Sunday, August 21, 2005
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Mr and Mrs Christie
For my encore post, I give you the Doug and Jackie Christie story.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=knight-_WWW_SPRT_12382139&prov=knight&type=lgns
Feel free to insert your "franz's future" joke here.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=knight-_WWW_SPRT_12382139&prov=knight&type=lgns
Feel free to insert your "franz's future" joke here.
Join the fight!
Forget about Bush or Hillary Clinton, here's the next American president.
http://www.walkenforpres.com/
2008 baby!
http://www.walkenforpres.com/
2008 baby!
Friday, August 12, 2005
This just might suck...
Scientists find errors in global warming data
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY Fri Aug 12, 7:32 AM ET
Satellite and weather-balloon research released Friday removes a last bastion of scientific doubt about global warming, researchers say.
Surface temperatures have shown small but steady increases since the 1970s, but the tropics had shown little atmospheric heating - and even some cooling. Now, after sleuthing reported in three papers released by the journal Science, revisions have been made to that atmospheric data.
Climate expert Ben Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, lead author of one of the papers, says that those fairly steady measurements in the tropics have been a key argument "among people asking, 'Why should I believe this global warming hocus-pocus?' "
After examining the satellite data, collected since 1979 by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellites, Carl Mears and Frank Wentz of Remote Sensing Systems in Santa Rosa, Calif., found that the satellites had drifted in orbit, throwing off the timing of temperature measures. Essentially, the satellites were increasingly reporting nighttime temperatures as daytime ones, leading to a false cooling trend. The team also found a math error in the calculations.
"Our hats are off to (them). They found a real source of error," says atmospheric scientist John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, whose team produced the lower temperature estimates.
When examining the balloon data, Yale University researchers found that heating from tropical sunlight was skewing the temperatures reported by sensors, making nights look as warm as days.
Once corrected, the satellite and balloon temperatures align with other surface and upper-atmosphere measures, as well as climate change models, Santer says.
Global warming's pace over the past 30 years has actually been quite slow, a total increase of about 1 degree Fahrenheit. It is predicted to accelerate in this century.
Mark Herlong of the George C. Marshall Institute declined to comment. The group, financed by the petroleum industry, has used the data disparities to dispute the views of global-warming activists. In recent years, however, the institute has softened its public statements, acknowledging that the planet is indeed getting warmer but still maintaining that the change is happening so slowly that the impact is minimal.
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY Fri Aug 12, 7:32 AM ET
Satellite and weather-balloon research released Friday removes a last bastion of scientific doubt about global warming, researchers say.
Surface temperatures have shown small but steady increases since the 1970s, but the tropics had shown little atmospheric heating - and even some cooling. Now, after sleuthing reported in three papers released by the journal Science, revisions have been made to that atmospheric data.
Climate expert Ben Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, lead author of one of the papers, says that those fairly steady measurements in the tropics have been a key argument "among people asking, 'Why should I believe this global warming hocus-pocus?' "
After examining the satellite data, collected since 1979 by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellites, Carl Mears and Frank Wentz of Remote Sensing Systems in Santa Rosa, Calif., found that the satellites had drifted in orbit, throwing off the timing of temperature measures. Essentially, the satellites were increasingly reporting nighttime temperatures as daytime ones, leading to a false cooling trend. The team also found a math error in the calculations.
"Our hats are off to (them). They found a real source of error," says atmospheric scientist John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, whose team produced the lower temperature estimates.
When examining the balloon data, Yale University researchers found that heating from tropical sunlight was skewing the temperatures reported by sensors, making nights look as warm as days.
Once corrected, the satellite and balloon temperatures align with other surface and upper-atmosphere measures, as well as climate change models, Santer says.
Global warming's pace over the past 30 years has actually been quite slow, a total increase of about 1 degree Fahrenheit. It is predicted to accelerate in this century.
Mark Herlong of the George C. Marshall Institute declined to comment. The group, financed by the petroleum industry, has used the data disparities to dispute the views of global-warming activists. In recent years, however, the institute has softened its public statements, acknowledging that the planet is indeed getting warmer but still maintaining that the change is happening so slowly that the impact is minimal.
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
My E-mail Correspondence with Bret Hart
Sucks...
I sent him an e-mail which contained exactly these words:
And he replied me with these :
Hi. Thanks for writing to me. The fan mail I receive at this address
is given to me weekly. I enjoy reading your letters and have always
genuinely appreciated your feedback, so keep it coming! I try to answer
as many of you as I can but sometimes there just aren't enough hours in
the day. It sounds like just a line, but it's so true. I'm currently
in Toronto appearing as the genie of the lamp in a fun stage play
called Aladdin, The Magical Family Musical. After that I'll be returning
home to Calgary where I look forward to going to lots of Calgary Hitmen
games, which I've missed a lot while being away. I'll probably be doing
some autograoh sessions in the states in the Spring if it can be worked
out, but it's only in the early talking stages so if it actually comes
to be there won't be a schedule until after the first of the year.
Info will be posted on brethart.com - or to set up a booking e-mail
Marcy, my always swamped but forever tireless friend ( who really doesn't
like compliments even when they're deserved so this is a rib that will
drive her nuts! :-) ) She's also my office manager so e-mail her if
you want to look iinto booking an appearance. marcy@brethart.com
Best wishes to each and every one of you for a happy and healthy
holiday and New Year. Bret
Sigh...I guess I better send the bald Chinese guy covering WWE for Star Sports another hate mail...
I sent him an e-mail which contained exactly these words:
Dear Mr. Hart:
Greetings!
You cannot believe how excited I am to be sending you this e-mail. I have been following you and your matches since God knows when here in the Philippines. You are still a very big wrestling figure here in our country. A lot of us still talk about you and your matches (you vs. your bro-in-law the British bulldog, you vs. mr.perfect) even after we don't watch much wrestling these days (the current product seems to be boring to us now). Personally, the best move that I've seen is how you use the figure-four on the steel post. Haha, all of us get a kick on how you would use that to fight bigger opponents.
Anyway, will there be a remote possibility of you visiting the Philippines? Even for a vacation? hehe, we have some of the best beaches in the world. I would very much like to meet you personally. You were a part of my childhood (I was a very big wrestling fan, and wanted to be a wrestler when I was still a toddler hehehe).
More power!
Regards,
Wilson Tang
Greetings!
You cannot believe how excited I am to be sending you this e-mail. I have been following you and your matches since God knows when here in the Philippines. You are still a very big wrestling figure here in our country. A lot of us still talk about you and your matches (you vs. your bro-in-law the British bulldog, you vs. mr.perfect) even after we don't watch much wrestling these days (the current product seems to be boring to us now). Personally, the best move that I've seen is how you use the figure-four on the steel post. Haha, all of us get a kick on how you would use that to fight bigger opponents.
Anyway, will there be a remote possibility of you visiting the Philippines? Even for a vacation? hehe, we have some of the best beaches in the world. I would very much like to meet you personally. You were a part of my childhood (I was a very big wrestling fan, and wanted to be a wrestler when I was still a toddler hehehe).
More power!
Regards,
Wilson Tang
And he replied me with these :
Hi. Thanks for writing to me. The fan mail I receive at this address
is given to me weekly. I enjoy reading your letters and have always
genuinely appreciated your feedback, so keep it coming! I try to answer
as many of you as I can but sometimes there just aren't enough hours in
the day. It sounds like just a line, but it's so true. I'm currently
in Toronto appearing as the genie of the lamp in a fun stage play
called Aladdin, The Magical Family Musical. After that I'll be returning
home to Calgary where I look forward to going to lots of Calgary Hitmen
games, which I've missed a lot while being away. I'll probably be doing
some autograoh sessions in the states in the Spring if it can be worked
out, but it's only in the early talking stages so if it actually comes
to be there won't be a schedule until after the first of the year.
Info will be posted on brethart.com - or to set up a booking e-mail
Marcy, my always swamped but forever tireless friend ( who really doesn't
like compliments even when they're deserved so this is a rib that will
drive her nuts! :-) ) She's also my office manager so e-mail her if
you want to look iinto booking an appearance. marcy@brethart.com
Best wishes to each and every one of you for a happy and healthy
holiday and New Year. Bret
Sigh...I guess I better send the bald Chinese guy covering WWE for Star Sports another hate mail...
Planning out
This announcing plans thing sounds cool, so here's mine from next year onwards.
1) Transfer to California on January 2006 where I'll be dorming it up on what will be most certainly, a co-ed dorm.
2) late feb 06: spring break. Will be licking whipped cream and knee deep in boobs somewhere in Daytona or Tijuana.
3) Mid July 06. Going back with Glenn and Pierre.
4) Mid July 06 a day after: Pierre and I pick up a half drunk half delirious Glenn as he discovers that 80% of the most beautiful women in the world reside in California.
5) Sept 06. Fall break. Stip and Eug join us just in time for... One word: Vegas. One more time: VEGAS!
6) Feb 07. Spring break. Two words: Mardi gras. One more time: Pares!
7) Aug 07. Move in to our own place.
So that's the two year plan. Oh and we graduate, get our degree, work and live happy and meaningful lives. But that's just a side point.
1) Transfer to California on January 2006 where I'll be dorming it up on what will be most certainly, a co-ed dorm.
2) late feb 06: spring break. Will be licking whipped cream and knee deep in boobs somewhere in Daytona or Tijuana.
3) Mid July 06. Going back with Glenn and Pierre.
4) Mid July 06 a day after: Pierre and I pick up a half drunk half delirious Glenn as he discovers that 80% of the most beautiful women in the world reside in California.
5) Sept 06. Fall break. Stip and Eug join us just in time for... One word: Vegas. One more time: VEGAS!
6) Feb 07. Spring break. Two words: Mardi gras. One more time: Pares!
7) Aug 07. Move in to our own place.
So that's the two year plan. Oh and we graduate, get our degree, work and live happy and meaningful lives. But that's just a side point.
Monday, August 01, 2005
My Plans for the Future
A lot of people, quite coincidentially, has been asking me what are my plans for the immediate future. I don't know, maybe its because I'm nearing graduation from college or something. Could it be an indication that I'm in demand by my colleagues? Haha, how I wish.
Anyway, my immediate goals for the future in order of when I wish to start my plans are:
1.) Start a business on 2006, while graduating with a BS Chemistry degree.
2.) Evaluate my business on 2007, start a new one if possible, while finishing my BS Materials Science and Engineering degree.
3.) Start grad school by pursuing an MS Chemistry degree at the Ateneo or apply for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a possible MS Nanoscience degree at Leiden University.
4.) Start my MS Materials Science and Engineering Degree at U.P. Diliman in 2008.
5.) Apply for a Doctoral degree at a U.S. , European or Japanese Grad school.
Yeah, I know all of these seems pretty ambitious. And in fact, I know some, if not all of these might not work out, am I'm prepared to face that reality. But this is the path that I would like to take for the present moment. The sole reason why I want to pursue a Ph.D. degree in science is because I believe in the power of science in transforming a nation (well, a Ph.D. degree won't hurt in scoring a few chicks here and there, but I'd probably be too old to do that by that time). The Philippines is in a crucial stage in its history where it needs science and engineering the most. It is a developing country in dire need of proper scientific applications to achieve national growth and prosperity. Hopefully, my dream will bear fruit and I would be able to contribute to science in the Philippines.
Anyway, my immediate goals for the future in order of when I wish to start my plans are:
1.) Start a business on 2006, while graduating with a BS Chemistry degree.
2.) Evaluate my business on 2007, start a new one if possible, while finishing my BS Materials Science and Engineering degree.
3.) Start grad school by pursuing an MS Chemistry degree at the Ateneo or apply for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a possible MS Nanoscience degree at Leiden University.
4.) Start my MS Materials Science and Engineering Degree at U.P. Diliman in 2008.
5.) Apply for a Doctoral degree at a U.S. , European or Japanese Grad school.
Yeah, I know all of these seems pretty ambitious. And in fact, I know some, if not all of these might not work out, am I'm prepared to face that reality. But this is the path that I would like to take for the present moment. The sole reason why I want to pursue a Ph.D. degree in science is because I believe in the power of science in transforming a nation (well, a Ph.D. degree won't hurt in scoring a few chicks here and there, but I'd probably be too old to do that by that time). The Philippines is in a crucial stage in its history where it needs science and engineering the most. It is a developing country in dire need of proper scientific applications to achieve national growth and prosperity. Hopefully, my dream will bear fruit and I would be able to contribute to science in the Philippines.
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