The home of Mike Lopez
Did you know that the lowly sponge is that looks like an underwater plant is actually an animal? Yes, odd as it is, the sponge is a primitive animal which lacks many of the things that we expect from well, animals. Primitive as they are though, scientists recently discovered that the nerves found in modern animals can be traced back to sponges.
So there’s this fella with a parrot. And this parrot swears like a sailor. I mean he’s a pistol. He can swear for five minutes straight without repeating himself.
Not even NASA is spared from computer virus infection. In fact, not even the International Space Station which is orbiting hundreds of miles above the earth was spared. A low risk virus identified as W32.Gammima.AG was detected on some of the laptop computers aboard the ISS last July 25.
Creating computer brains that have powerful artificial intelligence is hard to do but what if one can use existing brains instead? Meet Gordon. A robot powered by a biological brain made of rat neurons. Gordon’s brain is linked to its system via 60 electrodes that pick up electrical signals produced by the brain cells. Signals are also sent to the brain to tell Gordon if its nearing an object and therefore allow it to avoid hitting it.
After 5 years of waiting, I finally got my Comelec ID. Yes, that’s 5 years of waiting! Now, they should have made it quite perfect right? Well, not really.
You see, my full name is Michael John Gonzalez Lopez. Michael John is my first name, Gonzalez is my middle name and Lopez is my last name. Most people will write/encode my first and last names correctly but not my middle name. Most of the time, I have to remind clerks that my middle name is Gonzalez and not Gonzales (take note of the last letter). That said, I’m pretty sure you already have an idea of what appears in my Comelec ID… yes, they typed in Gonzales and not Gonzalez.
First, thanks a lot to Benj for giving me the heads-up on this forum post which alerted me of the fact that the script I’m using to help me build content on my Busby SEO Challenge sites has a bug that sometimes causes it to violate copyright issues. As a result I decided to put down my original Busby sites built in Wordpress and upload a one-page HTML file that explains the situation.
After about a month of non-stop reminding from my two daughters, we finally watched the High School Musical Ice Tour at the Araneta Coliseum here in the Philippines. The kids enjoyed it but were also a bit frustrated to find out that the actual actors were not the ones performing on ice. To appease them in their frustration, I just told them that maybe the actual actors don’t know how to do ice-skating.
Probably out of coincidence, I finally got my Adsense PIN 2 days after I rambled about the slow service of the Philippine Postal Corporation. Funny thing is that this is re-send of my PIN which means that the first PIN mailer sent to me by Adsense is more or less lost somewhere.
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Seeing a star explode in the sky is something that not all humans will see in their lifetime. Sometimes, a star explodes so bright that it can be seen even during the day but sometimes it explodes just bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. One such Nova explosion occurred last July 5 2007 but sadly no-one noticed it. The star, now called V598 Puppis which can be found in the constellation Puppis is a white-dwarf star that gathered enough gas to cause an explosion.
No, I’m not for higher gas prices but I just read this article that says that traffic deaths have been reduced as a result of higher gas prices. It does make sense don’t you think?