Swede First Coma Victim to Climb Mt. Everest

Swedish coma victim Örjan Holmger became the first person in a persistent vegetative state to successfully climb Mt. Everest.

Holmger arrived on the summit on May 29th with the assistance of Sherpas Lilonge Sherpa and Pemba "Pull" Sherpa. The climb is the sixth peak of the famed "Seven Summits" that Holmger has successfully completed since a debilitating cycling accident in 2003. The Seven Summits challenge consists of the tallest peaks on each continent. To date approximately 270 climbers have completed all seven.

It was originally hoped that Holmger's Everest climb would be the final of the seven, but that hope was dashed when the team was forbidden access to Vinson Massif in Antarctica due to safety concerns. The team hopes that their success on the world's highest mountain peak will spur Adventure Network International to allow the Vinson Massif climb to take place in December 2010.

Important! Don't eat the polar bear liver!

Polar Bear Liver is dangerous! Is contains a huge concentration of the "vitamin A". So much of the vitamin A that eating it can kill you. I just read a story about four explorers who were trapped in the arctic and they died, probably from the liver of a polar bear they were eating! So if you are ever eating polar bear(!!!!) just throw the liver away! It's not healthy like the liver of a chicken or beef. It can kill you! Pass this along!

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Fun Facts You Might Not now

Napoleean:
Not short!
People think that Napoleean was really short, (they even named a complex after it!) But actually thats only HALF TRUE. Napolean was over 6 feet tall! but people in France in the 1800s were much taller than regular man is today, so 6 feet was actually considered really short at the time!

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Turkeys!

New Research in Egypt has shows that the first Turkeys in the world weren't actually wild animals, but were raised by Egyptians for their eggs and food!

So next time you see a Turkey, remember this American icon
bird and meal is actually of Egyptian heritage!

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Were We Cave Men?
we have always thought that the first men (and women) in the world lived in caves, but new research from the Khazar University in Azerbaijan shows that first man may have actually lived in trees instead of in caves. Always question your assumptions because people are changing their minds about history all the time. : )

Political Unrest in Honduras Not Effecting Coffee Production

TEGUCIGALPA JUNE 28 2009
The political and social unrest in Honduras shows no sign of affecting the output of Honduran coffee.

Despite a military coup which ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, and the crackdown on peaceful pro-Zelaya protesters in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, Reuters today reported "no immediate sign the unrest would affect production [of coffee]".

In November, the U.S. Government projected that Honduras will produce 4.1 million (60 kilograms) bags of coffee. Coffee exports for 2009 are forecast at 3.6 million 60 kilogram bags.

Honduran Coffee Institute (IHCAFE)
Reuters

Yeah?

You're gonna punch me in the face? I'll punch you in the face! How do you like that?

An American Tragedy

LOS ANGELES - Rock music producer Phil Spector was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a film actress at his mansion six years ago, a verdict that will send him to prison for at least 18 years barring a successful appeal. (AP)

This is the greatest miscarriage of justice in my lifetime, at least. Look at him. Look at Phil Spector. (That's him in the photo). Does he really look like he could hurt anyone? Look at him.

Alright, fine. So, let's say he did kill her. Who was she? What's her name? Exactly. Now, who did OJ Simpson Kill? You knew it: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. So, OJ gets to kill two people, and Spector doesn't even get one? America needs to support its artists. Genius should not be restrained by the whims of current social mores.

OJ sneaked up on his wife and her buddy Ron. He ambushed them in some fancy Los Angeles alleyway. That was sneaky. This woman that Spector shot, allegedly, she voluntarily went home with him, after voluntarily hanging out with him somewhere else. So, saying he did shoot her in the mouth, which is uncertain, well.. She had been hanging out with him all night. So come on.

As if the guilty verdict isn't bad enough, they denied bail, and he will be in jail now pending his appeal. Why not house arrest with access to a limited number of night clubs, seeing as he will surely be acquitted on appeal? My head hangs low tonight. Once again, the LA legal system has shamed us.

I forgot that I had a blog

I just left a comment for Juanito and had to enter my google email in order to post there (twentyknots). Then I see this pain killer bottle pop up next to my name, and I click on it, and it takes me to this blog. Which is mine. I feel bad for all of my fans who have been waiting for me to post something since 2007.

I have so many interesting thoughts, all the time, that it's hard for me to prioritize them and set them down here. This post, for example, has taken me around 2 hours to write so far, since I am so overwhelmed by my own mental activity.

I have been studying this brilliant woman's blog for direction in all sorts of areas. She has some great ideas about writing style and a very illuminating post on mathmatics. http://www.bukisa.com/people/CambridgeLady
I also want to recommend her "Quality of Life" post, but you see, they are all good. She also hasn't been published yet, so we get to experience someone's work just on the verge of its discovery, which is always a good feeling.

I need to go eat this cheeseburger now, so I will leave you with this thought which I had yesterday: "Today is the last day of your life up until now."

Thank you all for reading. May God bless you, and God bless the Unites States of America.
Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Good night.

New Perspectives

If the planet earth were a nickle, it would take 119,800 planet earths to purchase an Alpha Romeo Spider in 1960!!!!!!!!!

If a fudge brownie were the size of 1 1/2 football fields, it would weigh 259.29 TONS!!!!!!

If you were to spend all day - every day - reading one page a of a book per minute for 50 years straight without sleeping, you'd read 26,280,000 pages!!!!

There are over 6.6 BILLION people in the whole world!!!!

I mean, come on!

The Unmentionable

Informal notes on improving The First Order Predicate Calculus

The limitations of First Order Predicate Calculus have been explored and extensions thereof suggested and incorporated to varying degrees and with varying success, for the purposes of defining if-then-else functions, the definition of categories/types, and other new functions proposed within the constraints of first order operations to limit the necessity of second order logic, especially as pertains to the needs of logic automation. My extensive research has revealed an overlooked condition which need be applied to the entire body of FOPC theory. For illustration, I will apply this condition to the commonly recognized Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory.

ZFC consists of "a single primitive ontological notion, that of set, and a single ontological assumption, namely that all individuals in the universe of discourse (i.e., all mathematical objects) are sets. There is a single primitive binary relation, set membership; that set a is a member of set b is written a \in b (usually read "a is an element of b" or "a is in b")."*

These axioms are proposed to govern how sets behave and interact. What has been until today overlooked is the qualitative nature of existence (the universe) in which said elements/sets are assembled. The a priori concept of a set in general practice does fulfill the needs of predicting general behavior. However, I propose that we need to assess the obvious effect of wide-scale mental retardation as a universal condition before proceeding with any quantitative analysis or utilization of this or any FOPC theorem. The problem lies in considering accepted metaverse theory. It follows, (within the logical confines of our non-retarded universe), that there must also exists a universe wholly comprised of mental retards. The problem with the a priori concepts of individuals and sets is self-evident in such a universe. It will be argued that the application of the First Order Predicate Calculus has no application in other universes, and that current physical theory has no bearing on the utility or purpose of FOPC. Here I will simply propose to such critics that they present me with any retard who has mastered Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory in its current form.

*Jean van Heijenoort, 1967. From Frege to Godel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931. Harvard Univ. Press.

He Shot Me, And It Felt Like A Kiss

Phil Spector should be pardoned. We are talking about Phil Spector. Do you have his Christmas Album? What would that kitchen scene in Goodfellas have been like with Muskrat Love playing instead? So, he shot some bitch in the head. Why was he even charged? Are these people out of their minds? But now that it's too late, a pardon should be granted. It wouldn't be without precedent; Leadbelly was pardoned based on his talent and style. And he had merely attempted homicide.

The powers that be are ignoring this whole travesty out of embarrassment. There will be another trial. I propose that the defense should come in with a boombox, or better yet insist on a high tech built-in courtroom stereo system and broadcast Be My Baby to the court. That would be the opening argument. Then I imagine the prosecution will come out and say 'well he shot her in the head, he told his driver he killed her, he has pulled guns on a bunch of women', etc. Maybe they get Johnny Ramone up there too. Blah blah blah. Then, one witness for the defense: Brian Wilson, talking about Be My Baby a little. Then they play it again for the closing argument. End of the show. Jury doesn't even have to leave their box. It could be wrapped up in a day or two, as long as Brian is lucid.

Can a jury suggest that upon acquittal he be allowed to shoot up to a dozen more inconsequential people without penalty?