“What you’re about to watch is a nightmare. It is not meant to be prophetic; it need not happen. It’s the fervent and urgent prayer of all men of goodwill that it never shall happen. But in this place, in this moment, it does happen. This is the Twilight Zone.”

Before reading the comment (below), watch the full episode in these youtube links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ei7Gr-0uNU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTdDfegVBC0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLNMZjUf0wk

am i blue?
am blue?
ain’t these tears in my eyes telling you?

am i blue?
you’d be too
if each plan that you had
done fell through

JLU Episode - “This Little Piggy”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57zFkL9GSZA

and then some more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebI8H5nq5L4

Did you spring out of heaven or the abyss,
Beauty? Your gaze infernal, yet divine,
Spreads infamy and glory, grief and bliss,
And therefore you can be compared to wine.

— From Hymne à la Beauté (Fleurs du mal) by Charles Baudeliere, trans. by Roy Campbell (1952)

J G: Do you know what that awareness is, G?

G C: What?

J G: That we’re all one. That separateness is an illusion, and that I’m one with everyone - with the Prime Minister of England, and my cousin Harry, you and me, the fat kid from ‘What’s Happening,’ the Olsen twins, Natalie Portman, the guy who wrote ‘Catcher in the Rye,’ Nat King Cole, Carrot Top, Jay-Z, Weird Al Yankovic, Harry Potter, if he existed, the whore on the street corner, your mother. We’re all one.

Folding at Home Distributed Computing Project (http://folding.stanford.edu/)

Some day, a cure for cancer (and other diseases) will be found.

The project, launched on October 2000, is a concerted effort to understand protein folding (or misfolding) phenomena. Until very recently, efforts to develop a cure involved countless clinical trials and experiments, Folding at Home, attacks the problem (among other things) by going down to the molecular level. It does so by intensive computer simulations of the folding process.

The complexity of the computations as well as the magnitude of the “computational universe and parameter space”  involved necessitates the use of facilities with supercomputing capability. This unfortunately is, a bridge too far for most research labs, especially small ones. Distributed computing leverages the collective power of millions of computers around the world, connected via the internet, as a means to achieve this capability. The overall number of computers involved greatly exceeds the power of top supercomputers, which typically hosts a few thousand CPU’s. What is immediately compelling about distributed computing is the low entry level. One needs only to volunteer idle computer time to contribute to the project, usually, via specially-designed screensavers or background applications.

An so, one hot afternoon on the 27th of January, I volunteered my spanking new GTX260 core 216 OC to the Folding at home project. A month and a half later, I acheived the 100,000 milestone.

This is just the beginning

summer’s around the corner

… wherever you are right now, i hope this makes you smile … just a bit.

From:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1126

I left my heart at the Home of the Underdogs… It will never heal.

I don’t know when I’ll get it back… if in this life, we shall not see each other again, then perhaps we’ll rock the angels in heaven.

A moment of silence for the passing of a Legend:

Home of the Underdogs (1998-2009), a fine exponent in the art of appreciating the classics, the undersold, the great, and most especially, those deserving a second chance.

ars longa, vita brevus

Thanks for the memories, old dog…