Zhenren: If you see that our world will be destroyed, you will not interfere? Selene: You mistake your own existence as some special event. You conjure up your own construct to give you comfort, my existence. You expect me to come and give you rescue? Look toward your abilities, your sciences and technologies, to stay alive.
One of the major pains for me is to find an external storage solution for my Mac Power PC G4. This model limits its USB port power to the 500ma specified in the standards for this type of port. Problem is that hard drives will draw a lot more than 500ma, especially for start up. You will find that most all manufacturers that sell portable hard drives fail to include the USB Y cable to draw power from two USB…
Zenren: Why do you have this discourse with me if you do not intend to interfere in my life? Selene: You exist momentarily in a world of natural perfection. You have personal freedom in that world but do not know it yet or chose not to know. Natural forces will impose upon you because the natural needs to evolve. To evolve is part of perfection. In your life among other men and women, you construct environments that are not yet…
April 17, 2008 one of our local high schools decided to put on a simulation called Every 15 Minutes. I was asked to volunteer to take photographs for the Placentia Neighborhood Watch. It was quite an elaborate production. Here is just a partial list of participants: El Dorado High School faculty and students. Placentia Police. Orange County Fire Authority. Placentia Neighborhood Watch. High school parents. The purpose of the simulation was to drive home the fact that many of the…
Opinion California State is/will suffer a budget short fall that will impact all our state education institutions at all levels, from kindergarten to college for quite some time. We hear of teachers at our grade, middle and high schools possibly not getting renewed contracts. This is expected to impact our state education product, which means there is likelihood that our children will not get the best education in the future. At the college level we have seen tuition rates that…
This blog ran a series of articles delving into an internal problem at a state university. We were made aware of this problem late fall of 07 and began putting up articles a few months later in an attempt to pressure the university to take action. It took a while but the university did come around (we are not sure why) and apparently resolved the issue. The article that once appeared here has been taken down because we think it…
CSUF Play City Of Angels 4-11-08 There are two aspects to any play, the play itself and what the theatrical group does with it. I found both to be stellar. The play was clever, contrived, funny, suggestive, naughty, and a bit too long. The implementation by the CSUF theater group was so impressive that it should either be offered for the next six months in place so the rest of Orange County and LA County can partake in this jewel…
We received a private communication from a family that allegedly a series of mistakes were made for the deposit of scholarship money into their son’s account. The family counted at least six mistakes made over a six month period: “Wrong check numbers, wrong names, wrong amounts…”. If your student receives scholarship money, you might want to do what this family did. “He has his own checking account and a CD just for scholarships”. Another problem came to light. It took…
My daughter’s soccer practice ended at 7:30 pm Thursday, March 20th, the same night that Cal State Fullerton was to play in the NCAA tournament. The last time the CSUF basketball team played in the NCAA tournament was 30 years ago. I had graduated from that school and worked as a staff member for over 30 years and thus tied to that campus. I wanted to see that game. It was televised by KDOC. Just days previous I received the…
This article will share one method of fabricating and installing a small irrigation addition to a home. The problem faced with this project are as follows. Problems Three front yard planters were not provided with an irrigation system. The existing anti-siphon valves were old and leaking (but still functional). The anti-siphon valves were too low to the ground and probably violated code requirements. There was no provision for just adding another anti_siphon valve to the existing ones. The whole valve…