Friday, April 29, 2011

Family Named Land

through my googling I've found these!

Pieces of Land/ Streets named after people in my family!

View Family Named Land in a larger map

P.D. (Paul Dale) Hagins- My Grandfather

*has a really cool piece of land Named After him!

Hagins Panther Canyon Dam - Off of the Salt Fork Brazos

A.M. Leftwich Park - My Great grandfather

* has a city park named after him!

60th & Elgin Lubbock, Texas

Chris (Christopher Dale) Cranford - My Brother

* Even has a street named after him!

My dad was mayor in Spur in the early 1980's During his term he did many things for Spur- Suchas, bringing a doctor to spur, building a community center, and establishing trash dumpsters & naming a street after my brother!

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Learning!!!

Currently studying:

*Violin (Tyler's craigslist treasure)

][*Chess (via Youtube & Pogo [yes, I'm a member {thanks, mom}])

Dickens Co. Legends

Surfing through my home County's (Dickens co.) Internet footprint - There were/are some cool Places & kids from my neck-of-the-woods.

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The Coffee Pot Cafe!

W. C. Ballard - The father of Dickens

Marshall Formby
(twenty-five the youngest county judge in Texas)

James O'Neill "Jim" Humphreys

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Machine Message

Going through a voicemail makeover -

- Now 63 messages lighter

& erased greetings, I'm looking for a new voicemail message

- So, Of course I googled it (because, that's what I do)

& Here's a few of my favorites:

http://www.memorygreetings.com/answeringmachinegreetings/

Roses are red, violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet, and so are you
The roses have wilted, the violets are dead,
The sugar bowl's empty, and so is your head
The roses stink, sorta like sheep
But leave your name, number, and message after the
beep
The roses are molding, the violets are rotten
And I might call you back, if I haven't forgotten
We might be in, we might be out, but leave a message
and you might find out!
Hey, it's ________
Sorry you can't get through
Leave your name and your number
And I'll get back to you
A is for academics, B is for beer. One of those reasons is why we're not here. So leave a message.
Concatenation of events preclude our coming to the phone. Please speak freely, with magniloquence upon occasion of the tone.
Hello, epicenter of the Universe, God speaking. If you leave your name, number, and prayer after the tone, I will call you back as soon as I can. Please note that I answer all prayers, but sometimes the answer is NO. Bless you, my child, and have a nice day.
Hello, this is Jim. Unfortunately I can't answer the phone right now because I've just come back from the Mirror Worlds and I'm still made up of antimatter, so if I were to pick up the phone right now, the resulting energy release would make Hiroshima look like a wet firecracker. So leave a message at the tone and I'll get back to you as soon as my component particles have been restored to their normal charges.
(to be finished later)

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Good Morning * April 14, 2011

Good Morning!!

(or Good whatever time of day you read this) **

Below are my:

Bookmarks from my morning procrastination

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Physicists Create Clouds of Impenetrable Gases

That Bounce Off Each Other

ScienceDaily (Apr. 14, 2011) — When one cloud of gas meets another, they normally pass right through each other. But now, MIT physicists have created clouds of ultracold gases that bounce off each other like bowling balls, even though they are a million times thinner than air -- the first time that such impenetrable gases have been observed.

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Could String Theory Explain Similarities Between Utra-cold Gases and Quark Gluon Plasma?

ScienceDaily (June 10, 2010) — For a few millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe consisted of a hot soup of elementary particles called quarks and gluons. A few microseconds later, those particles began cooling to form protons and neutrons, the building blocks of matter.

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Microscopic Structure Of Quantum Gases Made Visible: Bose-Einstein Condensate

ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2008) — Scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have, for the first time, succeeded in rendering the spatial distribution of individual atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate visible. Bose-Einstein condensates are small, ultracold gas clouds which, due to their low temperatures, can no longer be described in terms of traditional physics but must be described using the laws of quantum mechanics.

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Star Formation Linked to Sonic Booms

ScienceDaily (Apr. 14, 2011) — ESA's Herschel space observatory has revealed that nearby interstellar clouds contain networks of tangled gaseous filaments. Intriguingly, each filament is approximately the same width, hinting that they may result from interstellar sonic booms throughout

our Galaxy.

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Vehicle Pollution Significantly Damages the Brain, Mouse Study Suggests

ScienceDaily (Apr. 13, 2011) — If mice commuted, their brains might find it progressively harder to navigate the maze of Los Angeles freeways. A new study reveals that after short-term exposure to vehicle pollution, mice showed significant brain damage -- including signs associated with memory loss and Alzheimer's disease.

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Mechanism of Long-Term Memory Identified

ScienceDaily (Apr. 13, 2011) — Using advanced imaging technology, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified a change in chemical influx into a specific set of neurons in the common fruit fly that is fundamental to long-term memory.

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New Species of Dinosaur Bridges Gap in Dinosaur Family Tree
ScienceDaily (Apr. 13, 2011) — A team of scientists led by the Smithsonian Institution has discovered a fossilized dinosaur skull and neck vertebrae that not only reveal a new species, but also an evolutionary link between two groups of dinosaurs. The new species, Daemonosaurus chauliodus, was discovered at Ghost Ranch, N.M. The team's findings are published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B on April 13.

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Antibiotic Resistance Spreads Rapidly Between Bacteria

ScienceDaily (Apr. 13, 2011) — The part of bacterial DNA that often carries antibiotic resistance is a master at moving between different types of bacteria and adapting to widely differing bacterial species, shows a study made by a research team at the University of Gothenburg in cooperation with Chalmers University of Technology.