I am not really in the mood for a big long rant. I was at the courthouse all today worrying and I didn't even need to be there. I am going to testify about the events on February 18th tomorrow at 9 AM sharp, they tell me. If I am waiting at 10 AM, I won't be surprised. I can tell you I'm going to get completely drunk on life tomorrow night, though. No alcohol, no money. I'm going to listen to good music and think good thoughts tomorrow night. I'm in a bad mood. Why? Because people are being mean to me. Certainly they are only reflecting my recent bad attitude, but I don't like it. I missed church last Sunday, so I'm going to blame it on that. After this Sunday, I'll be fine. Don't worry. If you want to help me, e-mail me at javantea@msn.com.
Hi there, Here you can see three new fun technologies at work to enhance an old picture. You can originally find that picture at the start of Scene 5. It's a decent picture and it may be the first line that I like in JF. I'm going to be redoing all the script for JF Final to make certain a few things that are uncertain now:
Hi, I missed yesterday, I'm sorry about that. News below.* But before I get to personal news, I want to explain this image. The PNG file is different from the JPG file, so look at them both if you want. The PNG file is 8-bit, the JPG file is 24-bit. The difference (other than lossy vs. lossless) is that the PNG file is sharpened using the sharpen filter in Gimp. Why did I do that? So that I could get a superior 8-bit image. You can see how nice it looks compared to this one
Ah, now what is this? Well, from the caption you ought to know. It is star birth clouds - M18, not to be confused with star birth pangs - M16. *cough, cough*. So, you're probably destegging this as we speak, right? You've got your Cray Supercomputer firing away, a gigakey per second. You've gotten into the fifty-letter keys and the fifteen word keys. It won't budge. My encryption is too much for the trillion-dollar budget of the CIA, NSA, FBI, and UN. You are wasting your time. My encryption is that of the mind. Individuals who have minds can read what I write, look at what I draw, and decode it without a hitch. Those organizations which have no minds will find it mighty tough to decode the truth. Read on mindful thinker. Above is a beautiful picture. If it's greyscale, that means that you're looking only at the intensity of the red in that image. It is also half-size. Blame lossless compression for that. The other one is much better. It's four times as much area and three times as much color. However, it lacks a bit of information. Who cares, right? Okay, the real thing is that this image is beautiful. You might not notice it for what it really is. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this picture in 1995. The colors are really amazing. It is showing us something that we cannot see with a ground-based telescope, let alone our naked eye. It is next to impossible for use to see something like this here on planet Earth without the Hubble Telescope and everything that led up to it. The fact that a non-astronomer like myself could get ahold of this is even more amazing. Beyond Hubble, there had to be the FOIA (See NASA Ames FOIA). Beyond the FOIA, there had to be an entrepreneur that wanted my parents money. Beyond the entrepreneur, there had to be my parents. It's a system that is very odd indeed. Before Hubble, there was all the space missions, such as Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Challenger, and the brave astronauts who repaired the Hubble. One might actually thank those who set the human race teetering on the brink of extinction during the Cold War. Was the Cold War a necessary step to bring us this picture? Certainly if we say that the Cold War gave us Hubble, we can also easily say that it brought us the Internet since the net was designed to aid scientific rebuilding after a nuclear holocaust. But then you have the alternate historians who say that had the USSR been friendly towards the US (and visa-versa depending on who wrote the story) the Space program would have produced something like the International Space Station, but improved by a factor of ten. War, productive or not (depending on how you look at it), is based on destruction and domination. Creativity in a war machine simply breeds more destruction and cooperation in war often leads to more seperation. In 1984, Emanuell Goldstein writes that war is equivalent in action to producing goods to be thrown on a fire. All the nuclear weapons not used are as good as a deadly joke ala Monty Python. The two nuclear weapons used were extremely harmful.
