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| Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
aj_raffles
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7:46p |
I lost my Emerson ID on Monday. Stalled on telling Public Safety till today lest it be found, and I went there this afternoon pretty hopeless, ready to surrender 25 fucking dollars more to this college, and as I'm filling out the form, the officer remembered a package he received from Emerson's post office twenty minutes prior, and lo, it was my ID. Someone dropped it in the Emerson mailbox (wtf, the EMERSON MAILBOX? Am I to assume that somewhere on campus there is a giant general bin of mail into which one can wantonly toss letters with no regard for any detailed address info?) with no envelope (??) I have no idea how it got there, I had assumed I lost it on the MBTA as I'd had it in the morning before work, and it was missing when I checked for it outside the door of Ansin building. In any case that was incredibly lucky. It made me feel as if some awesome universal force was shining down on me in that moment.
In other news, my computer is still acting fairly to moderately retarded, and I've broached the idea of getting a new one to mom. She hasn't flipped out (good sign, I always consider this a good sign). I have one tentatively picked out (Cyberpower Xplorer X5-4850, with a few customizations) but I can't find very much in the way of external reviews about their products, so I'm slightly wary. In any case I have to make about 500 dollars by selling shit before I can buy it, and the other 500 will be charged (this laptop should be around 998-1100 dollars). It's by far the most affordable gaming laptop I've seen and I'm very content with the specs on it. Also, it's tempting to get it in a diff color except that it's ANOTHER 164 DOLLARS to do so. Approximately here are the specs I'll be getting:
Intel Core Duo 2.4ghz 64 bit processor
120 GB 7200RPM SATA hard drive
Nvidia GeForce GO 8600M-GT 512MB Video
2 GB RAM (4 max)
I figure that should satisfy me for a long time. I don't do much in the way of gaming but it will be nice to play games made after the year 2006 (since that is PRETTY MUCH where things go wrong on my laptop).
Now to make that money... |
elligirl
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3:55p |
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dragonflii_echo
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12:59p |
Looking forward to this weekend! Only 2.5 more hours and I'm outtie! ::Untz Untz Untz:: |
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top_left_pixel
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1:35a |
dinner in the sky, toronto http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/08/07/03/ 
Dinner in the Sky is a great event brought to Toronto's Dundas Square by AMEX. 24 people get lifted about 50 meters to enjoy their food in the sky. Flickr set here.
Update: I forgot to mention that I was actually up there, I was lucky enough to get an invitation for this. Thanks AMEX! |
| Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 |
elligirl
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10:11p |
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| Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
domestickitty
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12:09a |
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| Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 |
semperfiona
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10:57p |
Waitress: possibly the best movie about pies ever made.
Nathan Fillion and pies. How can you lose.
Also, "Baby Don't You Cry (The Pie Song)". SQUEE! |
ikilled007
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10:11p |
Ouch, DOW!
Looks like the DOW has given back all the gains made in the last 10 years. Not only that, but given the present value of the dollar, it appears the DOW is really at 1996 levels.
Loose monetary policy: it caused the First Great Depression, too. Hold on, people. Your life is about to change. |
dragonflii_echo
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9:05a |
busy!@ I've been so busy lately! This week is going to be even crazier for me as it's the billing week here at work and Medicare is implementing a new billing system! Agh! But, I'm going to a tai-chi class tonight at my gym. So, that should be fun. I went to yoga last night at the gym and it was awesome. Alot more intense than I thought it would be. My back is a little sore this morning, but I'm sure I was probably just holding my position wrong or something. Although, just now as I'm forcing myself to sit up straight at my desk it feels a little better. My goal is to make it to the gym 3 days a week, and with the classes they have there it's becoming a little easier. BTW. If anyone lives out my way and wants to join me, gimme a call! :) Next weekend is Rody's birthday and I'm so excited! We're going to Universal again and I'm bringing him to Blue Man Group and Texas de Brazil for his birthday. :bounce bounce: Also, anyone who's been wanting to go see Blue Man Group should come! I get discounts for the tickets with my pass and you could come along and wish Rody a happy birthday! :) I think we're going to be having a small get together on that Friday before we leave for Orlando, so if you can come by then, you should! W00t for the short week this week. How lucky to have the 4th land on a Friday?! Hells yeah to a longer weekend!!! ^.^ What's everyone getting into? I was thinking about going to the Zombie BBQ that the Deadites are throwing. Current Mood:  busyCurrent Music: Blue Man Group- Up to the Roof |
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top_left_pixel
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2:19a |
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| Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 |
elligirl
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10:26p |
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| Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 |
domestickitty
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12:14a |
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| Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 |
chelseavision
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9:39p |
38 pictures in this set for my members :) Also the video section of the site has been worked on a bit, don't ask me how I have no idea except that it may work better now for the few who have mentioned that they were having problems playing the videos. ( Read more... ) |
elligirl
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2:00p |
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semperfiona
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12:39p |
Happy birthday to my love ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ohari. May next year be filled with peace, joy and blessings. You deserve it. |
dragonflii_echo
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9:21a |
"Ugh. It feels like the whole world is playing dodge ball, and you want no part of it. Your mantra for today? 'Whatever.' Remember, every day can't be great, or how could you appreciate them? Write this one off to experience and don't get angry over things that you can't control." |
elligirl
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12:07a |
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domestickitty
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1:34a |
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top_left_pixel
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2:07a |
the boat and the clouds http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/08/07/01/ 
Yesterday's crazy clouds seen at Toronto's Ward Island.
Happy Canada Day to everyone!
Update: I ran into Miles at the Ferry line and he was going to the islands at the same time. He was attracted to the clouds as well. Check out his shot from another part of the island here. We were in different parts of the island, so it's cool that the photos seem to be taken at the exact same time. |
| Monday, June 30th, 2008 |
ikilled007
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1:55p |
Can't figure it out... Can anyone see a trend here? It's like... you print a lot of money out of thin air and each unit of that money becomes worth less so the commodities priced in that currency rise in price to reflect the lower value of that currency, as predicted by the Austrian School of Economics. Holy fucking shit, the laws of supply and demand do hold even in the face of government manipulation! whip_lash, remember the 1000 times I told you to buy Gold and Oil, and short treasuries and the dollar? It's like... how would you put it... I know what the fuck I'm talking about and you don't.    All your neoclassical buddies like Laffer said this wasn't going to happen. And now that China is not importing our inflation as much as they were, the end is near. |
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2:01a |
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domestickitty
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12:09a |
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| Sunday, June 29th, 2008 |
interdictor
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11:31p |
Iliana Barnett Born: 5am 6/24/08 in Patti, Sicily, Italy.   ( 4 more ) |
ikilled007
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4:14p |
Remember that Dumb Motherfucker You Laughed At In Highschool? You know, the one who was dumb as a box of rocks, unathletic, and maladjusted? Yeah him. He's probably a cop: Undercover NYPD Officers Frame 4 On Drug Charges
NYPD Investigating Incident, Officers Placed On Modified Duty
NEW YORK (CBS) ― Undercover police officers who arrested four men on drug charges are under investigation after surveillance video proved the men they arrested committed no crime. Drug charges against brothers Jose Colon and Maximo Colon, along with two of their friends have been dropped. The undercover NYPD officers are seen on video dancing in the street, then attempting to frame four innocent men.
"I asked police officer why are you arresting me," said Maximo Colon. "Never did I get an answer." The investigators swore under oath they bought drugs from the four men. Jose and Maximo colon say that didn't happen. "The cops are supposed to help us," said a shaken Jose Colon.
Defense lawyers say the surveillance cameras proved their clients were framed. "It was nauseating," said defense lawyer Rochelle Berliner. Two hours of video showed no contact at all between the four men arrested and undercover officers - proof that lead prosecutors to drop charges against the four men, and even declare in court the men did not commit the crime.
Defense lawyers say it's disturbing but not uncommon. "As defense attorneys you know it exists more often than government wants you to believe," said Brad Wolk.
In the 6 months it took to clear the Colon brothers names, they lost their business and their savings.
As a result of his ordeal, Maximo Colon has lost trust in police officers. The two men are now involved in a civil suit against the city and hope to one day rebuild their lives. The NYPD is investigating the officers involved in this incident. Two of the officers are reportedly on modified duty. I will say it again: fuck the police. They're police for one of two reasons: they can't do anything else, or they like being a thug. Don't trust them, and if they attempt to frame you, kill them so you don't end up bankrupt. |
ikilled007
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2:52p |
I Love Shit Like This I sure hope those micro blackholes evaporate quickly! Will The CERN Destroy The Earth?
MEYRIN, Switzerland - The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August. But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Or spit out particles that could turn the planet into a hot dead clump?
Ridiculous, say scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by its French initials CERN — some of whom have been working for a generation on the $5.8 billion collider, or LHC. "Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on," said project leader Lyn Evans. David Francis, a physicist on the collider's huge ATLAS particle detector, smiled when asked whether he worried about black holes and hypothetical killer particles known as strangelets. "If I thought that this was going to happen, I would be well away from here," he said.
The collider basically consists of a ring of supercooled magnets 17 miles in circumference attached to huge barrel-shaped detectors. The ring, which straddles the French and Swiss border, is buried 330 feet underground. The machine, which has been called the largest scientific experiment in history, isn't expected to begin test runs until August, and ramping up to full power could take months. But once it is working, it is expected to produce some startling findings. Scientists plan to hunt for signs of the invisible "dark matter" and "dark energy" that make up more than 96 percent of the universe, and hope to glimpse the elusive Higgs boson, a so-far undiscovered particle thought to give matter its mass. The collider could find evidence of extra dimensions, a boon for superstring theory, which holds that quarks, the particles that make up atoms, are infinitesimal vibrating strings. The theory could resolve many of physics' unanswered questions, but requires about 10 dimensions — far more than the three spatial dimensions our senses experience.
The safety of the collider, which will generate energies seven times higher than its most powerful rival, at Fermilab near Chicago, has been debated for years. The physicist Martin Rees has estimated the chance of an accelerator producing a global catastrophe at one in 50 million — long odds, to be sure, but about the same as winning some lotteries. By contrast, a CERN team this month issued a report concluding that there is "no conceivable danger" of a cataclysmic event. The report essentially confirmed the findings of a 2003 CERN safety report, and a panel of five prominent scientists not affiliated with CERN, including one Nobel laureate, endorsed its conclusions.
Critics of the LHC filed a lawsuit in a Hawaiian court in March seeking to block its startup, alleging that there was "a significant risk that ... operation of the Collider may have unintended consequences which could ultimately result in the destruction of our planet." One of the plaintiffs, Walter L. Wagner, a physicist and lawyer, said Wednesday CERN's safety report, released June 20, "has several major flaws," and his views on the risks of using the particle accelerator had not changed.
On Tuesday, U.S. Justice Department lawyers representing the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation filed a motion to dismiss the case. The two agencies have contributed $531 million to building the collider, and the NSF has agreed to pay $87 million of its annual operating costs. Hundreds of American scientists will participate in the research. The lawyers called the plaintiffs' allegations "extraordinarily speculative," and said "there is no basis for any conceivable threat" from black holes or other objects the LHC might produce. A hearing on the motion is expected in late July or August.
In rebutting doomsday scenarios, CERN scientists point out that cosmic rays have been bombarding the earth, and triggering collisions similar to those planned for the collider, since the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago. And so far, Earth has survived. "The LHC is only going to reproduce what nature does every second, what it has been doing for billions of years," said John Ellis, a British theoretical physicist at CERN.
Critics like Wagner have said the collisions caused by accelerators could be more hazardous than those of cosmic rays. Both may produce micro black holes, subatomic versions of cosmic black holes — collapsed stars whose gravity fields are so powerful that they can suck in planets and other stars. But micro black holes produced by cosmic ray collisions would likely be traveling so fast they would pass harmlessly through the earth. Micro black holes produced by a collider, the skeptics theorize, would move more slowly and might be trapped inside the earth's gravitational field — and eventually threaten the planet.
Ellis said doomsayers assume that the collider will create micro black holes in the first place, which he called unlikely. And even if they appeared, he said, they would instantly evaporate, as predicted by the British physicist Stephen Hawking. As for strangelets, CERN scientists point out that they have never been proven to exist. They said that even if these particles formed inside the Collider they would quickly break down.
When the LHC is finally at full power, two beams of protons will race around the huge ring 11,000 times a second in opposite directions. They will travel in two tubes about the width of fire hoses, speeding through a vacuum that is colder and emptier than outer space. Their trajectory will be curved by supercooled magnets — to guide the beams around the rings and prevent the packets of protons from cutting through the surrounding magnets like a blowtorch. The paths of these beams will cross, and a few of the protons in them will collide, at a series of cylindrical detectors along the ring. The two largest detectors are essentially huge digital cameras, each weighing thousands of tons, capable of taking millions of snapshots a second. Each year the detectors will generate 15 petabytes of data, the equivalent of a stack of CDs 12 miles tall. The data will require a high speed global network of computers for analysis.
Wagner and others filed a lawsuit to halt operation of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York state in 1999. The courts dismissed the suit.
The leafy campus of CERN, a short drive from the shores of Lake Geneva, hardly seems like ground zero for doomsday. And locals don't seem overly concerned. Thousands attended an open house here this spring. "There is a huge army of scientists who know what they are talking about and are sleeping quite soundly as far as concerns the LHC," said project leader Evans. Isn't that how it always goes? Huge army of people who know what they're doing fuck up everything because their own arrogance and self-interest are more important than the lives of other people? Think "The Best and The Brightest" who were going to "fine tune" the economy from Washington D.C. I'm no luddite. I think this machine is pretty fucking cool. I just think that since it has some possible spillover effects which would greatly overwhelm any liability insurance they're carrying on this thing, maybe there should be some kind of global vote requiring 75% or more approval. |
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