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my danish angel

Is this what it feels like to give birth? Because I feel so much joy and contentment. I have my first Puppy, my Baby Bibi and Her Daddy Papi are the two most precious treasures in my life.

Thank you to what ever entity that decided we all belong together, because we do.

1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
I sailed a boat under the bay area bridge, I made a friend at work, I saw the UP, I had the best cherry juice, I met other gay Arabs, I re connected with a brother, I came out to a brother, I missed a chance to meet WAM, I re connected with a friend.

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
to quit smoking hopefully, damn fags!!

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
some, not THAT close .

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.

5. What countries/cities did you visit?
oh my. San Fran, Detroit, and many many other little cities.

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
a warmer climate.

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Dec 12. My little brother (23 y.o) told me he was proud of me no matter what.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I almost landed a great job offer. And I am still proud of myself for being able to have done that. But I didn’t for reasons out of my hand (not having an American Citizen Ship)

9. What was your biggest failure?
trying to quit smoking about 9 times. And the fact that I did not get the jon mentioned above.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
in 2006 I burned my shoulder. This year. Nothing to speak of.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
my new Lappy : I love her so much, she is my Ebony Queen: an XPS M 1210

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
my Curt in every thoughtful thing he does.,

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Renee Nelson

14. Where did most of your money go?
Games, Metro Passes, Rent, Booze and Food.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
I was told I can finally have a pup this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
Love is a Losing Game, Amy

17. Compared to this time last year, are you…

i. happier or sadder?
happier

ii. thinner or fatter?
same

iii. richer or poorer?
same

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
I wish I had composed more of my time to create more rewarding experiences.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
seriously, nothing. Maybe slacking. But I don’t feel too bad about that either.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I spent Christmas lounging, Christmas eve…a whole other story kids!

21. How will you be spending New Years?
not sure.

22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
yup, same guy.

23. How many one night stands?
none what so ever.

24. What was your favourite TV program?
Weeds, Deadwood, Entourage.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
once I hate, I always hate.

26. What was the best book you read?
Girls of Riyadh.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Amy Winehouse, Brits New Album and many Arabic things that no one I know will relate to.

28. What did you want and get?
a trip to San Fran

29. What did you want and not get?
ONE MILLION DOLLERS

30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Juno

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
friends, friends, friends. I turned 29

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
a month in the Maldives

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
knitted, nice denim and a touch of red.

34. What kept you sane?
booze, drugs and ambient toons.

I JOKE

My guy.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I thought I have lost in Angelina Jolie until I watched a “mighty heart”

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Immigration Equality.

37. Who did you miss?
My Family.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Quinton, ML, Heidi, and Mrs. Peterson.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.
people aren’t who or what they seem to be at first.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Oh My God That Kal is Shameless.

1) Papi
2) Brie and White Wine Soup
3) The Smile on a Face That “Gets It” for the first time
4) When the People Stand for what they want:
5) In Lebanon
6) In Saudi
7) In the US
8) Inga, Sarah, Heidi, Miles, ML.
9) The End of the Epson all-in-one.
10) I love New York , Project Runway
11) I give thanks for drinks rejected and drinks drunken, and those who poured them. Dishes eaten and dishes washed and those who filled them. Desserts that were gulped, deserts, and those who dwell them. Conversations had and things left unsaid and those who called for them.

I know now what I never knew then because of you!

I have been trying to understand the E8 theory of everything and – for the longest time, everything I read left me with more questions than answers.

That is until iabervon showed up on Slashdot.

Thank you, Sir. Here is his explanation.

• “(I am not a particle physicist or a mathematician of the right sort, but I can kind of follow this sort of thing)

Okay, the context is that you've got particles, and they're fundamentally all the same, but they're "turned" in different ways. Think of a ball with 3-color LEDs inside: you can rotate it around three axes, and move it in three directions, and you can also cycle its color and change its blinking pattern. Particles are like that, except that the topology is weird: it's not back to the same orientation until you turn it around 720 degrees, instead of 360 like normal objects. The "gauge group" is the rules for how you can change things. For example, the total color of the universe is white: if you turn something from red to blue, you have to turn something else from blue to red; but you can also create a pair of a green and a purple (anti-green). They write all these rules up in math, and it's tricky because a lot of the features vary continuously (that is, you can rotate something an arbitrarily small amount). And due to the interaction of the rules for one property with the rules for other properties, there are only certain combinations of properties that you can get. They work out all the combinations that you can have and those are what you see as "different" particles that your experiments show. Of course, we don't know what the rules are, and we're trying to figure that out from what combinations of properties we've seen and which ones we're speculating are impossible. And it's hard and takes a lot of calculation to figure out what a candidate set of rules would even mean as far as results. And people are looking at known results and trying to describe them better than "we've done a billion things, and a billion things happened".

Now, the math of rules for how things can interact turns out to be sort of limited; there are basically 4 normal cases, which are boring, and then there are a few exceptional cases, which are interesting. Of these, the hardest to prove stuff about is E8, and it's just now becoming clear what combinations it allows. It's like one of those puzzles where you press a corner and lights change, and you have to turn off all the lights, but it's got dozens of corners and dozens of lights and every time you press a corner a bunch of things change at once, and there are different kinds of corners and it also matters exactly what angle you're holding it at, so there are hundreds of things you can say about each move.

And the mathematicians working on E8 recently said, "well, you can get positions like this and not like that", where "this" and "that" are big complicated lists. And this physicist read that paper and said, "hey, those lists are familiar; I made similar lists of particle interactions". So the proposal is that particles work like E8 in what kind of rules they follow. And it's a really nice theory, because E8 is essentially the most flexible set of rules you can have without it falling apart into just anything being possible (and some rules or properties just not mattering)”

20 year old college drop out: I AM smarter than you, ask me ANYTHING!

24 year old high school drop out: who invented America?

Number 6 Bus

barking spider:

A highly elusive nocturnal specie of spider mainly from the Michigan area but have been spotted throughout parts of Minnesota (also known as the Michigan Barking Spider). While no live specimens have been caught in order to be studied, this is the only spider known to man with the capability to "bark". These spiders are attracted by the scent of Tacos and Burritos also been known to emerge on Carb Free Days. While you may not see them, you will hear them and at times feel them scurrying through the couch cushions. They do use a foul odor as a defensive mechanism. Beware the silent Michigan barking spider, it is a deadly sub-specie and should be avoided at all costs.

sentence example:
Holy Shit! Call pest control. We seem to have an infestation of Michigan Barking Spiders. I think Bob just got hit by a silent one cause I see him convulsing in the corner.