I would *really* like Google Reader to stop crashing Firefox.

Really, it would make my day so much better.

Count me in as one of the people under the weather.

Happy Birthday little Buffista, Frisco!

All the pope stuff reminds me how glad I am to be an ex-catholic.

The Blagojavich stuff just boggles my mind!

The Kitty cam is cute.

I have been in Iowa for a week now, and today was the day to get out there and push those resumes! Instead, I over slept, have had an extended nap and have not changed out of my jammies.

I'd like to fake it too. Working on that.

A marketing firm wants to interview me on Wednesday. I'm trying to see the good in this. I mean, I'm going, but me as marketing management? I have no qualifications! And they say they've read my resume. I can't shake the feeling that they're going to try and sellme something. Maybe I should have told them I'm broke.

Any interview is good practice and, who knows, maybe the need someone with a different perspective to help them succeed. Lord knows I was no techiie when I joined a software developer 20 years ago. Helped them go from 100k per year ot 100k per month. It was a wild ride and we all had fun!

My current guru, as I've said here before is Wayne Dyer. I am not unlike a cult member wrt this topic.

ION - why can I breathe when I stand up, but not after sitting for a few minutes?

Good luck on the interview, ita!

An interesting interview with Rachel Maddow, although Lesley Stahl seems like a bit of a twit at times. "Chris Matthews is a liberal!" Uh, no, he's not, Lesley. "How can you watch SNL if you don't have a tv?" Uh, there's such a thing as "the internet," Lesley. "Let me get my plugs for 60 Minutes in the middle of my questions!" Uh, go for it, Lesley.

ION - why can I breathe when I stand up, but not after sitting for a few minutes?

um, atmospheric pressure change? Just how tall are you?

A Prayer for Archimedes

A long-lost text by the ancient Greek mathematician shows that he had begun to discover the principles of calculus.

For seventy years, a prayer book moldered in the closet of a family in France, passed down from one generation to the next. Its mildewed parchment pages were stiff and contorted, tarnished by burn marks and waxy smudges. Behind the text of the prayers, faint Greek letters marched in lines up the page, with an occasional diagram disappearing into the spine.

The owners wondered if the strange book might have some value, so they took it to Christie's Auction House of London. And in 1998, Christie's auctioned it off—for two million dollars.

For this was not just a prayer book. The faint Greek inscriptions and accompanying diagrams were, in fact, the only surviving copies of several works by the great Greek mathematician Archimedes.

An intensive research effort over the last nine years has led to the decoding of much of the almost-obliterated Greek text. The results were more revolutionary than anyone had expected. The researchers have discovered that Archimedes was working out principles that, centuries later, would form the heart of calculus and that he had a more sophisticated understanding of the concept of infinity than anyone had realized.

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Two of the texts hiding in the prayer book have not appeared in any other copy of Archimedes's work, so no one but Heiberg had studied them until now. One of them, titled The Method, has special historical significance. It could be considered the earliest known work on calculus.

Cool!

A long-lost text by the ancient Greek mathematician shows that he had begun to discover the principles of calculus.

Whoa. Cool.