Monday, August 11, 2008
Nothing Angers Me More
Nothing angers me more than the bumper sticker seen below parked in a "High Technology Park". Seriously, evolution is one of the finest and foremost theories produced by the scientific method. The scientific method is something you should be intimately familiar with if you're pretending to be a scientist or an engineer -- or even a computer programmer. I'm not saying you're allowed to have religious beliefs. But when your religious beliefs are directly contradicted by science -- its not science that's lying. A willfully ignorant computer engineer, computer scientist, or Program Manager for either has no place in the industry. That's how I feel about it, and I'm sticking to it.
Seriously, its a bad sign when you're living in denial like that and people depend on you. Even Jesus would bitch slap the ignorance out of you. People with such antiquated Luddite beliefs belong to the greeters at Wal-Mart, not the "high technology" industry here in West Virginia.
Seriously, its a bad sign when you're living in denial like that and people depend on you. Even Jesus would bitch slap the ignorance out of you. People with such antiquated Luddite beliefs belong to the greeters at Wal-Mart, not the "high technology" industry here in West Virginia.
Labels: crazy people, Fairmont, free expression is vital to the growth of every human being, government failures, personal, pictures, thoughts
Monday, August 27, 2007
Kate's Bday Blogger Video Post
I'm trying this blogger video post to see if it will work better than hosting the videos on my own domain. Give it a shot if you had problems with quicktime. This is FLV so it should work.
Labels: birthdays, blogger, Fairmont, friends, video
Kat blowing out the candles at her 21st Birthday
If you click the link to this picture, you will see a movie of my friend Kat blowing out the candles of her 21st birthday cake. Props to Kat.Labels: birthdays, Fairmont, video
Friday, February 02, 2007
Strange turn of events
Today I learned that my little town of Fairmont, WV, has been placed under an emergency water conservation order. Since its not summer and people aren't watering their lawns or washing their cars, there's little one can do, except run your dishwasher and washing machine as little as possible, and cut your showers as short as possible.
The town is also under an emergency water-boil order. The water has to be boiled for a full 60 seconds before it can be considered safe for human consumption.
The only reasonable thing explanation to this is some of the old mains in the town have frozen and ruptured. The water company has not been able to find the leaks. This leads people to believe one of two things:
The first is that its one of the old mains that runs east-west across the Tygart river, because if a main is leaking a million gallons of water per day, and nobody's noticing where, its probably leaking into the same river they're pulling from.
The second is that this whole region is a big mining region. One of the mains is probably leaking, and its filling up some old mineshaft, which can probably flood for a long, long time before anyone notices.
It is my guess that in order to resolve this, the water company is going to have to shut down its water mains one by one, to find the one that's leaking.
I'm also glad someone told me about this at work, because I don't really pay attention to local news on TV or the local paper.
Anyway, its kinda remarkable that even in 2007, as futuristic as we think of it, we're still pretty wasteful of water because we take it for granted, and that our 'modern' infrastructure for stuff like this is still potentially 50-90 years old.
The town is also under an emergency water-boil order. The water has to be boiled for a full 60 seconds before it can be considered safe for human consumption.
The only reasonable thing explanation to this is some of the old mains in the town have frozen and ruptured. The water company has not been able to find the leaks. This leads people to believe one of two things:
The first is that its one of the old mains that runs east-west across the Tygart river, because if a main is leaking a million gallons of water per day, and nobody's noticing where, its probably leaking into the same river they're pulling from.
The second is that this whole region is a big mining region. One of the mains is probably leaking, and its filling up some old mineshaft, which can probably flood for a long, long time before anyone notices.
It is my guess that in order to resolve this, the water company is going to have to shut down its water mains one by one, to find the one that's leaking.
I'm also glad someone told me about this at work, because I don't really pay attention to local news on TV or the local paper.
Anyway, its kinda remarkable that even in 2007, as futuristic as we think of it, we're still pretty wasteful of water because we take it for granted, and that our 'modern' infrastructure for stuff like this is still potentially 50-90 years old.
Labels: Fairmont, ramblings, water
