stej.com

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!!!

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

Today at work we had a fire drill!

I was sitting there staring at the computer screen when all of a sudden this red box with a flashing light starts to scream at me from behind my head. Yes The alarm was right behind my head. Once it started screaming I paused, yup it was the real thing. Sometimes they accidentally go off for about 10 sec then go quite again. Well this time it kept screaming which meant I had to get up out of my seat and walk outside. I had no idea what it was like out side so I decided to take my jacket. I filled in line with everyone else headed to the nearest exit. Our exit was through a door that is usually not used down a set of stairs that are never used. My cubical is on the 5th floor of this old mill building. The stairs are never used because they are for emergencies only! You can see right through them down to the bottom. I like taking these stairs cause they make the fire drill that much more exciting. Well one of the ladies I was walking with out the door didn’t care for these stairs at all. She apparently has vertigo. I’ve know this lady for some time. Shes one of the nicest people I’ve worked with but I never knew she had vertigo. So as we head out this door she start telling me how she HATES these stairs. And I’m thinking ok just be nice and reassure her that she’s with friends no ones going to let her fall. She kept going on and on how she was afraid of heights and these stairs were horrid because she could see strait to the bottom and such. She was like a mess. I was in total shock at how truly afraid she was at going down these stairs. She did make it down, a little slower that everyone else, but she did make it down safely.

The incident made me think a little about how some perceive or feel things differently. For instance both this other person and I were excited about the fire stairs. I liked the excitement and looked forward to it, she did not in the least. To her is was dangerous and she thought she could get hurt. She was afraid of falling, of heights, vertigo. Its interesting how to someone that doesn’t have a particular fear it seems silly to be afraid, when to the person that is truly afraid the fear is real. And we who don’t have that fear have to be reminded that to the person that is afraid the fear is real. So the next time when you trying to calm someone who has a fear of something remember that it may not be real to you but it is real to them.