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    Weekly Wrap Up (Oct. 11 - Oct. 17)

    By wildone

    I may be dating myself (not like that, geez ), but back in the days of Johnny Carson hosting the Tonight Show, Ed McMahon would always start the show off with, "Herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre's Johnny," for an introduction. I may or may not have used AI to help recreate this  Okay, I totally did  Can't use the actual likeness of Ed McMahon though .  I just wanted to resurrect the famous line to let everyone know that Annual GA Anthology has started   In case you have been out of the  countr
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jamessavik's Blog

The Royal Time Machine

Something really awesome is happening on the web!   The Royal Society of London is opening 340 years worth of its archives to the public until December.   Now, free of charge, you have the oppertunity to download and look at the works of some of the giants of science like Hawkins, Einstien, Pauling, Chandrasekhar, Bohr, Herschel, Kelvin, Liebnitz, Maxwell, Newton, Rutherford and many, many more.   Of course I'm biased towards the physical sciences, but biology is covered too. Watson, Crick
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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lostone's Blog

just thinking out loud

HI Everyone,   I haven't been up to writing much lately. It seems that I have fallen victum to a really strong mood swing, making it almost impossible to write the next chapter without strangling Kevin and shooting Jamie in the foot   when I add to that the fact that I have picked up a cold and have been working 60 hour weeks for the better part of 2 months, I feel like I'm shutting down inside.   since this seems to making me feel worse...I'm just gonna stop here...maybe I'll finish
Tom

Tom

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Little Buddha's Stone Grotto

Another Weekend

Well, Vance mentioned that I haven't done a blog in a while, so I figured maybe I should write something. Work is going pretty good. We had a pot luck yesterday, and I stuffed myself on all kinds of good food. I brought a pasta salad with feta cheese, pepperoni, broccoli, and cherry tomatoes. They usually do that kind of thing about once a month, and we'll be having a chili cook-off next month. I LOVE chili, so that should be pretty fun.   I bought Elton John's new album, The Captain and the K
LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW

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Read my blog

Sometimes torture is good

Last night I got an IM from someone I know who is pretty much against all republicans no matter what the issue is. Usually, I am too, but I think they're right when it comes to defending the US from terrorism. Well anyway, she IM's me about some lunatic named Kieth Olberman, who has some show no one watches on MSNBC. He goes off on the president whenever he has a chance, but intellegent people pay him no mind because he's a loser. Anyway, I hate Bush for his politics. I hate that he wants to gi
NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

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Chronicles of My Life

My GA Literary Debut

So I finally did it. I finally managed to sit still and focus on an idea long enough to produce a first chapter.   It's a story idea I had about 2 or 3 months ago. I frequently come up with story ideas. I even often conceptualize them to a high degree and plan out the plots and characters. Getting them down on paper is the hard part though, but I finally did it! I'm really excited about the story too.   I hope to post it in the "Sneak Peaks" section within the week. I might still add a
AFriendlyFace

AFriendlyFace

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vlista20's Blog

Last Day of Summer

Well I survived another one! As summer's go it really wasn't too bad. I think we only had one week of 90 plus temperatures and the nights all stayed pretty cool. I can only remember one night that the AC didn't change over to fan once. I just realized that not only is it the last day of summmer it's also Friday! YAY I guess I'm in for a good day. Least I better be!   Sam and I didn't find much on our yard saling trip. I got a book and a keyboard for my computer. (I stock up spares, caus
vlista20

vlista20

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jamessavik's Blog

HUBBLE FINDS HUNDREDS OF GALAXIES IN EARLY UNIVERS

NASA's Hubble Finds Hundreds of Young Galaxies in Early Universe   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NASA Press Release: September 21, 2006 PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR06-12 Source Link     NASA'S HUBBLE FINDS HUNDREDS OF YOUNG GALAXIES IN EARLY UNIVERSE   Astronomers analyzing two of the deepest views of the cosmos made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a gold mine of galaxies, more than 500 that existed less than a bil
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Viv's Blog

I quit!

So hey there...   I have a funny story! At work on tuesday I had to write this proposal and after I spent two hours researching and answering all the questions and writing it, I took it to my boss for approval. He started reading it and said, "This is a little over the top. Have you ever thought about quitting and becoming a writer?" So I giggled and said, "Yeah, actually I have!" But I'll probably never be that brave ,plus I seem to be a glutton for punishment.   Still dealing with some fa
viv

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jamessavik's Blog

A 'Genetic Study' Of The Galaxy

A 'Genetic Study' Of The Galaxy   Galactic Bulge and Disc Stars Shown To Have Different Oxygen Abundances   ESO 34/06 - Science Release 12 September 2006 Source Link   Part of one of the four regions of the sky in the direction of the Galactic Bulge in which the astronomers measured the iron and oxygen abundances in stars. This particular field is in the vicinity of the so-called 'Baade's Window', a region with relatively low amounts of interstellar "dust" that could block the sight
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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jamessavik's Blog

Dog Tired Commuter

I spent the last couple of weeks commuting back and forth to Gulfport. I was doing a job overseeing the installation of a business network. Actually- the business was rebuilt after a certain be-yach of a hurricane blew most of it to Wiggins. It took almost a year to get a construction company that wasn't booked up.   They must be well practiced as they went from concrete slab to interior finishing in Three weeks. It's like watching mushrooms pop up after the rain.   I see some definite adva
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Chronicles of My Life

"Beautiful" - pardon the narcissism

Everyday is so Wonderful   I like a lot of songs. In fact I like almost all songs, but if I had to pick a favourite song a permanent favourite, not just a "flavour of the week", it would be Beautiful by Christina Aguilera. I really do feel like everyday is so wonderful.   So I just finished that book that I mentioned in an earlier blog, Outing Yourself. Basically...I thought it was a load of crap. I guess some parts were useful, and interesting, but mostly I just finished it because I'm
AFriendlyFace

AFriendlyFace

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Val's Blog

out along the edges, always where I burn to be...

Another Friday gone but no hangover. Yippee. Not that there wasn't drinking. We actually got started around 5 pm, but mostly stayed away from anything other than beer, so no one really ended up in ridiculously bad shape. Like 9 of us had decided to have a little cookout, and of course it rained all day, but that didn't stop us. There was a balcony overhead blocking most of the rain, so it worked okay. If anyone's wondering, I had a veggie burger and they're really good done over charcoal. We als
lagomorph

lagomorph

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Viv's Blog

shit happens, to me... all in the same week, ugh!

Okay so I'll go ahead and give you all fair warning now... I have had a crap week and this will probably be a crap blog... you know, Viv, whining and complaining, only in the end to realize she's being dumb and ungrateful... so if you choose to stay and read... I won't be held responsible   So let's see...   We'll start with Thursday... My daughter turned 11 Happy Birthday Punkin! I suggested to Rich that since we aren't having the kids birthday parties for a few weeks still, that we take
viv

viv

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vlista20's Blog

this and that

I think summer is back for one more weekend I knew I shouldn't have taken those air conditioners out last weekend. It was just so nice and cool out. I wanted fresh air in the house. And the nights have been down in the low 40's and I wanted that air inside too! I'm not going to bother to just put them back in for one weekend. I'll be strong! lol and the thought it's gonna get really cool here after the weekend will keep me going.   I tried hummus yesterday for the first time! I never
vlista20

vlista20

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Read my blog

What makes me proud

Well, 9/11 came and went and there were all kinds of shows on TV about that day, and even one about the events leading up to it. I guess to me 9/11 represents something to be proud of. On that day when almost 3000 people lost their lives in the worst attack on our soil, we came together as a nation and for a little while, we weren't democrats and republicans. We were Americans. All of that seems to be gone now. In it's place, we have a country so divided that you can't talk about what happened
NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

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Bender's blog

thoughts on life

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth- Assorted characters of death and blight Mixed ready to begin the morning right, Like ingredients of a witches' broth- A snow-drop spider, a flower like froth, And dead wings carried like a paper kite.   What had that flower to do with being white, The wayside blue and innocent heal-all? What brought that kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth th
Bender

Bender

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Little Buddha's Stone Grotto

First day at work

Well, today was my first day at my new job. The commute is about an hour each way, which really sucks, but I only have to tough it out for a month or two until I can get my own place. That should cut the commute down to 20-30 minutes. The work is actually quite complicated and there's tons of stuff to remember, a complex computer system and series of databases to learn, etc. I'm very familiar with the translation industry and linguistics (which is important for quality control and just knowing h
LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW

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