Musings

I have never seen five indented results at Goolge before. The top indented return is a Supplemental Result as is the fourth one.  I must guess Google was just trying to fill the page.

A pole that looks like this is a common site in Cagayan de Oro and other cities in The Philippines. I’ve linked the image above to a 1600 x 1200 pixel version of it.  Click the image to see the detail.

Of course one day America will have a black president or a woman president, but I would have bet that person would be a republican. All bets are off now. We’re either going to have a black president and a woman vice president or vice versa. It all rests with the primaries and the Democratic’s [...]

I have been looking into buying a car and/or a motorcycle here and I in doing so I have investigated available financing options. For automobiles the standard rate is called “12%, but it’s really not 12%. If I borrowed PHP 100,000 at 12% annual interest, then in one year I would make a single payment [...]

Do you know why there are so few brave heros today in The Philippines?  Because so many of them died.  The ones that survived were the non-cofrontational.  Overwhelmed by superior firepower again and again, the brave Filipinos were killed off, and those that survived to re-populate these islands were the ones that hid when the [...]

The Philippines is the text messaging capital of The World.  My wife likes to get on my phone and read my messages.  I have told her this is morally wrong to do, but she thinks it is not.  Is it okay for her to read my email without my consent?  Is my email different from [...]

Someone told me that we live not for the moment and not for the future, but for our memories, for anticipation and playback.  In day-to-day living I can see that this is true, that I spend hours sometimes days shaping coming events in my head and when the event is over the memories of the [...]

Enrico Fermi, contemplating the possibility of a galaxy teeming with intelligent civilizations during lunch with other atomic scientist colleagues said, “where is everybody”. The point is that even if you take the most moderate of imperialistic technological cultures confined to mid-20th century technology, it would take at most 10 million years for such a culture [...]

I bought a Samsung MP3 player. I love this thing. It does not have a swappable battery and it charges off USB 5 volts, so you have to have your PC on to charge the player. That’s not a problem with me as I have sever PCs, some of which never turn off, but it [...]