diario - journal
What you'll read on this page are either reflections on personal events or on stuff I read in the news. Any opinions reported herein are merely personal, and subject to change, since that's how my brain works.
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- Crates
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As I hoisted my bycicles up the steps of the loading dock at work, as I arrived in the morning, I looked up and saw this wall of crates.
Entered on: Friday, February 2nd, 2007 at 12:42. - Project Exploration
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We took the kids to an open house of Project Exploration an initiative of Paul Sereno and his wife, Gabrielle Lyons.
The kids really enjoyed, even though they went to sleep at 2 a.m. the night before (sleepover syndrome...). I was pleasantly surprised because they were complaining coming out the house (they wanted to play their videogames!). At the end, they were full of questions about what they saw.
The piece that most impressed me was the head of the "Super-Croc", which Sereno discovered in Africa.
From the National Geographic News:
"The skull of 110 million-year-old Sarcosuchus imperator dwarfs a 20-inch (50-centimeter) adult skull of the living Orinoco crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius). Newly discovered fossils in the Sahara suggest that it took 50 to 60 years for Sarcosuchus to reach its maximum adult size, estimated to be 37 to 40 feet (11 to 12 meters) in length and up to 8 metric tons (17,500 lbs)."
Another fun anectode: Kim, one of the staff members at PE, went to see this website and found out a page I had created after reading "The Devil in The White City", and came up to tell me some human bones crated on top of a cabinet in the Sereno's studio were believed to be of H. H. Holmes' victims. That theory was quickly dismissed by Sereno, citing the fact that the teeth on those skeletons had no dental work, which would have been common even back in the late 1800's. They were probably skeletons sent for research to the University.
Entered on: Friday, January 26th, 2007 at 23:22. - Jesus Always Arrives on Time
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Someone at work asked me to copy some CDs for her.
I don't want to get into the relationship this person has with God, given the fact her daughter is in front of a judge on alternating days. But the CDs are by a singer, Samuel Hernandez, and the titles are: "Jesus Always Arrives on Time", "It's 5 Minutes to Midnight: Jesus Arrived!", and "God Is Always in Control!".
I love it! No space for doubt there...
It reminds me of a conversation I had in a train station in Bruxelles when I was 15 with a kid coming from a "camp" for juvenile delinquents. He told me, "I don't understand: My roommate had killed another kid, but every morning he would kneel down and pray! Where is the coherence in that!?"
Entered on: Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 at 21:15.
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