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November 1, 2005

abovo foto - Jackson scare

Filed under: thoughts, photography, personal, Internet — roar @ 10:49 pm

I was in the process of telling a friend why I though he might benefit from joining my LinkedIn network.

He runs a wedding photography business on the side of his day job, and I used the example that my contacts might be searching for a photographer.

That made me think that I already have two photographers in my LinkedIn contacts, and I decided to pass these web site addresses on to my friend.

I sent him to Kris Krug and Victor Aberdeen’s sites.

To make sure I had Victor’s URL right I went to his site.

Both Kris and Victor knows my friend Ean Jackson. And I guess this is what made my heart beat faster when I opened Victor’s site.

Victor shows some of his most recent photos on his home page. When I opened it up I saw a photo with the caption “Jackson”. In it you see 2 search and rescue technicians doing their work.

Ean is an ultra-runner, and you never know what he might be up to. A while back he ran for 43 HOURS and 50 minutes, completing the 180 km long Sunshine Coast Trail NON-STOP!

So, it would not surprise me if Ean needed some Search and rescue help somewhere.

Jackson turned out to be a dog. A black lab that had just fallen off a 50 ft cliff.

I’m glad it wasn’t Ean, and happy they rescued the dog as well.

Have you donated to your local Search and rescue group lately?

roar at roarweb dot com

NOTE: This post moved from Blogger to WordPress December 6, 2005

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Blogger - Watch Out

Filed under: thoughts, business, marketing, software, Internet, blogging — roar @ 12:43 am

The other night I was making a new entry into by blog when I realized something kind of funny.

The spell check tool for “Blog This!” (Google Bar) does not recognize the words “blog” and “Blogger”!

roar at roarweb dot com

NOTE: This post moved from Blogger to WordPress December 6, 2005

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Dick Hardt - Blame Canada - Harvard Math

Filed under: thoughts — roar @ 12:25 am

Note: Updated from Blogger December 5, 2005

Dick Hardt has shown us a great example of Harvard math.

The conclusion, based on formulas sent to Dick by a friend, is that women = problems.

Here is my comment to that blog entry:

In this case I’m not sure we fully understood Dick’s actual problem - his initial focus was on recent developments in his romantic life.

If we say Romance (R) is the product of Woman (W) * Time (T) * Money (M) *, then

we have R = T * M * W

Clearly, if any of T, M or W is missing or is very small, then R will not be much to talk about either.

Einstein’s famous formula E = mc2 has showed that the energy of a system depends of how much ( m - mass) you put into it. Luckily for us with little time and little money, c2 is a very large constant and thus even putting a bit into a system should create a larger amount of energy.

In mathematical terms, if we say that even a little bit of time and money creates a fair bit of energy and that a measurement of romance is the energy created in the system, then we have E = T*M*W. Thus, in a case where T and/or M are small, I’m left to conclude that R (=E=T*M*W) really depends on the W (woman) and that time and money really have little to do with it.

Of course, there might be an error in my formula that requires further research by this forum. For example, it is interesting to note that even in cases where the
W(oman) is not really into the relationship, that T and M can still create R(omance) - as long as W is present and not negative.

roar at roarweb dot com

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