Entries from September 2005
September 30th, 2005 · 1 Comment
I love seeing images like these…
I made the first donation to the American Red Cross of $500 to support vicitms of Hurricane Katrina. The donation went through my company’s matching funds program… so it should become $1000 in the hands of the Red Cross.
I’d like to thank all of my friends who contributed to [...]
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Tags: Uncategorized
September 30th, 2005 · 7 Comments
This entry is about the (moral) victory I had today. Still a colossal waste of time to do something simple… and looking back on it, I probably should have been a bit less flexible — but to make a long story short, I was sued in Prince George’s county civil court for an unpaid [...]
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Tags: Philosophical · Politics · Uncategorized
September 30th, 2005 · 1 Comment
After contributing to the sanity of my friends Sarah and Laura by hooking them up with some wireless-G gear, I came home to find that my own internet connection was down. The DSL modem’s “DSL” light was off. Not blinking. Off. Steadily… resolutely… absolutely, completely OFF.
Not good.
So I call Speakeasy technical [...]
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Tags: The Web
September 28th, 2005 · No Comments
Okay, I grew up loving dinosaurs, but… apparently squids are even cooler!
Squids are frickin’ jet-propelled carnivores. That’s like a T-Rex in a jet-fighter! No contest!
That said, giant squids do have some problems. For example… in this article:
The report goes on: “Although mating has never been observed in giant squid, it is thought [...]
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Tags: Humor
September 28th, 2005 · No Comments
The full post is here:
Korean scientists have used umbilical cord blood stem cells to restore feeling and mobility to a spinal cord injury patient. I have no link, but I do have the report published in Cytotherapy, (2005) Vol 7. No. 4, 368-373.
The patient is a woman who has been paraplegic from an accident [...]
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Tags: Philosophical · Politics · Religion