Mars
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Those gene combination keeps going, mutating and evolving. Buddistically or biologically, we aren’t going to die today. Maybe another day. But not today (I am obviously blogging still, 957 and counting). Unlike a line in American Pie “too much whiskey and wine…this will be the day that I die”. Meanwhile, in the land of the…
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We all campaign for our own survival and decency. Our term limits are long, and the road is hard. It was still dark when I got to the park. A guy with backpack barely crossed the street. That early! Then it hit me: the street is his home. He never got out of any house. So…
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People who connect with so and so, tend to be interested in so and so…. Once you clicked down that path, you entered a maze that leads you further down the path of algorithmic and formulaic social links. No backing out, no return. So, my machine-led social graph has taken on new twists and turns as I went…
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We woke to all sorts of noise, among them the flow of traffic. Resting by the lake after my few-mile run in the heat, I noticed all sorts of creatures: squirrels, rabbits and ducks. As peaceful as could be, yet we don’t often say “I’ve got peace like a lake”. We say, “I ‘ve got…
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To your door…… I woke up to a Friday. Not any Friday. But a birthday Friday. Long and winding road. Like a graph, your life can be “manipulated” to make it a more positive-trending (not Bell-shaped). Depends on how you look at it. People have said that President Obama looks older than when he first…
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The Curiosity Rover landed intact. Mission Control jumped up and down. Machine and Man. One giant step. Let’s hug, even the meanest-looking of guys. From Moon to Mars (better known as a candy bar), machine as modern-day Columbus. Something in the way she moves. Knowledge gap will be filled in the days ahead, on-screen and online. Ask…
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Have you submitted your name to be shuttled up to Mars? Space and sea travel or your names on Mars and not marble. This is to show our preference for progress over permanence – technology over religion. While it’s good to sit on one of the benches with our parent’s names “in memory of…”, it’s…
Thang Nguyen 555 