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[PHOTO: George Hernandez based in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.]George Hernandez: Exploring

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"Both the victor and the vanquished are but drops of dew, but bolts of lightning —thus should we view the world." -Ouchi Yoshitaka (1507/1551).

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  1. Review of my software usage TAGS: Amazon. Apple. Cyber Life. Google. Hardware. Microsoft. My Stuff. Software. TECH.
  2. Methane discovery stokes new global warming fears Shock as retreat of Arctic releases greenhouse gas TAGS: Geology. History. News. Science. Sustainability. TECH. World.
  3. Fish uses fins to walk and bound TAGS: Biology. Evolution. Faith. Fauna. Images. Live Action. Nature. TECH. Videos.
  4. Life Log SS TAGS: Comics. Death. Life. My Stuff. Ramblings.
  5. CF WOD 2011-11-29 TAGS: Conditioning. CrossFit. Training.
  6. 7 and 13 TAGS: Faith. Literature. Mind. My Stuff. Quotations. Quote. Ramblings. Text.
  7. Thanksgiving 2011 TAGS: Family. Home. Mind. My Stuff.

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20120207 192222 Z Go Asia, China, Games, Go, Japan I recently watched all 75 episodes of the anime "Hikaru no Go" and it has revived my interest in Go!
20120109 185816 Z Convert an Orange Into a Candle with a Little Kitchen Oil lifehacker.c … ttle-kitchen-oil Make, Play I guess I'll abuse an orange tonight.
20120109 182102 Z Climate Change Is Undeniable and Must Be Addressed Now, Says Former U.S. Senator Ted Kaufman thinkprogres … ufman/?mobile=nc Sustainability, TECH, USA, World Sadly no amount of evidence will convince the climate change deniers.
20120104 155353 Z "Cindy" 2012-01 Conditioning, CrossFit, Health, Nature, Space Alas, it was too cloudy this morning to see the Quadrantid meteor shower. But I got my workout in. Good ole "Cindy" (AMRAP in 20 min of 5 Pull Ups, 10 Push Ups, 15 Squats). Best part: Afterwards, exhausted, flat on my back, watching the steam "smoke" from my face, then listening to the birds and the crunch of snow.
20120102 173959 Z Awkward Family Photos pinterest.co … d-family-photos/ Funny, Images, Photos, Quirky, Saucy Proof that WTF exists outside of Japan.
20111230 154517 Z 100 double-unders in 3 minutes Conditioning, CrossFit, Health This morning I finally got to 100 double-unders in 3 minutes of jump rope! To get past that I'll probably have to learn to do doubles in sequence instead of just alternating singles and doubles.
20111213 165226 Z How To Explain Gay Rights To An Idiot www.buzzfeed … alizing-beastali Ethics, Faith, Politics, Sex, USA Consent, civil rights, and tolerance.
20111213 165130 Z Everybody's So Different, I Haven't Changed www.stoneket … nt-i-havent.html Politics, USA Nice. I've been wary of labels because the words remain but the meaning behind them depends on the context and time.
20111210 115606 Z More evidence found for quantum physics in photosynthesis arstechnica. … otosynthesis.ars Flora, Nature, Physics, TECH Coherence via quantum entaglement (simultaneous syncing over arbitrary distances) seems like such a powerful thing that it would indeed be used by nature all over the place.
2011-12-28t17:10:29 Z | TAGS: Amazon, Apple, Cyber Life, Google, Hardware, Microsoft, My Stuff, Software, TECH
Review of my software usage

I periodically do a review of my software usage -- especially if I've gotten a new computer! However this year I'll emphasize software on my phone and tablet.

Hardware and Operating System:

Games: Lots available for phone, tablet, comp, console, physical, etc. These are more for my kids.

Comics: Just read in print or online with a big screen!

Reading: Going with e-books if available. Hesitating on digital NGM because we love the print.

News: Perhaps we all check the news too often!

Audio: I don't do lots of music, but so far I like Amazon's handling of music better than Google and Apple. Yay radio!

Media: I watch YouTube and Netflix, but I don't do much TV, otherwise cable and Hulu might be interesting.

Phone: I use the fewest phone minutes in my family. Waiting for phone wallets to mature.

SMS/IM: Yes, my family texts/chats often!

Email: I prefer to do email at a full computer. Urgent communications should be done by phone or text.

Social: I prefer to do social sites on a full computer. I do Facebook, but barely do Twitter and the rest.

Office and Files: I prefer to do office stuff on a full computer but I love having centralized simple text files that my wife and I can both access. I'd really like to log my workouts in my Google Docs spreadsheets but the interface is a clunky.

Maps: Mobile maps is important when you're travelling.

Utilities: A calculator with basic science functions should be built-in!

Special Apps:

Other:

Non-mobile computer software brief version:

2011-12-15t20:37:17 Z | TAGS: Geology, History, News, Science, Sustainability, TECH, World
Methane discovery stokes new global warming fears Shock as retreat of Arctic releases greenhouse gas
Methane discovery stokes new global warming fears Shock as retreat of Arctic releases greenhouse gas [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/methane-discovery-stokes-new-global-warming-fears-shock-as-retreat-of-arctic-releases-greenhouse-gas-6276278.html]

History repeats itself?

History: 55.8 million year ago an extreme climate change occurred called the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). The PETM is so clearly visible in the geologic evidence that it defines the border between two epochs. One of the main theories about PETM is that global warming melted the polar ice and exposed methane. Methane is 20x more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2, so the global warming was exacerbated, the oceans acidified, and mass extinction occurred.

News: The Siberian Arctic Shelf and permafrost has been melting. Now hundreds of methane fountains are turning up. My guess is that once it gets this far, there's no reversing it. We've already been causing extinctions, but there are going to be a lot more. Runaway global warming here we come.

2011-12-13t20:27:13 Z | TAGS: Biology, Evolution, Faith, Fauna, Images, Live Action, Nature, TECH, Videos
Fish uses fins to walk and bound
Fish uses fins to walk and bound [http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16157835]
I suppose someone can make a variant of the evolve fish bumper sticker using the African lungfish.
African lungfish walking
2011-12-10t14:12:04 Z | TAGS: Comics, Death, Life, My Stuff, Ramblings
Life Log SS
Life Log SS [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Anl6QqLgOdR9dFNZTDBERGluYWhiUzFYNG1LQmdlWXc]

I've kept a "Life Log" for years. It's a short document (only a few pages long) with a chronological listing of important events, places, people, things, jobs and salaries, medical incidents, births, deaths, etc. in my life.

The format of my Life Log is simple. For each year I have a short line with the year, my age on my birthday of that year, my "grade" if I was in school that year, and similar info for my wife and kids. EG: 2011. 43. JH XX. CH 13/8. YH 10/5. AH 7/1. Then for each year I have bullets for the important things, nested by date and time if possible.

Recently I rediscovered the comic "936 Little Blobs" [http://abstrusegoose.com/51] where the each of the blobs corresponds to one month in a typical lifespan of 78 years. I like it because it gives you a one page view.

However the blobs don't provide much metadata so I decided to transform it into a Life Log spreadsheet [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Anl6QqLgOdR9dFNZTDBERGluYWhiUzFYNG1LQmdlWXc] where each cell represents a month. You can enter as much or as little info in each cell. When you're done entering info, just turn off word wrap and the cells shrink, thus allowing you to see your life on one page. As a spreadsheet, it also does things like calculate your age on your birthday for each year.

A Life Log has a lot of practical uses: Medical history, resume building for job hunting, credit reports, legal issues, etc. However its most important function is to give me perspective on where I've been, where I'm going, what's important, and that time is passing.

2011-12-06t02:13:56 Z | TAGS: Conditioning, CrossFit, Training
CF WOD 2011-11-29
CF WOD 2011-11-29 [http://www.crossfit.com/mt-archive2/008022.html]
Fave recent workout that I did: 5 rounds of: 5 Hanging Ring Extensions, 5 Forward Rolls, 5 Backward Rolls, and 10 Sots Presses 45#. Several reasons: 1. As part of my warm up I do 3 minutes of jump rope where I alternate between single-unders and double-unders, and I broke 90 double-unders so 100 is within sight! 2. Rolling without a mat is gnarly! 3. I knew the Sots Press would work weird muscles in the upper body but I was surprised at what it did for my knee. As part of my cool down I do a 12 minute round of stretches that includes sitting on my knees (seiza). That's the best my right knee has ever felt during seiza in a long while. I think it was the static active knees during the Sots Press! I'll make the Sots Press a regular thing.
2011-12-02t16:49:43 Z | TAGS: Faith, Literature, Mind, My Stuff, Quotations, Quote, Ramblings, Text
7 and 13

My numbers for today are 7 and 13.

7 is for We are Seven by William Wordsworth. The death of a loved one temporarily weakens us, but to honor them we must ensure that their lives strengthen us and lives through us.

13 is for transformation, rebirth, rebellion. 13 exceeds the numerology of 12. A death must occur in order to have a resurrection. The extraordinary requires the surpassing the status quo.

We are seven! We will transform!

[FYI: Here is a copy of "We are Seven" by William Wordsworth. I prefer the original intro by Coledridge.]

A little child, dear brother Jem,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?

I met a little cottage Girl:
She was eight years old, she said;
Her hair was thick with many a curl
That clustered round her head.

She had a rustic, woodland air,
And she was wildly clad:
Her eyes were fair, and very fair;
--Her beauty made me glad.

"Sisters and brothers, little Maid,
How many may you be?"
"How many? Seven in all," she said
And wondering looked at me.

"And where are they? I pray you tell."
She answered, "Seven are we;
And two of us at Conway dwell,
And two are gone to sea.

"Two of us in the church-yard lie,
My sister and my brother;
And, in the church-yard cottage, I
Dwell near them with my mother."

"You say that two at Conway dwell,
And two are gone to sea,
Yet ye are seven!--I pray you tell,
Sweet Maid, how this may be."

Then did the little Maid reply,
"Seven boys and girls are we;
Two of us in the church-yard lie,
Beneath the church-yard tree."

"You run about, my little Maid,
Your limbs they are alive;
If two are in the church-yard laid,
Then ye are only five."

"Their graves are green, they may be seen,"
The little Maid replied,
"Twelve steps or more from my mother's door,
And they are side by side.

"My stockings there I often knit,
My kerchief there I hem;
And there upon the ground I sit,
And sing a song to them.

"And often after sunset, Sir,
When it is light and fair,
I take my little porringer,
And eat my supper there.

"The first that died was sister Jane;
In bed she moaning lay,
Till God released her of her pain;
And then she went away.

"So in the church-yard she was laid;
And, when the grass was dry,
Together round her grave we played,
My brother John and I.

"And when the ground was white with snow,
And I could run and slide,
My brother John was forced to go,
And he lies by her side."

"How many are you, then," said I,
"If they two are in heaven?"
Quick was the little Maid's reply,
"O Master! we are seven."

"But they are dead; those two are dead!
Their spirits are in heaven!"
'Twas throwing words away; for still
The little Maid would have her will,
And said, "Nay, we are seven!"
2011-11-26t23:11:29 Z | TAGS: Family, Home, Mind, My Stuff
Thanksgiving 2011
We were out of town for Thanksgiving and as we we were a block from our house, I told the kids to be thankful if our house hasn't burned down while we were out. Our house was fine but two doors down they did have a fire. No one was hurt and they have insurance. I've offered my help and told them that my house burned down when I was six. There is much to be thankful for. "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some." - Charles Dickens

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