being – I just feel like I need some time alone right now.

The funeral will be a very small, intimate service with only the immediate family attending, so please, I ask that you respect our privacy. Just knowing that your thoughts are with us at this time is more than enough, but if you care to contribute anything, in lieu of flowers, Suzanne and I suggest a donation to the Natural Resources Defense Council in my parents’ name.

One thing I would like to ask everybody to do, though… please, go out and get carbon monoxide detectors for yourself and your loved ones. If my parents had had one in their home, there’s a very good chance that they would still be with us today.

In fairness to the memory of my mother, I should point out some errors that appeared in the press. Although she was starting to have a problem with short-term memory loss (she was taking medication for it), my mother was never diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.

As long as I’m pointing out errors that the press has made, it was my Aunt Dot who found my parents when she was bringing them lunch that day, as she routinely did (and not a group of relatives concerned that they “hadn’t heard from them in a while” – the family was close and caring and saw each other several times a day). Also, my aunts and uncles all live in separate houses (not together, as some articles implied), and for what it’s worth, I am not represented by the William Morris Agency either.

I don’t know how much else I can say about my parents that I haven’t already said in interviews over the years. Although I always found it a little uncomfortable, my dad talked a lot about death. He mentioned a few times that he was planning to go on a diet so that his “casket would be easier to carry.” I guess that’s where I got my sick sense of humor from. And he was always talking about how much he was looking forward to seeing his old army buddies again (in the next life). I sure hope they’re having a great reunion right now.

As unthinkable as this tragedy is to me, I just know that my mom and dad were very much at peace with the world and with their lives. And I guess I can take a small amount of comfort in that too.

Thank you all again for your overwhelming kindness and support. It means more to me than you can ever know.

Love,
Al"

2004-04-11T00:25:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude:

[Washed-up Critic]

'Signs' vs 'The One'
[WARNING!!! Spoilers below! - Read no further or be spoiled.]

I must admit that I would have gone my whole life without seeing 'Signs' with Mel Gibson, but Anna, The Jelly Pinched Wolf, Kiki (et al.) expressed some feelings about it, so I was curious. While we were down at the local corporate money-sucking outlet, Blockbuster Video, Goof Troop Ag and I were hungry for a couple of movies. From the hype, I had figured that 'Signs' would be an incredible movie and that whatever I picked for the second movie would not be as good.

I had put off renting Jet Li's martial arts movie entitled 'The One' because I was always aiming at other favorites when I went on a renting spree. However, last weekend, GTA and I grabbed one of two copies from the shelf and rented it along with 'Signs'. We watched the two movies and came to a horrible realization - we must have horribly different tastes than the rest of the world. This is something I used to tell myself on a regular basis to keep me from jumping on band-wagons, but actually experiencing my reaction to each movie, it slapped me in the face how different I must freaking be.

GTA was tired, so I put in the Jet Li movie first, assuming we would watch 'Signs' on Sunday. As I got sucked into the movie's mystique, I found some of it correlating to my personal world-view and there was some suspension of disbelief, but cool scifi otherwise - nothing I couldn't get past to be entertained. GTA started to wake up and was pulled in just as I was, entertained by this scifi martial arts movie and were thoroughly entertained. Admittedly, it was not quite 'Indiana Jones', of course, but in my mind it was on the order of at least a '5th Element' or 'Cube'. We both saw where some other genre's were borrowed/stolen/included but were still impressed by new ideas explored. We were both very surprised that we liked it. We did not get around to watching 'Signs' until Saturday, before Easter.

In preparation for this movie, GTA grabbed my arm, expecting the movie to be dark and scary. The beginning of the movie was certainly eerie and looked a bit like a Speilberg mixed with Stephen King, but as the movie continued, suspension of disbelief became a bit thick. GTA and I both have independently explored the 'phenomenon' of crop circles, so we were not affected by that at all - in fact, we were laughing and cracking jokes (I came up with a few witty ones,, I wish I could remember them now).

We did have some shivers. I had the Sony sound-system maxed out and I think the scariest part of the movie was the dog barking shortly before he is killed by the child. The hand coming out from under the pantry door was good too. Other than that, I felt the movie lacked any real emotion. The 'mystical christian' references were thick, but handlable, but I felt like the plot of the movie was a bit contrived. The 'miracle' idea was similar to that in 'Pulp Fiction' which I liked, the way it was done in 'Pulp Fiction' but not as much in 'Signs'. The 'predictions' made by the wife in her final moments were interesting but rushed... I was waiting for inspiration or emotions to well up in me, but none came only disappointment. It had the same scifi effect on my subconscious mind as 'Mission to Mars' - ok special effects, ok scifi/spiritual ideas, ok, ok, ok,, but nothing new, except that the aliens are on a raid instead of attempting to remain and they melt like the Wicked Witch of the West from the 'Wizard of Oz'... "ooo, What a world, what a world.... aaaeeeiiaaaauuuuoooooo!" Let's get out our water-guns and shoot-em-up!...or better yet,, use holy water! - I just couldn't get in the mood.

My (apparently) unpopular opinion would have to be NOT to recommend this movie - to ANYONE. I welcome disagreements - sorry about any offenses that might be taken, but GTA and I were very sorry we spent the $3.50 on renting the movie and, instead, wished we had rented Mel Brooks' "History of the World" again...

2004-04-08T22:30:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude:

[Stressed Beyond Belief]

Begging for Work at ITT Technical Institute
- "You too can make your life more stressful at ITT."

*It seems as if I'm on a weird-s#!t-a-thon lately:

Bob Dylan CD free with Victoria secret purchase until Saturday, 4/10
Weird Al Yankovic just came out with a new music-video CD with 'Best Videos' from his entire career at http://www.weirdal.com... ugh... I must resist,, ugh,, musssst resisssssst...
GoofTroopAg's company resended their offer for a move to Austin. In despiration we will again target DFW for the fall, instead of Austin!
I successfully begged and pleaded to ITT for 7 classes over the (next) summer quarter after telling them I was leaving a couple of weeks ago.
GoofTroopAg and I have a favorite show which is, what we call, "Nerd Baywatch" (loose clothing, lots of running, etc) - AKA 'True Calling'... Yet another Fox-funded black-hole we've fallen into.
I went to an ultrasound doctor to get my private parts scanned for tumors.
GTA's mom's cat, Danny, passed away - an important family member has been lost.
I realized that I've been using out-of-town checks for a year or so - not paying attention to the address, but no one has cared.
It's 9:15PM and I still have to make a test, grade homework and write a CGI script for my HTML class.... AAAAhhhh!
My wife accused me of wanting to "blow up the arc", like Tweek (from South Park [in place of Indiana Jones, of course]). *Okok, so this last one IS an exaggeration, but the others are true.

So my question is... Why me?!?,, and I know well that the answer is not 42!

2004-04-06T01:48:00.000-05:00

Today's Attitude:
[Physicist]

NIKOLA TESLA

Most people who know me understand that my physics aspirations have pitted me against the work of Albert Einstein. In the years I spent at Texas A&M, while obtaining my master's degree, I discovered my idealized patron of physics, Nikola Tesla.

My explorations into atmospheric electricity began at UD in late '93 after the Superconducting Super-Collider (Waxahachie, TX) bit the dust, due to an inept congress after having spent $6 Billion - my foot in the door of physics was severed and I have been professionally limping, ever since. I worked for a short time with atmospheric electricity on my own at UD but did not get very far because it was not something that was well-known in a quantitative way by anybody.

It was at the behest of Boxing Alcibiades, one night in the summer of '95 over coffee at the old Hwy-183 Denney's Site not far from Campus, that I began looking into electronic weapons. Though I think his interest was regarding universal weaponry, my ethics directed me more toward defensive and stun weapons. Still, his forcing me to explain everything I understood and did not understand about such possibilities fired up my mind again.

During the spring of '96, I created theoretical protocols for some of my first experiments of 'new' phenomena, but lacked the permission to use a lab at A&M. It was not until my wife (now), Goof Troop Ag, who allowed me access to all of the lab equipment I would need, over which she had been given charge. Some of the effects I observed were the following: St. Elmo's Fire shooting from my fingers; current running on the outside of wires (visibly - like blood vessels); boiling sound from my shoes and glasses; momentum (mostly spinning)derived from glowing emissions; and collection of charge by distant capacitors. For a short time, I thought that I had pioneered a great series of discoveries, that is, until I read about Nikola Tesla.

Much Like my experience with Walter Ritz (Friend/Intellectual opponent of Einstein who died in 1909), I discovered that Nikola Tesla had also predicted and demonstrated what I had seen. My experimental methodology was very different than his, but many of the wild effects were the same. So, I put myself to the task of researching this man... Who was Nikola Tesla anyway? Why have I not read or heard about him if he has done such revolutionary work? The answers to my questions gave me stern warnings.

As I researched further, I discovered that Tesla's errors were the following: (1) a serious lack of business sense, (2) the inability to document and organize his work, (3) the impatience/inability to explain to physicists why they had never seen these effects before and what was really going on behind them, (4) spending too much time using trial and error [like alchemists of old] rather than coming up with his own generalized equations in order to make steps, (5) taking research funds from J.P. Morgan and not doing exactly what he told Mr. Morgan he would do, and (6) not legally pursuing MARCONI for patent infringement for his first 4 mass-produced radio designs [He would be awarded a victory over Marconi by the US Supreme Court, a mere 5 months after he died in 1943]. These errors opened my eyes from rabid idealism into a more conservative world of caution - not only would I have to be careful with my 'recreations' of Tesla's work, but with my observations on Emission Relativity (Ritz-related) too. I took the first step that year and produced some of my first emission-relativity equations that no one had ever seen before.

From what I have read, Nikola Tesla was a serious genius! In fact, as I read more, I found that his objections to Einstein's relativity were similar to my own, but he was so busy with pushing the envelope on atmospherics that he never explored relativity in any great detail that we know of. I had found the master I sought by going to A&M, but unfortunately, he was long dead.

I read about Tesla's idea for the Death Ray and was reminded of my discussions with Boxing Alcibiades - it seemed like at a reasonable power, it could make a great stun weapon and at an even greater power, a great defensive weapon against missiles as well as tornados/other atmospheric phenomena. Thus, I covered all of the material available to me as of mid '98 and found that the British attempted his design and it did not work - it looked like a combination of the giant Death Star weapon from the original Star Wars Movie and Ming's weapon from the original Flash Gordon series. But the question still remained, how can you figure out what he was doing unless you have his experience or understand the physics behind it. Lacking his personal Live-body experience and an apparent lack of supernatural talent, I chose to explore the latter.

3 Years later, I arrived at a number of equations and explanations using basic Newtonian, Faradaic and Maxwellian physics to come up with a design. By the end of my theoretical explorations, I believe I uncovered the physics behind Tesla's Death Ray. The direction that my experimental endeavors took was different in a way that it would be difficult to produce (what I call) "Tesla's Earth-RLC Loop & Resonance effect." I worked in the lab with huge direct currents and alternating currents with wildly varying frequencies and phases - and got most of the effects you would read about in the books if you looked for them. For the 'big one', from my theoretical projections, I would have to set up Tesla's strict high-frequency and phase controls, plus alot of power and exhaustively numerous trials to calibrate the thing.

Studying under Tesla (the dead Physicist) has led me to the nitty gritties of lightening, St. Elmo's fire, "death rays" (which are too expansive to post here and will take me a while still to put to paper) and even to a respect and possible interest in the Arthurian figure, Merlin.

The question that still remains is, even though I believe that I understand how to make a powerful new defense/weapon, would it be a good idea to pursue it? Could it end up being used as a weapon like Nuclear Fission was used to proliferate enormously explosive bombs and missiles? I am tempted to say, "There's always someone crazy enough.", then would my only ethical recourse be to "not discover" it?

2004-03-31T22:05:00.000-06:00

Star Trek Character Test

Ok, you guys got me interested in these silly tests. After getting Sir Dedevere on JPW's page, I have to earn me honor back. I took the test located at: http://www.matthewbarr.co.uk/trek/.

It told me that I was:

---Data---
"I am incapable of Feeling"

Ugh, this always happens to me... Please tell me one of you gets something else.

2004-03-29T00:04:00.007-06:00

*Check out Tabloid Physics
(A joint venture in intellectual ineptitude between GoofTroopAG and The Citizen Bob)

*Also check out Kiki's new page, Wasted Words
("Another one rides the bus" - oops, "bites the dust")

Today's Attitude:
[Poetic]

Beware of the Amoralist

By Robert A. Haaser – Original, June 7, 2002
Robert A. Haaser – Last Modified, March 28, 2004
[Free verse - no meter - Needs Work :( ]

[Widen browser to Full-Screen for best results]

Keep an open mind.
I mean not to offend,
Only to warn of unseen danger
In the hearts and minds of men.

Make friends wisely and do not be shallow.
Befriend your Muslim and Christian neighbors.
Do not demean your Catholic or Baptist brethren.
Pat your vegetarian and yoga friends on the back.
Trade good will with the Hebrews and ethical atheists two doors down.
Encourage your Agnostic University friends to explore new horizons.

Invite into your home the ethical people,
Those of all ethnic backgrounds with an infinity of beliefs
Who are dedicated to reason, happiness and cooperation,
To the visiting Mormon or Jehovah’s witness evangelists,
Offer a porch rest and a cool drink.

However, beware of those who live as wolves in sheep’s skin.
For, true danger lies beneath outward ethnicities.
There are most certainly things far more dangerous in this world
Than minor religious and ideological differences.
True Devils lurk in the shadows of the ranks and masses
of every religion and political organization in the world.
These devils of every age are the worst kind of being in existence.

Such are the amoralists.
They take pleasure for themselves from everyone and anything they can.
Of all the ethnicities I have known,
I have met just as many such devils in each.
When amoralists gain power, and they often do,
they sift dark and damnable attributes
To the forefront of their followers’ minds: [And they don’t even realize it]

They thrive on fear and step on those who struggle.
They speak with unwarranted alarmist words for their own control and gain.
They declare manipulated, consistent facts to be truth without due process
And often manipulate statistics in support of their unethical goals.
They declare that good results justify any means to achieve them.
They discourage cooperation and participation with other groups and ethnicities.
They declare themselves and their group far more righteous
Than any other in the entire history of the world.

They attempt to punish those who do better than them.
They always pass the buck.
They rage on non-crowded roads when drivers don’t move out of their way.
They always want more power.

They thrive on war.
They live for the suffering of others.
They want only to gain wealth
Or heavenly rewards, at someone else’s expense.

If the devil, itself, is to truly come at all,
Then it will most certainly come
from within each and every church, mosque and temple
from the best and worst governments at the same time,
from the wealthy, middle class and the poor,
from old, middle aged and young individuals,
from intellectuals, religious people, and the uninformed
oozing through the unseen cracks of each
in the fabric of civilization, religion, intellectualism and freedom.

So, keep an open mind.
I mean not to offend,
Only to warn of unseen danger
Lurking in the hearts and minds of men,

And Beware of the Amoralist
or you will be his slave.
You will not own your soul
Nor control the destruction you help bring
To the innocent and good of an unwitting world.

2004-03-25T23:50:00.002-06:00

Today's Attitude:

NO BUTTS ABOUT IT

[*****Freaked and Frightened*****]

...Don't Ask...

2004-03-24T22:05:00.000-06:00

Today's Attitude:

[---Manic!---]

Special Thanks: Thanks to The Jelly-Pinched Wolf, Kashi and Goof Troop AG for linking to Weirdsville, USA. It's alot of fun sharing my trials and tribulations with you guys/gals.

Girl Scout Cookies

Ok, last week, I was walking down to the 'ThriftWay' and in-front of the mom&pop supermarket were three girl scouts pushing their evil, addictive edibles, known as "Girl Scout Cookies". Needless to say, I pulled out a $20 bill and did my worst. In the end, I went over-board on my craven purchase: 5 boxes of Thin-mints and 1 box of Samoas.

Incidentally, this is not the first time this has happened. In fact, Steph and I bought 2 boxes of Thin-mints and 1 box of Samoas the week before that, and had gluttonously eaten the entire haul in a few days.

My question is: If we normally buy cookies and slowly, but surely, eat them after meals until they are gone, what is it with Girl Scout Cookies?!?! (not to sound like Jerry Seinfeld) Does anyone else experience this horrible addiction? Should we get the FDA to look into the potential criminality of this secret society that lures us to these evil tidbits,,, and then make us thirst the rest of the year, not allowing us to purchase anymore?

bfbgfbgbb (head shaking) - I wish I had the answer.
-The Citizen Bob

2004-03-23T19:01:00.000-06:00

Today's Attitude:

[Serious and Logical, yet at peace.]

Dr. Who Rises from the Dead again in 2005
http://www.gallifreyone.com/

And this time, I SWEAR!, I will try not to fall asleep. :)

2004-03-23T01:18:00.000-06:00

Today's Attitude:

[Wired, yet Mystically Brain-fried]

Glutton for Punishment

I just worked another 14-hour shift at ITT - no, I'm not kidding. I arrived, this morning, at about 8:30am and left at 10:30pm and now I am shaking uncontrollably. The question I am hoping some will help me ponder is "Why does this always happen to me?"

When I was working at DuPont, people would come out of the wood-work and ask me to do a whole lot of stuff. The better job I did, the more people would ask me, until I was a continuous buzz of activity, all-day. Then, as now, I got made fun of, because I increased my efficiency by increasing my rate of travel within the office. Today, I was really getting nervous that I wouldn't finish anything before my Physics class, this evening, and the only way to finish was just to speed up - ok, so I finished 90% of it. ITT is having me teach in the early morning and late night on three of my five days there (including Saturday).

No matter where I seem to be or what my job is, I always end up pigeon-holed in this state. The only way to improve things is to move faster and faster - as more requests drop on my desk - until people watching me in a bizarre curiosity - having a hard time keeping track of me because I am moving so fast. The result on me is that I suffer dehydration, a distinct shaking feeling by the time GoofTroopAg shouffer's me home and an intense hunger for sugar and alcohol.

I suppose I could just tell people off when they ask me to do something over std capacity ("Take a number"), but I hate telling people that - it messes with my ego. But, just like DuPont, at the height of my efficiency, speed and usefulness I will depart for a far-away city - the 'El Durado' I seek, Austin, TX - and away from the dreary, sue-happy Seattle, but closer to family and friends.

It has taken me almost two years to convince them that I am the hardest working person they will ever know, and I will abandon the effort to start over again, as I did two and a half years ago.

Does anyone have any ideas? I am at a loss. I do not want to tell people off like many others do, but I feel like they need it to manage people better in the future - but who am I? Their mentor? No, just someone who cares about what I am doing to help those who want to turn their life around.

Let me know what you think.
-The Citizen Bob

2004-03-21T14:34:00.000-06:00

Today's Attitude:

[Angered, Rabble Roudy]

SCOOBY DOODOO (warning: SD I spoilers contained)

Ok, here's a vent. Not since the bomb squad showed up at my apartment a few weeks ago have I been so angered and purplexed as when I saw the advert for the second Scooby Doo movie.

The authors of these Hollywood travesties have blown everything that the original Scooby Doo proved to me as a kid week after week,,, Corrupt People often use monsters and superstitions in order to frighten and control others. The second point that was hammered home on a weekly basis was that no matter how mystical or deceptively clever you are, your actions must ultimately answer to the laws of physics and logic,,, The True Laws of all that Exists.

No matter how scared the locals were or how magnificent the "spiritual spectacle" was (keeping people from asking questions or prodding into the criminal organization that was invariably in operation behind the scenes) the "team" get "to the bottom of it",,, but only after some serious and reasonable investigating,,, always asking every question, and never giving up.

In every single episode, "village curses" and "magic spells" were shown to be very very clever deceptions (as I have later run into with most UFO material). Kudos to those who are good at it and have the balls to admit it when the show is over, and then amaze us again the next time around. And the manipulators would have never been exposed "if it hadn't been for you snoopin' kids."
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The first scooby Doo movie revealed in the end (Sorry if I ruin it for anyone) that Scrappy, having been ousted from the team because of his constant jabs and nonstop arrogance, finds a "real curse" that he uses against the team, Rowan Atkinson and others. I felt defiled while watching the movie. That which shaped my exploration/scientific philosophy as a child, has lost its meaning to a new generation of movie producers. -- Similarly, though I respect Tim Burton's work a great deal, I was also saddened by shift in philosophy in his version of 'Planet of the Apes' - but those are comments for another day.

I may view the movie in the theater anyway, because I think the actors who play the old cartoon characters are a hoot, but I expect to leave the theater, again defiled, in a massachistic rage. I suppose I could put my foot down and wait until it comes out on video. :)

Anyway, dear reader, I'm sure there are plenty that disagree with me, as there always are. Please leave comments that may add to my observations, or even refute them.

Thanks for your eyes (Ethereal ears),

-The Citizen Bob

2004-03-21T00:19:00.000-06:00

Ok, fine!!! After weeks of prodding, Stephanie has convinced me to vent into a blog. I hope, if you're reading this, that you understand that it is my I intent to write my weird views on life, the universe and everything (no, not the book by Douglas Adamas).
I hope you enjoy my subsequent posts. :)

Always anxious to learn new things.
-The Citizen Bob