I was reading this article on cnn. it was kind of interesting, there is basically a huge area in the universe where there is nothing, no energy, no matter, no black holes. but what is really interesting is Brent Tully, a University of Hawaii astronomer. Apparently he is very interested in studying these patches of nothingness. i wonder what leads a person to such a pursuit. Too much Seinfeld as a kid? Do his parents always nag him, “Why don’t you go study something? What’s so interesting about nothing?”

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a quick glance at yahoo news’s always interesting ‘most popular’ section:

• Belching moose add to global warming AFP – Wed Aug 22, 3:12 PM ET

• Woman sets fire to ex-husband’s penis Reuters – Wed Aug 22, 10:53 AM ET

• 15 die eating puffer fish in Thailand AP – Thu Aug 23, 1:51 AM ET

• Atlanta considers banning baggy pants AP – 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

• British dwarf’s penis gets stuck to hoover AFP – Mon Aug 20, 3:50 PM ET

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just got back from atlanta for my mom’s big birthday, won’t say which one . it was a good time, we rented out a cabin in north georgia for some family time. today was rough though. got up at 5:30AM eastern time, took a morning flight back home and then went straight to work for a full day.

the 5:20 train home is on a pretty tight turn-around. often times, it pulls in after 5 with a load of northbound people and needs to leave at 5:20 southbound. one lady always does passenger control and she is quite good. after a couple of slow turnarounds, she started cordorning off an exit route for people getting off the train. of course, people waiting for the train would still stupidly block up the exit (orderly if impolite commuters — something i still miss about japan), by standing on the inside of the ropes. people don’t realize that this still slows everyone else down by constricting the width of the exit. but the caltrain lady does. she yells every 5 minutes for people to clear the exit and rushes around to make sure all doors are open and everything is ready to go. as an engineer, i admire her devotion to efficiency. her reward is an official kireetreddy.com salute!

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sorry for the lack of posting, been a busy time at work. our release is scheduled for the end of the month and we just fired our lead UI engineer! So there has been plenty of work to go around lately. we had a meeting run kind of late so i had to take the local caltrain that stops at every stop…pretty painful. anyways, there were some tourists sitting across the aisle talking and saying that in the morning it only took an hour to get from san jose to san francisco and they should be back in san jose by 7:30. of course they have mistakenly taken the local train. for some reason it’s funny to listen them slowly coming to that realization. first it’s, “hmm, this train seems to be going really slow.” then it’s “hmm, we seem to be making a lot of stops.” then it’s “hmmm, it’s 7:30 and we are barely halfway there. what’s that word that means taking pleasure in other people’s misery?

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