Fear!

I haven't had much time to post, busy renovating the house:
refinished some floors, tile on the kitchen floor, removed two
walls and a counter, painted etc...

This morning I was watching CNN, recently the channel of the
Pope, and a story came on about a stain on the wall of an
underpass in Chicago that looks like the Madonna, I suddenly
had a feeling of fear pass over me. Fear of living in a country
with people that ignorant. Haven't they been watching the news
about likenesses of religious icons being sold on Ebay and all the
other Madonnas and Ladies of Guadalupe that seem to regularly
appear? How can something be a miracle when it happens all
the time? Here is a link to Gestalt Psychology, if anyone is
interested in an explanation of these Madonna sitings.

I'll bet, that if any of these people were handed a dollor that
looked like a dollor, as this stain looks like the
Madonna, they wouldn't take it!

The Pope

John Paul II, I am sure was sincere, and maybe right for the job.
But I can not help but think of the great good that he could
have done in the world, if he had brought birth control to the poor
of in third-world.

Hitchhiker's guide

"Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy"- the movie- will be coming to
theaters on April 29th.
Douglas Adams not only writes good humor,
but also good intuitive science. I was first introduced to the ideas
of fractals and complexity while watching the British theatrical version
of "Hitchherker Guide" on PBS. The idea of designing coastlines
(fractals) and running a computer for hundreds of years to get the
answer to complex questions, was enlightening; the earth being
created by the "mice" to answer the question of " life the universe
and everything", was brilliant.
Now what we need is another good "Doctor Who" movie.