sweet new ride!
the Red Corolla ….. for those who havn’t seen it yet =P
November 12 I will officially want a Wii.
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Oh, man. Too tempting.
Well I found a deal at Buy.com for a 30GB Zune media player (kinda like an iPod) for $89 with free shipping. I’m so tempted to buy it, but I don’t need to be spending the money! Especially with all the money I’m giong to be spending on gas in the next couple months! Plus I need to redo the rear breaks and shocks on my car sometime, and save for wedding stuffs. But if I find $100 laying on the ground, I’m nabbin’ that thing up!
Pulling an all nighter?
I dunno. I don’t think I’ll make it. It’s 3:10 in the AM right now. I’m kinda tired, but not that tired that I want to get up and go to bed. Andrea isn’t back until tomorrow, and I just really can’t sleep. I don’t really want to either. I’ve gotten a lot done!
- 1 load of laundry.
- Picked up the dog from the kennel.
- A cool new tool for Guild Wars that almost makes the GuildWiki obsolete!
- Downloaded, installed, and played Half Life 2 (Thanks, Biebs! Runs great!)
- Photoshopped some new wheels onto my car (don’t really like ’em).
- And explained the exact number for “one third of one”.
- Well it would be (1/3) wouldn’t it? That’s the most exact way to express it in a base 10 number system. While its decimal form is 0.333~ its still one third. It can’t physically be written in that form but it’s a real number. It simply can’t be expressed (without limits) by any power of ten. Yet you can still divide something exactly into thirds, can you not?
- Math isn’t necessarily bound to the base 10 system we’re familiar with. In ternary (base 3) it would simply be “0.1”.
Now I’m not sure what to do. Maybe I’ll go pop in Grumpier Old Men. That’s if I want to get some sleep tonight. I love that movie to death, but I can’t even make it past the bacon story when I’m tired.
Someone posed the question…
With so many millions and billions and trillions of stars out there, and many of them with planets orbiting them, is it really possible that we are the ONLY life in this universe?
The above isn’t a computer generated image. It’s an actual image of deep space captured by the Hubble Space Telescope of the biggest known galaxy cluster. Thousands of galaxies, some even bigger than our own. It’s reasonable to assume with so many chances at life, that we aren’t alone. We were discussing it on oldspower.com and this was my response.
It’s really hard to fathom. The universe that is. Google Earth is awesome now that it also show a catalog of they sky from the Hubble and other telescopes. It’s amazing to look at the stars and then to really zoom in and see just as many whole galaxies as there are stars! We truely are one of a billion+ tiny rocks, going around one of a billion+ tiny stars, going around one of a billion+ galaxies (that we know of).
My philosophy on whether we’re alone or not has a lot to do with my faith. By whatever means God created the universe, its entirely possible that we ARE the only life that exsists in it. While I wouldn’t say we ARE, I would say there’s an equal chance of either.
Should life exsist elsewhere in the universe, I think its highly unlikely that we would make contact prior to the extinction of either ours or their race. Not to say we couldn’t detect them, but interaction would be out of the question due to the sheer scale.
I rather postulate that the vastness of the universe is an attribute of the Creator. The more we learn about the universe, the more we learn about God Himself. If man were able to see to the end of the universe, or be able to magnify the smallest particle, it would only be a finite matter of time before the fundamental workings of our universe were understood in their entirety. Once man has learned all there is to know, what purpose would their be to seek God? What purpose would man serve? Knowledge would be capped, and the only variable to remain would be time.
Man’s power to create could possibly equal God’s at that point. But in an infinitely detailed universe, there will always be an unknown, something always unexplained, and something that can only be explained by faith. HOWEVER, to simply write off the unexplained as supernatural and not investigate its origin, is passiveness. I hate it when Christians do that. We should FOCUS on that which is unexplained, if only to better understand that which created it.
Anywho. That’s my take on it. Just from what I believe, observe, and think about.
10.4.07
LOL quad core.
For the person who you ask, “Why?” And they say “Why not?”
It’s pretty amazing what they’re doing with processors these days. I got my first “real” processor my AMD 3200+ back when they finally came down to around $100. Andrea has that same processor in her computer today and it’s still plenty quick, and can be had for less than $50 at Newegg.com. And all of a sudden these quad core processors can be had for a mere $280. At first that sounds like a chunk of change, but considering the power these things pack for less than $300 you have power on you deskop that was unheard of less than two years ago.
Even so is it still worth it? As the prices of these top of the line processors come down, it only drives down dual core prices, and makes single core technology (which to be honest is still more than adequate) even cheaper. It’s been said there’s never a good time to build a PC, because there’s always something a little better just a couple months away. But if you ask me right now is GREAT time to build a computer. Smokin’ fast machines are actually attainable, and almost as fast ones are definetly affordable for the average joe.
Pretty impressive considering not that long ago we were saying “WOW, I wish I could afford one of those” to 400Mhz.
The world needs more signs.
Check this out. It is Hillarious!
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It is finished.
It’s hard to believe, but I think I’m done. I had one last marathon weekend. And I couldn’t have done it without Andrea’s help! So without delay, the new look of the Toronado!
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Here’s what it looked like the day I bought it:
Here’s how she looks today!
These were taken at 2am. So if the sun comes out this afternoon. I hope to get some nicer (prettier) pictures.
09.25.07The new Monopoly
Perhaps I’m already becoming one of those old codgers that hates any change. But is this really necessary? The new Monopoly: Here and Now Electronic Banking Edition.
Monopoly has always had their novelty editions catering to whatever niche you find yourself in. Whether it’s your favorite sports team, or TV show. But I think this new edition highlights a worrisome trend in our society. I’m not concerned that the cheapest property (formerly Mediterranean Ave.) has gone from $60 to $600,000. Or that the railroads are now airports. My beef is with the new cash on card system.
In a world where it’s already hard enough to find someone who can count back correct change in a drive thru, is it really too much to ask that you have basic math skills before embarking on a 3 day long game of Monopoly? We’re not asking anybody to compound interest here. I just need somebody to make change when I buy Ventnor Ave. for $260 and want to pay with my $500. Now just swipe a card. If you ask me this is the Monolpoly: No Thinking Required edition. Is this the kind of behavior we want to encourage?
Mark my words, the day will come when you walk into BK, order some chicken fries, hand the kid behind the counter a twenty, and get nothing but a blank stare for a few seconds while he tries to figure out what to do with it. “Uhh…debit or credit?” he’ll say.