I stumbled across this site while searching for a picture of Makalu and the apparently lush, ‘cloud-forest’ valleys that you have to walk through to get there.

union with God” and agreed to participate in an experiment devised by neuroscientist Mario Beauregard of the University of Montreal. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI, Beauregard seeks to pinpoint the brain areas that are active while the nuns recall the most powerful religious epiphany of their lives, a time they experienced a profound connection [...]

The number of American doctors using speech software to record and transcribe accounts of patient visits and treatments has more than tripled in the past three years to 150,000. The progress is striking. A few years ago, supraspinatus (a rotator cuff muscle) got translated as “fish banana.” Today, the software transcribes [...]

Like previous versions of Fedora as well as version 10.04 of Ubuntu, Fedora 13 primarily uses graphics drivers with kernel-based mode setting (KMS). In some respects, Goddard once again takes the lead in terms of KMS support, as Fedora supports Intel and NVIDIA graphics chips via the current versions of X.org’s “intel” and “nouveau” graphics [...]

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जीवन एक कला हो

यो जीउने चाहना र मन्चनको रहरमा

म सिद्धिन्छु तिमी सिद्धिन्छौ

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Loneliness—
a bitchy,
a hateful,

a falling leaf—
ah !  a fall-ING leaf–
whispers

Mystic eyes, uneven hair

She is still in my stomach…
Carrying her i wander streets to streets,

November love

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” - Albert Einstein
“No matter what you hear in there, no matter how cruelly I beg you, no matter how terribly I may scream, do not open this door or you will undo everything I have worked for.” - [...]

The world is my herd
Live if not you’re you know who
For I am Cartman

When I was a college professor I used to tell my students that “there are no stupid questions”, but that was 25 years ago, back when entry into the computer room was closely guarded.  Back then, Geekdom had “barriers to entry“, and only those people who had studied for years [...]