Something i got off the net ... cool one ...

Hell As Explained By a Chemistry Student:The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.
Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it Follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct...leaving only Heaven thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A" :)

The law of entropy says that all systems, left unattended, will run down. Unless new energy is pumped in, the organism will disintegrate
I guess that the human mind is a great example of a system under entropy.... we always need some josh is our lives ...

"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flowerhold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour." - William Blake, his description of enlightenment

MS year end review :
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2004/dec04/12-14YearReview.asp

One For the dreamer:

Imagination rules the world - Napoleon

Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Einstein


Songwriter Fred Knipe once wrote a song about this. It was for the soundtrack of a video produced for teenagers about how to visualize themselves succeeding at what they wanted to do:
"That's you / in your wildest dreams / doing the wildest things / no one else can do. If you / just love and keep those dreams / the wildest dreams / you'll make yourself come true."

To make ourselves come true we need to develop the strength to dream.

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”- Eleanor Roosevelt

You must have always wondered why there is a uname / pwd in Oracle called, Scott/Tiger....
Who is this scott ? Here is the answer to ur query....
So, who is Scott?
Bruce Scott was one of the first employees at Oracle (then Software Development Laboratories). He co-founded Gupta Technology (now known as Centura Software) in 1984 with Umang Gupta, and later became CEO and founder of PointBase, Inc. Bruce was co-author and co-architect of Oracle V1, V2 and V3.
The SCOTT schema (EMP and DEPT tables), with password TIGER, was created by him. Tiger was the name of his cat.

Techno vocabulary..

It can be called the "Buzzword" writing method. It is simple. There
are three columns of words involved, as follows:


0. Balanced 0. Management 0. contingency
1. total 1. Organization 1. Hardware(or)software
2. integrated 2. reciprocal 2. projection
3. compatible 3. monitored 3. time-frame
4. synchronized 4. digital 4. concept
5. optimal 5. modular 5. programming
6. responsive 6. transitional 6. mobility
7. functional 7. Incremental 7. capability
8. parallel 8. third-generation 8. flexibility
9. systemized 9. policy 9. options


Just select any three-digit number; then use the corresponding
Buzzwords from the above grid, e.g., 257: "integrated modular capability".
Don't worry if it doesn't make sense to you; it won't mean anything to
anyone else either, but they'll think you're just smarter than they are so
they won't say anything!! ..


You can propose "systemized reciprocal options" (929) to achieve
"optimal transitional flexibility" (568), so that we can think of an
"integrated monitored projection" ..............and your boss will probably
promote you or your customer will be blown away with your technological
superiority !

"A person who does not make a choice, makes a choice "
- Old Jewish saying

Microsoft launches its desktop search tool (http://beta.toolbar.msn.com )
with the following features

The applications provide the following benefits:
Quick, precise retrieval of desktop files. Consumers can quickly and easily search the thousands of files on their PCs, including Outlook contacts or calendar files, Adobe PDFs files, or Microsoft Office Word or PowerPoint files. As a result, consumers will save time and increase their productivity.
Information when and where it is needed. The MSN toolbars save time, allowing consumers to find precisely what they need with less effort, when and where they need it, with less effort and within seconds. The MSN toolbars are conveniently designed to work with Outlook, Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer and the Windows desktop. The MSN Toolbars also give consumers quick access to MSN Messenger, MSN Hotmail and MSN Spaces, enabling them to initiate common communication tasks right from the bar, including e-mail, instant messaging and inserting URLs into spaces blogs.
Familiar interfaces and useful results. Consumers can use desktop search when browsing files in Windows in a comfortable and familiar format, enabling them to open files in their associated application directly from their desktop search results and enabling quick access to actions such as managing, sharing, deleting or playing files.
New MSN Search service. MSN Toolbar Suite displays Web search results from the recently launched MSN Search Beta release, a new algorithmic search engine built by Microsoft and designed to help consumers find precisely the information they are looking for by providing more useful answers to their questions and more control over their search experience.
Privacy protection. The MSN Toolbar Suite is built on the current Windows security and privacy model, and respects the privacy of multiple users on a single PC by utilising the Windows authentication and user account management infrastructure, helping to provide consumers with a better-protected and more private desktop searching experience.

Indias 40 richest
http://www.forbes.com/business/2004/12/09/cz_1209indiaintro.html

Engineers for the space agency's experimental X-43A project prepare to break the aircraft speed record to MACH 10 But the hypersonic jet flight could be NASA's last.

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43-main.html

Wipro does a shadi.com ? really ....
http://www.rediff.com/money/2004/dec/10wipro.htm

Some great bloggs on BizTalk 2004

http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwoo/Rss.aspx
http://www.traceofthought.net/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss
http://blogs.msdn.com/kevinsmi/Rss.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalk_core_engine/Rss.aspx

Using CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/sqlclrguidance.asp

An interesting video at MSDN TV about SQL Server 2005/Yukon + Visual studio
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20041104SQLServerML/manifest.xml

Google just made the Internet significantly bigger -- at least for the worlds of search and book publishing. http://www.forbes.com/2004/12/14/cz_qh_1214google.html

An entire site dedidated to P Invoke
http://pinvoke.net/

This is awesome stuff, you can use this to cut down developement time by providing user with IDE thats tailor made for the specific domain/application interface

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/12/CustomFormsDesigner/default.aspx

A must see for code generators etc

Study: Microsoft Has Best Reputation as Customer Satisfaction Surges http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/43901/43901.html

Good links for BizTalk
http://www.only4gurus.com/v2/ShowCat.asp?Cat=BizTalk%20Server
http://www.topxml.com/b2b/
http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton/articles/9795.aspx
http://www.usingbiztalk.com/

MSDN : Library of On-Demand Webcast
http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/webcasts/library/default.mspx

Find webcasts to all the latest and happening technologies
Like BizTalk 2004, SharePoint Server, Longhorn, WinFS, Yukon etc
All the web casts are delivered by industry experts and product managers etc

How to create a custom code template in Visual Studio .NET

cool one
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=870715


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Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting

Bill Gates at the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting
Read the presentation here
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/speech/FY04/GatesFAM2004.mspx
also the other heavyweights presentation can be found here
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/speech/fy04/archivemtg2004.mspx


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Good site for quotes

http://wikiquote.com



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Hazards of hiring

Eric Sink is at it again read his latest article at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnsoftware/html/software07072004.asp


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Refactoring feature in VS 2005

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/VS05_refac.asp



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Good article on SQL Server 2005

http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/sql_ovyukondev.asp




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MS wants your skin

Microsoft has a patent on a new kind of network: Your body.
The software giant has received a U.S. patent for a "method and apparatus
for transmitting power and data using the human body." An application for
the patent, No. 6,754, 472, was filed in 2000 and awarded this week.
Microsoft proposes linking portable devices such as watches, keyboards,
displays, and speakers using the conductivity of "a body of a living
creature."

This is a Simple test

It Works !!!
Now i can publish a blog via email :)




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This campaign was run by the Church of Singapore to get more people to attend church services on Sunday. They ran a press campaign along with an outdoor one.
The following ads are from their press campaign. By all accounts , the campaign was a roaring success. Got people back to Church in the droves.

Dont drink and drive, you are not ready to meet me yet - God

Could you imagine the price of air if it were bought to you by another supplier -God

What do i have to do to get ur attention? Take out an add in the papers ? - God

Earthlings dont treat me like an alien - God

I was thinking of making the world black and white..then i thought... naaaah -God

How can u possibly be a self-made-man ? I specifically recall making you - God

I think you are the most beautiful person in the world.Okay so Im biased - God

 

Sex lies and Bill Gates
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. - Arthur C. Clarke
"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it." - Seymore Cray (on virtual memory) "
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." - Michael Sinz
"Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code."
"You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary." - Juuso Heimonen
"Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more user-friendly... Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover" - Bill Gates
"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature."
"Humans are the best value in computers - where else can you get a non-linear computer weighing only about 160lbs, having a billion binary decision elements, that can be mass-produced by unskilled labour?"

Orkut.com - Amazing site, community driven site where u can make friends and join various communities, read messages from other communities w/o joining it.

Great place too keep in touch with old friends ... and even find those "lost friends " :)

Custom entry point in MSIL
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Security/DefiningCustomEntryPoints.asp

Good article on Genetic Algorithm in C#
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/08/GeneticAlgorithms/default.aspx

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2002/July/GeneticAlgorithm.asp
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2004/July/NumericSeriesGA.asp   (good one with examples)
http://www.onyeyiri.co.uk/computers/csharp/ga_code/index.php

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Algorithms.asp
http://geneticalgorithms.ai-depot.com/GeneticAlgorithms/
http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/

generating .net code using C#

http://www.c-sharpcenter.com/codedom/codedom.asp

http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/Microsoft/CSharp/CSharpCodeProvider.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconGeneratingSourceCodeCompilingProgramFromCodeDOMGraph.asp

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/matheval.asp

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/btl_ga.asp

Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)
http://skepdic.com/neurolin.html
http://www.umdnj.edu/psyevnts/neuroling.html

Some one is watching ur email , ur fax and all other modes of communication
http://www.c4i.org/erehwon/echelon.html

Save time by automatically generating code. Check out
http://www.codegeneration.net/

and my favourite code generator http://www.ericjsmith.net/codesmith

Check out how word can help in creating great work
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/preview.aspx?AssetID=HA010775881033&CTT=1&Origin=EC010227211033&QueryID=S4d5jZxDB

"Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently." - Confucius

"You are a product of your environment, so choose the environment that will best develop you towards your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success? Or are they holding you back?"-- W. Clement Stone.

Saw something super cool today
http://www.antlr.org/
http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/text/bnf.html

List of all Microsoft Webcasts
http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/webcasts/ondemand.mspx

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
- Steven Wright

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing

Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives test first, the lesson afterwards

Everything is hard before it is easy
-Goethe

Every 10 seconds, somewhere on this earth, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
I hate the country, all those animals walking around un-cooked.
I'd give a thousand dollars to be one of them there millionaires!
I'm gonna survive or die trying.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

‘‘There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to achieve it.''
-NAPOLEON HILL

MS News
Yesterday MS revealed that a new game development platform dubbed XNA will be delivered by MS
XNA will use DirectX will continue to be the "baseline environment"

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is thinking that having problems is a problem."
-Theodore Rubin

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out."-- Vaclav Havel

Tried out the Microsoft Plus! Dancers
Amazing quality and great set of characters

An interesting presentation on BizTalk from MS

BizTalk 2004 launched yesterday
My new best friend BizTalks... new avatar availble now

If you know how.. you will always have a job.
If you know why.. you will always be a boss.

Gates on security
"There are a lot of different challenges out there," Gates noted.
"We've got to have the right tools. We've got to have the right
processes. The people who attack these systems are getting more and
more sophisticated. For every time we take a type of attack and
eliminate that as an opportunity, they move up to a whole new level.
And that's not an unending process. We can make it dramatically more
difficult, but we have to keep that in mind: This is a
measure-countermeasure type environment."

MS deal with ebay
MS signs deal with ebay by which Office components such as Excel and Front page can connect to ebay site and get lattest bidding etc

http://www.developer.ebay.com/devprogram

Means to an end ... web begging

Was telling a firend about RSS the other day, and got stomped by a couple of questions really ....
but fact remins that RSS isnt going to get all that popular w/o a business model attached to it and how the business folks can attach a dollar value to it ....rss is going to be in developerland for time to come

Good MS blog here

Cyber Sabotage in the cold war era
Read about a CIA sponsored sabotage and how it hit a cyberia oil facility here

Microsoft WMV 9
The DVD Forum has approved the popular Microsoft Windows Media
Video (WMV) 9 format as a mandatory technology for any device seeking
the high-definition DVD (HD-DVD) logo. In other words, to use the
logo, next-generation DVD players and other DVD-playback devices must
support WMV.

Came across some useful undocumented sproc
1)sp_MSforeachtable - it iterates through all the tables of the current DB

Eg.
sp_MSForEachTable 'exec sp_spaceused "?"' -- To get the spaces used by individual sprocs
EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1="print '?' DBCC DBREINDEX ('?')" -- To reindex all the tables in the DB

2) And use sp_MSforeachdb to iterated through all the DBs

3) sp_MSdrop_object to drop any object by providing its id/ name etc

Fortune names Accenture “most admired” computer & data services company

Also check out fortune listing and articles here

Active Directory turns 4, just a couple of days back
Though it hasnt raised to Bill Gates promise of adoption, its done a good job

All about MS clustering services
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/columns/tips/w2kclust.asp

Whidbey Wows !!
Check out the concept of ObjectSpaces tehnology in Widbey here

what does your career and calculus have in common ?
C = G + LT ?
fine out here
Or on the fact that why learining should be a process and not an event

Avanade
http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=14776

The top 10 rules of performance here

:)
Two atoms are sitting in a bar.
atom 1(in a whisper): "I think I've lost an electron"
atom 2: "Are you sure"
atom 1: "I'm positive"

MS
In response to the predatory behavior of MS, MS states that its just "constitutes permissible competitive activity" ;)

MS dos 6.0 was the first OS whose source code was stolen and distributed online way back in 2000

SQL server xml features tutorials
http://www.topxml.com/sql/default.asp

Good SQL resource site portal
http://vyaskn.tripod.com

Interesting lines :

There are the faint of heart .. and then there are the relentless !

If you were dirt upon a road, in sultry summer weather,
I'd be a cloud and rain on you, and we'd make mud together.

If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.

If the enemy is in range--- so are you

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot

The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are
so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell

Spectators never win

There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

creativity
http://www.csl.sri.com/users/mwfong/Sidewalk_Flats/
also http://www.csl.sri.com/users/mwfong/Humor/Meanings/

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

SQL server
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/anniversary/timeline.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/anniversary/tenfirsts.asp

SQL server fun facts
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/anniversary/funfacts.asp

Flash on SQL server
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/2000/demo/autorun/window.htm

Microsoft Museum
http://www.microsoft.com/museum
http://www.microsoft.com/museum/musStudent.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/museum/publictrivia.doc

Good (short) turorials on SQL xml capabilities
like XSLT and XML HTTP here

SQL server
About SQL XML
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/sqlsolutions/sqlreldata/default.aspx#xml

SQL server
automatically generating sprocs
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/msdnmag/issues/03/04/StoredProcedures/toc.asp

Microsoft
Ending days of speculation, entertainment giant The Walt Disney
Company announced a multiyear agreement with Microsoft to license
Microsoft Windows Media technologies, including the Digital Rights
Management (DRM) component that can be used to protect the delivery of
digital content. Windows Media technologies are increasingly gaining
favor with Hollywood, as content creators seek to find secure ways to
expand into new digital markets and Internet content delivery. Disney
is the second major Hollywood player to embrace the technology in
recent days; Time Warner licensed it last fall. But the combination of
Disney and Microsoft represents a melding of two of the most respected
brands in America and reestablishes Windows Media as the de facto
standard for digital-media delivery.

Ctrl+Alt+Del Inventor Retires on 30/jan/2004
The engineer who invented the Ctrl+Alt+Del keystroke combination is
retiring today from IBM, leaving behind his legacy as an inexorable
part of the PC experience. David Bradley developed the key combination
while working on prototypes of IBM's first PC. He needed a way to
quickly reboot the buggy machine because a hard reset--which involved
flicking off the power switch and waiting a few moments before
retoggling it--took too much time. "The intention was to be cryptic,"
he said. "It was a key combination that was the moral equivalent of
turning the power off and back on again, so it was not an action to be
taken lightly. It wasn't something you wanted to happen accidentally."
Today, many people use the keystroke combination on a regular basis
and not always because the machine has become unresponsive. Microsoft
adopted the keystroke combination for use in Windows; today's Windows
versions use the combination to let people log on to the system and to
bring up a diagnostic screen. "I might have invented Ctrl+Alt+Del but,
as I like to say, Bill Gates made it famous," Bradley joked.

IE Commands 94.8 Percent of Web Usage
In news that should surprise no one, Microsoft Internet Explorer
(IE) dominates the Web with 94.8 percent of all Web usage worldwide,
according to market researchers at OneStat.com. Broken down into
specific versions, IE 6.0 is number one with 68.1 percent of the
market, followed by IE 5.5 (13.8 percent), IE 5.0 (11.8), Mozilla
(1.8), Opera Software's Opera 7.0 (0.8), IE 4.0 (0.7), and Apple's
Safari (.48). Humorous note of the week: MacCentral's coverage of this
event was titled, "Safari global usage nearly doubled."

Microsoft is working to
replace it with yet another C-like programming language. Dubbed Xen
(previously X#), the new language melds C# with XML and Microsoft SQL
Server support

Microsoft
Microsoft surpassed the $10 billion mark for the first time in its
history. And here's a sobering thought: Microsoft is now averaging
sales of $100 million a day, every day, and the company has almost $53
billion in cash or liquid assets--$1 billion more than when the
quarter began

Something to ponder :
Expertise can be surprisingly difficult to find, even in companies that have spent millions of dollars to attract and retain it. Traditional methods, such as document repositories and static directories, are inadequate because expertise, unlike other assets, depends on the context—making it difficult to describe and classify.

Patterns and Practices by audience
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/practices/audiences.asp

Some great insults :)

* He is an intellectual virgin, he has never had an idea in his life.
* You are living proof that stupid people should not breed.
* Doe's your head hurt when you are that stupid?
* You remind me of opium, a slow working dope.
* Did you study to be that expertly stupid or does it come naturally?
* How can I keep an idiot in suspense? I'll tell you later.
* He had a pimple on his ass which turned out to be a brain tumor
* The sealthing technology used to hide your brain from all attacks of reason is impressive. Are NASA designing advanced retards now?
* When you speak, you do so in a way that makes slugs and other invertebrates look like Nobel prize winners.
* Just when I think, "Surely, this person has obtained and encapsulates the limits of human stupidity", you go and push the boundary even further.
* if you were twice as smart as you are now, you'd be chronically stupid.

"Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping, work while others are loafing, prepare while others are playing, and dream while others are wishing." -William A. Ward

Grid computing
SETI@home project, which analyzes radio waves to search for
intelligent extraterrestrial life. SETI@home's global network of 3
million computers averaged about 14 trillion floating point operations
per second (FLOPS) and generated more than 500,000 years of processing
time in a year and a half

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
-Aldous Huxley

You will find it when ur ready to seek

we don't see things as they are, we see things as we are

Without a picture of your highest self, you can't live into that self. Fake it till you make it