Happy Halloween, everyone!!!!!
October 31st, 2003
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Some amazing numbers
October 30th, 2003
Taken from the latest issue of the Time magazine:
There are 80,000 patients in mental hospitals across the US. But, in the US prisons there are 370,000 mentally ill people. That amounts to 1 in every 5 inmates. Does this mean that mental illness drives people to commit crimes?
The INS (or whatever it is called now) arrested 300 illegal workers at 61 Walmart stores across US. Some of these people were paid $2 per day for their janitorial job. That is not enough even to eat lunch. Why were they working there?
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When an angel turns into a monster
October 29th, 2003
For
the last few weeks, our little angel turns into a screaming monster in
the night. We were so happy that she used to sleep through the night
(9pm-6am) since she was 2 and half month old. A lot of people were very
jealous of us getting normal sleep in the night. But, looks like our
happy nights are over. Now, Ashwini wakes up every night, sometimes at
11pm, sometimes at 1am or 2am or 4am. We thought maybe there is
something bothering her physically, because she stops crying as soon as
she is picked up as if a switch is turned off. Somebody suggested it
could be an ear infection. So, we went to the doctor. In his opinion,
there is nothing wrong physically with her, but, she has behavioural
problems. WOW!!! at 7 and half months! What do we have to look forward
to when she becomes a 13 or a 14 year old??? The doctor thinks that
Ashwini has figured us out completely and has wound us tightly around
her little finger. So, we need to be strict and when she cries in the
night, we should pick up a pillow and put on our own head to not hear
her crying. If we do that for 3-4 days or a week, she will learn to put
herself back to sleep if she wakes up. It is very easy to say this than
actually do it. We are trying hard, but, end up going to her
eventually. Hopefully, this phase will end soon. Till then, we’ll have
puffy eyes with big black circles around them.
Here is one of the latest pictures of the monster (but, still
adorable….)
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Ads for new MS office
October 28th, 2003
Did anyone see these advertisements for the new version of MS Office? They show people jumping around, climbing on tables, cutting down projection screens, etc. What the heck do they want to show? Users like the new version of Office so much that they are delirious with joy? From my own experience (or should I say frustrations) with MS Office, these users seem to have lost their minds after struggling with the new software. 
Wonder what is true???
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Casper set to reject anti-gay monument
October 28th, 2003
Casper set to reject anti-gay monumentMatthew Shepard was killed in a hate crime because he was gay in 1998. Now, Rev. Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KS wants to erect a monument in a city park of Shepard’s hometown of Casper, WY.
This will be a 6 foot tall granite monument with a brass plaque that would say:
“Matthew Shepard entered hell Oct. 12, 1998, at age 21 in defiance of God’s solemn warning.”
Isn’t this condoning the murder of Matthew Shepard? Isn’t this blaming Matthew for his own murder rather than his murderers? And, what about the sixth commandment, Rev. Phelps???? Doesn’t ‘Thou shalt not kill’ apply here? Does being gay make Matthew not human?
Thankfully, the city of Casper is planning to oppose erection of this monument. They are ready to take care of the legal appeals that may rise from another monument currently located in the city park. Here are some ‘credentials’ of Rev. Phelps from the article…
Phelps, disbarred as an attorney in 1979 for ethical problems, and his congregation, which consists largely of his relatives
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Phelps and his extended family of 13 children have lived in Topeka since the 1950s. He opposes school integration and civil rights. Four of his offspring have left and told tales of their father’s physical abuse, tax fraud and racial hatred.
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In recent years, Phelps also has preached that God hates America, including at a memorial service in Littleton for the Columbine victims.
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They Misunderestimated Me!
October 27th, 2003
This calendar will make a great christmas gift. Here are a couple of interesting quotes from it…
- I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully. 9/29/2000 during presidential campaign
- Hydrogen power will dramatically reduce greenhouse gas admissions. 2/6/2003 speaking on energy independence
- Matter of fact, there haven’t been a morning that haven’t gone by that I haven’t saw–seen–or read threat.. 11/12/2002 remarks at DC Police operations center.
Thank God for W. He makes me feel good about my english.
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More Saturn
October 20th, 2003
A couple more images after more processing. The image on the right is a composite of 27 frames.
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Saturn on Oct. 19, 2003
October 20th, 2003
This is from the first round of processing with 6 images. More Saturn images to follow soon…
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Public Library of Science
October 17th, 2003
Just heard about this on NPR:
Public Library of Science is open. The website has links to several journals that are freely available online and they debuted the inaugural issue of their first free journal “PLoS Biology”. The mission statement on their website reads:::
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
The internet and electronic publishing enable the creation of public libraries of science containing the full text and data of any published research article, available free of charge to anyone, anywhere in the world.
Immediate unrestricted access to scientific ideas, methods, results, and conclusions will speed the progress of science and medicine, and will more directly bring the benefits of research to the public.
They are promoting the idea that publishing results of scientific research in the public domain is an integral part of doing research and should be included in the funding of research projects. This is a different business model compared to the current one for the journal publishing houses.
This is a revolutonary and I must say a very cool concept just like the Open Source Initiative and Free Software Foundation. I know my friends don’t agree with me on Opensource and FSF, but, I sincerely believe that their rationale makes sense. When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.
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