My zen, my zune, and my samsung ...

These:

Fuck Yeah. Have some fucking fun, y'all.

Cause I am.

A little bird told me to check her out. She was a cool lady...

“If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.”

“When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.”

“I am at heart a gentleman.”

"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. "

"In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact. "

"Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him."

Consciousness IS a terrible curse.

http://www.djtunes.com/#/mr-velcro-fastener/telemacho/consciousness-is-a...

Friday Night: Shopping and Sushi/Drinks at Mockingbird Station...

This is afterward, on the train ride from Mockingbird Station to White Rock Lake Station.

On the train:

Just got off, hehe:

Neat:

Can you see it?:

Happy:

Pretty:

I love night time.:

Silly drunk:

I love my new bag too:

I'm wearing earrings? I must have been drunk...:

Fun.

Oh my gosh, all the snow has melted and the Trinity is swollen beyond its banks again. It's quite a sight.

Try your luck...

From Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut:

"Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this
moment. There is no why."

* * *

``The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when
a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the
past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments,
past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The
Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can
look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how
permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that
interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one
moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment
is gone it is gone forever.

When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the
dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that the
same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself
hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the
Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is `so it goes.' ''

'We know how the Universe ends,' said the guide, 'and Earth has
nothing to do with it, except that it gets wiped out, too.'

'How-how does the Universe end?' said Billy.

'We blow it up, experimenting with new fuels for our flying
saucers. A Tralfamadorian test pilot presses a starter button, and the
whole Universe disappears.' So it goes.

``If You know this," said Billy, 'isn't there some way you can
prevent it? Can't you keep the pilot from pressing the button?'

``He has always pressed it, and he always will. We always let him
and we always will let him. The moment is structured that way.'

OK, I love the Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs Boson, and I got a little excited when I read this article, thinking maybe there were some new developments.

Then, I read this line:

"If it is there, we have a reasonable chance of seeing it," said Gillies, referring to the particle which Scots physicist Peter Higgs said three decades ago would explain how matter came together and created the universe and everything in it." ...

... and I was like, uh, Lame. If it's there, we have a reasonable chance of seeing it? I mean, really? Come on. Hardly worth writing about.

Still love it, though.

"Big Bang" collider may reveal mystery particle

GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists operating the "Big Bang" particle collider at CERN could solve the mystery of what gives mass to matter during a nearly two-year non-stop run lasting until late 2011, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

James Gillies told Reuters the long-sought but elusive Higgs Boson particle could well appear during the extended experiment after the world's biggest and most expensive scientific machine is turned on again later this month.

"If it is there, we have a reasonable chance of seeing it," said Gillies, referring to the particle which Scots physicist Peter Higgs said three decades ago would explain how matter came together and created the universe and everything in it.

Gillies said the 18-24 month operation of the machine, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research on the Swiss-French border near Geneva, would produce a huge amount of information.

Even if the Higgs Boson was not revealed, it would not mean that it did not exist. After the first long run and a year's break for preparations, the LHC would be turned on again at the highest possible energy level.

"It may be that we require that intensity to capture it," Gilles added.

The LHC was first turned on in September 2008 but had to be shut down after a huge explosion in the 27-kilometre (16.78 mile) circular tunnel through which it runs deep underground. The focus of the LHC is the collision of particles moving in opposite directions at high energy.

The billions of collisions, each creating conditions that existed a minute fraction of a second after the "Big Bang" when the universe began 13.7 billion years ago, will produce data that some 10,000 scientists at CERN and around the world will record and analyze.

The matter spewed out by the primeval explosion eventually produced the stars, planets and life on Earth -- but the Higgs theory says this was only possible if something like the Boson brought matter together, giving it mass.

The LHC ran for some two months at the end of last year, staging particle beam collisions in the tunnel at an energy up to 2.36 tera-electron volts (TeV), the highest ever achieved.

The next, long run with no winter break was decided at a meeting of CERN physicists, engineers and managers in Chamonix, France, last week. Gillies said the collision energy would be turned up gradually to 7 TeV when it got under way.

Toward the end of next year, the collider will be closed down again for up to 12 months, allowing engineers to prepare the tunnel and the huge amount of equipment there for collisions at 14 TeV in the following run, probably starting in 2013.

(Editing by Jonathan Lynn and Tim Pearce)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6124YG20100204

... has overflowed.

Our view from the 49th Floor.