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Monthly Archive for July, 2006
“It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him.”
Kevin Sites (reporter for Yahoo! News) is in Lebanon, in the middle of air strike! Scary…
(Thanks tsl)
Amusing. Here are a few examples:
The Horse Whisperer: “Horses have excellent hearing.”
2001: A Space Odyssey: “Dave should’ve installed firewall”
Dean Karnazes, the “Ultramarathon Man”, is attempting to run 50 marathons, in 50 states, in 50 consecutive days. When will he stop!!
Good Manners: World of Courtesy: Ranking of 35 Cities
Reporters of Reader’s Digest ranks cities by the levels of courtesy. The results may surprise you.
Paying for Coverage You May Not Need - New York Times
COVERAGE or no coverage? Rent a car and that’s one of the first questions you’ll be asked at the counter.The inquiry is about supplemental rental car insurance, an extra $20 to $40 a day for protection from damage, liability and theft. Many customers agree to buy the coverage out of fear of what will happen if they decline. What many people don’t know, however, is that this coverage is usually redundant — as long as you have adequate primary car insurance or you pay with a major credit card. Over the years, rental car companies have capitalized on this misconception. Neil Abrams, president of Abrams Consulting Group, a rental car research firm in Purchase, N.Y., estimates that customers will spend roughly $1 billion in incremental protection this year.
Like extended warrantys from electronics store, selling “supplemental coverage” is has very high margin of profit for rental car companies, so when you decline, they use various scare tactics to get you buy the coverage. Make sure you do your homework before you rent a car next time.
Life is full of weird coincidences…
I called my mom on the phone last night, just to see how she was. I told her I started jogging at Riverside Park near my apartment, and she immediately told me not to go jog when it’s dark out — c’mon mom, I’m not 12, I thought to myself. Then she told me about recent happening in LA Korean town. This one man from San Jose in late 20’s who recently became a father, and was visiting his family in LA went out for few drinks with his buddies in one of the bars in town. There he got involved in small verbal argument with younger group of men (thought to be members of a gang) which escalated to full fight. The man from San Jose ran for his life when the gangsters pulled out knives, but the gangsters caught up to him and stabbed him to death.
When I hear tragic stories like that, it feels so distant, as if I am not living in the same world as they are. So I thought…
After hanging up the phone, I called my buddy Injoon in LA. He didn’t answer so I just went to sleep. Then few hours later, I woke with the sound of phone ring. It was Injoon. He had been out drinking with an acquaintance, and seemed to be in a good mood as he always is when he’s drinking. We talked about various things then he told me that his younger cousin died… and somehow, I immediately knew that his cousin was that man from San Jose who was stabbed to death…
(more about Brian Chin)
Air conditioning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With temperature in NY region close to being the record, it’s hard to imagine life without A/C. But how many of you know how A/C work? :-)
Think of It This Way: It Could Be 136 - New York Times
Heat wave hit the NYC yesterday and today. It’s not a good sign when you open up the papar and read that it’s going to be “stiflingly hot”. Last night, I slept with the A/C on for the first time. The constant whirring noise made it feel like sleeping on a plane.
On top of that, signal problem in Time Square caused the entire 1-train to stop operating this morning. I had to turn back home after an hour of wandering around in sweltering heat. Ack! I will be working from home with the full A/C blast. I’d hate to see my electricity bill for this month :-{
So, this is what Summer feels like in New York City…
Raw Data: When Testosterone Turns Toxic - - science news articles online technology magazine articles Raw Data: When Testosterone Turns Toxic
Funny how nature has way of “balancing” things out :D
A higher level of the hormone increases sex drive and attractiveness of males, leading to more offspring and increased evolutionary fitness; it also weakens the immune system, amplifies stress, and encourages recklessness, increasing the risk of departing the gene pool altogether.
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So does living fast compensate for dying young? Overall, high-testosterone birds had a notable 35 percent increase in reproductive fitness, passing on more genes to the next generation. In other words, says Reed, “it’s OK to die young if you make up for it by having more sex.”
(from digg)
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