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I guess that webmail and blogger could soon fall under the "Online Storage;Personal Pages" rules...
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http://picasaweb.google.com/home
I use Google's online documents to do and organize my homework. This worked well as I could also work on things during lunch at work... No more though, well I can just email myself with the updates, like Google Talk the firewall here at work has stopped access
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I guess Googles news reader could be next. i dont think they would stop gmail or other web based email...
Wyeth BNS (Border Network Security) blocks all the fun stuff: any streaming video or audio, social networking sites, game sites and any sort of chat services. One that they did not get right away was Gtalk. I didn't use alot but I would chat with Kyle and Brendon from time to time. Today I see that they caught up with it and disabled it for all network users... oh well.
We were number 310 and it only took till 12:45 to get the book. The BN party was wild and long but we had a good time. Pictures to follow...
i hurt my lower back last sunday. not sure how it happened but it was the first time I have hurt my back. It had me on the floor trying to find just the right position as to not be in sever pain. Its getting better day by day now... Im scarred of what this means for any skating that I may have had coming to me...
I got back on track with my online courses. I am trying to plow through one Author a day and answer the questions associated. I am going through my math homeworks at work. I really dislike the Eng. Lit. I don't enjoy enturperating what people wrote about and comparing them against other writers. These writers always over describe things without actually saying what they were talking about. Add that to the old or proper english and terms of the day plus they seem drunk or on drugs and you ended up guessing at what they are refering to... blah.
Gryphon is hyped on the Hogwarts summer corospondince course that he is taking and Ruby is working through some rough 2 year old issus. Ruby is also pretty much potty trained, diapers be gone with thee! She is also very scarely unafraid of the water and I think now that she sees Gryphon swimming under water and jumping all around she is trying to imatate that.
Sarah and I have a new PS2 game that we are gunning for Guitar Hero, check it out.
We got our first working laptop from Sarahs dad. It got rattled around abit on the trip out and the harddrive popped out. i just pushed it back in and it runs really good for being older with 600 or 700 mhz CPU and 256k of ram and still running WinXP with no lag. It found and connected up to the wireless network with out a hitch. So far i was able to get the desktop to get into the laptop but didnt have time to work it the other way.
Thats it for now... going to the harry potter book release party tonight too...
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While analysts have been speculating that Apple may unleash a smaller (and cheaper) handset in the not too distant future in order to grab a sect of market share not interested in the relatively pricey iPhone, the rumors are seeming to gain traction. According to Kevin Chang, a JP Morgan analyst based in Taiwan, Apple is actually looking to "launch a cheaper version of the iPhone in the fourth quarter that could be based on its iPod nano music player." The report cited anonymous sources "in the supply channel" and also referenced the now-famed patent that suggests such a device could be materializing. Still, we'd highly recommend taking all of this in with a healthy heap of salt for the time being, but don't be incredibly shocked if your next iPod nano unexpectedly rings while you're stereotypically browsing through Gorillaz tracks.
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There are more meta search engines out there than stars in the sky, I reckon, but this one is quite good-looking: Sputtr.com* collects a variety of search engines under a single search box. There's Google News, Google blog search, Google Video and so on for the Google-lover; there's Snap, Live.com and Ask for those who like to see how search underdogs perform; there's a lot of social news sites, like Digg or Reddit, and there's a lot of miscellaneous engines. All of this is laid out with a large-font & icons design screaming "2.0" (and though the icons are large, you can hover over them if in doubt). Search-Engines-Web.com, who pointed to this site in the forum, says Sputtr makes "a damn good browser homepage."
Also see my multi search gadget for iGoogle (and feel free to clone that gadget to adjust to your needs).
*"Sputter" means "To spit out words or sounds in an excited or confused manner."
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"How Does A Duck Know?"
How does a duck know what direction south is?
And how to tell his wife from all the other ducks?
You can cut a chicken's head offand it will keep on running and twitching
[CHORUS]When everything seems planned outwhen everything seems nicely planned outwell the human race will come and smack your face
How come all my body parts so nicely fit together?
All my organs doing their jobs, no help from me!A person pulls a spider's leg out
To watch it keep on moving and twitching.
Satan lives here: on grain and earth, rain and air.
How come I just smoke and smoke and smoke and curse every butt I spit out?
All night long I grind my teeth and I wake up when I cough
You can put me in and iron lungand I will keep on breathing and twitching.
So I was helping a person at work with an Adobe Acrobat problem. I connected to their computer and proceeded to pick a random PDF that was on the computer.
I couldn't believe what I saw open up in the PDF... I though for a second that I was at home. It was the Intake Form that I had created for a local Chiropractor 5 or so years ago...
I just happened to get her call, I just happened to by pass all of the other PDFs that i could have opened and picked one labeled INTAKE_FORM.She is going there tomorrow, She said she would say Hi for us... weird.
So, I am at work making up for taking last Monday (see Blown Away at Assateauqe...).
Such a cool think that you can do on youTube. You can watch those videos that you may have only caught once on MTV or Friday Night Videos so very long ago...
Check this one from the cure (Robert Smith with short hair). Remember though if you want to see the videos that Robert Smith liked search for his favorite directors name... Tim Pope.
"Here’s a wimp warning — there is absolutely no shade on the island. The sun can be brutal during the summer, especially when reflected off the water and white sand..."
As you can see I now have three columns and even went back and added the bar under the name and address. All of the new sections work with Bloggers layout editor too.
We went with Friends Nick and Leslie. I had 4 caches planned out, two in Harleysville and 2 closer to the Indian Valley Library (we had to drop off some books).
1. Explorers Cache :: Blah, we had three GPS's between us and the parking coordinates seemed to put us a half mile from the cache. We ended up driving around until we got closer and found a somewhat close parking lot. The cache coordinates seemed to put it into somebodies garage... hmmm. Nick had been a surveyor and was able to check and convert all of the styles of coordinates we had (It turns out that different GPS's can take different styles of coordinates). They were all right... we gave up on this one. i checked the caches log later and people did not seem to have a problem finding it. We will have to go back and try again.
2. pack 137 cache :: ugh... There is a fair in town and all of the roads are blocked or say no parking. i think the cache is probably very close to the fair and we would have had to park very far away or pay to park, No thanks... we pass on this one too.
3. Chestnut Grove cache :: This one is a car trading themed cache (they only want car stuff to be in the cache) We find this one pretty easy, Sarah gets the find.
4. We called it quits after the last one so we will have to go back for the micro cache another day.
I hope this doesn't turn them of to GeoCaching. We sometimes do not find a cache but not because of wonky GPS's or lack of parking.
I had a classed get canceled out from under me again at Delval. The Continueing Ed person said i might be able to take on of the classes online. Hmmm... well I looked at the available courses online and WOW, there are allot that I can take. So this term and any term i can swing it i will be taking all of my classes online.
I have English Lit. which, I am going to be able to scoot by with out a book as the stories we will be reading are all public domain and the questions we have to answer are in the online class room. I did have to buy access to the Elementary Functions class. it was only $52 compared to the $100 or so if I had to buy the book.
The math site is a bit complicated and takes extra plug ins for Internet Explorer (it doesn't work with Firefox) but the English Lit site has a setting for PDAs so I can sit outside of my house and work on my iPAQ :o)
Ah ha! With help from flysheep's show I was able to get the three columns to work...
You might be able to see that I am starting to tweak the layout here. So stuff might be broken at times.
del.icio.us, is more my kind of social networking 'thing'. MySpace, Orkut, and countless others are more for people who like to chat and such. They take up a ton of time. myspace was kind of neat because you can add 'famous' people to your friends and have their cool little icon show up on your list. But, I am not chatty. The site, like I said, takes to much time with little return of anything of use, for me. Kinda cool to look up old friends but then it stops. MySpace will be vacant very soon.
Kyle introduced me to del.icio.us.com. Now this i can use. It is basicly a site to keep your favorites at. When you add a page to your favorites you get to tag it with key words and you can see what others have tagged it with. Back at your home page for del.icio.us you can see how many other people have tagged sites that you have tagged and add people to your network and such. You can then add a button to your browser to access your favorites and sort and search them. Cool for me. It is something useful, get a bit of the 'Friends' thing and it tweaks the little bit of geek in me. I like my blog, I can add stuff here and there and have fun with it. Look at the bottom of this page for my 'cloud' of tags.
Bye
I put some code in that is supposed to pick up on key words and link to their site. Like if you want Harry Potter, you should be able to click the name and have a little ad pop-up. If you buy the book from my site I would get a little bit of credit. So lets see if it works.
Ahh.. now its working. Just look for links in light green with dotted lines... cool. Not that I think i am going to make money, I just wanted to see it work.Star Wars
The Cure
... Why (now) am I drawn to this hard-on-the-visual-senses social networking mess? I tried to avoid it. I have ad an account for awhile now just to check out a person's space here and there. I never looked there to much. Most sites are very hard to look at and hard to listen to and well hard to take in altogether.
Wendy (damn you!) showed Sarah how to search for people from school... That's what started me looking just to see who I could find... and then it started. I'll just add that person and this person to my friends list to see if they would respond or remeber me. Then I had to look at the horrible default profile and I think that is when it clicked that if I was going to have a space in MySpace I would have to dress it up a bit and figure out what the deal is.
So I borrowed some layout code and will look at it to see what needs to be done to make it mine. The crazy thing is how many people are doing MySpace and how horrible the UI is. My god! Man, the editing pages and "home" page is choked full of adds and very hard to work with. They don't give you a blank page that you can wipe clean. From what I can tell so far you have to use a hacked up CSS code to hide all of the pre-filled sections and even that code you have to put into the "About field" or one of the others. Weird stuff man...
It looks to be a decent place for bands and other pop culture type things to promote themselves though. In my smattering of real people I have also befriended Mike Vallely and They Might Be Giants. I am still waiting on the Cure and Robert Smith... hmm lets see... Grr... cant get to MySpace from work... ahh, yea. I don't really care... I'll have to have Sarah check my site and see if I get new friends and give me an update on it :/
Anyway, I guess, check out Never A Dull Moment on MySpace .You will have to search for me since the firewall at work will not let Social networking sites filter through. (and make me your friend)
I'll add a link when I am at home.
I still want to check out Google's Orkut.
Doing my none-on the phone duties here at work today and listening to The CURE. In the book I am reading, the Cure are in between Pornography and The Top. At this time they put out a bunch of singles; Love Cats, The Walk, Lets Go to Bed and some others as they transition to a more pop-ish band. Anyway I just wanted to say that when ever I hear a song from Disintegration it really hits me how great that album was... Give 'Last Dance' a listen if you have it...
So i think when we left off in this post'Car fun, car fun, yhea, yhea, yhea...' with "Up next, pick up the Taurus, get the Jetta and hope the Stanza is as good as it feels."
So... Yhea the Stanza is holding up fine the clutch is good and it seems like a nice reliable car again.
The Taurus, yea... well I went to pick it up that night and it still felt like the power steering was out and such. Stupidly i drove it off all the time thinking "nobody is going to buy this car..." i was just getting angry as I went along that I even agreed to take it back. As we got to Main Street in Lansdale the engine light came on and the power started to decrease in the car. I was stopped at a light and again had to make a quick decision about how to handle a dying car while driving it... I started moving forward and the power drained out. I had enough momentum to get around the corner and then I had to open the door and push with one foot... I managed to get it into a side street and parked safely by the curb... Very angry at this point I open the hood and see the serpentine belt sitting in the engine instead of around the pulley things... Sarah is right behind me in the Stanza so we race back to the AAMCO to take care of things. I am done with the Taurus so i get the guy to call a tow truck for it. i also complain a bit and he agrees to do some future work for free. So, we truck back to the Taurus to unload all of our stuff. I try to get the serpentine cable off but the car just wants to keep it. So long taurus. That car was 600 bucks and wasn't not expected to last long but until this day it was pretty much rock solid for the 5 years or so that we had it...
So moving on we get the Jetta. Sarah and get used to the aging clutch and the car is a fun car to drive. Its got the sun roof and the cd player and once you get used to the clutch, it can still get going pretty quickly. Then the engine light started coming on and now a week ago the OIL light started blinking and Buzzing at 2200 RPM. In our fleet of cars we did have a 80 something or 90 jetta that had the same issue. It turned out to be a bad sensor that I was able to replace... I wonder if that is blogged somewhere... I tested out these sensors and could tell if they were bad plus I had put to much oil in and hadn't a chance to drain some of it. Anyway we will be taking that in for the freebie promised by AAMCO. hopefully its not in need of something since our money again is nil.
But what will we do if we have to ground the Jetta? Go back to one car? NO! We have added another car to our fleet. We got a call last week from one of Sarah's friends that her husband was going to give there car away since they were getting another from her Mom... they thought of us first for some reason. So Monday we added a 1996 Plymouth Breeze. Excellent condition with the possibility of a slight oil leak. Its a no frills car but probably the nicest one we have had yet. For now it will sit until we figure out what the Jetta is going to do. Then we may get the Breeze ready to go or see what we can do to just have it with out insurance and registration or something... we will see.
So we end this leg of the story. Jetta going to the shop, Stanza holding steady, and a Breeze in the wings ( Breeze in the wings.... ugh)
No walk today, Sarah called and we were looking at this math and reading stuff.
When I don't walk I start to get hungry. I scrouged up some change and resisted the call of the Chocolate Jr., and poptarts and got some trail mix. Maybe my Force of Will, is returning. I was also able to keep away from the Duncan Donuts earlier in the week. I have kicked the sugar from my coffee as well.
Dont forget to check out some of the Reader links on the left...
And Mental has overhauled his bloc as well...
I wanted to log this kind of stuff last year as I was doing my walks but... i didn't.
I found the variety of bugs and birds that I saw at various times of the summer to be amazing.
Bugs: This was the first warm week and i started seeing the little speedy brown spiders on the side walk. As soon as you step in their block they take off for the grass. Of course there are ants. Today it was small black ants and bigger red ants.
Birds: I was reading for most of my walk and forgot to check out the birds today. I know there are robins and doves though.
Some thing I have found with the crew that cuts the grass here. They must have some sort of procedure for what to do when they are cutting near a sidewalk and people are walking on the sidewalk. They all stop at just about the same distance and then when you get a good distance away they start going again... i guess it could just be good judgment but it seems like something more than that.
So they were doing construction on some of the side walk so I had to double back instead of making a loop. I got 2.42 miles at about 3.35 mph.
Ahh... some tidbits from the Cure book. Robert Smith joined the banshees after the banshees had a argument over album signing at a record store. At the bands show later that night the Cure finished there set and a couple Banshee members hadn't shown up. they got the cure to play a couple extra songs (seventeen seconds, which didn't have lyrics yet) and then had the two bands play a couple songs together. later after the banshees couldn't find another bassist, Smith agreed to play with them as long as the Cure stayed as there support band for the tour...
... That my 2 lap walk at work turns out to be 2.21 miles! I know last year I was getting 4 laps most days and I remember timing them to be about 10 minutes each. 3 laps should be easy and I'll work back up to the 4 laps by the end of the week. 4 laps 4 miles... lets see there has to be a calorie thing on the net here... Hmm.. about 350.
Looks like my healthy weight is ack! 148lb! I dont think i was ever 148. i think 2 years ago i got down to the high 160s. i think I am in the 180s right now if not 190.
Lets see what i can do..
The Banshees first drummer went on to rename himself Sid Vicious... yhea the guy in the Sex Pistols.
All kinds of cool tidbits coming from the Cure book I am reading...
i noticed after walking to day that my legs are all tight now...
Yhea, I almost couldn't walk up to the free pizza... thats why i call this trying to lose weight not a diet... I'll decide what an when and how much. It's a conscious thing plus a force of will thing...
Mmmm... cheery coke too...
This will be short but I have to get back into the daily posting and not just posting things I find on the web.
Over to the left you will see a section of articles that show up in my Feed Reader that I want to point out for one reason or another... click'em they are safe and fun!
I have some back posting to catch up on, what happened to the car situation and some other stuff too.
Today though, I start my diet, well not a diet but an attempt to lose weight. I jumped out to two laps of the huge walk way here at work. I am going to pull the GPS out tomorrow so I can measure the walk. It was nice and I was able to work up a good sweat.
I reinstalled windows last night. Formated the drive and got all the basics loaded back in. I didn't have to back up the music this time though because it is on a separate drive. I loaded WinXP, SP2, all the updates from Microsoft, ZoneAlarm, Avast Anitvirus, the Google Pack, FireFox, and Quicken.
...you can't have any fun at this place. Ok, ok. So its a botanical garden so you are not supposed to treat it like a public park, but still it seems like overkill.
So, we put some money aside from our refund to enable us to get two running cars again. We were originally looking at getting the clutch for the 1991 Stanza fixed and putting some money toward the 92 Taurus to keep it going another year. We also had the possibility of 97 Jetta that we were looking at. The Stanza we though would be $500 to $1000 at the most. The Taurus had some work that I though would be $500ish as well. The Jetta was looking good at $800.
IT should happen like this:
1. Stanza gets fixed
2. we check out the Jetta
3. We get the Jetta or fix the Taurus
4. Everybody is happy and unstressed.
Now the fun starts!
Of course nothing happens in an order that would leave time for proper thinking to take place...
We take the Stanza to the place up the street from us. It will drive in third, fourth and 5th and will go in reverse. So we wait while the garage takes its good old time. We take it in Thursday... On Monday I give them a call. they quote $1500!!! We thought they said $500 when the problem originally occurred last year. They grumbled about it not being worth fixing...
We decide to take it to an AAMCO to have it checked out. Still hoping that it can be fixed enough to let us get the Jetta if we like it for $800.
I though we could save some money on towing the Stanza to the AAMCO and would try to drive it to the shop (5 miles). As I started out I though to myself, wow I could have been driving this to work the whole time... That though changed as starting at lights go harder and harder... I then though that it was a bad idea to try to drive the car as I started to slow down people behind me... Then i knew I was in trouble and it would come down to how many times I had to stop/ start. I tried to slow down way before red lights and keep rolling to lessen the stress on the clutch. I had to zip through a yellow at 309 leaving Sarah to stop and we were separated. That inter section has a little hill that I would never have gotten started again from... I hit a couple lights and started to back up traffic. I knew I only had one or two more starts left in the clutch. After one of the lights I got started and then somebody in front of me stopped to turn left. I had to come to a dead stop. I knew this would be the last start... I was on a down slope so at least I got some help there... i made two more green lights and my GPS called out "In 2000 feet, destination on the left." What I could see was one light and then a hill. I was still on a bit of a downslope before the light. I decided to give it gas and cruz through the light up the hill and hope to roll into the AAMCO. I went to accelerate and was meet with nothing... no gears connected... the light was closing and it was green. I decided I wouldn't make it up the hill and made a left at the light and turned into a car wash and it died in the lot... not quite a safe place yet. OK, now quick... i have to flag down Sarah. I Run out to the light to watch for a car with one headlight out (yep). Hmm... maybe she passed by me and my line of traffic. I look up the road toward the AAMCO (2000 freaking feet away) I see a one head lighted car turning left and then going back toward the AAMCO. I took off so that I could try to get there before she decided to leave... Awesome huh... The perfect way to spend a Thursday night!!!
So I made it there. We go back to the Stanza and push it into a parking spot and leave some notes on it. I call and have the AAMCO guy tow it down the next day. We leave it that they will check it out and let me know if it is going to go over a Grand.
We find out that the Jetta owners have fixed the muffler and inspected the car bringing the new price up to $1400... we still go and look at it hoping the stanza might come in under or at $1000. We still had some extra monies if we wanted to go over our budget.
We look at the Jetta and decide that it has gone over our budget and we even toy with getting a used car from the dealer ship that my dad works at.. nothing going there and we resign to putting some money into the Taurus and getting the Stanza fixed.
Ok things seem to have leveled out again...
I call AAMCO on Monday and the guys says the car is almost done and he is just waiting for one part... almost done? But but, I had to go over our conversation and realized that he must have thought I meant start fixing it but we dont want to go much over a thousand and to let us know... Now we were going to get it fixed any but...ugh. So it's $1200 and $1300 something with taxes... fine will pick it up Tuesday.
Part 2 - Taurus
OK, so we will throw the rest of the Money at the Taurus. The next day I call and can drop the Taurus off when we pick up the Stanza. On the way out of my work parking lot I hear a little noise and tell the car that if it can just hold out until tonight we could get it to the shop. The car had come with a bit of a front end problem but nothing to bad. It had developed a mean front wobble though from getting stuck in the ice and hitting some nasty pot holes the last couple years. Anyway I go to accelerate and i hear "POP!" the car starts to run smooth. I thought that I have lost power steering and my battery light is now on. Fearing that I had blown up the battery or something else horrible. I see that the Oil cap is gone, ok well not gone but I had put oil in the other day and left it setting in the engine area and it was still there...I put that back on. I look under the car and don't see anything wrong. maybe I blew a fuse? everything else expect the heater seemed to working normal. I decide to push it and make the ride home and to the shop. When I get home I made the decision to turn the car off. Asecound after I think that was a bad Idea and try to start it up. Blah, nothing. Well it sounds like the battery is dead...what... how... I pop the lid again to check stuff. As I am looking around I seem to remember a big belt is missing. The serpentine belt it turns out to be. The car is going no where now. Ugh. We get a ride to the Stanza and (yea) it works and feels good driving.
The next day I call the shop to have them tow the Taurus. They say it will be $250 to pop the belt on.. wow. and the front end work would at least be $500 (bearings and struts or something or other) ugh now what.... I tell them to hold on for a day as we are getting down low on our car budget. I get the idea to beg. I ask the Jetta owners to consider lettings us give them 800 and pay the rest off. They agree (whew) and I call back AAMCO to pay for the towing and figure out how to scrap the car. The guy says that he put the belt on so he could drive it out and if I could cover that cost I could take the car ($150) you did what... Why do people have to do things to put me confrontations? He wouldn't back down from that weird. just when I though I was liking the guy. Phone calls are made, much stress is built and we decide we will take it and try to sell it for $200 or park it for an 'emergency car'.
So now we sit with getting the Jetta Tomorrow and scraping buy until we get paid on the 15th... weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Up next, pick up the Taurus, get the Jetta and hope the Stanza is as good as it feels.
To be continued...
So I was removing Ruby from the Kitchen so that Sarah could talk on the phone with out Ruby hanging on her and screaming and Ruby started to hit me. I grabbed her arm and held it at her side and she made a motion to pull it free. I didn't let go... A couple hours later at Abington Hospital we left with a split and a sling for Ruby. No, nothing was broken, actually the x-rays didn't show any problems and the Dr. couldn't seem to pop anything back into relieve the pain or Ruby was just scarred and though it still hurt. Anyway 3 days later and the split came off and all is well...
side note: a women in the Broken Bone waiting room (a room we have never been to until now) offered Ruby some Orange Tic-Tacs. Ruby, of course didn't hesitate in gobbling them up.
So Sarah I went out on a late valentines date night. The plan was to go to Rock Bottom at the King of Prussia mall and then head back to the Valley Forge Beef & Ale for comedy night from Chuckles Comedy Club. Well When we got to Rock Bottom it was an hour wait. So we changed gears and went back to Bertucci's which was near the Valley Forge Beef & Ale. The acts were funny, each one a bit more comfortable than others with being on stage.
Anyway.. once it was done we jumped on the iPAQ and the chat application that I have. We found our friend Kyle and chatted with him abit. We found a place that had Karaoke but it was getting to late and we had to head home for the kids...
**********Spoiler Alert **********
If you ever hope to read or listen to the last four books in my Listening to section do not read this. This involves one of the main plot points of those books.
********** You have been warned **********
In the last four books I have been listening to the following basic situation has been developing:
- Petra and "Bean" decide to have a baby by Invetro fertilization.
- They have 6 embryos, one they use and 5 they have stored.
- 5 are stolen and implanted into other 'hosts'
- There baby is born, 2 weeks early.
- They are able to track down at least one of the other babies that are born(so far)
? What would you do. Do you feel like you have the right to now take back your babies if you can find them?
Here are the rest of the details:
- "Bean" was a test tube baby. His DNA was altered in a way that makes him ultra intelligent but he is also going to die before he is 20 of giantism.
- The DNA will pass on to most of his offspring. They were having Invetro so they could try to test the embryos and make sure they did not pass on the DNA.
- The person they were have test the embryos was the person that changed the DNA and created Bean.
- He did not have a real test(but said he did), Petra figured this out but she was desperate to have Beans baby and did not let him know that she suspected this.
- The Dr. was working for a crazy guy that was trying to take over the world.
- After Petra was impregnated the other embryos were "stolen" and deals were made with either a mother or father to carry the carry and deliver the babies. They were given a code that when received they were supposed to move. They would have to move when it was discovered that they had one of the embryos.
So basically the embryos, which Petra hoped to use after bean was dead to have more babies,were kidnapped. One of the characters says this and adds that now you are getting back what is yours...
It's still odd. I really thought that Petra would not be able to take the baby away from the first mother that she went to see. The deal there was that the father was sterile and they were going to use invetro themselves. The wife did not know of that she was carrying one of Bean and Petra's babies.
Oh, when they get all of the babies and they are found to have the changed DNA the plan is to send them in a ship at near light speed and then bring them back. Traveling at that speed away from the earth would feel like a couple months for them as hundreds of years passed on the earth. Back on earth they would continue to try and cure the disease...
So would you be able to take the babies... do they have a right to take the babies... What if they did not have the altered DNA...
Driving home from my parent's house last night I caught a flash of a deer coming across the road to my left. I hit the breaks and as the car screeched along I felt like I had perfectly lead the deer into the line of fire. Bump, bump. I think I hit him pretty solid. Didn't clip is front or back legs, just a solid square hit. It looked like, to me and Sarah, that guts and blood went flying as we hit and he fell on the hood. At that point I didn't see what happened I pulled over to the side looking in the rear view to make sure nobody was behind me and to locate the dear. I was sure he was going to be laying on the ground. A car drove up and asked if we were ok. The deer was not there... Sarah says it flipped and landed upside down, got up and then took off into the woods. I imagined the deer running along with its guts hanging out... bleh. I got out to take a look at the front of the car... no blood or guts. Just some deer hair and a dented hood and broken left turn signal cover (tiny grrr).
Sarah took some of the hair and lit a candle for the deer. I would think he was hurt but maybe it looked worse than it was.
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