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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/health/research/13genome.html

In the above article scientists are trying to reverse engineer God’s programming of the human biological engine in hopes that it will give them the needed information to help solve all human or at lest one disease. The way they are going about it is very similar to how hackers try to break an encrypted message. A highly encrypted message, by todays standards, can be broken but it takes a very fast computer and a long time. However by the time the encryption has been broken and the message revealed is either useless data or totally irrelevant. But the genome is not encrypted data, it’s just data that we don’t fully understand. We don’t have a manual that tells us what each op-code does in the human engine. And the human program has exabytes of data. That’s a lot of data for a single program. Windows with all of it’s bloated-ness only has about 75 or 80 million lines of code. So how do scientists figure they are going to understand the human program after printing it out? They don’t even know what language it’s written in, let alone how it controls the human engine. Plus I believe that the version of the genome they’ve been studying is a highly flawed one. It’s been copied like a gazilion times. It’s like trying to read that form that is a copied from a copy because the master that was made about 20 years ago was lost and what you’re trying to read is a copy of a copy of a copy time 300. It’s very blurry and hard to read. The human program has a few coping mistakes in it. But whats amazing is the fact that the human engine can still read it and do what it’s supposed to do; for the most part. Every now an then it can’t and the human engine starts doing funky things and sometimes stops working altogether.

I know I might sound like a heartless bastard for saying this but I honestly believe that there is no and there never will ever be a cure for cancer. In fact in the future there will be more and more people getting cancer for no reason at all. People that do everything right and don’t have any history of cancer in their family will all of a sudden have it themselves. I believe this because the human program is losing information whenever it copies itself. And as more information is lost the more the human engine will start to do funky things and not work correctly.

No mater how much scientists study the human genome they won’t find the answer their seeking. They are not going to find the cure-all for cancer by looking at a program that they don’t fully understand with information that is flawed any more than I can better understand the fuzzy form I’m filling out by looking at it with a magnifying glass. The information is lost and making it bigger just shows me that it is really lost. Plus when it comes to the genome we don’t even realize that the information we are looking at is fuzzy.

Just because there is no cure for cancer doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. There is a lot of good being done as we continue to study the human program. We are slowly learning about what it does and how it controls the human engine. Scientists are also finding out every day that the human body is an extremely complex machine; the most sophisticated machine with very sophisticated programming that we have every seen. It is so sophisticated that only an engineer could have created its perfect design.

I’m starting to like Lee DeWyze even more these days, besides being the only real singer on American Idol, because I now know that he is a Chicago Cubs fan.

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100514&content_id=10033990&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc

no White Sox for this singing star!!!

Check this out! They actually send a chair into space with a weather ballon and two cameras to recored it all.

The behind the scenes.

I’m sorry Andrew but I’m going to have to change my vote to Michael Lynche. He is definitely the one to beat now. His song tonight was flawless and full of soul. Mike is the new 21 century Seal.

By “global-warming pollution,’’ Gore means carbon dioxide (CO2), which is a “pollutant’’ in roughly the way oxygen and water are pollutants: Human existence would be impossible without them. CO2 is essential to photosynthesis, the process that sustains plant life and generates the oxygen that human beings and animals inhale. Far from polluting the world, carbon dioxide enriches it. Higher levels of CO2 are associated with larger crop yields, increased forest growth, and longer growing seasons – in short, with a greener planet.

via Gore still hot on his doomsday rhetoric – The Boston Globe.

Well Said!

Michael Lynche was in the house tonight! Michael was the best singer and performer tonight.

Andrew Garcia

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Move over Taylor Swift, here comes the next New Artist of the Year!

Pocket Hole

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This weekend I made my first “Pocket Hole” bench. It was quite easy and used a lot less material than if I had made it without the fancy pocket holes.

I started looking for plans on how to make a work bench on the Internet. I found a few videos that weren’t too bad on giving some instructions on how to make a work bench. But then I ran across this one that was real interesting. At least I thought it was. The guy in the video was actually teaching me how to do like everything (yes I’m a real novice). Then I noticed he  said the word Kreg Jig and I thought, “Oh great this is just an infomercial, I don’t need to buy some super expensive gizmo to build a bench.” But he was interesting so I kept watching. He had some good pointers on measuring, cutting and about not worrying about making mistakes. I liked what I saw. Then he started showing the jig, which I had no desire to buy, and how easy it was to use and how it very simply created this strong joint. Oops now I think I want one of these things. So I watched the reset of the video and was convinced I need one of these cool tools to make my work bench with. To make a long story short I got one at my local Lowe’s for about $10 less than the retail price because I found an already opened returned one that was marked down. Bought my wood and hardware. Built my bench and there it is in the picture above.

The pocket holes make it really easy to join two boards together even at right angles. No fancy cutting of the wood, no extra metal brackets and no waiting for glue to dry and the joints are strong. I used just 4 1/2  2×4 and two pieces of 2×4 MDF to make this bench. It did take me two days to put it together but hey it was my first, I took my time, I didn’t want to make any mistakes. I can do it faster next time. And I will. I plan on making a few modifications to the plans to make a larger workbench with a peg board on the back. I’ll post a photo when I’m done.

American Idol

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Yes I watch American Idol. It’s fun to watch; especially the auditions. This season I died laughing at least once an episode.

I’d like to make a prediction as to who is going to win this years American Idol. I’m basing my prediction on one song that I really liked and on the fact that the producers of the show like to show the best last, as least who they think is the best. Of corse I don’t think anyone, not even Simon Cowell, would have told you Kris Allen was going to win the whole thing at the end of “Hollywood Week” but he did. Anyway for my prediction I’m picking Andrew Garcia.

SPAM!

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To whomever has the pleasure of reading this blog entry:

Spam spam spam spam. I keep getting spam and more spam. All the comments to my blog are nothing but SPAM!!!!. Why do I get so much spam? I don’t like spam, even the processed meat kind. I guess if I put some actual stuff on this site maybe I’d get some real comments not these spammy ones. However as is evident with this post I’m not the most elegant of writers. Nor do I have good grammar. I can’t string together a coherent thought in a single sentence. At least all of my words are spelled correctly (with exception to the “spammy” one, I don’t think that is a real word). They may not be the rite words but they are spelled write.

If you have any constructive suggestion for my blog / site I am open to them. Please keep in mind that your SPAM comments will not show up….AT ALL.

Thank You,
Jonathan

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