going camping this weekend, should I bring this four gallon gas powered frozen margarita machine?

26 May, 2008 22:01

We have solved the problem with camping on public land, instead of a campground where of course you have the ability to plug in a blender and whip up a couple frozen margaritas.

This four gallon frozen margarita machine runs on a two stroke gas engine, now making it possible to party without the patrol of rangers.

I will not be the one carrying it on my back though.  As much as I like margaritas, a Miller Light will do for me.  I bet I could get someone in the party to drag it though.  9 mile hike, ha ha..  that would be a blast watching...

http://www.hackaday.com/2008/05/26/beverage-hacks/

Random Thought : have not wrote a random thought in a while...

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Global Consciousness Project - Physics Involved, "..the goal is to learn the sources of structure and understand mechanism."

26 May, 2008 04:56

cross-posted from: http://einstein.extracted.org/gravitational-waves/global-consciousness-project-physics-involved-..the-goal-is-to-learn-the-sources-of-structure-and-understand-mechanism.

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"It is one of humanity's most enduring spiritual traditions: the idea that all life or all consciousness is interconnected. Human groups, whether ethnic, religious, or racial; as various as the Iroquois, the Sufis, and Western European Freemasons, all incorporate it into their belief structures. References to it can be found in ancient documents of the classical world, both East and West. It is a very compelling idea, spanning both millennia and the vast complexity of human cultures. Yet, as compelling as the concept is emotionally, only in recent decades has any objective evidence emerged that such a construct might be valid. Even this work, in fields as various as physics, parapsychology, and biology, has provided only suggestions, largely because the research was not conceived in global terms but, instead, focused on more limited vistas. Indeed, much of the relevant research has regarded only individual performances in experiments on anomalies such as telepathy, mind/matter interactions, and distant healing. Somewhat broader vistas are opened in studies of group resonance and morphogenetic fields."

"..the goal is to learn the sources of structure and understand mechanism." -- http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

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"We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner,what you actually did in order to get to do the work." -- Richard Feynman In his Nobel Lecture, 1966

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"The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international effort involving researchers from several institutions and countries, designed to explore whether the construct of interconnected consciousness can be scientifically validated through objective measurement. The project builds on excellent experiments conducted over the past 35 years at a number of laboratories, demonstrating that human consciousness interacts with random event generators (REGs), apparently "causing" them to produce non-random patterns. A description of the technical implementation is given under procedures..."

"..Although information will be presented with the scientific rigor that is required for accuracy and clarity, the site is intended also to have a strong artistic and aesthetic presence, We expect to use music and dynamic images both for background and for display of information, and we will provide links to a variety of articles and scholarly resources. We believe important aspects of the project may be represented in stories, poetry and philosophy, including selected readings from Henri Bergson, Teilhard de Chardin, Carl Jung, and others who have thought deeply about consciousness. For example, one of the guiding models for this project is Teilhard's idea of a Noosphere, or layer of intelligence enveloping the earth, and his description of mankind's evolution toward a destiny to fulfill that role. While this metaphor is more spiritual than scientific, it provides a very interesting interpretive background (one of several that we may consider) for our specific scientific questions. A few examples of aesthetic expressions of the project's philosophy and mission are given in our poetic history. Even the scientific data sometimes create immediately meaningful pictures, as in the beautifully symmetrical traces that appear to note the death of Barry Fenn, our friend and REG host in New Zealand..." -- ..originally composed in early 1998 but it is still a good description of what the project is about...

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Global Consciousness Project - Registering Coherence and Resonance in the World: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

Realtime display of the project's random number generator (requires Java): http://noosphere.princeton.edu/bsktobsrv/basketobserver.wall.html

A package for downloading and analysing data from the GCP archives: http://www.treurniet.ca/GCP/

"Since we want the network to grow larger, and to be broadly distributed around the world, we provide information about hosting an Egg, and access to the software, with details on the basic hardware and operating system requirements for becoming a host." - http://noosphere.princeton.edu/software.html

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universal enlightenment

26 May, 2008 04:42

"War cannot be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only through annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations. What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment..."

-- Nikola Tesla, 1919

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a picture of myself and a good friend outside the business center at the first year in college for computer network engineering and technologies

23 May, 2008 22:06

1st year of college in computer networking technologies

This is a picture of myself with my good friend Anna Pedace outside the business center at my first year of college in computer network engineering & technologies.  Those were truly the best days in my life.

[larger version including the original scan]

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a look back at Firefox 1.0, New York Times, and my Firefox 3 Beta installation

22 May, 2008 11:11

The latest Ubuntu desktop distributions comes with Firefox Beta 3 set as the default browser.  I was out bound suprised at the performance of the to be released browser, which now is a release candidate.

I have to admit, after a couple weeks of use I started missing my plugins and I switched back to Firefox 2.  That didn't last more than 4 hours noticing the difference in performance, and I once again re-installed Beta 3, found alternative plugins for my needs, and lighter weight I must add also.  I was rather disappointed that Google hasn't gotten on the bandwagon with Google Browser Sync.

Hecker's Blizzog reminded me of this meant to be published, but put off post:

"..i must say, it’s pretty sweet. there are some nifty new features and the performance is indeed wayyyy better. particularly on those javascript & ajax-heavy pages like gmail (and most other google apps). switching through tabs is faster as well. not to mention, there’s now a “native hack” (if you will) to launch mailto links with gmail…cool!..." - http://www.aaron.2netwits.com/wp/?p=514

I have been a Mozilla user since the beginning, the beginning in which it took 6 to 8 minutes to startup on my computer - next generation browser at the time? heh.  Others with the rendering engine took the fit though.

Remember Firefox 1.0?  When it was first introduced they accepted donations from dedicated users to put a full page add in the New York Times, with color.  I was one of the dedicated users, and you can find my name in the Times as "Andy J. Wright".  Here is a link to the PDF file, but take note that you must have a pretty decent computer and PDF reader to render it without frustration: nytimes-firefox-final.pdf

I look forward to new and great add-ons and plugins to match the new standard of possibilities Firefox 3 will provide!

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