What is the difference between a Manual Watch and an Automatic?

What is the difference you may ask? Rather than repost, i've written a short article here that probably explains more than you want to know about the differences.

So this is Christmas.......

Time to dust off this old chestnut.

Merry Christmas to all and may the Great Old One's get you first.





Dear Editor- I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Great Cthulhu. Papa says, "If you see it on Fark, it's so," Please tell me the truth, is there a Great Cthulhu who will rise from the watery depth of the Pacific to clear the Earth of all living things? ------Virgina Marsh

Virgina, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the fever of enlightenment given to them by a so-called "enlightened" age. They do not believe in anything unless it carries the weight of scientific authority. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. Reality is that which can be cataloged and measured, to be spooned out in rational doses to the common people. All minds, Virgina, whether they be adult's or children's, are little. In this vast chaos we laughingly call the universe, man is a mere insect, a bug, whose intellect has as much chance of grasping the whole truth, as an ant has of understanding non-Euclidian geometry.

Yes, Virgina, there is a Great Cthulhu. He exists as certainly as the cold unfeelingness of the cosmos exits, and you know that this meaninglessness abounds and gives to your life its highest absurdity. Alas! how comfortable would be the world if there were no Cthulhu! It would be as comforting as if a Santa Claus truly did care and reward children for doing good. There would be childlike faith then, a world of sweet believable poetry and romance to make existence idyllic and appealing. The external light with which childhood fills the world would never end.

Not believe in the Great Cthulhu! You might as well not believe in Hastur or the Necronomicon. You might get your papa's science books and Skeptical Inquirers to see if Cthulhu is mentioned in any historical contexts or if R'lyeh truly does rest under the Pacific Ocean, but even if you did not find either mentioned in your 'holy' books, what would that prove? Nobody sees or knows of Cthulhu, but that is no sign that there is no Great Cthulhu. The most real things in the world are those that we can not know through the senses. Can the headache of your friend be felt by you? No, but his pain affects your life regardless. Do you feel the angst of living a life you never wanted through any of your five senses? No, yet the despair remains. Yet if such realities are known but are never seen, then why should other's ignorance of the unseen lead us to share in their blindness. By what right have they earned your obedience? Nobody can conceive of the inconceivable, including your leaders of thought.

You tear apart the rattle of a baby to see what lies inside to make such noise, but the tiny balls there can not explain or illustrate the fear of a hostile world, that makes that baby clutch and shake that rattle so. Only reaching for insanity can push aside the curtain of our hopes and view with stark madness the emptiness that lies beyond. Is that reality? Is that the truth? To give an answer is to replace the curtain with but one more. And it is this, that makes the Great Cthulhu as true and as real as any veil we place on the chaos beyond. If one must create a meaning, why not the Great Cthulhu. At least the choice is free.

Thank Azathoth! The Great Cthulhu lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virgina, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to await the time when the stars are right again. For with those which eternal lie, with strange eons even death may die.

I really need to stay off the internet....Math methods

I was reading up on FARK.com and came across this video post on Youtube of two competing math methods in US elementary schools, being discussed and demonstrated by a meteorologist. Trevelian and I watched this and even he shook his head (4th grade) and said "what is she doing? I could have had that done by now......".

Scary stuff. Im no math wiz. In fact, im reading Algebra II for Dummies and Calculus for Dummies-partly for when he starts algebra, and partly because Im reading "The Universe in a Nutshell" by Stephen Hawking, and I thought it might be useful. I never took more than Alg I, II, and Geometry and I don't remember much of any of them.

Im not one for dissing on new ways to teach things, if they work, but watching this lady spend 5 minutes setting up a basic multiplication problem or division problem, and then solve it in some long convoluted fashion, and THEN say if I was just to write the correct answer without going through the other method that it would be 'wrong' is BS. Math is math, it is right or not. My bank doesn't care how I felt about my balance if I overspent last week and they ding me with fees-they say "X-Y=Z and z=<.01. Sucks to be you....".

Followup Post RE Spyder and research

From Spyder's own post to another member-



"Actually, R---, that was the inspiration for one of my speeches, but, as to your other point... (RE: the Yang/Kohlm speech by Kirk from Star Trek)

I was going to post a response with quotes from George Washington, Ben Franklin and others that I got from my class, yet, as I was typing them, I decided to google them...

I found that each of the quotes was an actual MISQUOTE

This is actually quite embarrassing

Instead of doing my homework on the course study, I was taking it all as truth

George Washington was a DEIST, not a THEIST, as were many of the other Founders

In fact, fully 1/3 of The Founders were Freemasons, who were ALL Deists

The reason I haven't responded yesterday was that I was busy doing my homework, and I'm glad you called me out on it so that I would

Trust me, at my next class on Monday night, I'm going to confront the teacher with what I've learned...."

and

"I assure you, however, that I would not be part of this movement if I wasn't already questioning everything I've been taught

So far, it seems that everything I know is wrong, even tho I don't want to believe it

I'm going to change that

I'm going to find the facts, even if it means disrupting my own worldview"

Scary thread read in another forum Im a member of

Back story-one of the members had been posting on DailyKos, in part using information that he/she had gotten from a class they are taking on the Constitution. They are apparently getting very involved in the 'tea-party' movement and have posted rather vitriollically on Yahoo and Kos about it, using as the basis their Constitution class.

For example:

"I've been praying every day for my friends and family, and recently have added "my Country" to that prayer

No, it's not a written prayer that anybody else knows, it's just something I ask God for every morning before I start my day

I've been doing that for years, and it's only recently that I added "my Country" to it

I don't know if it was because of reading your and Val's conversations or not, but, it sure coincided with 'really close to that timeframe'

Me and Val took our first class on The Constitution Monday night, and we learned some very important things

Some that I have been arguing for months, and some that I didn't understand until it was pointed out to me

What I already knew was that The Founders were Christians, what I didn't realize was that The Constitution was BASED on SCRIPTURE

Yea. Every single word

If God said it was a law, the The Founders said it was a law. That's something I already observed for myself, but, the DETAILS are the difference

If God said it was bad, The Founders said it was bad, and they made it law

snip

Now, a homework question was given in the first class. "How many times was God mentioned in these documents ?"

Once

In the Declaration of Independence. And not once in The constitution

God didn't write The Constitution, Man did, with God's guidance, so he has given us a test

He gave us 0bama

0bama is our test

Will we follow 0bama, and behave like Sodom and Gomorrah and be destroyed ?

Or will God's Army wake up and do what needs to be done to stop it ?

It's up to US to answer that question to the best of our ability, and I'm proud to say that most Patriots... are Christians

And everybody OPPOSED to us claims that we "cling to their Bibles..."

Go figure

I like to be on the winning team, and it doesn't look right now like The Patriots are on the winning team, but...

They don't know that we have God on our side

On the other hand, if God sees that there aren't enough people who BELIEVE, then 2012 WILL be the end of the world as we know it

And we'll go the way of Sodom and Gomorrah

It's up to US to prove to God that WE are worthy of continuing"

And here is more of his/her posting, RE: the Constitution and the Founders:

"However, don't the basic tenets of The Constitution bear a striking resemblance to what's written below ?

The Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Luke 22:36 wrote:

He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one

The Right to Own Private Property

Deut. 19:14 wrote:

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

The Freedom of Speech and Religion

Luke 6:45 wrote:

Speech and worship are matters of the heart and conscience

John 4:24 wrote:

Only tyrants seek authority over matters of the heart. But, of course, that is what tyrants do: they seek to control men's thoughts and beliefs.

Even tho those tenets were inspired by scripture, they followed their own doctrine of freedom of (and from) Religion by not mentioning the word God even once in any of the "actual" documents because they knew the trouble it could cause."

The problem with this is that the basis of the class he is taking is from the syllabus below:

"INSTITUTE ON THE CONSTITUTION

A 12 week class to study the Constitution with a video series by John
Eidsmoe, a constitutional attorney and a professor of Constitutional
Law. He holds degrees in theology, law and political science. He is an
author and a Lt Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve.

A Study on Christianity & the Law of the Land

Did you know?

That the government does not give us our rights under the Constitution?
What the government can give, the government can take away!

That our form of government was founded on basic ideals found in the scriptures?

That almost all of the framers of the Constitution were Christians?

That they frequently quoted from the Bible and used it as a primary
source of their decision-making? "

That our form of government is a republic and not a democracy?

Do you know the difference or why it is important? "

WTH? After posting in another forum that I happen to be a member of, Spyder was shown over and over that the Constitution of the United States has little to no basis whatsoever on Scripture. Many links to alternate analysis were provided, along with links to actual Founder's writings, in the hopes of not destroying his/her argument, but at least showing that the class being taken is based on a flawed premise. Spyder has agreed to research some and get back to us with how the questions being inspired go over in class. Should be interesting.

To Meep, or not to Meep....continued

http://theodoramichaels.com/articles/meep.php

An update on my 'meep' post from a few weeks ago. It looks like the Principal is still waving around his limited understanding of Tinker vs. Des Moines and any other USSC ruling on speech in a classroom setting, now going after students saying nothing, but wearing t-shirts saying 'meep'. Here is the original furor.

It's bad enough that our schools treat almost adults as children, and then turns them loose and tries to abstain from any shared blame in the young adults' ability to live in the real world. It's worse that the the schools seem to think that teaching them to be meep to authority and to just do as you are told is somehow indicative of the 'real world'. I happen to work a job where I have enough autonomy to just about kill myself and anyone working on my team *figuratively*-and I know many grown up types that have similar jobs. I love it, for the most part, and I didn't get to it, or get to knowing my work style by bending over in HS and taking it from administrators when I knew i was right. Danvers has a *ahem* colored history of dealing with those that speak and act in a manner that is not within the 'norm'.

I hope that some of these enterprising student's parents sue the school to within an inch of its life, for no other reason that to prompt them to re-visit their hiring policies. I harbor no ill will to the school, but until you show them the money, the are generally loathe to move on much of anything. Go Danvers! Go MEEP.

Second Foray to Fuji Sushi and Grill-Lincoln, Ne

My second foray into Fuji Sushi was a success. They had rice this time, and I took a friend to get his thoughts. We ordered off of the full menu this time, and for the 21.00 we spent we left both sated and not too much poorer for the effort. We were once again greeted by the server while he was cleaning a table, and by the counter staff when we entered. Our server apologized for someone not coming to our table to inquire about drinks (we had only been there about 10 minutes from entry to getting situated). We also found out that they have sake, served both warm and at temperature.

Their bento combination lunch menu is a lot of food for the money. My friend had the 4pcs California Roll, 3pcs salmon Roll, and 3pcs Tuna Roll for 8.95 and I had the Fuji Tempura Combination (Chicken, Shrimp, White fish) and 3pcs Sushi fir 10.99. Both orders came with miso and a small house salad first, a drink (free refills on pop), and then some undressed salad on the main meal plate brought out a little later. My meal came on a bento style platter with some ginger and wasabi in the middle, the tempura on one side, and the sushi in another compartment-very nicely separated and presented, but simple, with a small dish of tempura dipping sauce in a small separate dish. The tempura was just as good as the calamari I had the other day, and the batter was the same. I did not think to ask what the sushi was (bad for me) since my co-worker and I were discussing work issues, but in all respects it was fresh, firm, non-fishy, and each piece was served on a little bed of its own of rice. The rice itself was sticky and somewhat bland, but this is as I remember the rice when I was in Japan so this is not a negative at all.

The plate of California/salmon/tuna rolls that my friend had was also accompanied by miso and a salad, and when he got it he remarked that it was ‘pretty’ and well presented, with each type of rice roll separated out in its own little group. He also noted the fish case and said that it looked really fresh, and not like a lot of the stuff he sees at various grocers in town. He really likes this place so far, and the costs for their entrees and appetizers are comfortable for most anyone. I know that some places fly in their fish or the Gorton man brings it to your table dripping, but this place is not really trying to be those places. They are enthusiastic; they smile at you but don’t hover around the table. They are polite and explain what you are eating if you ask (as the other party found out today when one of them offhand enquired to his friend if she knew what something was and his question was overheard and someone came out to talk to him) . We were in and out in under an hour, full, not very poor, and we were asked before we left what we thought of the food and anything else before we left. This may not be the spot for Jake as a purist, but if you want a relaxing quick bite that is good for you and won’t cost very much, this is a good place to start.

Restaurant review-Fuji Sushi & Grill

Fuji Sushi & Grill is a small, unexpected 'hole in the wall' in a strip of other small unexpected hole in the wall eateries at 14th and Pine Lake in South Lincoln. Bordered by Lincoln Southwest High School, several small companies ranging from software providers, dental offices, and office parks, it is nestled in a location that will most likely guarantee it's continued success. Parking is adequate since they share the communal parking lot with Zesto's, Arista Hair Salon, Wilderness Perk, Juice Stop, an Army/Navy/Marine Recruiting Center, Amigos, and a Tuffy's among other things, but it could get strained getting in and out off of 14th or Pine Lake if there was a rush.

The building space could comfortably seat about 20 people, and there is a small bar seating area near the back as well, though it seems more suited for waiting for an order rather than eating. The small corridor that runs between it and the register to cash out goes further back to an Employee Only door and two restrooms (men/women). The establishment is well lit but dim enough to be cozy, and was pleasingly absent of the typical 'oriental' ethnic-themed muzak that seems to be pervasive at most any ethnic, sit down eatery. There is a fish tank immediately upon entering, and a small table to the right, though, so be careful right when you come in. The fish case is small, but the things I saw in there looked well chilled and fresh. The salmon and tuna had a nice ruddy red color, and the slabs sit on their own and not on ice, so the fish is not burned by the cold. This was their opening day, and unfortunately for me they ran out of rice! At 2:30 pm there were 9 diners there-two parties and one individual, besides me. School had gotten out at two, but the kids didn't seem to know what to make of the place, and so it was quiet and not beset with the after school crowd.

I was greeted warmly twice in the 12 feet from the door to the counter, once by a waitstaffer that also took my order and once by an older woman that cooked and prepared my tastings. The counter is cluttered here and there with bric-a-brac and oriental themed Hello Kitty statuettes. Two congratulatory bouquets were on the high counter off to the side, showing that it was still opening day. Two menus were presented to me-1 was the sushi list and the other was the entrée/sit down menu. One thing that was lacking was a dictionary or description board or printed description on the menu of what it is you are actually going to eat. This would be helpful in the future for the uninitiated, though their menus don’t have a lot of space to add descriptions of the different kinds of sushi preparation right now. A small alcohol selection is also available behind the counter and near the ceiling. It was a little hard to read some of the labels, but from what I could see they have: Grey Goose, Skyy, Crown Royale, Citron, Capt. Morgan. For the beer selection I saw: Ashai, Sapporo, Ashtinga, Budweiser, Miller, Miller Light, and Corona.

I ordered Sashimi, because they were out of rice, and because I did not have the time to sit down to try any of the main entrees. I had salmon, shrimp, fried shrimp, and a side order of Calamari. The Calamari was fried, but not too crispy, in a batter that tasted kind of like funnel cake dough without the sugar. The pieces were chunks and not the stringy sort of calamari you find at other restaurants in the Lincoln area, and were cooked through but not too hard or rubbery. It was served with a light teriyaki type au jus dip sauce that had some sesame seeds in it, and it was tangy, but not too sharp or spicy. It could have been just a little more spicy, but that is a personal taste. The leftover dip worked well for the other sashimi that I had as well. The shrimp and salmon was served on a cardboard plate with a cover (remember, I got it to go) that was decorated similarly to what you find at Hyvee and other cold case stores that make and sell pre-made sushi. The cover snapped on very tightly and was somewhat difficult to remove, but it DID seal in the food very well-its intent. The sashimi was served on a bed of string cut carrots that were very thin, and garnished with an ample amount of ginger and wasabi off to the side. The color of the salmon was very firm and pink and, and the flayed shrimp were firm and a mouthful in size without being too large. The portions were ample for the 4.00 and 4.25 I paid for each, so for 9 dollars I got 4 shrimp and two pieces of twinkie sized salmon, with garnish. The Calamari was 4.95. The total for all 4 sashimi dishes and the calamari was just over 21.00.

I look forward to sitting down and actually trying their entrée’s at a later time, and their other sushi offerings as well (sushi, maki, tempura). I was thanked upon my leaving, and told to come again. Once they work out their minor logistical/stocking concerns (it WAS opening day, after all) I think they will be a hit with the foot/lunch traffic from the school and the lunch crowd from the surrounding area.

Good luck.

Danvers, Mass. and MEEP!

Here are their Emails.

strout@danvers.org,cvaroudakis@danvers.org,dana@danvers.org,murray@danvers.org

Here is a link to another article about this: http://theodoramichaels.com/articles/meep.php

Here is my email to them:

With guns, lousy grades, terrible budgeting, Federal oversight from NCLB, I'm simply amazed that you have the energy to pursue this mindless bureaucratic demonstration. I hope that your Asst. Principle's forwarding of a Meep email to the Danver's police dept. garners the appropriate response from them, namely a fine for wasting their time.

I haven't researched Massachusetts law, but I'm assuming there's no law that would prevent me from sending a single, non-commercial, non-threatening email, containing a single nonsense "word" to adults at their publicly-posted work emails. And if there were such a law, it would not survive a constitutional challenge. Good day, and with that I leave you with:

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Briallen on her bike-No Wheels!

Briallen decided that she wanted to ride without training wheels last week-since one of them was breaking off. I took the wheels off, but we asked her not to ride yet since we didn't have a helmet for her. This 4th of July weekend I took their wheels off and oiled their chains and re-tightened them, checked the air and all that. After I got done, Bri decided she was going to ride so I sent T in to get the camera for grins. What you see here is pretty much unedited-just two videos I spliced together about a minute apart from one another.

From My Videos

when a body meets a body...

Here is what greeted me this morning on the way out the door:




















Here is the rock I picked up on the ground (for scale):




















Here is the spider again, next to the rock:

We'll have fun fun fun til Alpaca chases Burro away

This weekend we went to Kearney with the kids to hang out in a park (Cotton Mill?) with our in-laws, T and A, Aunt/Uncle, GpaGrt and GmaGrt, and a cousin or two. The weather was pretty good-we beat the heat by a day, and the kids didn't get sunburned nearly as bad as when we went a month ago. We DID have the rear seat of our van redecorated in Jackson Pollack fashion, courtesy in part to Jesse, the incoming family member. He was spinning the girls on a tire swing, and Bri decided that day that she didn't need to drink water even though it was 80 degrees outside.

The park has a barn/petting zoo/nature room sort of thing on site, so when it's staffed visitors can go in and see the ferrets, some indigenous fish, a few dwarf hamsters (they don't smell like elder berries), and outside an Alpaca, calf, mini burro and pony, some geese, guinea, and a HUGE pot bellied pig. Briallen was out there a little bit, but didn't really
feed anything, and I didn't have my camera with me at the time. She spent a lot of time with Haevyn, anyway.

I really should post more often...

I haven't posted here in a while. I guess that Ive been busy at work, or with the kids, that I don't take a lot of time to pursue 'me' things. So...

I have started biking to work again. I quit in the late summer/early fall as school ramped up, since Im the one that gets the kids going to school in the AM. I started last week, and so far this month i will have racked up over 60 miles with the ride home today. My one way ride to work is just under 6 miles, and I can do it from home to work in about 30 minutes, barring the occasional stops for traffic.



My ride home is a little longer since I don't veer off the path and continue on down Hwy 2 until I get to a larger street and takes me almost straight home. It adds about a mile and half to the overall ride, and about 10 minutes to my time.



And here is the war wargon:



My Cannondale M400, 24spd. I threw a pair of Nashbar Daytrekker panniers on the back, a Sunlite rack (pack was 18.00, rack was 15.00) and I have a Timbuk2 Messenger bag (that cost a little more, but ive had it for awhile) for papers, laptop, lunch. Clothes go in one side of the rear bag, bike stuff goes in the other, and im off. So far after two weeks of doing it ive noticed a 3-5 minutes drop in the time it takes me to get here or back home, about an inch off my waist, I haven't had to coast as much, and ive added a little distance without sacrificing too much time.




Ill have to add some pics of my morning as I ride, now that I have a camera phone. I smoke less, and Ive been drinking less Diet Mtn. Dew (thats been hard) and since I don't hit the amigos every morning for a breakfast burrito and non-diet Dew, and Im limited for lunch since im on my bike Im spending less money, too. (somewhat questionable, since I DID get the panniers and some grips, and the rack, and a pump(s), but overall purchased on sale so I did okay) I'm not spending 5.00 every morning and 3-4 in the afternoon, and I haven't put gas in my car since last week sometime.

Haevyn is shooting up-she is trying to crawl, which usually means she gets on her hands and knees and then faceplants herself into the floor. The kids are out for summer and driving Kolette crazy-the kind of do their own thing and she usually finds out afterward what it was. We have our nephew as well, so she has the 4, plus him 3 days a week. Its gets a little grueling, and sometimes I wish she would push on the payment issue. I don't think she was charging them more than about 50 a week, mostly to make up for a day that she gave up at work so she wouldn't have him every day after working that night before. But economics happen, we aren't necessarily a priority (they forget), and then it goes weeks and *months* so Kolette feels bad about bugging them about it. Its her thing so I don't bother her too much about it, but it IS time out of her day from 7 am until 6pm......630.......645....sometimes.

Okay, im done. Back to work or something.

Satterfield Pratical Science for the day-Thermal properties of solids subjected to heat, cold, and Water Cohesiveness

So the girls stuck three of our thick walled polycarb glasses together yesterday and there was some water drops left in each of them, so they got stuck together really well.




Between the cohesiveness of the water and forcing the air out, they weren't coming apart-Kol tried, I tried, the kids tried.

Enter SCIENCE!!! (add appropriate echo here....)
If you remember from HS science, solids tend to contract when they are cold, and expand when they are hot. Water is held together with Hydrogen bonds, so you have to figure out a way to break the water bonds without being able to apply the appropriate torque to the glasses or to pull them apart manually. (a machine puller would probably manage this, but hey, Im just a house dad-I haven't earned my Evil League of Evil certificate yet)

So, what to do? I added some Ice to the interior glass and let it sit for about 5 minutes.



and heat up some water while we wait. I microwaved it for about a minute and a half.

After you take out the water (be careful-Microwaved water is unpredictable because the surface tension can make it not boil until you break the surface.) After that, you take the glasses with the ice in the top one and put them bottom first into the water. You may observer any water lines within the glasses moving as the glasses expand and contract.


After about a minute or so, remove the glasses from the water and gently squeeze the top one and gently pull up. The ice chilled the middle glass and the hot water on the outside caused the the exterior glass to expand and the interior glass to contract. Its possible this could be done without the hot water, but I was thirsty!





























Put the two remaining glasses back into the water (polycabonate is a great insulator) and wait another minute or so, then repeat.



Grasp the top of the glass with the ice in it and gently pull up. Mission accomplished!

Beautiful Nebraska, enshrined in 1950

http://journalstar.com/articles/2009/03/18/news/politics/doc49c199dbb39e3962109933.txt
http://journalstar.com/articles/2009/03/21/news/local/doc49c41f6f67a26115783360.txt

Just in case you missed it, in NE it apparently is perfectly fine to heckle, humiliate, and harass a woman breastfeeding her child. Comments range from 'why breast feed? We don't live in the third world tribe', " why don't you take them to a bathroom", " They make formula for that", and one of my favorites " a three week old shouldn't be at the mall anyway".

Wow....Sometimes I think our removal from the nastiness of the real world in NE has some negative effects-we are removed completely from reality.