Jojo on the train.

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Interstate 15 : San Diego, Ca.

I'm not going that fast, really--not as fast as usually drive. Probably because I'm holding the cell phone camera to try to get the illusion of speed.

It's 7:12 and I'm late for work. Music's blarring, cars swerving around me. I usually do around 80 and cars still pass me like I'm standing still. And some are humble, like Toyota Corollas --must be XRS versions.

I'm almost there. 

 

The real Star Wars

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, a star exploded.

This star exploded so violently that for a few weeks the star outshone its parent galaxy. This type of explosion is called a Supernova.

We have a new Supernova classified as "2004bv" located in the galaxy "NGC 6907" That's like the sun or some other star in our Milky Way galaxy, exploding and the blast from the explosion outshines the center of the Milky Way where there is believed to be a massive black hole.

It's a 15 magnitude explosion and it is not visible with the naked eye, especially through our soupy, light polluted skies. You'd have to go to a desert in Australia or another southern hemispheric dark location with a 14" telescope and then probably spend a few days triangulating sections of the sky until you saw it and its parent Galaxy, NGC 6907.


When you do get to it through your telescope, it will only be a tiny point of light. But this point of light is thousands of light years accross. That means that if you wanted to see explore this explosion, you'd have to travel for thousands of years at the speed of light.

The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second.

It's disturbing to even think of these distances. Think about this--how something so incomprehensively massive can be to us a mere point of light in a galaxy far, far away. If there were populated and maybe civilized worlds anywhere near by within that galaxy they are no more.

Think about how insignificant our problems here on Earth are compared to something that massive and catastrophic. Nothing you go through life is a problem so large that you can't solve it or have someone help you solve.

This Super massive Nova, Like our problems appear to be sometimes, will eventually dissipate and turn into a stellar nursery giving birth to new stars, new worlds new ideas.

We need to remember that our problems can also dissipate and with time we can use the results of these problems to form new ideas, new approaches to old problems, new concepts. But like the supernova, we must wait for things to simmer, cool down, calm down. Nature will take over and the ideas will flow and emerge as if out of stardust.

Which is what we're made of. It's in the Lord's Prayer...

"thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven..."

What we see happen above, we can make happen below as well in a different scale.

You know you're distracted when...

I have a lot to read and review at work today, graphics to make and a program to test. I'm the only one of a team of three developers here today as I have been for about a month now. one is on vacation with his wife in Greece on a long and well deserved cruise and the other is temporarily placed on another assignment at our corporate center--not a problem.

Only that when I get in, I'm overwhelmed with things to do and favors to comply with. I work with some really cool people so it doesn't bother me and I find the following comments humerous.

"Alex, I need that logo you guys did 5 years ago--please find it"

"Alex, can you please convert this PDF back into Word?" (It was never in Word nor is it text, it's a graphic)

"Why does it cost that much, can't you just hit the button that says convert?" (in reference to XML and other weird formats)

--and my favorite...

"Can you whip up this graphic when you get a chance?"--then they sit down next to you waiting for that chance, I guess I have a chance "NOW!?!"

"Sure!"--All the while I have my regular work to do, but I'm happy to do it all. This simple Blog entry is a way to relieve my frustration. The other way I relieve frustration is to actually relieve myself.

As I sit on the throne with a printout of some sort so I don't get bored. I start to read it and then realize...

"shit, am I in the ladies room?!?" I have to actually remember that I saw urinals on the way in, a huge dead cockroach in the corner next to some poison and heard the baritone fart symphony where the urinals are supposed to be and not little pink, flowery convenience vending machines that I assume all ladies' rooms have.

I don't make it a habbit of of accidentally entering the women's restroom and the confusion only lasts a second but no doubt, my sensetive masculine ego was involved in this rapid thought process.

I expect the day will stay this hectic--that's a good thing.

-out

SURVEiLLANCE ALERT!!!

It has come to the attention of the National Security Agency that we might be under surveillance by beings from another world. The methods being used are more sophisticated than we had anticipated. One such surveillance infusion is by the random placement of garden furniture and decorations. Although seemingly harmless in appearance, the simple "lawn Gnome" may be a highly sensitive high frequency transmission and reception unit used to monitor earth creature activity.

They may be watching everything from garden slugs slobbering around to cats tracking birds and rodentia to humans going about their daily activities. These simple Gnomes may appear as though they're blending in with the garden; what they are in fact doing is collecting data throughout the day that gets uploaded to a mothership at night. These waves are such high frequency that they cannot be seen with the naked eye. We've noticed, though, that cats can see these signals. The radiation emited by these devices at night does not pose a threat.

If you notice a new decoration on your garden or see any lawn gnomes, don't be alarmed. They are harmless and do not seem to pose a threat to the Homeland Security program. Go about your daily activities as usual.

More as this develops.

not as impressive...

maybe using these Blogs is not as impressive as I thought yesterday. It seemed like a dynamic idea at the time but maybe I just haven't explored everything there is to them. More later...