For Spring Day

Poisoning Pigeons In The Park - Tom Lehrer

Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
Life is skittles and life is beer.
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring.
I do, don't you? 'Course you do.
But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me,
And makes ev'ry Sunday a treat for me.

All the world seems in tune
On a spring afternoon,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
Ev'ry Sunday you'll see
My sweetheart and me,
As we poison the pigeons in the park.

When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide,
But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide.
The sun's shining bright,
Ev'rything seems all right,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.

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We've gained notoriety,
And caused much anxiety
In the Audubon Society
With our games.
They call it impiety,
And lack of propriety,
And quite a variety
Of unpleasant names.
But it's not against any religion
To want to dispose of a pigeon.

So if Sunday you're free,
Why don't you come with me,
And we'll poison the pigeons in the park.
And maybe we'll do
In a squirrel or two,
While we're poisoning pigeons in the park.

We'll murder them{ all }amid laughter and merriment.
Except for the few we take home to experiment.
My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strychnine
We feed to a pigeon.
It just takes a smidgen!
To poison a pigeon in the park.

Find the MP3 here

Dungeons & Dragons 4

I can wait


You can also see the presentation on YouTube
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

The Save Icon

I have just had a thought.
Is the "Save Icon" going to change any time soon?
I think it is already quite outdated, but even Microsoft Office 2007,
with it's amazing interface uses a 3½" floppy disk as a "Save Icon".

The problem with this is that nobody actually uses floppy disks anymore.
Should the standard "Save Icon" not be updated for something more
relevant for our time?
People could argue that everybody knows what it is, and what it means,
but what about the next generation of computer users?

Most of us grew up with Floppy Disks 3½", or 5¼". We would copy games
from our friends, that where zipped over up to 15, or even more,
floppy disks. MS-DOS, and Windows came on floppy disks, it was just a
part of life, and the save icon makes sense to us.

But, what about the next generation...
Games, and other software no longer ever come on CD-ROM anymore, they
are on DVD, and now even Blu-ray. If you want to copy something from a
friend you would use a flash disk, or download it from BitTorrent.
The next generation will never even see a floppy disk.

How can the "Save Icon" be updated to reflect this?
Can it be updated to reflect this?

Could a "Hard Disk" or "Flash Disk" Icon be used instead of a "Floppy Disk"?
I don't know if it would make as much sense.

What about using a "House Icon", like the ones often used for "Home
Directory", or "~/"?
The icon would mean "Save to home disk".

What about a "Folder Icon" like the one used for "Open"?
The "Open Icon" would then have to change, they can't both be the same.
The "Save Icon" could have an arrow going into the "Folder" while
"Open" has an arrow coming out.

I don't know what it can change to, but it must change, or else we
might as well use a "Cassette Tape Save Icon".

Pirates of the Caribbean Reviews

There are two podcasts I listen to which have given reviews on Pirates 3, and I agree with both of them.
The fist is the Totally Rad Show.
And the other is The Ninja.
Give them a watch.

Pirates of the Caribbean

I loved the first one...

I loved the second one...

Last night I watched the third one...

In the special features on the DVD for the second one there are a few documentaries on the movie. They explained how the first one was made as a single movie, then they made lots of money from it, so they wanted to make another two. The two where written together as one story. Their goal was to have it finish all pirate movies; After watching the third movie, you should not want to watch another pirate movie.

I feel they succeeded...
I don't want to watch any more pirate movies....
It was just to much.
I would not say it was awful, I just wouldn't want to see it again.
I would say go watch it, but it really is over the top.

Just my opinion... I would like to get others....

What men REALLY mean:

This is a comeback to S@M-G!RL's post:

What Woman REALLY Mean

What Men REALLY Mean:
I am hungry: I am hungry
I am sleepy: I am sleepy
I am tired: I am tired
Nice dress: Nice cleavage!
I love you: Let's have sex now
I am bored: Do you want to have sex?
May I have this dance?: I'd like to have sex with you
Can I call you sometime: I'd like to have sex with you
Do you want to go to a movie?: I'd like to have sex with you
Can I take you out to dinner?: I'd like to have sex with you
I don't think those shoes go with that outfit?: I'm gay

The Singularity: Follow Up

If you have read my post on The Singularity you would have seen a number of errors in what I said.

I am going to post some comments Dave gave on post.

Well U did ask, & i like thinking about these sorts of things, so here's my input:

>Will somebody who knows what the are talking about >please go through this next bit and correct the errors, >it is just here for the point

> Imagine throwing a ball into the air, accelerating it at 20 m/s^2.
> The starting velocity of the ball will be 0 m/s upward.

No. I think you meant to say the start *velocity* will be 20m/s. The acceleration is *always* 10m/s^2 downward, at any time after the ball has left your hand. It is at that point of leaving your hand that the velocity is 20m/s (which should actually be recorded as -20m/s, since it is in the opposite direction to the acceleration)

> After 1 Second, the ball will be travailing at 20 m/s^2 upward
> but only accelerating upward at 10 m/s^2 due to gravity*.

The velcity will have decreased, cause by the DEcelleration due to gravity. DEceleration of 10m/s/s means after one second, the velocity will be now -10m/s. The acceleration due to gravity, or deceleration due to gravity (numerically the same, only the sign changes with direction) is always 9.8m/s/s on earth.

> After another second the ball will be traveling at 30 m/s^2 upward,
> and the acceleration will be 0. It will no longer be acceleration.

After another second (2 seconds flight time) the velocity will be zero. The accelleration is still 10m/s/s downwards. That is why the ball now starts to fall back to earth - with an initial velocity of zero m/s.

> After the next second, the ball would still be traveling at 30 m/s^2
> upward, but the acceleration is now -10 m/s^2 (or 10 m/s^2 downward).
> After another second, the the ball is still traveling up, at 20 m/s^2, (and > I don't think gravitational acceleration will increase after 10*).

The above 4 lines got me totally confused!
After the ball velocity has reached zero - the top of its flight - it will return to earth. It will reach your hand with the same velocity that it left (20m/s, but this time it is +20m/s, since it is downwards). If you, or the surface of the earth were not present (do this on the edge of a canyon), the ball will continue to accelerate downward at 10m/s/s, its velocity steadily increasing until it reaches something that stops it.

> Okay back to the point. We can see that even though there is force
> in the opposite direction, it is possible for something to keep
> acceleration, although the acceleration will become gradely less

Acceleration is always in the same direction as the force. The acceleration doesn't have to be in the same direction as the velocity: if they are, you get an increase in velocity, if not, you get a decrease in velocity.

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I'm open to correction here but I THINK it present they have not discovered enough matter in the universe for it to be an oscillating universe, i.e., it will never cease to expand and wil not contract under gravity.

If there is not enough matter (i.e., mass), then the forces of gravity on all the particles / planets / stars is just not enough to bring the whole expansion to a standstill.

If you throw you ball into the air FAST enough, it will have enough kinetic energy to escape earths gravity altogether, and it will never come down (on earth this 'escape velocity' is 11000 metres per second). Same thing with the big bang - if the initial explosion imparted enough kinetic energy to the matter, there may be insufficient gravity to halt its expansion.

The singularity thing is kinda more complex than just the analogy of a road disappearing to a point (parallax) because it's not just that the things IN the universe were scrunched up into zero physical dimensions, it was the universe itself that had no size - there was no up/down/left/right into which it could expand - space itself expanded and took the matter with it.

Thank you Dave.