Snake Oil Salesman

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Originally uploaded by mhughen.

This man could truly sell anything. If he is able to get Gammy and Denise to the property after sending this picture, he should give classes.

Sweet snake though, Isaac and I are definately in.

Acapella Amazing

Wow, check this out, totally incredible.

Wiki Conversation

Ever notice how cyclical things are if you take the time to notice? We found this quote from the founder of Wikipedia on our Starbucks cup this morning.

"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free
access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis gives us a place where everyone
who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come join us in building a better
and more rational world." - Jimmy Wales -Founder of Wikipedia and
Wikia.com

First Pics: Isaac's Kindergarten Graduation

Just to demonstrate the speed of technology, here are some pics of Isaac before his graduation ceremony. We're headed out the door for the festivities. Happy Friday!

The Lifebox, The Seashell, and the Soul

I just leafed through the last chapter in Rudy Rucker's book. While each chapter has a dizzying array of advanced mathematics (which I promptly skipped over for the most part) to argue his "the universe is a gnarly computation" theory (universal automatism), the author comes to a very real and understandable conclusion.

Rudy attempts to answer, "the meaning of life" question using this same theory. He suggests that even human emotions can be described in a computationally rich scale.

• Rage - simple class 1 computation which predictably and simply terminates
• Hatred - class 2 computation looping endlessly and again predictably
• Needy desire to please another -class 3 (random, messy, with no obvious order) computation
• Compassion - a gnarly ever evolving class 4 process

This leads Rudy to explain that the meaning of life is beauty and love.

It seems to me, no matter how complex or simple our explanation is, the ultimate results is always very similar. Compassion, Beauty, Love

Peace!

Interesting Interview with General Dan Mcneil

General McNeil is the current NATO commander in Afghanistan. Although his opinions apparently differ significantly from the outgoing commander British General David Richards, he refuses to give commentary to the interviewer which might be construed as negative toward his ally. Even when pressed by the reporter.

The General also displayed an incredible knowledge of when his expertise stopped, and the policy maker's began. This seems an admiral trait with a man put into such a powerful position.

Birthday Thanks and a Little Surprise

We finally got time to load up the new MP3 player this weekend. What a great player, it even plugs into our car. With such a big drive, we fit the Beattles plus 83 other songs, and only filled it half way.

Oh yes, this and one other surprise. I understand it happened last weekend. Apparently, the tree looked closer to the monkey bars than it appeared in the window.

Birthday Pictures

I've been under a new project, but here is a set of birthday party pictures. Some very good ones of all the kids and adults. I had to show this one of the princess.