Archive for February, 2006



Light at the end of the tunnel

Today is the day where all of my work is either due, or it has already been due at some earlier time. As I sit here eating away at my candy I recieved for Valentine’s Day, I realize that this is really the first day this week I can sort of relax; that […]

That heart on that box of candy that you got for Valentine’s Day could have been inspired long ago by the shape of a woman’s butt, according to a professor of psychology:
Galdino Pranzarone of Roanoke College in Salem, Va., told Discovery News that he analyzed “essential literary and speculative evidence from mythology and secondary sources,” […]

Tuesday’s life by the numbers

Here is a little list that was inspired by these blog posts:

2 is how many hours it took to finish an Excel spreadsheet detaling a payment plan for a class project
10 is how many minutes it took for my hands to almost turn numb this morning defrosting the car for class
3 is how many Valentine’s […]

Busy week ahead…

Whew, this week is shaping up to be a busy one. A lot of assignments are due within the generous space of a few days. This includes two Physics lab reports, the Chapter 6 Physics homework assignment, and a case study for Engineering Economy. There is also Calculus C homework that I […]

The folks at Wired Magazine are looking at a day where machines will perform tasks autonomously and human skill will be rendered obsolete. Fully self-sufficient robots and machines will stay in the realm of science-fiction because, well, science-fiction has taught us that if made autonomous, robots will take over the world, leaving everything, including […]

A senior at Munford High School, northeast of Talladega, AL, was arrested for serving brownies laced with marijuana to his classmates.  The drugged desserts caused the twelve students dizziness and nausea.
The student has been charged with distribution of a controlled substance.

Thanks to a defeat of a bill to move up the Alabama Presidential Primary, the state of Alabama will still vote for the Republican and Democratic candidates for President–long after it has already been decided by the majority of the country. The reason for the defeat: it would cost $3.4 million to move the […]

[blogger blog] New Theme

I have decided to forego the cookie-cutter theme that I have been using for this blog in favor of my own creation. My main thing is to make the blog brighter-looking and to remove all of the images that were in the last blog design.
If I find hosting for images I may do my […]

Neat trick for desktop backgrounds

Courtesy of this Digg submission:

This collection of images show off some pictures of computer monitors whose backgrounds are set so that they match what would be behind the monitor.

The situation that has arisen from the Danish cartoons has spiraled out of control. The way the Islamic extremists are reacting to these cartoons is uncalled for, and is in no way an appropriate response to those sketches. The cartoons, no matter how offensive they are, are not worth starting a conflict over. […]